Alumni Residency Achievements
Many writers have gone on to publish the work they began during their residency. The centre maintains a record of achievements, awards, and published works by alumni. Alumni have won the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards, the Montana NZ Book Awards, and other major literary prizes.
Book cover of "All Her Lives: Nine Stories" by Ingrid Horrocks. The cover features an illustrated woman with short dark hair wearing a white shirt, green tie, and red skirt, sitting against a painted light blue background with green plants at the bottom left. A gold badge on the top left indicates the author won the Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize for Fiction.
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A book cover with turquoise and white swirling abstract background. Large red text says 'LIFETIME the ISLAND', smaller red text says 'poems' and 'DAVID EGGLETON'
Book cover of 'The Secret Green' by Sonya Wilson, featuring a girl with long red hair holding a torch and a boy with curly brown hair holding branch-like sticks, with two yellow birds flying above. The background is a lush green forest.
Book cover for 'Wonderland' by Tracy Farr, featuring an illustration of a boat race in a river with a backdrop of hills and a funicular railway, with the title in large red and yellow text.
Book cover of 'Good Things Come and Go' by Josie Shapiro, featuring bold, colorful text and a quote from Catherine Chidgey
Book cover titled 'Secret Art Powers' by Jo Randerson with colorful geometric shapes and the subtitle 'How creative thinking can achieve radical change'.
Book cover titled "Sick Power Trip" by Erik Kennedy, featuring a silhouette of a man standing next to a car on water with a pink sun setting in the background.
A tattoo of a woman with tears on her face, featuring traditional Polynesian-style patterns and black ink, with a circular halo behind her head.
Cover of the book titled '1495' by Dominic Hoey, with the subtitle 'A Count of Tyne' and a quote from Tom Scott, featuring an urban street scene in black and white with cars, buildings, and power lines.
Book cover for 'Fire & Ice' by Hazel Phillips featuring two hikers standing on snowy mountain slopes with a mountain landscape and a volcano in the background.
Close-up of a book cover titled "SQUADRON 42" by Duncan Sarkies, featuring a detailed illustration of an alpaca's face with brown and black fur, and a dark background with white speckles.
Book cover for 'Brown Bird' by Jane Arthur featuring a girl with glasses and a bird on her head, set against a colorful background with flowers and greenery.
Book cover for 'The Mires' by Tina Makereti. Features an illustrated profile of a woman's face with water and plants, a heron, and vibrant colors.
Book cover titled 'The Mess of Our Lives' by Mary-Anne Scott displayed on a colorful wooden background.
Illustration of a woman sitting cross-legged with a pizza box and a glass of wine, surrounded by plants, with text that reads "ALL THAT WE OWN" and smaller text about not asking for the spotlight but unable to stay out of it, and a quote at the top referencing a mirror of our current time.
Book cover for "Stalker" by Scott Butler featuring a young man in a red hoodie and black pants standing on a city street with tall buildings and parked cars, with the reflection of a woman in a black dress and high heels in water on the ground.
Book cover for 'The Grimmelings' by Rachael King, featuring a young girl with long dark hair in front of a large black horse, with a sunset sky in the background.
Book cover of 'DICE' by Claire Baylis, featuring a silhouette of a person's face with colorful lights and the tagline 'Can the jury deliver justice?'
Book cover of 'Everything is Beautiful and Everything Hurts' by Josie Shapiro, with floral illustrations and quote
Book cover of 'There's a Cure for This' by Dr. Emma Espiner, featuring a woman with short, platinum blonde hair, glasses, and a white shirt, standing against a pastel green background with a decorative plant.
Book cover titled 'Ruin and Other Stories' by Emma Hislop, featuring colorful abstract and surreal artwork with plants, a skeleton, a bird, and human limbs.
Book cover titled 'Blood & Dirt: Prison Labour and the Making of New Zealand' by Jared Davidson. The background features a person with hands crossed over their chest, wearing a dark jacket and a white scarf.
The cover of a book titled 'POOR DOING PEOPLE' by John W. Moffitt features a black-and-white photograph of a damaged car on a highway, with debris scattered around. Large red letters overlay the image with parts of the title and author visible.
Book cover for 'Köhine' by Colleen Maria Lenihan with a background of a city street scene at dusk featuring neon signs and a moonlit sky, and a superimposed large face of a woman.
Book cover titled 'The Art of Copying Art' by Penelope Jackson, featuring a grid of images of a young girl with a white flower in her hair, in black-and-white with some color variations, and a background with moon and clouds.
Book cover of 'Small Beauties' by Rijiha Das, featuring a person with draped red cloth over their head and shoulder, dark background with subtle colored dots.
Colorful directional signs pointing to various locations, with a yellow and orange book titled 'Culture in a Small Country' and the author's name, Roger Horrocks, at the bottom.
An illustration of a woman with long dark hair, resting her head on her hand, against a plain background. There is some handwritten text in a different language and a barcode at the bottom.
Book cover titled "Things I Learned At Art School" by Megan Dunn, featuring a young woman with long red hair and a white headband, against an orange background with a large pencil and partial artwork.
Book cover for 'The Last Guests' by J.P. More, featuring a dark house near trees against a sunset or dusk sky.
Book cover for 'Bloody Woman' by Lana Lopesi with a pink background and black, white, and gray illustration of a woman and a face with long hair, surrounded by decorative patterns.
Book cover titled 'Reawakened: Traditional Navigators of Te Moana-nui-a-Kiwa' by Jeff Evans with a background image of traditional sailing canoes on the ocean near islands and lush mountains under a cloudy sky.
Book cover titled "She's a Killer" by Kirsten McDougall, with a red and black textured background and yellow text.
Book cover titled 'A Good Winter' by Gigi Fenster, with a child's face partially visible above a torn paper effect and dark silhouettes of leaves on a pink and blue background.
Book cover with a black background featuring white illustrations of a hatchet, a club, and a stick with a tied end. The title is "Transgressing Tikanga" with additional text about Maori first-hand accounts from 1816 to 1884.
Book cover titled 'Sleeping with Stones' by Serie Barford. The cover features an abstract, colorful drawing of seven stones embedded in a textured surface.
Book cover featuring a black and white portrait of Ralph Hoter with a cigarette in his mouth, titled 'The Dark is Light Enough,' written by Vincent O'Sullivan.
Black and white photo of two women with short hair and sunglasses, standing outdoors with a small building and a basketball hoop in the background. One woman is wearing a patterned cardigan, and the other is in a striped blazer. The text overlays say "THE MIRROR STEAMED OVER" and "LOVE AND POP IN LONDON, 1962," and "ANTHONY BYRT."
Cover of a book titled 'Living with the Climate Crisis: Voices from Aotearoa,' edited by Tom Doig, with a quote 'We're in for a wild ride' and publisher BWB Texts.
Cover of a spiral-bound booklet titled 'Lockdown Sketch Mind' by Fifi Colston, featuring a drawing of a skull in a transparent bowl surrounded by colorful abstract elements, with three colored pencils at the bottom.
Book cover of "The Girl in the Mirror" by Rose Carlyle, featuring a black background with a blurred image of a girl and a reflection in the mirror.
Book cover titled 'The Burning River' by Lawrence Patchett with a landscape of mountains and a sunset or sunrise in warm tones.
Book cover titled 'Isinglass' with abstract blue, black, and white wave patterns in the background. Author name 'Martin Edmond' at the bottom.
Book cover of 'The Unreliable People' by Rosetta Allan featuring a foggy railway track and a quote from Paula Morris.
Book cover titled "The Father of Octopus Wrestling and Other Frankie McMullan Small Fictions" with a purple and black abstract background and gold and white text.
Black and white illustration of the cover of the book 'The Ice Shelf' by Anne Kennedy, depicting a person sitting on a bench or dock at a water's edge with small houses and mountains in the background.
Cover of The Bed-Making Competition by Anna Jackson showing a view of a bedroom with a bed, a rug, and a staircase in warm tones.
Book cover titled 'Casting off: a memoir' by Elspeth Sandys, featuring a black and white photograph of a woman wearing a wide-brimmed hat.
The cover of the book "The Luminaries" by Eleanor Catton, featuring a face with eyes, nose, and mouth in a minimalist, abstract style.
Book cover titled "Between the Kindling and the Blaze" by Ben Brown with yellow, orange, and black swirling flame artwork and red text.
Book cover titled 'Time of the Icebergs' with the subtitle 'Poems by David Eggleton' and an illustration of a person standing on ice or water
Book cover titled "Maurice Gee: Life and Work" by Rachel Barrowman, featuring a black and white photo of Maurice Gee with arms crossed.
Poster for a novel by Sarah Laing titled "Dead People's Music." Features a woman in a vintage-style yellow dress with green floral embroidery, standing with one hand on her hip against a dark floral background with flowers and leaves.
Book cover titled 'The Grass Catcher' by Ian Wedde, with a background image of a garden scene showing a small green lawn mower leaning against a tree with a wooden handle, and a brick pathway in the background.
Cover of a book titled 'The Blind Singer' by Chris Price, featuring illustrations of cranes in a marshland scene.
A book cover titled 'Here Comes Another Vital Moment' by Diane Brown, featuring a gray wooden fence with white painted text.
Poster for a play titled 'Hatch: The Plight of the Penguins,' showing a man and a penguin face to face, with decorative elements and logos of Auckland Theatre Company and New Zealand Post.