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.
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, Thanh-Van Tran-Nhut
In January 2014 French writer Thanh-Van Tran-Nhut swapped the boulevards of Paris for the windswept hills of Wellington. Here, she reflects on her six months