We have welcomed Serie as our fourteenth and last resident for the year.Serie was born in Aotearoa to a migrant German-Samoan mother and a Palagi father. She has published three poetry collections: Plea to the Spanish Lady (Hard Echo Press), Glass Canisters (Hard Echo Press) and Tapa Talk (Huia).

Pala Molisa is a Ni-Vanuatu academic who has recently finished teaching at Victoria University of Wellington’s School of Accounting and Commercial Law. His PhD looked at the role that accounting practices play in helping to exacerbate and perpetuate many of the major social and ecological crises we

Trevor was educated at the Auckland and Waikato Universities and has a special interest in researching, teaching and writing about the interaction of Māori and Pakeha in pre treaty New Zealand. Based in Tauranga with his wife Helen, his interests include reading, music and travel. Trevor has written

Karyn Hay is an award-winning novelist and broadcaster: her debut novel Emerald Budgies won the New Zealand Society of Authors Hubert Church Best First Book Award in the Montana New Zealand Book Awards in 2001. She was awarded a Frank Sargeson Fellowship in 2004; and is a literary advisor to the Fra

Mark Broatch is the author of several non-fiction books, short fiction and poetry. He was deputy editor at the NZ Listener and culture editor at the Sunday Star-Times, and a recipient of a Buddle Findlay Sargeson Fellowship in 2011. He has just launched his latest book Word to the Wise: Untangling t

We are delighted to welcome Tracy back to the centre for a residency – she was a visiting writer in 2009 and worked on her first novel The Life and Loves of Lena Gaunt during that time. In 2014 Tracy won the Sunday Star-Times Short Story Award and in the same year her debut novel (as above), appeare

Kelly Joseph (Ngati Maniapoto) is a writer and artist currently living in Westland with her two daughters and husband. She has previously had stories published in Huia Short Stories 5,7,8,10, and 12; in the anthology Black Marks on The White Page; and in journals such as Hue and Cry, Takahe and JAAM

Jacquie McRae (Tainui and Ngāti Koata) is working on a project that is a fictional novel based on facts about the colourful history of the campaigns for the prohibition of alcohol in New Zealand, and the resulting illicit trade of home brewed whisky.Jacquie says, ‘I have chosen to transport the re

Victor holds the University of Auckland Residency which he started on the 19th of February and is our fourth residency for the year. He will be with us until late in June. He is working on both a novel and short stories.Victor is a writer of Samoan and Scottish descent. His first play, Sons, debut

Our second residency for the year is held by Rosetta and she is working on her second novel.Rosetta spent her formative writing years developing her strengths in the area of poetry, both writing and supporting poetry events in her hometown of Auckland.Rosetta has published two volumes of poetry:

Lawrence holds our third residency for the year and is working on a literary novel of communities in turmoil, set on a future Kāpiti Coast. It is an interrogation of Pākehā relationships with history in Aotearoa New Zealand.Lawrence is the author of the short-story collection I Got His Blood On Me

Helen Waaka (Ngāti Whaatua, Ngā Puhi) has joined us for the fifth residency of the year.Helen completed a Graduate Diploma in Creative Writing at Whitireia (Wellington) in 2011. The same year she won the Pikihuia award for best English-language short story with ‘Hineraumati’. Her stories have appe

Nadine Hura is of Ngāti Hine, Ngāpuhi and Pākehā whakapapa. She grew up in South Auckland but has spent much of her adult life living and working overseas. With a background in kaupapa Māori research and journalism, Nadine’s narrative essays explore themes of language, identity and belonging.Nadin

Allan is our first writer in residence for 2018 and is working on some contemporary short fiction.Allan recently completed his PhD in creative writing at Victoria University of Wellington. He writes mostly fiction, but also poems and non-fiction. His work has been published in journals and antholo