Our final writer-in-residence for the year, Ruby is a prose-writer, poet and artist. She tutors creative writing at the University of Auckland, and in high schools. She was the winner of the Wallace Foundation Short Fiction Award in 2017, and the inaugural winner of the Michael Gifkins Prize in 2018

Joan’s latest book is Song of Less (Cordite Books, 2022), a verse novel exploring ritual, taboo, and the limits of individualism in the ruins of ecological collapse. She is the author of the poetry collections The Same as Yes and Failed Love Poems (Te Herenga Waka Press), and the pamphlets Two Dream

Sherryl began her writing career with short stories and poetry, many of which were published in journals and magazines. Two collections of poems were published by Pariah Press in 1991 and 1999. Her first crime short stories were published in the Artemis Press anthologies, as well as ‘The Age Summer

Mary-anne is a musician and writer of children’s fiction and she lives in Havelock North. She found inspiration for her first two books, Snakes and Ladders and Coming Home to Roost, when her four sons were teenagers. Her next three novels, Sticking with Pigs, Spearo and The Tomo are adventure-based

Our 14th writer-in-residence, Atakohu (Ngāti Māhanga) is an Auckland-based journalist who has worked for national and international print media, including Mana magazine, the New Zealand Herald, the New Zealand Listener, the Sunday Star Times and, in England, the Guardian. She is now a part-time comm

Hana, (Ngaati Mahuta, Ngaati Hinerangi, Waikato/Tainui, Waitaha, Ngaati Waewae ki Kai Tahu Poutini) is a mother, artist, writer and independent researcher based in Kawerau. They recently published writing in The Material Kinship Reader: Material Beyond Extraction and Kinship Beyond the Nuclear Famil

Liz is a writer, editor and performer who has two poem collections, In bed with the feminists, part of which was winner of the Kathleen Grattan Prize for a sequence of poems 2020, and Alzheimer’s and a spoon, one of the NZ Listener’s Top 100 books of 2017. Liz’s poems can also be found in other plac

The recipient of our eight week residency, the 11th for the year – Helen is a poet and essayist from the Kapiti Coast, Wellington. Her debut collection of poetry Graft was published in May 2012 by Te Herenga Waka University Press (VUP/THWUP) to critical acclaim. Graft won the NZSA Jessie Mackay Best

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