Caroline Laurent, Randell Cottage 2021 Laureate
Caroline Laurent will join the Randell Cottage writer residency programme as the 2021 French artist in residence.
Michalia Arathimos arrives at the cottage
In late June, we were delighted to be able to welcome our 2020 resident Michalia Arathimos, her partner and two young children to Te Whanganui-a-Tara
On kindness, on ignorance: A frightful passage
CNZ RCWT 2020 Writing Fellow Michalia Arathimos began 2020 in Melbourne Australia where the threat of bushfires would shortly be replaced by the threat of
Paddy Richardson on place-setting: getting it right
Paddy Richardson, the 2019 CNZ Randell Cottage Writing Fellow, says she loves research but there is no substitute for actually treading the same ground as the characters she’s writing about. Her Randell project, The Green of the Spring, focuses on the experiences of Otto Bader, a German internee on Matiu Somes Island during WWI. The great value of the Randell residency was the opportunity it gave her to get to know Wellington and to visit and stay on the island.
Michalia Arathimos selected as 2020 Randell Cottage Writer in Residence
Melbourne-based but Wellington-born, writer, reviewer and editor Michalia Arathimos will be returning to her home city next year as the 2020 Creative New Zealand Randell
Paddy Richardson interviewed by RNZ National
With just a couple of weeks of her residency left to run, Paddy Richardson took time out to chat with RNZ National’s Lynn Freeman of Standing
Three Days on Somes Island
2019 New Zealand writer in residence Paddy Richardson has been using her time in the capital to visit Matiu Somes Island, the major setting of
Open Day 2019 was a brilliant success!
On a gloriously sunny day, under the auspices of Wellington Heritage Week, the three Thorndon Arts Residencies – the Lilburn Residence, the Rita Angus Cottage
Thorndon Open Day: art, literature and music
Combined Open Days at the Randell Cottage, the Lilburn Residency and the Rita Angus Residency – the homes of New Zealand writers, composers, and artists.
Dame Fiona Kidman awarded Acorn Foundation Prize for Fiction
Randell Cottage writers were strongly represented in the 2019 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards: three of our ‘family’ –Tina Makereti, Vincent O’Sullivan and Fiona Kidman
An evening with Karin Serres
The evening of 27 March may well have been a dark and stormy night but the atmosphere inside the National was warm and welcoming, as
An Evening with Karin Serres
A scenographer by training, the Randell Cottage’s 2019 French resident is Karin Serres whose work traverses many genres – novels, picture books, plays, for stage
“Chevening” apartment block gifted to Heritage New Zealand
In a remarkable yet typical act of generosity, Susan Price, who with her parents Beverley and the late Hugh Price, gifted the Randell Cottage for
RCWT ‘family’ well represented in Ockham long list
Oh! We don’t envy the judges of this year’s Ockham New Zealand Book Awards – but we are delighted to see three members of the
Karin Serres welcomed as 2019 French Writer in Residence
A scenographer by training, Karin Serres, the Randell Cottage’s 2019 French resident is a novelist, a playwright, for stage and radio, and a translator. She
Paddy Richardson Selected as 2019 Randell Cottage Writer in Residence
Dunedin-based writer Paddy Richardson is to be the 2019 Creative New Zealand Randell Cottage Writing Fellow. Richardson has published seven novels and two short story