Visiting artist Martin Sercombe brings his expertise to city stuff.co.nz - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from stuff.co.nz Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
When award-winning author Gina Cole embarked on her PhD in Creative Writing at Massey University, she faced a hard decision. What was more important - her 27 year-long career in law, or her fiction writing?
Mikaela Nyman, Massey’s College of Humanities and Social Sciences Visiting Artist for 2021.
Mikaela Nyman, poet, novelist and non-fiction writer from the autonomous, demilitarised Åland Islands in Finland, is taking up residency in Manawatū in March as Massey University’s Visiting Artist for 2021.
Massey creative writing lecturers Dr Thom Conroy and Dr Laura Jean McKay selected Ms Nyman from a sensational shortlist of international and national writers, and are delighted she will be the visting artist.
The visiting artist residency programme is a partnership formed by Massey’s College of Humanities and Social Sciences in collaboration with the Palmerston North City Council and Square Edge Community Arts. The programme was established in 2004 and is open to emerging and established writers.