Liz Breslin
Dunedin, ville de littérature UNESCO Ōtepoti - DunedinLiz Breslin is a writer, editor and performer. In 2020, she co-created The Possibilities Project with Dunedin UNESCO City of Literature. Other recent performances and collaborations include Verb Wellington’s Litcrawl, Dunedin Writers & Readers Festival, WORD Christchurch, a series of anti-pantomimes, TEDx Queenstown and a tour of bars, bookshops and a fairy-lit skatepark in BC, Canada. In 2019 Liz was a resident writer in Krakow UNESCO City of Literature. Her first collection of poems, Alzheimer’s and a spoon, was published in 2017 and listed as one of the NZ Listener’s Top 100 Books.
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Michelle Elvy
Dunedin, ville de littérature UNESCO Ōtepoti - DunedinMichelle Elvy is a writer and editor based in Dunedin. She teaches online at 52|250 A Year of Writing, edits Flash Frontier: An Adventure in Short Fiction, chairs National Flash Fiction Day and is Reviews Editor for Landfall. Her book the everrumble (Ad Hoc Fiction, 2019) is a small novel in small forms. Michelle has co-edited the anthologies Bonsai: Best small stories from Aotearoa New Zealand (CUP, 2018) and Ko Aotearoa Tātou | We Are New Zealand (OUP, 2020), and she is currently curating Love in the Time of COVID: A Chronicle of a Pandemic with Witi Ihimaera.
Anna Hoeki-Sims
Dunedin, ville de littérature UNESCO Ōtepoti - DunedinA poet, potter, and peruser, Anna Hoek-Sims is based in Ōtepoti, Aotearoa (Dunedin, New Zealand). She is currently writing a poetry book based on her experiences with cancer, and works at the renowned University Book Shop. Anna loves to cycle along the peninsula, a hotbed of inspiration, and up and down (mostly down!) Dunedin's notorious hills. She also enjoys exploring Ōtepoti’s walking tracks, pen and notebook always in hand!
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Kirstie McKinnon
Dunedin, ville de littérature UNESCO OtagoKirstie McKinnon lives, writes and surfs in east coast Otago, New Zealand.
Emma Neale
Dunedin, ville de littérature UNESCO Ōtepoti - DunedinEmma Neale is the author of six novels and six collections of poetry. Her most recent novel, Billy Bird (2016) was short-listed for the Acorn Prize at the Ockham NZ Book Awards and long-listed for the Dublin International Literary Award. Emma has received a number of literary fellowships, residencies and awards, the most recent of which is the Lauris Edmond Memorial Award for 2020. Her first collection of short stories, Party Games, is due out late 2020/early 2021. Emma lives and works in Ōtepoti/Dunedin, and she is the current editor of Landfall, New Zealand’s longest-running literary journal.
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Jilly O'Brien
Dunedin, ville de littérature UNESCO Ōtepoti - DunedinJilly O’Brien is a poet and registered psychologist living on Te Mua Upoko Otago Peninsula in Ōtepoti Dunedin. Jilly holds an MA (Cantab) from Cambridge University, an MEdPsych from Massey University, and a Postgraduate Teaching Diploma from Exeter University. Jilly writes poetry in Scots and English from an ecological perspective, writing neither about people nor places nor time, but rather about the triangulated space where these collide. Jilly’s poems have been published in many literary journals and anthologies in Aotearoa New Zealand, Scotland, Australia, Eire and England, and her poetry has won awards internationally. Jilly’s poetry has been displayed on the ice in Antarctica as well as on the back of parking tickets and on benches in her home town.
Jenny Powell
Dunedin, ville de littérature UNESCO Ōtepoti - DunedinJenny Powell lives in Dunedin, New Zealand. She has published seven individual and two collaborative collections of poems. She has been a finalist in the UK Plough Poetry Prize, International Aesthetica Poetry Competition, Welsh Poetry Competition and UK Mslexia Poetry Competition. Her memoir The Case of the Missing Body (2016), was New Zealand Book of the Month. Jenny has written two multi-media collaborative performance pieces and this year has been awarded the 2020 New Zealand RAK Mason Writing Fellowship.
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Laura Williamson
Dunedin, ville de littérature UNESCO Québec / OtagoBorn in Quebec City, Laura Williamson is a writer, songwriter and poet now based in Otago, New Zealand. Laura is the editor of the print magazine 1964: mountain culture / aotearoa. She co-wrote The Blue Moments Project song and spoken word cycle, and her book The Bike and Beyond: Life on Two Wheels in Aotearoa New Zealand is out now as part of Bridget Williams Books’ BWB Text series.
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Annabel Wilson
Dunedin, ville de littérature UNESCO LytteltonWriter and teacher Annabel Wilson lives in Lyttelton. Her poetry has been widely published and her plays have been performed at UNESCO Cities of Literature Short Play Festival, Festival of Colour, BATS theatre, Te Pou and recorded for RNZ. Annabel’s first book, Aspiring Daybook, won the NZ Mountain Book and Film Festival Best Fiction award (2018) and was long-listed for the Ockham Book Awards (2019). Annabel is also a recipient of the R.A.K Mason Fellowship at NZ Pacific Studio, the AAWP Emerging Writers’ Prize and a residency at Robert Lord Writers’ Cottage. www.annabelwilsonwriter.com
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Iona Winter
Dunedin, ville de littérature UNESCO Ōtepoti - DunedinIona Winter is a writer of Indigenous and colonised ancestry, and as a result avoids confining herself to form. She is widely published and anthologised, recently shortlisted with the Bath Flash Fiction Award (UK 2020), The Best Small Fictions (USA 2019), and is skilled at giving voice to difficult topics. Iona has authored two collections: Te Hau Kāika (2019), then the wind came (2018), and is currently working on a novella in hybrid fiction. She resides on the East Otago Coast, Ōtepoti Dunedin, Aotearoa New Zealand.
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