Amy McDaid has a Master of Creative Writing from the University of Auckland. The draft of her first novel Wind Air Sky Guy won the Sir James Wallace Prize in 2017, New Zealand's richest prize for a creative writing student. She lives in Titirangi, an

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

Joan Norlev Taylor stayed at the centre as the recipient of the NZSA/Auckland Museum Research Grant, (awarded in 2017 and taken up in 2018). During her stay Joan read archives in the Auckland Museum library to help her with her new novel, Between the

Margaret Brosnahan, from Northland, first stayed as a visiting writer for several weeks during the first half of 2015. She returned in 2018 but this is what she wrote about her first visit. I am new to the writing world having started my Level 5 Dipl

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

Ivy Alvarez is the author of The Everyday English Dictionary (London: Paekakariki Press, 2016), Hollywood Starlet (Chicago: dancing girl press), Disturbance (Wales: Seren, 2013), and Mortal. A three-time Pushcart Prize nominee, her work appears in ma

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