Former New Zealander writers in residency

• > Peter Walker, 2011

  Peter Walker works as a journalist in London, and is the author of the historical memoir The Fox Boy (Bloomsbury 2001) set in Taranaki, and a novel, The Courier’s Tale (Bloomsbury 2010), set in the court of King (...)

• > Pat White, 2010

  Pat White (1944 - ) is a poet whose work often reflects an interest in rural life and the natural environment, with a life lived ’close to the seasons.’ Born in Tapanui, White has lived all over New Zealand - from the (...)

• > Kirsty Gunn, 2009

  Kirsty Gunn was brought up in Wellington and educated at Victoria University (BA Hons) and Oxford University (M. Phil). She is currently the Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Dundee and lives in (...)

• > Jennifer Compton, 2008

  Jennifer Compton was born in Wellington, New Zealand in 1949 and had two poems published in the NZ Listener when she was 15. In 1972 she travelled to Sydney, Australia with her husband Matthew O’Sullivan and attended (...)

• > Whiti Hereaka, 2007

  Whiti Hereaka is a founding member of Writers Block. Since 2001, Writers Block has been encouraging new writers in theatre particularly those from Maori and Pacific Island descent. In 2002, Hereaka was accepted into (...)

• > Beryl Fletcher, 2006

  Beryl Fletcher: As it is for many women writers, writing fiction was a life-long goal which was realised later rather than sooner. Her novels take as their theme the re-writing of established power structures, (...)

• > Renée, 2005

  The Randell Cottage Writers Trust is pleased to announce that Renée will be the new writer in residence for the second half of 2005. Selected from a number of applications, Renée will begin her residency at the (...)

• > Michael Harlow, 2004

  The Randell Writers’ Cottage residency in Wellington is the New Zealand counterpart of the Kathrine Mansfield Memorial Fellowship in Menton (France). It was created in 2001 to welcome alternately French and New (...)

• > Tim Corbalis, 2003

  Tim Corballis (1971 -) is a fiction writer whose first novel Below was published in 2001. His fiction has also appeared in Sport, The Picnic Virgin, and Spectacular Babies. He has attended both the University of (...)

• > Peter Wells, 2002

  Peter Wells (1950-) won the New Zealand and Reed awards for fiction with his first short story collection, Dangerous Desires (1991). Wells’s second collection, The Duration of a Kiss was published in 1994 and his (...)