The average New Zealand author only earns about a third of their income from writing, but for the select few writer in residencies programmes provide financial support and a physical space to write.
Sojourn, which is set in the
Waikato.
Michalia
Arathimos
This position is jointly funded by the
University of Waikato and Creative
New Zealand and the sole purpose is to give the writer
the freedom to write.
‘For a mid-career writer like
myself, with a young whānau, I cannot emphasise enough what
a supported opportunity like this means. For some writers,
it can mean the difference between the next work taking five
years, or one, to write,’ says Michalia.
Sojourn
is a story of uneasy leavings and returnings, and of
uncomfortable histories. The main character, Andrianni, has
suddenly returned to Hamilton from Melbourne with her Te