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International Institute Of Modern Letters
The International Institute of Modern Letters (IIML) ( mi, Te Pūtahi Tuhi Auaha o te Ao) is a centre of creative writing based within Victoria University of Wellington. Founded in 2001, the IIML offers undergraduate and postgraduate courses (including a PhD in creative writing) and has taught many leading New Zealand writers. It publishes the annual '' Ōrongohau Best New Zealand Poems'' anthology and an online journal, and offers several writing residencies. Until 2013 the IIML was led by the poet Bill Manhire, who had headed Victoria's creative writing programme since 1975; since his retirement, Damien Wilkins has taken over as the IIML's director. History The IIML developed out of creative writing courses run by Bill Manhire at the university since 1975. Initially undergraduate courses were offered, and a master's degree programme (New Zealand's first master's degree in creative writing) was introduced in 1997. Manhire's courses involved setting writing exercises to allow ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bill Manhire
William Manhire (born 27 December 1946) is a New Zealand poet, short story writer, emeritus professor, and New Zealand's inaugural New Zealand Poet Laureate, Poet Laureate (1997–1998). He founded New Zealand's first creative writing course at Victoria University of Wellington in 1975, founded the International Institute of Modern Letters in 2001, and has been a strong promoter of New Zealand literature and poetry throughout his career. Many of New Zealand's leading writers graduated from his courses at Victoria. He has received many notable awards including a Prime Minister's Award for Literary Achievement in 2007 and an Arts Foundation of New Zealand#Icon Award, Arts Foundation Icon Award in 2018. The ''Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature'' (2006) states that he is "recognised as among the two or three finest New Zealand poets of his generation", and literary critic Peter Simpson (writer), Peter Simpson has observed that Manhire has "probably done more to widen the audi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emily Perkins (novelist)
Emily Justine Perkins (born 1970 in Christchurch) is a New Zealand author. Early life Perkins was born in Christchurch. She graduated from Toi Whakaari with a Diploma in Acting in 1989. She also studied writing at Victoria University of Wellington, Victoria University. Career Perkins first won attention in 1996 with her first collection of stories, ''Not Her Real Name and Other Stories''. Perkins' novels are ''Leave Before You Go'' (Picador (imprint), Picador, 1998), ''The New Girl'' (Picador, 2001), ''Novel About My Wife'' (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2008), and ''The Forrests'' (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2012). A longtime resident of London, Perkins lived in Auckland where she was employed by both The University of Auckland as a creative writing tutor and AUT University as a lecturer. She now lives in Wellington, where she is a senior lecturer at the Victoria University of Wellington International Institute of Modern Letters. Perkins presented a television series about books calle ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michalia Arathimos
Michalia Arathimos is a Greek–New Zealand writer. She has held several writers' residencies in New Zealand, and received several awards for her short stories. Her debut novel, ''Aukati'', was published in 2017. Life and career Arathimos was born in Wellington. Her mother is Greek and her father is a New Zealander. She holds a PhD in creative writing from the International Institute of Modern Letters at Victoria University of Wellington, supervised by Damien Wilkins and Mark Williams. After finishing her PhD, she and her partner moved to Western Australia for a year and subsequently to Melbourne, where she worked as a book reviewer for ''Overland''. In 2016 she came second in the ''Landfall'' Essay Competition. In 2016 she won the ''Sunday Star-Times'' short story competition (open category) with her short story "The Beauty of Mrs Lim". The main character in her story was inspired by her grandmother, who immigrated to New Zealand in the 1950s. She has twice been shortlisted ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michele Amas
Michele Louise Amas (8 October 1961 – 26 December 2016) was a New Zealand actress of stage, screen, television and radio, poet and playwright. She began writing poetry at age 10 and began her professional acting career in 1980. Amas wrote and directed the 2002 short film ''Redial'' which competed at the Venice Film Festival in the same year. and her first collection of poetry, ''After the Dance'', published in 2006 was shortlisted for an Montana New Zealand Book Award and nominated for the 2008 Prize in Modern Letters. She earned a Chapman Tripp Theatre Award for her portrayal of Barbara in the 2011 play '' August: Osage County''. Biography Amas was born in Dunedin, New Zealand, on 8 October 1961. She was the daughter of Beth and Bruce Amas and had an older brother. Amas was brought up in Dunedin. She and attended Queen's High School, where she got inspiration to become a professional actress from her drama teacher. Amas began writing poetry when she was ten years old. She rel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pip Adam
Pip Adam is a novelist, short story writer, and reviewer from New Zealand. Background Adam was born in Christchurch, New Zealand. She attended the New Zealand Film and Television School in Christchurch before moving to Dunedin. Adam has an MA in Library and Information Studies and an MA in creative writing from Victoria University of Wellington. In 2012 she completed her PhD, also from Victoria University, supervised by Damien Wilkins (writer), Damien Wilkins. Adam lives with her partner, Brent McIntyre, and their son, Bo Adam, in Wellington. Works * ''Everything We Hoped For'' (2010) – short story collection * ''I'm Working On A Building'' (2013) – novel * ''The New Animals'' (2017) – novel * ''Nothing To See'' (2020) – novel Adam has been published in a number of literary journals including ''Overland'' (2015), ''takahē'' (2014), ''Fire Dials'' (2014), ''Sport'' (2008–2014), Landfall (journal), ''Landfall'' (2009, 2010), and ''Hue & Cry'' (2007–2013). Ad ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Howard (poet)
David Howard (born 1959) is a New Zealand poet, writer and editor. His works have been widely published and translated into a variety of European languages. Howard was the co-founder of the literary magazine ''takahē'' in 1989 and the Canterbury Poets Collective in 1990. In New Zealand he held the Robert Burns Fellowship at the University of Otago in Dunedin in 2013, the Otago Wallace Residency, in Auckland in 2014, and the Ursula Bethell Residency in Christchurch, in 2016. In more recent years he has been the recipient of a number of UNESCO City of Literature Residencies. Life David Howard was born in Christchurch, New Zealand, in 1959. He worked for many years as a pyrotechnic and special effects supervisor. His clientele included the All Blacks, Janet Jackson and Metallica. In 1989, Howard co-founded the literary magazine ''takahē'', named after the threatened New Zealand bird. ''takahē'' appears three times a year, publishing the short stories, poetry and art. He left ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Te Herenga Waka University Press
Te Herenga Waka University Press or THWUP (formerly Victoria University Press) is the book publishing arm of Victoria University of Wellington, located in Wellington, New Zealand. As of 2022, the press had published around 800 books. History Victoria University Press was founded in the early 1970s, with a single staff member. Fergus Barrowman joined it in 1985 as publisher and remains in charge of the press. By 2005 the staff had grown to four and the press was publishing on average 15 titles a year. By 2011 this had grown to 25 titles annually, including six or seven poetry books. In 2019, Victoria University adopted the Māori name Te Herenga Waka ("the mooring place of canoes"), which previously just referred to the university marae. To align with the university's name, the press changed its name as of 1 January 2022 to Te Herenga Waka University Press. It adopted a new logo, designed by Philip Kelly and Rangi Kipa, which uses the initials THW to evoke a whare whakairo (car ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
University Of Canterbury
The University of Canterbury ( mi, Te Whare Wānanga o Waitaha; postnominal abbreviation ''Cantuar.'' or ''Cant.'' for ''Cantuariensis'', the Latin name for Canterbury) is a public research university based in Christchurch, New Zealand. It was founded in 1873 as Canterbury College, the first constituent college of the University of New Zealand. It is New Zealand's second-oldest university, after the University of Otago, itself founded four years earlier in 1869. Its original campus was in the Christchurch Central City, but in 1961 it became an independent university and began moving out of its original neo-gothic buildings, which were re-purposed as the Christchurch Arts Centre. The move was completed on 1 May 1975 and the university now operates its main campus in the Christchurch suburb of Ilam. The university is well known for its Engineering and Science programmes, with its Civil Engineering programme ranked 9th in the world (Academic Ranking of World Universities, 2021). ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adam Foundation Prize In Creative Writing
The Adam Foundation Prize in Creative Writing was set up in 1996 by benefactors Denis and Verna Adam. It is awarded to an outstanding MA student at the International Institute of Modern Letters at Victoria University of Wellington. History The Adam Foundation Prize in Creative Writing was set up in 1996 by Denis and Verna Adam (through the Victoria University Foundation), to further their wish of encouraging and supporting the development of creative writing in New Zealand. Denis and Verna Adam were art collectors and philanthropists who established the Adam Foundation in 1975 to house their art collection and later to support the arts in general, believing that art “nurtures the finer instincts of human beings”. Denis Adam died in October 2018, aged 94. In 2009, the Prize was awarded for the first time to a work of creative non-fiction and in 2014, a young adult novel, described by Mal Peet as “richly imagined, sinisterly futuristic and morally complex,” was the firs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Victor Rodger
Victor John Rodger (born 1969) is a New Zealand journalist, actor and award-winning playwright La Mama Theatre, New York. Retrieved 7 November 2009 of Samoan and heritage. Rodger's play ''Sons'' won acclaim at the (1998) and received the Best New Writer and Most Outstanding New New Zealand Play awards. New Zealand Book Council. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paula Boock
Paula Boock (born 1964) is a New Zealand writer and editor. Biography Born in Dunedin, Boock is a member of a sporting family. She is the sister of four brothers,Paula Boock ," Longacre Press. Retrieved 15 March 2013. among them former New Zealand cricket representative and sports journalist Richard Boock, and has herself represented her province of Otago at cricket. She studied at the |
Charlotte Randall
Charlotte Randall (born Dunedin) is a New Zealand novelist. Her first novel, ''Dead Sea Fruit'' won the Reed Fiction Award, and the 1996 Commonwealth Writers' Prize, Best First Book, South East Asia / Pacific. She studied psychology at the University of Canterbury. She was the 2000 Victoria University Writers' Fellow, and was the 2005 Ursula Bethell Creative Writing Resident, at Canterbury University The University of Canterbury ( mi, Te Whare Wānanga o Waitaha; postnominal abbreviation ''Cantuar.'' or ''Cant.'' for ''Cantuariensis'', the Latin name for Canterbury) is a public research university based in Christchurch, New Zealand. It was f .... She teaches at New Zealand's Writers College. She is married with two children. Works *''Dead Sea Fruit'' Secker & Warburg, 1995, *''The Curative'', Penguin Books, 2000, *''Within the Kiss'', Penguin, 2002, *''What Happen Then, Mr Bones?'', Penguin Books, 2004, *''The Crocus Hour'', Penguin Books, 2008, *''Hokitika Town'', ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
