Artist, potter, conservationist and railway enthusiast Barry Brickell has been a visiting writer at the Michael King Writers' Centre in 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012 and 2014. The centre is privileged to have been able to host Barry and provide a place wher

Mary Macpherson is a Wellington poet and photographer. She completed an MA in Creative Writing at Victoria University in 2006 and her work has appeared in many print and online journals including Landfall, Sport, Poetry New Zealand, the Casselburg co

Wendyl Nissen is an Auckland journalist who works across newspapers, magazines, television and radio. She is the author of Bitch and Famous (Penguin), a memoir of her time editing women's magazines and wrangling celebrities, published in 2008; Domest

After a lifetime writing academic essays and reports, Suzanne Singleton now writes fiction. She has observed a variety of people and places throughout many years as a psychologist and educator. Her work in New Zealand and England has provided wide tr

Imagine having a room in which to write, with a heavy old door that keeps the noise out, in a building that has stood strong for more than a century. I had a room like that. In the Arts Centre in Christchurch, the old University of Canterbury. Then,

Jill Jones is an Australian poet who has published six full-length books of poetry including Dark Bright Doors (2010), Broken/Open (2005), Screens Jets Heaven: New and Selected Poems (2002), The Book of Possibilities (1997), Flagging Down Time (1993)

Gordon Ogilvie (1934-2017) was a Christchurch historian and biographer. He was a visiting writer at the Michael King Writers' Centre in October 2012, when he edited the text of his 22nd publication, a book about place names of Banks Peninsula.

Anna Wilding has carved an internationally-recognised and award-winning career as a writer, director, producer and actress. Born in Christchurch, Anna has spent half her life living and working abroad in the United States, Australia and the United Ki

Annette Willis, who collaborates with Australian poet Jill Jones and who has a great interest in New Zealand writers such as Janet Frame, stayed at the centre in 2012. Annette has pursued photography full-time since 2002. In that period she has had t