New Zealand writer Emma Hislop and Australian writer Fiona Kelly McGregor have been announced as the recipients of the 2023 New Zealand-Australia residency exchange, an international residency programme held by Varuna, the Australian National Writers .
Wednesday, 14 July 2021, 12:59 pm
Kate Mildenhall has been announced as the recipient of
the inaugural New Zealand-Australia residency exchange, an
international residency program held by Varuna, the
Australian National Writers House in collaboration with the
Michael King Writers Centre in Auckland and the Verb
Wellington Writers Festival.
Kate is the
much-acclaimed author of the novels
Skylarking (Black
Inc.) and
The Mother Fault (S&S).
The Mother
Fault was longlisted for the 2021 ABIA General Fiction
Book of the Year and shortlisted for the 2021 Aurealis
Science Fiction Novel of the Year.
Subject to travel
restrictions, the four-week residency exchange will take
place in October 2021. Kate will work on her third novel at