Kirsteen Ure: 2025
Emerging Writers Residency

Kirsteen holds our first residency for the year. Based in Tāmaki Makaurau, she has a Masters in Creative Writing from the University of Auckland and her short stories and creative non-fiction have been published in Landfall, ReadingRoom, Takahē, Headland and in various collections. During her residency Kirsteen is working on a speculative novel, aimed at re-imagining a historical figure, in a futuristic context. It aims to touch on power and gender, disappointment, choice and context and to ask what do we do when the things we are sure of are shown to be wrong.