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Michael King Writers Centre
The Michael King Writers Centre is a writing centre on the slope of Takarunga / Mount Victoria in Devonport, Auckland, New Zealand, which offers residencies to early career and experienced writers. It was established in 2005 in honour of New Zealand historian Michael King. About the centre The centre is based at the Signalman's House, a historic house built in 1898, on Takarunga / Mount Victoria in Devonport, Auckland. the centre had hosted around 140 writers-in-residence. Residencies are of short length to encourage applicants of diverse backgrounds. residencies are offered for between two and three weeks, although in the past they have been offered for as long as six months. The centre also offers short-term accommodation for visiting writers on a paying basis. History At the memorial service for historian and writer Michael King in 2004, Gordon McLauchlan suggested that a writers' centre in King's name should be set up. The centre was established through a charitabl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael King (historian)
Michael King (15 December 1945 – 30 March 2004) was a New Zealand historian, author, and biographer. He wrote or edited over 30 books on New Zealand topics, including the best-selling ''Penguin History of New Zealand'', which was the most popular New Zealand book of 2004. Life King was born in Wellington, one of four children to Eleanor and Lewis King, and grew up at Paremata. His Glasgow-born father was an advertising executive who had left New Zealand to serve as a naval officer in World War II and had risen to the rank of lieutenant-commander. King's family moved to Auckland for a while, where he attended Sacred Heart College, then returned to Wellington, where he attended St Patrick's College, Silverstream in Upper Hutt. He studied history at Victoria University of Wellington, working part-time for the '' Evening Post'', and graduated with a BA in 1967. He married Ros Henry in 1967. They moved to Hamilton, where King worked full-time as a journalist at the ''Waikato Time ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gina Cole
Gina Annette Cole (born 1960) is a New Zealand writer and lawyer. Her writing is inspired by her experiences as a queer Fijian woman. Her short story collection ''Black Ice Matter'' received the award for best first book of fiction at the 2017 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards. Her first novel ''Na Viro'' was published in July 2022. Background and education Cole was born in 1960. She is of Fijian, Scottish and Welsh descent. From 1963 to 1966, she and her family lived on Farewell Spit, where her father was the lighthouse keeper. , she lives in Auckland. She studied law at the University of Auckland and was admitted to the bar in 1991. She practiced as a barrister until 2018, when she closed her practice to focus on her writing. In 2013, Cole obtained a Masters in Creative Writing from the University of Auckland, and in 2020 she earned a PhD in Creative Writing from Massey University on the topic of indigenous science fiction. She has said that as "an Indigenous Fijian queer woma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sarah Laing
Sarah Laing (born 1973) is a New Zealand author, graphic novelist and graphic designer. Background Laing was born in 1973 in Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, United States and grew up in Palmerston North, New Zealand. As a teenager she moved to Wellington and has also lived in Germany, New York, and Auckland. She is currently based in Wellington. Career Laing has a background in graphic design and worked as an illustrator. She completed a master's degree at Unitec in 2016. She illustrated ''Macaroni Moon'', a children's poetry book by Paula Green. In 2007 she published her first collection of short stories, ''Coming up Roses''. Her first novel, ''Dead People’s Music'', was published in 2009. She is also the author of the short story ebook ''Inside a Pomegranate.'' Following her time at the Sargeson Centre, she wrote and illustrated her second novel, ''The Fall of Light''. In 2016 she published the memoir ''Mansfield and Me: a Graphic Memoir'' (Victoria University Press), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anne Kennedy
Anne Kennedy (born 1959 Wellington, New Zealand) is a New Zealand novelist, poet, and filmwriter. Background Educated in Wellington, Kennedy was a piano teacher and music librarian in her early years. She graduated with a Bachelor of Music in Composition from Victoria University of Wellington and taught at Trinity College London. In 2007 she completed a Master of Arts at Victoria University of Wellington, under the supervision of Lydia Wevers, titled ''Kicking round home: Atonality in the Bone People''. Career Since 1986, she has been a freelance scriptwriter. Anne Kennedy published her first novel in 1988, and has since published six novels and books of poetry. Her most recent novel, ''The Last Days of the National Costume'', was featured on the Listener's Top 100 Books of 2013, and on the Nielson 2013 Bestseller's list in New Zealand adult fiction. In 2006, Kennedy was a visiting writer at University of Hawai'i at Mānoa. She was a professor there for several years. Currently, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jade Kake
Bonnie Jade Kake is a New Zealand Māori architectural designer of Ngāpuhi, Te Arawa and Whakatōhea iwi. She specialises in designing communities and housing based on a traditional model of living known as papakāinga. Biography Kake was born in Australia to a New Zealand Māori mother and a Dutch father. She grew up in an eco-community called Billen Cliffs, which her parents had founded, in rural northern New South Wales. As a child, she frequently visited her mother's family and land near Whangārei. Kake completed a degree in architectural design at the University of Queensland in 2009, followed by a short course in carpentry at a TAFE (a Technical and Further Education college). In her early 20s, Kake moved to Auckland to work for Rau Hoskins and his design firm, designTRIBE. From 2013 to 2015 Kake studied for a master's degree in architecture at Unitec Institute of Technology. In 2018, Kake established her own business, Matakohe Architecture and Urbanism, in Whangārei, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anna Jackson
Anna Jackson (born 1967) is a New Zealand poet, fiction and non-fiction writer and an academic. Biography Jackson grew up in Auckland and now lives in Wellington. She has an MA from the University of Auckland and a DPhil from Oxford University. She is currently an associate professor in the School of English, Film, Theatre and Media Studies at Victoria University of Wellington. Her poems were first published in the collection ''AUP New Poets 1'' (AUP, 1999) and she has since published a number of collections of poetry, as well as writing and co-editing works of literary criticism, essays, short stories and book reviews for publications in New Zealand and overseas. Much of her poetry explores the ideas of family and childhood. Her writing has appeared in journals and anthologies, and she has published several collections of poetry. ''The Gas Leak'' was reviewed in the ''Journal of New Zealand Literature''. ''Pasture and Flock: New and Selected Poems'', published by Auckland Uni ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roger Horrocks
Roger John Horrocks (born 4 June 1941) is a New Zealand writer, film-maker, educator and cultural activist. Biography Horrocks was born in the Auckland suburb of Mount Albert on 4 June 1941, the son of Jack Horrocks and Edith Barbara Horrocks (née Rhodes). Majoring in English, he completed a BA (1962), MA First Class Honours (1963), and PhD (1976) from the University of Auckland. His doctoral thesis, supervised by C. K. Stead, was titled ''Mosaic: a study of juxtaposition in literature, as an approach to Pound's Cantos and similar modern poems''. He also studied for two years with Allen Tate at the University of Minnesota (1964–65) and one year with Thom Gunn at the University of California, Berkeley (1966). In 1973, receiving a Fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies, he studied with Robert Creeley at the State University of New York at Buffalo. In 1964 he married Eleanor Seguin. Their daughter, Simone Horrocks, is a film director, and Dylan Ho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Whiti Hereaka
Whiti Hereaka (born 1978) is a New Zealand playwright, novelist and screenwriter and a barrister and solicitor. She has held a number of writing residencies and appeared at literary festivals in New Zealand and overseas, and several of her books and plays have been shortlisted for or won awards. In 2022 her book ''Kurangaituku'' won the prize for fiction at the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards and ''Bugs'' won an Honour Award in the 2014 New Zealand Post Awards for Children and Young Adults. She lives in Wellington, New Zealand. Biography Whiti Hereaka was born in 1978 and grew up in Taupo. Hereaka is of Ngāti Tūwharetoa, Te Arawa and Pākehā descent. Her favourite childhood reading included books by Roald Dahl, the Narnia series, '' Anne of Green Gables'', ''Tanglewood Tales'' and The Moomins. She is a barrister and solicitor and holds a Masters in Creative Writing (Scriptwriting) from the International Institute of Modern Letters at Victoria University of Wellington. In 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karyn Hay
Karyn Hay (born 1959 in Auckland) is a New Zealand author and broadcaster. She came to fame as the presenter of 1980s music TV show Radio with Pictures before going on to an extensive career in television and radio. Early life Hay grew up in the Thames Valley dairy factory town of Waitoa, near Te Aroha. She recalls it as "heartland New Zealand... There was this yearning all the time to break out of that." She has only dim recollections of the 60s music TV shows. She found her escape in the printed word, "... reading William Burroughs, Hermann Hesse, Jean-Paul Sartre… Coming from a town like Waitoa, that kind of literature was more expansive than any kind of drug". Broadcasting Inspired by "the thought of arguing for a living", Hay initially applied for law school but became a cadet with Radio New Zealand instead, beginning work at 1ZH in Hamilton as a copywriter. She worked as a copywriter at Radio Hauraki, and was New Zealand's first female rock DJ. Her television career b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tracy Farr
Tracy Farr (born 1962) is an Australian and New Zealand writer. Previously a research scientist, Farr has published two novels and several short stories. In 2014 she won the ''Sunday Star-Times'' Short Story Award. Early life and scientific career Farr was born in Melbourne, but grew up in Perth where she attended school and university. She holds a bachelor's degree in science with honours in microbiology and a bachelor's degree in arts (English literature) from the University of Western Australia. Farr worked in Australia as a phycologist (scientist studying algae) after graduating and in Canada between 1991 and 1996. In 1996 she moved to New Zealand, where she continued to work as a scientist, including at NIWA and Te Papa, and at the Royal Society of New Zealand from 2011 to 2015. Her particular area of focus was coralline algae. Writing career Farr's short stories have been anthologised in ''The Best New Zealand Fiction'' volume 1 (2004) and volume 3 (2006). She has also ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chris Else
Chris Else (born 1942) is the New Zealand author of novels, collections of short stories, and poems. Biography Born in Cottingham, Yorkshire in the United Kingdom, Chris Else emigrated to New Zealand in 1956. He was educated at Auckland Grammar School and the University of Auckland. Else has worked in teaching, bookselling and data-processing. Currently he is a literary agent, technical writing consultant and partner with his wife and fellow novelist, Barbara Else, in a Wellington editorial agencyTFS Literary Agency and Manuscript Assessment Service which among other contributions is credited by Alan Duff for ‘visionary advice’ in the acknowledgments to ''Once Were Warriors''. While he was at the Auckland Teachers' Training College, he was awarded the 64 Literature Cup in successive years, 1965 and 1966. In 2005, he was elected President oThe New Zealand Society of Authors (Pen NZ) In 2007, he was appointed Chairman of Directors oCopyright Licensing Limitedand in th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Eggleton
David Eggleton (born 1952) is a New Zealand poet, critic and writer. Eggleton has been awarded the Ockham New Zealand Book Award for poetry and in 2019 was appointed New Zealand Poet Laureate, a title he held until 2022. Eggleton's work has appeared in a multitude of publications in New Zealand and he has released over 18 poetry books (1986–2001) with a variety of publishers, including Penguin. Early life Born in Auckland and of mixed European, Tongan, and Rotuman descent, Eggleton spent part his formative years in both Fiji and Auckland, dropping out of school to take up performance music and poetry.Eggleton, David ", ''New Zealand Book Council. June 2015. Retrieved 26 February 2016. Eggleton later moved to |
