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Andy Buchanan is a semi-retired structural engineer with an interest in outdoor activities.
Coleen Clare is a Kiwi living in Melbourne.
Fiona Farrell lived for nearly 30 years at Otanerito on Banks Peninsula...
Heather McQuillan writes for young readers, as well as short fiction and poetry.
Joanna Preston is a Tasmanaut poet, editor, publisher, and creative writing teacher, and chook-mama.
Josiah Morgan (Kāi Tahu, Ngāti Maniapoto) is an interdisciplinary artist based in Ōtautahi.
Liam McIlvanney was born in Scotland and studied at the universities of Glasgow and Oxford.
Matt Morris is a writer based in South New Brighton.
Naomi Arnold is an award-winning journalist and natural history writer.
Ray Shipley is an Ōtautahi-based poet, library assistant, marriage celebrant, writing tutor...
After publishing his first novel Stef Harris wrote and directed a film version, The Waimate Conspiracy...
Vanda Symon is the Author of the Number 1 best selling Detective Sam Shephard crime fiction series and...
Ant and his wife Lou founded The Akaroa Cooking School back in 2009 and continue to run it today.
Damien Wilkins is the author of fourteen books.
Fiona Jay is a Readers' Advisory Librarian specialising in Fiction at Tūranga Library in Christchurch.
Isla Huia (Te Āti Haunui a-Pāpārangi, Uenuku) is a te reo Māori teacher...
Born in the south of England, and educated at Brighton and Cambridge...
Kate is a fiction writer who also writes essays and speeches on literature subjects...
Liana Ashenden is a writer and artist, with a PhD in English Literature and a BSC in Physiology.
Michael Bennett's (Ngāti Pikiao, Ngāti Whakaue) debut novel Better the Blood was shortlisted for the Fiction Award...
Nic Low is a writer and arts organiser of Ngāi Tahu Maori and European descent.
Robyn can never remember a life without reading.
Steve Braunias is the author of 14 books...
Ariana Tikao is a musician, composer and writer whose work explores her Kāi Tahu identity...
Daniel Smith has extensive experience working in the areas of collections management...
A children’s author and illustrator of 70 highly acclaimed books...
Jane Stafford is an emeritus professor in the English programme of...
John’s connection to Banks Peninsula stretches back to the mid-nineteenth century.
Laurence Fearnley is an award-winning novelist and nonfiction writer.
Marie has published over thirty books across a range of areas of fiction and non fiction.
Morrin Rout has spent over 25 years organising literary events and festivals and producing...
Admired by leading contemporary writers and described by Vincent O’Sullivan as New Zealand’s...
Ross Calman (Ngāti Toa, Ngāti Raukawa, Ngāi Tahu) is an Ōtautahi-based writer...
Tina Makereti (Te Ātiawa, Ngāti Tūwharetoa, Ngāti Rangatahi-Matakore) is an award-winning writer of novels...
