Our 2014 writer-in-residence, Tina Makereti, has been awarded the prestigious 2026 Katherine Mansfield Menton Fellowship.
The announcement was made in Wellington on 10 September by the Katherine Mansfield Menton Fellowship Committee in conjunction with The Arts Foundation Te Tumu Toi and Craig Investment Partners.
Tina will head to France in early 2027.
Congratulations to Tina Makereti, Randell Cottage Fellow in 2014, who has won the Ockhams General Non-Fiction award for This Compulsion in Us (published by Te Herenga Waka University Press).
Congratulations to Whiti Hereaka, who has won the $60,000 2022 Ockham Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize for Fiction announced on 11 May.
Her novel Kurangaituku is described by the judges as an epic poem of a novel, resonant of Māori oral traditions that gives a voice, form and name to the bird-woman from the myth ‘Hatupatu and the Bird-woman’. Whiti was a writer-in-residence at the Randell Cottage in 2007.
Pour Vous written by former Randell Cottage resident, Dominique Mainard, during her stay at the cottage has been awarded the Prix des Libraires which is voted for by 325 French booksellers.
Watch Dominique Mainard describe Pour Vous (in French)