Warwick Pudney has been a regular visiting writer, spending time at the centre most years to devote time to his writing. He is senior lecturer at the Auckland University of Technology (AUT) in violence and trauma studies and is the leader of its post

Tui was born in Te Awamutu but spent 40 years living in Auckland before returning to live in the Waikato in the year 2000. She grew up in an Auckland sailing family, learned to sail at an early age and sailed the waters of the Hauraki Gulf through he

Michael Woodcock is a New Zealander living in Rural Wairarapa (Carterton) with his wife Gaye, on their small farm nestled close to the Tararua Mountains. Michael commutes daily to Wellington where he works as a trade union organiser. His writing to d

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

Hussein describes himself as a late starter who began writing in 1999 by request, on accounts of experiences in the remote back country and the regions around Ruatoria. He enjoyed the process and moved to writing fiction focussing on other settings a

Daniel Wynne is an Australian writer whose short fiction has appeared in publications like Griffith Review, Voiceworks and 100 Stories for Queensland. Originally from Frankston, Victoria, he's spent the past decade living in Brisbane. For five years

Paolo is an award-winning Italo-Kiwi artist working in Film, Television and Theatre in New Zealand for twenty years as a writer, actor and director. In 2016 Paolo's first feature film as writer/director, "Orphans & Kingdoms," won international critic

Dr. Dorothy Howie is an honorary researcher in the School of Psychology at the University of Auckland. She is the author of two books on the teaching of thinking, and is currently writing one on the voice of the child and young person with learning d

Christine Hayvice is a Kiwi who has lived in Canada for many years, but these days spends part of the year living in New Zealand. She has been a visiting writer at the Michael King Writers Centre several times, most recently in early 2016. She was bo

Zoë Meager is from Christchurch, New Zealand. She studied a Masters in Creative Writing at the University of Auckland in 2012, and in 2013 won the Commonwealth Short Story Prize, Pacific Region. Her short stories have since appeared in several print

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