In the summer of 2016, I was staying in an AirBnB in Devonport and a friend drove me to the top of Mount Victoria to see the view. On our way up I noticed a beautiful house on the left and so on the way down we stopped to read the information in the

Dunedin writer Laurence Fearnley was awarded the 2016 NZSA/Auckland Museum Research Grant (taken up in 2017). Laurence's project focuses on landscape and scent and is structured in such a way that each section responds to the traditional development

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

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

Brigid Lowry has an MA in Creative Writing. Auckland-born, she now lives in Western Australia but spends as much time in Aotearoa as she can. Brigid spent her twenties living in a Buddhist community, veered into performance poetry in her thirties, an

Katharine Derrick lives in Kerikeri and writes mainly for children and young adults. She once had a fifty-word story published in Brian Edwards' Book of Incredibly Short Stories but most of her published works are with educational media (Learning Med

Donna Blaber writes fiction and non-fiction for children and adults. She is an experienced journalist, magazine editor and author. Her first book, New Zealand Driving Holidays, was commissioned in 2004 and since then she has produced over 30 titles,

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