Caroline (Te Uri o Hau, Pākehā) is an award-winning author, manuscript assessor and book coach, book reviewer and writing teacher. Her memoir Ripiro Beach won the New Zealand Heritage Literary Award for Best Non-fiction Book in 2020. Her debut novel, Golden Days (Affirm Press, Australia) was release

Amber is a Sā-māo-rish (Ngāpuhi/Manase) writer of things from Tāmaki Makaurau, with a Gemini Sun / Virgo Moon. She is a poet, storyteller, Amateur Astrologer, and professional bots. In 2014, she graduated from the Manukau Institute of Technology creative writing programme and is a recent graduate of

Jacquie (Tainui and Ngāti Koata) is published in several anthologies, including the short story collection Nga hau e Wha, (Stories on the four winds) She received a place on the inaugural Te Papa Tupu programme 2010. She now mentors on this programme for the Māori literature trust and for the NZ Soc

Originally from Kyiv, Nataliya is a Christchurch-based writer, playwright, street performer, researcher, theatre-maker and a Gothic nerd. She is the founder and director of NO Productions Theatre company which, since 2012, has produced over twenty original theatre shows in Canterbury and beyond. Rig

Rosetta, our sixth writer-in-residence for the year, spent her formative writing years developing strengths in poetry, receiving the Kathleen Grattan Poetry and the Metonymy Poetry Awards. Rosetta is a mentor, teacher, manuscript assessor, essayist, and public speaker. She is the author of two volum

Gwynneth is a writer and editor from Ōtautahi Christchurch who recently became the librarian at Christchurch Women’s Prison.Writing essays since the mid-1990s, her practice has involved persistent experimentation with forms, methodologies and subject positions – auto-theory, ficto-criticism and di

Sam is an award-winning, prolific playwright and journalist, noted for his queer and political work. He has won the Bruce Mason Playwrighting Award, New Zealand’s most prestigious award for playwrighting, and his plays include Burn Her, Riding in Cars with (Mostly Straight) Boys and Wine Lips. These

Josie lives in Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland with her husband and two daughters. Her debut novel, Everything is Beautiful and Everything Hurts will be published by Allen & Unwin New Zealand in May 2023. Her short fiction has been published on Newsroom.co.nz and in literary journals, and she writes book r

Our second writer-in-residence Duncan is a screenwriter, playwright, novelist, performer and short story writer. He has written film scripts, plays, short stories and novels, touring several shows around New Zealand and abroad. His first book of short stories, Stray Thoughts And Nose Bleeds received

Kia hari te tau hou! We are very happy to have welcomed Daniel as our first writer-in-residence for 2023, he will be working on an indigenous Moana Pasifika “eco-gothic” vampire novel.Daniel (Samoan, Pākehā) grew up in West Auckland. He was runner-up for the 2003 Katherine Mansfield Memorial Award

Vana is a Greek-New Zealand poet who has been moving between Aotearoa and Kirihi Greece, and has now settled in Ōtautahi Christchurch. Her most recent book The Grief Almanac: A Sequel (Seraph 2019), followed Ithaca Island Bay Leaves: A Mythistorima (Seraph 2009) in experimenting with hybridity and c

Anna is an award winning journalist, writer and critic. She writes regularly for Newsroom, Metro Magazine, The Listener and The Guardian, among other outlets, and she is a book critic for RNZ. In 2022 she was named runner up best reviewer in the 2022 Voyager Media Awards.Whilst on her residency An

Madison is a Wellington-based editor and works for the Air Force. Her hobbies include painting and chronically reinventing herself. She holds a Master of Creative Writing from the International Institute of Modern Letters and is the author of the Ockham award winning essay collection Specimen, publi

Erik is the author of the poetry collections There’s No Place Like the Internet in Springtime (2018) and Another Beautiful Day Indoors (2022), both with Victoria University Press. The former was shortlisted for best book of poems at the 2019 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards.With Jordan Hamel, Rebecc

Pauline is an author and educationalist of Samoan, Tuvaluan, Scottish and Irish heritage.  Her first book Dawn Raid: My New Zealand Story received Best New Author at the 2018 New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults and a Storylines NZ Notable Book Award in 2019. It was released as an a

Craig is a Wellington-based writer who works as Publishing Manager at Te Herenga Waka University Press and is our 14th writer-in-residence for the year. His short story ‘The Rule of Twelfths’ appeared in Monsters in the Garden: An Anthology of Aotearoa New Zealand Science Fiction and Fantasy, and hi

Emma (Ngāti Tukorehe, Ngāti Porou) is a junior doctor at Middlemore Hospital. Emma hosts the RNZ podcast on Māori health equity, Getting Better, which won best podcast at the Voyager media awards in 2021. She won Voyager Opinion Writer of the Year in 2020. Emma’s writing has been published at The Sp

Born in Whanganui and raised on farms around the North Island, Bren MacDibble incorporates her love of the land into her environmentally themed children’s books. Bren did the big OE in her mid 20s and moved to Melbourne for the next twenty years. A house fire prompted her to move on and she lived in

We have welcomed our 12th resident for the year Shriya – her creative practice (plays, film scripts, short stories, and poems) focuses on people’s daily life rendered extraordinary by their unique personal experiences.In 2015 Shriya produced her first photo project titled ‘the Backstory Project’.

Clare was born in Aotearoa, raised on Whadjuk Noongar Country in Western Australia and has lived in Pōneke since 2005. Her first novel, Unsheltered (Scribner, Simon And Schuster, 2021) was warmly received on both sides of the Tasman. New Zealand reviewers described it as ‘astonishing’, ‘heart-breaki