Alice Tawhai is a short fiction writer whose poetic stories give voice to fringe characters, to Maori, and minority lives and culture. Her three short story collections, published through Huia, include: Festival of Miracles (2005), an extraordinary rainbow of cosmopolitan New Zealand characters, Luminous (2007), which describes that bittersweet combination, the darkness and beauty of contemporary life, and Dark Jelly (2011), which explores the nature of reality, and people living on the fringe of society. ‘The power of Tawhai’s writing,’ Philippa Jamieson (NZ Listener) wrote, ‘is in its simplicity and its dreamlike quality. The dialogue saunters out of people’s mouths, full of colloquialisms. While much of the language is everyday, it’s spangled with metaphor and poetry’.

Alice’s stories and collections have drawn literary accolades. Luminous was shortlisted for the Montana Book Award for Fiction (2008). The NZ Listener judged Festival of Miracles as one of the ten best books of 2005. In the Montana Book Awards, judges regarded this collection as one of three deserving candidates for the Best First Book Award for Fiction (2006).

Alice’s work has been anthologised widely in New Zealand, including Lost in Translation: New Zealand Stories, and Some Other Country: New Zealand’s Best Short Stories 4th edition. She has been published in literary journals in New Zealand and Australia. She has also contributed to the Goethe-Institut New Zealand’s Once Upon a Time, a collaborative online project for contemporary New Zealand fairy tales.

Her first novel, Aljce in Therapy Land (Lawrence & Gibson, 2021), traverses workplace bullying, online relationships and stoned friendships, with a good measure of Wonderland added in.

A private person, Alice Tawhai is a pen name for an author who prefers to let her writing speak for itself. This she has achieved. As reviewer Louise Wareham said of Festival of Miracles: ‘Tawhai writes like a dream’.

 

Links

Huia Publishers author page

Lawrence & Gibson writer page

Read NZ Te Pou Muramura writer page

Short story ‘The Last Party on Earth’ , an ANZL Creative Work feature (May, 2020)

Dark Jelly Radio New Zealand interview (24 June, 2013)

Booksellers Association review of Dark Jelly (22 Sep, 2011)

The NZ Listener review of Dark Jelly (24 Dec, 2011)

The NZ Listener article on Alice Tawhai (28 June, 2008)

Short story (celebrating Grimm’s Fairy Tales, in collaboration with the Goethe-Institut New Zealand)

'Character to some extent is much a construction of the reader as it is of the writer.' - Lloyd Jones

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Tim Wilson is the author of a biographical work, two novels and a collection of short stories. He has worked as US correspondent for Television NZ and entertainment commentator for European network RTL. He has written for numerous periodicals such as the Guardian, Reader’s Digest and the NZ Herald, including haiku-like book reviews for the New York Times, and a longer piece for Newsweek.com that earned New Yorker writer Janet Malcolm’s opprobrium. Tim has appeared at festivals nationwide. He has neither sought, nor obtained, any fellowships, or residencies…though he has contemplated some. Writing, Tim believes, ‘can’t have true seriousness without humour’.

Tim’s first book, Good as Goldie (Hachette, 2002), transcribes the life and times of Karl Sim, the only man ever to profitably forge the paintings of CF Goldie. It became a runaway bestseller because every word was true, even the lies.

His first novel, Their Faces Were Shining (Victoria UP, 2010), tells of a US Mid-Western Christian woman who is neglected to be taken up when the rapture occurs. It was NZ Listener Top 100 Pick, a Canvas Book of the year, and finalist in the 2011 New Zealand Post Book Awards.

Tim’s collection of short stories, The Desolation Angel (Victoria UP, 2011), was well-reviewed, but most notably admired by international pop sensation Lorde on Twitter, kind of a high-wire moment.

News Pigs (Victoria UP, 2014), a novel based on his experiences as US correspondent for Television New Zealand, debuted at number three on the NZ bestseller charts. His sequel The Straight Banana is a comedy about a terror plot in New York. It’s a thriller, a mystery and a love-story, combined. There’s paranoia, addiction, ambition, TV, triumph, transvestitism, and Donald Trump. A book as slim as the earlobes trying on diamonds at Bergdorf Goodman, and as big as America herself, The Straight Banana un-peels itself to a shattering conclusion.

The Straight Banana was published in September 2016 (Victoria UP). Tim expects it will form part of a trilogy.

Mostly, Tim would like to publish a slim, carnivorous volume of verse.

 

Links

Tim Wilson on Facebook

Twitter:@TimWilsonBarrio

Victoria University Press author page

Tim Wilson promotion for the Whanganui Literary Festival (2015)

Interview with Tim Wilson for the Tauranga Arts Festival (2014)

Tim Wilson promotion for the Nelson Arts Festival (2014)

NZ Herald article for the Hawkes Bay Festival (2014)

NZ Herald interview with Rhys Darby for Auckland Writers’ Festival (2012)

Christchurch City Library blog discusses Tim Wilson and Martin van Beynen for the Christchurch Writers’ Festival (2012)

More on Tim Wilson at the Christchurch Writer’s Festival (2012)

'I want you to think about what you would like to see at the heart of your national literature ' - Tina Makereti

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Glenn Colquhoun is a doctor, and an award-winning poet and children’s writer. His first collection The Art of Walking Upright (Steele Roberts, 1999) won the Jessie Mackay Best First Book of Poetry award at the Montana Book Awards (2000). Playing God (Hammersmith Press, 2002), his third collection, won the poetry section of the same awards in 2003, as well as the Readers’ Choice Award that year. In October 2006, Playing God went Platinum, making it onto Booksellers New Zealand’s Premier New Zealand Bestsellers list. ‘Often funny, sometimes serious, always compassionate,’ write publishers, Steele Roberts, his poems, ‘explore a range of medical experience as diverse and dramatic as life itself’.

Glenn has written four children’s books and published a book of essays entitled Jumping Ship & Other Essays. He was awarded the Prize in Modern Letters in 2004 and a Fulbright scholarship to Harvard University in 2010. In 2012, he was part of the ‘Transit of Venus’ poetry exchange at the Frankfurt Book Fair and in 2014 represented New Zealand on the Commonwealth Poets United poetry project, which celebrated the Glasgow Commonwealth Games that year.

His latest book Late Love, (Bridget Williams Books, 2016) is an adaptation of a speech given at the APAC health conference in 2013, outlining the relationship in his life between poetry and medicine. He is also working on Three Women, an exploration of Māori oral poetry in English and Te Reo Māori, Myths and Legends of the Ancient Pākehā, an exploration of Pākehā oral poetry, and The Ballad of Joe Taihape, an examination of the New Zealand ballad form.

 

Links

Read NZ Te Pou Muramura writer page

Steele Roberts author page

Bridget Williams Books author page

NZ Electronic Poetry Centre poet page

NZ Herald interview (Sept, 2015)

Radio New Zealand interview (Dec, 2013)

Wikipedia

'NZ literature is such a vast and varied thing' - Pip Adam

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David Eggleton who is of Rotuman, Tongan and Palagi ancestry, grew up in Fiji and South Auckland and now lives in Dunedin, New Zealand/Aotearoa. He is a poet, art critic, writer, editor and freelance journalist and was Editor of Landfall, New Zealand’s pre-eminent journal of arts and letters and Landfall Review Online as well as the Phantom Billstickers Cafe Reader. He is currently the Reviews Editor for Landfall. His creative work investigates ideas of contemporary popular culture versus ‘highbrow’, blending the literary and vernacular with energy and vigour. In 2016 his collection, The Conch Trumpet (Otago University Press, 2015) won the poetry category at the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards and he also received the Prime Minister’s Award for Literary Achievement. His collection Respirator is a sumptuous celebration of David Eggleton’s tenure as the nation’s poet-at-large during his time as Aotearoa NZ Poet Laureate (2019–22).

David has had multiple books of poems and a book of short fiction published, as well as a number of works of non-fiction. His first collection of poems was co-winner of the PEN New Zealand Best First Book of Poems Award (1987). He was awarded the Robert Burns Fellowship (1990), won a substantial Copyright Licensing Ltd (CLL) Writers’ Award (2004), was a finalist in the lifestyle and contemporary culture category at the Montana New Zealand Book Awards (2004) and received the Fulbright-Creative New Zealand Pacific Writers’ Residency (2017). His poetry and short stories appear in a wide range of recent anthologies.

Well-known as a performance poet, David has released several poetry recordings featuring his collaborations with musicians and been involved in poetry text collaborations with practitioners of a variety of other art forms, from sculpture to fashion design. In addition, he has produced short films and documentaries. He is also a six-time winner of the Montana Reviewer of the Year.

In 2024 David (along with Vaughan Rapatahana and Mere Taito) edited Katūīvei: Contemporary Pasifika Poetry from Aotearoa New Zealand, a collection of 137 poems by 89 Aotearoa-based Pacific poets which explores the navigation between our cultural spaces. This significant collection ranges from long-established voices such as Albert Wendt, Selina Tusitala Marsh and David Eggleton and the powerful newer voices of poets such as Tusiata Avia, Courtney Sina Meredith, Karlo Mila and Grace Iwashita-Taylor to new and emerging voices.

David’s most recent poetry collection, Lifting the Island (Red Hen Press, 2025), is a kind of lyrical word map of the South Pacific, built up through a lush epic catalog of flora, fauna, and artifacts. Linguistically agile, this book’s stanzas bring together the lyrical and the slangy, celebrating the local vernaculars of New Zealand, Australia, and Polynesia.

 

Links

Read NZ Te Pou Muramura writer page

Otago University Press author page

NZ Electronic Poetry Centre poet page

Te Ara: The Encyclopedia of New Zealand: New Zealand Poetry: Diversity Since 1985: David Eggleton

The Poetry Archive poet page

ANZRB review of Respirator (April, 2023)

ANZL review of The Wilder Years: Selected Poems (Feb, 2022)

Editor at Landfall Review Online, University of Otago, Dunedin

Cultural Icons video interview conducted by Graeme Lay (Aug, 2016)

Jacket2 article about South Island poets (Sept, 2015)

NZ Poetry Shelf interview (March, 2015)

NZ Poetry Shelf review of The Conch Trumpet (Jan, 2015)

Poetry from Aotearoa New Zealand on Best American Poetry website (Aug, 2014)

Oamaru Public Library poetry reading review (Aug, 2015)

'I started to feel very guilty, as though I’d perpetrated a crime, a rort' - Stephanie Johnson

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Emma Neale has published seven novels, seven poetry collections and a short fiction collection and won multiple awards for her work. Her work has featured in more than 30 magazines, newspapers and journals, and several anthologies. Reviewer John McCrystal described Neale’s novel, Little Moon, as ‘flawlessly written, deploying a wealth of descriptive imagery’. Pam Henson described Night Swimming as a ‘careful dissection of experience into observation, exploration and response’.

Raised in Christchurch, San Diego, California and Wellington, Emma worked and studied in England. She has a PhD from University College London, UK, and after ‘back-migrating’ to New Zealand, worked for ten years as editor then senior editor for Longacre Press. She now freelances for local and overseas publishers, and on alternate years, runs a poetry workshop paper at the University of Otago. For three years (2017-2021) Emma was editor for New Zealand’s well known and long-standing literary and arts journal Landfall.

Emma has held the Todd/Creative New Zealand New Writer’s Bursary and received the inaugural Janet Frame/NZSA Memorial Prize for Literature (2008). Her novel Fosterling (2011) was short-listed for the youth category of the Sir Julius Vogel Award and her fourth poetry collection The Truth Garden (2011) won the Kathleen Grattan Award for poetry the same year. Her poetry has been shortlisted for the inaugural Sarah Broom Poetry Award (2014), and selected for Best New Zealand Poems (2002, 2007, 2009 & 2014). She has been a University of Otago Burns Fellow, a University of Otago/Sir James Wallace Pah Homestead Fellow and a recipient of the Beatson/NZSA Fellowship. Her fifth collection, Tender Machines, was longlisted for the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards (2016). Emma’s flash fiction entry ‘Courtship’ was one of three highly commended in the 2018 prestigious Bridport Prize. In 2025 Emma was the recipient of both the prestigious Mary and Peter Biggs Award and the Janet Frame Award for poetry.

Emma’s novel Billy Bird (Penguin Random House, August 2016), is about an overly anxious mother and a preoccupied father trying to work out how best to manage their son, who insists that he is a bird. Billy Bird was shortlisted for the 2017 Acorn Ockham Fiction prize and longlisted for the 2018 Dublin Literary Award.

Her book of poems, To the Occupant (Otago University Press, 2019) engages with the full spectrum of human emotion and experience, challenging the open and latent violence of contemporary life, while revealing the extraordinary in the everyday. Reviewer Paula Green (NZ Poetry Shelf) describes the collection as ‘breathtaking…wide in scope and reading impact’ and ‘a sumptuous word treat’.

In Emma’s first collection of short fiction, The Pink Jumpsuit: Short Fictions, Tall Truths (Quentin Wilson Publishing, 2021) the tales range from the surreal to the real; from the true to the tall. This collection includes some of her internationally recognised flash fiction and more extended examinations of the eerie gaps and odd swerves in intimate relationships.

Fibs, porkies, little white lies, absolute whoppers and criminal evasions: the ways we can deceive each other are legion. Fascinated by our doubleness, in Emma’s recent collection, Liar, Liar, Lick, Spit (Otago University Press, 2024) she combines a personal memoir of childhood lies with an exploration of wider social deceptions. Liar, Liar, Lick, Spit won the Mary and Peter Biggs Award for Poetry at the 2025 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards.

Emma’s most recent fiction work, Maybe Baby (Bateman Books, 2026), is about a grieving widower who becomes caught in the complex hinge of three powerful desires: his loyalty to his late wife, a primal urge to be a father, and his knee-weakening attraction to a woman, Sadie, who has her own reasons to resist starting a family.

 

Links

Emma Neale’s website

Emma on Twitter

Read NZ Te Pou Muramura writer page

New Zealand Society of Authors writer page

Penguin Random House Books author page

Otago University Press author book list

ANZRB review of Liar, Liar, Lick, Spit (Dec, 2024)

NZ Poetry Shelf review of To the Occupant (Sept, 2019)

Bridport Prize Highly Commended announcement and judge’s comments (Nov, 2018)

Youtube: 13th Floor interview discussing Billy Bird (Nov, 2016)

PressReader review of Billy Bird (Aug, 2016)

Landfall review of Tender Machines (April, 2016)

Takahé review of Tender Machines (April, 2016)

London Grip review of Tender Machines (Nov, 2015)

Rattle review of The Truth Garden (Nov, 2013)

Otago Daily Times interview (Jan 2013)

Landfall review of The Truth Garden (Oct, 2012)

Landfall review of Fosterling (May, 2011)

NZ Herald review of Fosterling (May, 2011)

'There’s a kind of heaven that comes from hearing another writer interpret the mysteries of process' - Tracey Slaughter

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Sarah Laing is a fiction writer and graphic artist who writes, designs and illustrates books. The author of a graphic memoir, two novels, and a collection of short stories, she has also illustrated children’s books and designed and edited an anthology of Aotearoa/NZ women’s comics.

Her literary career was launched after winning the Sunday Star Times short story competition (2006). Her first short story collection was published the following year to critical acclaim. ‘Sarah Laing is our next great short-story writer…Sarah Laing is a real talent’, wrote Siobhan Harvey in The Press. Sarah completed her debut novel Dead People’s Music at the Michael King Writers Centre, as a Writer-in-Residence.  Jolisa Gracewood described it as a novel ‘brimming with narrative pleasures’. In 2010, Sarah was selected to be a Fellow at the Sargeson Centre alongside Sonja Yelich and it was there she began her popular blog, Let Me Be Frank, chronicling her writing and parenting life in comics. This led to regular columns in Metro and Little Treasures, a series of comic books published by Pikitia Press, and her decision to make her 2013 novel The Fall of Light part prose, part illustration. Sarah Dunn of The Nelson Mail wrote: ‘The Fall of Light offers a fresh new perspective on life as a New Zealander through irresistible characters. I loved it’.

Sarah was the University of Auckland / Michael King Writers’ Centre Fellow (2013), and there she worked on her graphic memoir, Mansfield and Me. Grappling with Mansfield’s legacy as New Zealand’s finest short story writer, she examined her own desire to be a ‘real writer’ in lush watercolour illustrations. This was launched in 2016 by Victoria University Press, in time for Mansfield’s 128th birthday. Mansfield and Me was longlisted in the illustrated non fiction category of the 2017 Ockham Awards.

Sarah’s most recent book Let Me Be Frank (Victoria UP, 2019 & Lightning Books, 2020) is a collection of her blog comics, thematically selected, and includes one hundred pages of previously unpublished material.

 

Links

Sarah Laing’s website and blog

Twitter:@sarahelaing

Victoria University Press writer page

Lightning Books writer page

Read NZ Te Pou Muramura writer page

Random House Books NZ author page

Reviews of Sarah Laing’s work

Radio New Zealand interview by Kim Hill (1Oct, 2016)

Stuff article: Sarah discusses Mansfield and Me (Oct, 2016)

'The thirty-five of us were in the country of dream-merchants, and strange things were bound to happen.' - Anne Kennedy

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Born in Christchurch in 1980, Julian Novitz is the author of three contemporary novels: Little Sister (Vintage, 2012), Holocaust Tours (Vintage, 2006) and My Life and Other Stories (Vintage, 2004). Salient called his Holocaust novel ‘darkly witty’ in the way it explores ‘questions of identity and history’. The NZ Listener described Little Sister as ‘a fine psychological thriller,’ with a ‘deliciously rich atmosphere of unease’.

In addition, Julian’s work has been published in The Penguin Book of Contemporary New Zealand StoriesBest New Zealand FictionThe Sydney Review of BooksWet InkLandfall, JAAM, NZ Listener and Sport. He was the co-editor of Geek Mook (2012), an anthology of new Australian writing.

He has won the Hubert Church Award for Best First Book of Fiction (2005), the Katherine Mansfield Award for Short Fiction (2008), was a recipient of the Buddle Findlay Frank Sargeson Residential Writing Fellowship (2009), and was shortlisted for the 2014 Commonwealth Short Story Prize. He has appeared in the Christchurch Writers’ Festival (2012, 2006 and 2004), the National Australian Young Writers’ Festival (2006 and 2007), Going West Books and the Auckland Writers Festival (2006).

Julian has a PhD in creative writing and currently works both as a lecturer in writing at the Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne and reviews editor for Antic: new writing.

 

Links

Julian on Twitter

Read NZ Te Pou Muramura writer page

Penguin Random House author page

ANZL Conversation with Jasmin B. Frelih (June, 2016)

New Zealand Herald review of Little Sister (July, 2012)

NZ Listener review of Little Sister (May, 2012)

'NZ literature is such a vast and varied thing' - Pip Adam

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Carl Nixon is a full-time writer of novels, plays, and short stories. His novels have been published in translation in Germany, France, Taiwan and China. Carl has won the NZ Sunday Star Times Short Story Award twice (1997 and 1999), Katherine Mansfield Literary Competition (first place 2007, second 1999), and been shortlisted for the Commonwealth Short Story Prize (2012). In 2012 he was also selected as part of the New Zealand contingent to attend the Frankfurt Book Fair when New Zealand was Guest of Honour. In 2017 Carl received the prestigious Katherine Mansfield Menton Fellowship.

His first book, Fish ‘n’ Chip Shop Song and Other Stories (Random House, 2006) went to number one on the New Zealand bestselling fiction list. He has published three novels since then, Rocking Horse Road (Random House, 2008), The Virgin and the Whale (Random House, 2013) and Settlers’ Creek (Random House, 2010). This last was hailed by acclaimed writer Witi Ihimaera as, ‘brave, bold and unflinching…one of the best novels to come out of New Zealand. It’s not only a gripping, brutal thriller but also a dissection of a country and its culture. It’s the kind of book that gets you run out of town.’

Carl’s plays have been performed in every professional theatre in New Zealand. They include both comedy and drama. His latest is, Matthew Mark, Luke and Joanne. Others are Kiwifruits, The Raft, The Birthday Boy, Crumpy, Two Fish ‘n’ a Scoop, and The War Artist. He adapted JM Coetzee’s novel Disgrace for the stage for Auckland Theatre Company. The NZ Herald said of Carl Nixon’s adaptation, that it ‘successfully distils the essence of this nuanced, multi-layered novel’.

In 2020 Carl published The Tally Stick (RHNZ Vintage), a compulsive and chilling novel about subjugation, survival and the meaning of family. The Tally Stick was awarded runner up for the 2021 New Zealand Society of Authors Heritage Prize for Fiction and shortlisted for the 2021 Ngaio Marsh Award.

His most recent work, The Waters (RHNZ Vintage, 2023) is a novel in 21 stories which asks, will the bond between three siblings survive the passage of time or will they succumb to their parents’ legacy of failure? Can the past be overcome . . . and forgiven?

Carl lives in Christchurch, New Zealand, and has a Masters in Religious Studies from the University of Canterbury.

 

Links

Carl Nixon’s website

Read NZ Te Pou Muramura writer page

Penguin Random House author page

The Arts Foundation author page

Stuff interview discussing Menton, books and writing (Nov, 2017)

Extract from play ‘The War Artist’ (Centrepoint Production, 2014)

NZ Herald review for Virgin and a Whale (2013)

Carl reading at Once Upon a Deadline (2011)

'...poetry makes intimate everything that it touches.' - Michael Harlow

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Nicky Pellegrino writes best-selling, popular women’s fiction. She is the author of fifteen novels about family, love, friendship and food, all located in Italy. Her stories have been translated into 12 languages. As a freelance journalist, she contributes feature articles to titles including the Listener, New Zealand Woman’s Weekly, the NZ Herald and Next magazine. Nicky also ghost-wrote a bestselling autobiography of well-known New Zealand broadcaster Angela d’Audney. Based in Auckland, she returns to Italy whenever possible to research her stories.

The UK’s Daily Mail newspaper said of her novel When in Rome (2012): ‘I loved this book so much I could hardly wait to get to the computer to type its praises…This book has inside-track glamour in spades and all the colour of La Dolce Vita-period Rome…An original subject and beautifully handled’. The Listener said of One Summer in Venice: ‘The cool, reflective tone of this book gives it backbone, while the informed, authentic descriptions of Venice and Italian food provide the treats Pellegrino fans have come to expect’. Bestselling UK author Jojo Moyes wrote that Recipe for Life ‘pulls off the rare trick of being both gritty and lyrical, heartrending and compelling. A novel about how easy it is to become an observer in your own life, and the joy of learning to live again. It also made me very hungry’.

Recently Nicky released Don’t Sweat It (Allen & Unwin, 2022). Funny, frank and optimistic, it is a refreshing and up-to-the-minute guide to menopause and perimenopause for the modern woman.

A dream wedding in Italy? It’s the chance of a lifetime! Nicky’s latest novel, Marry Me in Italy (Hachette, 2024) is a love story with a twist.

 

Links

Nicky Pellegrino’s website

Nicky on Twitter

Nicky Pellegrino on Facebook

Read NZ Te Pou Muramura writer page

RNZ interview discussing Don’t Sweat It (Jan, 2022)

Booksellers NZ review of A Dream of Italy (June, 2019)

Radio NZ interview discussing A Year at Hotel Gondola (March, 2018)

NZ Book Lovers interview discussing A Year at Hotel Gondola (March, 2018)

Noted.co.nz feature: Nicky discusses Italy, childhood and writing (April, 2016)

Radio New Zealand interview discussing Under Italian Skies (April, 2016)

NZ Listener review of Under Italian Skies (April, 2016)

Radio New Zealand interview discussing One Summer in Venice and The Buried Giant (April, 2015)

'My readers turn up...and I meet them as human beings, not sales statistics on a royalty statement.' Fleur Adcock

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Born in 1955, Dr Vivienne Plumb is of both Australian and New Zealand heritage. She is a Wellington-based writer producing fiction, poetry and drama and has published over fifteen books since she began writing in 1990. She has also written commissioned plays for Circa Theatre, the Auckland Theatre Company, and Young and Hungry Festival.

Vivienne has been the recipient of a number of awards including the Bruce Mason Playwriting Award (1993), a J.D. Stout Fellowship (1994), the Hubert Church Prose Award (1994), the Sargeson Fellowship (2001), and a post-graduate scholarship at the University of Wollongong (2009-2012). She holds a Doctor of Creative Arts (University of Wollongong), an MA in Creative Writing (Victoria University), and a BA (Victoria University).

Vivienne has participated in a number of overseas literary festivals including Ireland, Slovenia, America, Australia and Greece. She has also been awarded a number of residencies, including an Iowa writing residency (2004), Varuna, Sydney (2005), Randell Cottage (2012), and writer-in-residence positions at Massey University (2006), Hong Kong Baptist University (2006) and University of Canterbury (2014). From July 2016, she will take up the writer-in-residence position at the University of Auckland. In 2017, Vivienne is one of a panel of three judging the poetry section of the prestigious Ockham Book Awards.

Vivienne’s play The Wife Who Spoke Japanese In Her Sleep, a collection of three playscripts by three New Zealand female playwrights, was launched November 2016.

Her latest book is As Much Gold as an Ass Could Carry (split|fountain, 2017).  This is a collection of previously published works (poetry, fiction, drama), in joint collaboration with the Auckland artist, Glenn Otto, and Auckland book designer and publisher, Layla Tweedie-Cullen.

Vivienne works as a full-time writer, and also mentoring and teaching creative writing students.

 

Links:

Read NZ Te Pou Muramura writer page

New Zealand Society of Authors writer page

Wikipedia

Seraph Press author page

Headworx Press author page

Otago University Press author page

Victoria University Electronic Text Collection

Playmarket  member page (lists Vivienne’s plays)

Vivienne on Vimeo

University of Iowa International Writing Programme author page

'NZ literature is such a vast and varied thing' - Pip Adam

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