Writers are able to stay at the centre for short-term visits either to write or to carry out research. Unlike the funded Writers in Residence programme, these stays are self-booked at the standard accommodation rate, open to both international and New Zealand writers. The minimum length of stay is one week, with a maximum of two months. Visit the accommodation page for the current rates and terms and conditions.
Visiting Writers
Kristina Belich: 2013
Kristina Belich, a bloggette, stand-up comic sort of thing from New York City, travels the world, and seeks ultimate truth. As a personal note: I would like to sincerely thank the Michael King Writers' Centre for serving as a place of complete suppor
Jenny Howarth: 2013-2018
Jenny Haworth is well-known as both publisher and writer. She is a regular visitor to the centre and in 2014 was awarded the NZ Society of Authors Museum Fellowship for her work on artists during World War I. She has since returned regularly to resea
Christine Hayvice: 2016 2015 2013
Christine Hayvice is a New Zealander who has lived in Canada for many years, but she returns to the place of her birth regularly. She has been a visiting writer at the Michael King Writers' Centre several times, most recently in early 2015. She was b
Meg Torwl: 2013
Meg Torwl, a New Zealander who lived in Canada, stayed at the centre in early 2013. She described the centre as "superb beyond all expectations." Meg was working on a prose memoir "a girl called brian," a flash fiction version of which "black and whi