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,

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

Irene grew up in Central Otago and now lives in Ireland, where her short stories have been published and broadcast. She was nominated for a Hennessy New Irish Writing Award in 2005. Short-listings include the Mitchelstown International Short Story Aw

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, 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

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

Sue Perkins has been a regular visiting writer to the MKWC since 2008. Originally from Devon, England, she emigrated with a young family and now lives on a lifestyle block north of Blenheim. She works as a graphic designer and writes romance, fantasy

Louise Deans was one of four Christchurch writers offered a free week at the Michael King Writers' Centre as a respite from the Canterbury earthquakes. Louise stayed in September 2011. Born, bred and educated in Timaru, she has always been an avid re

Deborah is from Brighton, England. She completed her MA at Sussex University, where she now works. Deborah fell in love with New Zealand when she came to visit friends and extended her stay to three months so that she could travel from the South Isla