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Michael King Writers' Centre residency selections announced
Wednesday, 13 November 2013, 9:59 am | Michael King Writers' Centre
Four award-winning New Zealand writers will take up residencies at the Michael King Writers’ Centre next year, including one who will write a novel about the racehorse Phar Lap. More >>
Always My Sister
Wednesday, 23 October 2013, 4:21 pm | Michael King Writers' Centre
Always My Sister, a new play by Michelanne Forster, is based on a murder that took place in Devonport in the 1840s and explores domestic violence. A rehearsed reading of the play will be held on Wednesday November 6 at 5:30 pm at The University of ... More >>
Congratulations to Eleanor Catton
Wednesday, 16 October 2013, 12:17 pm | Michael King Writers' Centre
The Michael King Writers’ Centre joins the New Zealand literary and book community in congratulating Eleanor Catton for winning the 2013 Man Booker Prize for Literature for her novel The Luminaries . More >>
Last week for Writers' Centre applications
Saturday, 28 September 2013, 2:51 pm | Michael King Writers' Centre
Applications for the Michael King Writers’ Centre 2014 residency programme close in just a few days. More >>
The Mega Copyright Debate – Get your tickets now!
Friday, 30 August 2013, 2:36 pm | Michael King Writers' Centre
The Mega Copyright Debate takes a critical look at what's happening with copyright in the age of the internet. Featuring Kim Dotcom, Listener columnist and blogger Toby Manhire, Metro editor Simon Wilson, Dunedin crime writer Vanda Symon, comedian ... More >>
The Mega Copyright Debate, with Kim Dotcom
Thursday, 22 August 2013, 4:14 pm | Michael King Writers' Centre
Kim Dotcom will feature in a fundraising debate for the Michael King Writers' Centre in September, along with leading authors, writers and comedians. More >>
Don McGlashan at The Vic – this weekend
Friday, 3 May 2013, 11:42 am | Michael King Writers' Centre
Don McGlashan returns to Devonport to do his bit for The Victoria Theatre on Saturday 4 May. Don has recently been writer in residence at the Michael King Writers’ Centre. Now the man from The Mutton Birds, Blam Blam Blam and the Front Lawn is playing solo ... More >>
Seaweed pays for major book collection
Monday, 25 March 2013, 11:25 am | Michael King Writers' Centre
A Devonport family has donated a major collection of New Zealand books to the Michael King Writers’ Centre. More >>
Writers Centre Open Afternoon 24 March 2013
Friday, 22 March 2013, 4:54 pm | Michael King Writers' Centre
Meet some great writers at the Michael King Writers’ Centre open afternoon this weekend. Bring your friends and family and celebrate NZ Book Month with a visit to the Michael King Writers’ Centre and hear some of Devonport’s local poets and ... More >>
Anniversary Regatta Open Afternoon at Writers’ Centre
Wednesday, 23 January 2013, 3:09 pm | Michael King Writers' Centre
The house and garden will be open for members of the public to picnic, watch the Auckland Regatta from a great vantage point, enjoy the views and look through the collection of literary and historical memorabilia. The Signalman’s House is the ... More >>
Wind and Weather by Michele Leggot
Wednesday, 14 November 2012, 6:39 pm | Michael King Writers' Centre
Michele Leggott’s latest poems explore the death of her great-grandfather in Devonport in 1891. More >>
New trustees for Michael King Writers’ Centre
Wednesday, 3 October 2012, 2:37 pm | Michael King Writers' Centre
New trustees for Michael King Writers’ Centre Three new trustees who are prominent in the fields of literature, heritage and education have been appointed to the Michael King Writers’ Studio Trust. The new trustees are: • Rosalind Ali, a teacher of ... More >>
On the Upside Down of the World
Friday, 28 September 2012, 3:55 pm | Michael King Writers' Centre
The Michael King Writers’ Centre has organised an exciting theatrical event as part of the Auckland Heritage Festival. More >>
Writing Science: The What, the How, the Why
Thursday, 14 June 2012, 11:05 am | Michael King Writers' Centre
Writing Science: The What, the How, the Why Vaughan Park, Long Bay, Auckland 20-22 October 2012 MEDIA RELEASE “There is an increasing concern about the conflation of water security, food security and energy security against the backdrop of global ... More >>
Dr Peter Simpson awarded top literary award
Friday, 25 May 2012, 2:54 pm | Michael King Writers' Centre
Michael King Writers’ Centre Trustee Dr Peter Simpson has been awarded the prestigious Creative New Zealand Michael King Writer’s Fellowship for 2012. During his fellowship, Dr Simpson will work on a new project exploring the rich and fertile artistic scene ... More >>
Frank Sargeson House Open Afternoon
Wednesday, 21 March 2012, 2:49 pm | Michael King Writers' Centre
The country’s oldest literary museum, where Frank Sargeson lived and wrote from the 1940s until his death in 1982, will be open to the public as part of NZ Book Month. Restored by the Sargeson Trust, with the assistance of Hayden and Rollett, ... More >>
Three authors selected for 2012 residencies
Tuesday, 22 November 2011, 10:53 am | Michael King Writers' Centre
A talented group of writers will take up residencies at the Michael King Writers’ Centre in Devonport next year. The centre received applications from nearly 70 writers for its residency programme in 2012. More >>
Michael King Writers’ Centre: Writer-in-Residence Selected
Wednesday, 16 November 2011, 12:21 pm | Michael King Writers' Centre
A rising star of New Zealand fiction writing whose first novel had a big international impact has been awarded a six-month residency in Auckland in 2012. Eleanor Catton’s first novel The Rehearsal was released in New Zealand and the United Kingdom in 2008-09, ... More >>
The Signalman’s House Series
Friday, 13 May 2011, 3:39 pm | Michael King Writers' Centre
The Holloway Press, which specialises in limited-edition, hand-made books, is launching a new series of books called The Signalman’s House series, to celebrate the work of writers awarded a fellowship at the Michael King Writers’ Centre in Devonport. More >>
An NZ Book Month event this weekend at the Writers' Centre
Wednesday, 2 March 2011, 3:07 pm | Michael King Writers' Centre
The Michael King Writers’ Centre will hold an open afternoon to celebrate New Zealand Book Month, featuring the current writer-in-residence, playwright Arthur Meek, on Sunday 6 March from 2 pm to 4 pm. Arthur has written for stage, screen and radio, ... More >>
