Reminder – Two weeks left to apply for the Randell Cottage Writers Residency
There are just over two weeks left to apply for the 2025 Creative New Zealand Randell Cottage Writers Fellowship!
There are just over two weeks left to apply for the 2025 Creative New Zealand Randell Cottage Writers Fellowship!
In a special ceremony in Paris, our most recent writer-in-residence, Julien Blanc-Gras has been honoured for Bungalow, his record of travelling in Asia with his partner and son shortly before their New Zealand visit.
The RCWT is delighted to announce, in conjunction with the Embassy of France, that the next French writer-in-residence at Randell Cottage will be Titaua Peu coming to us from Tahiti. She will take up her residency in Wellington in early 2025.
Applications are now open for one of New Zealand’s top writing residencies: the 2025 Creative New Zealand Randell Cottage Writers Fellowship.
POETRY POWER HOUR: Hinemoana Baker is offering some free poetry coaching sessions on weekday mornings, and occasional weekends, while doing the Randell Cottage residency.
Former resident at Randell Cottage, Tina Makereti, has launched a challenging new book, The Mires, that tackles big subjects – identity, racism, intolerance and what happens when that becomes extremism.
Bungalow, the new novel by Julien Blanc-Gras, is due to be published on May 2.
Published by French publishing house Stock, Bungalow, is about a French family leaving Paris to travel to South-East Asia, in order to escape professional burn-out, digital madness and Western depression.
In his latest book, Peter Walker, Randell Cottage writer in residence in 2011, explores the history of Haast’s Eagle, Te Hokioi.
Applications are invited for next year’s French residency at Randell Cottage, with a closing date of 30 April.
Julien Blanc-Gras addressed a large French-speaking audience in Wellington on the evening of 22 March, as part of ‘Le Mois de la Francophonie’ hosted by the Alliance Française. His talk reflected the wry, humorous and insightful style that he brings to his published works.