2021 Wellington Heritage Week
The 2021 Wellington Heritage Week will take place from 25 October to 31 October. Watch this space for details of Randell Cottage’s annual Open Day.
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
James Norcliffe at the National Library, 6 December 2018
We finish the year with a presentation from our current resident, James Norcliffe, at the National Library on Thursday 6 December, from 12:10 to 1:00
Notice of Annual General Meeting
You are invited to the Annual General Meeting of Friends of the Randell Cottage Writers’ Trust to be held on: Tuesday, 20 November 2018, 6.00
Former residents honoured for lifetime contribution to New Zealand literature
Feminist and working-class stories, poetry as song, and a deeper understanding of New Zealand art – these are just some of the frontiers explored by
At home in the Randell Cottage, James Norcliffe
By James Norcliffe, 2018 Creative New Zealand Randell Cottage Writing Fellow New Zealand writers are not really spoilt for choice when it comes to fellowships
Two Seasons and Countless Treasures, Than-Van Tran-Nhut
In January 2014 French writer Than-Van Tran-Nhut swapped the boulevards of Paris for the windswept hills of Wellington. Here, she reflects on her six months
An Evening With James Norcliffe
NEW ZEALAND SOCIETY OF AUTHORS WELLINGTON BRANCH PRESENTS AN EVENING WITH James Norcliffe Join us to hear James Norcliffe, award-winning poet, fiction writer, editor and teacher, and
An evening with Amélie Lucas-Gary
An original and promising young French writer, Amélie Lucas-Gary has spent the past six months living and working in Wellington as the 2018 Randell Cottage