Writers’ Institute tutor, Kerrin P Sharpe has been selected to appear in Oxford Poets 2013: 
An Anthology which is published by Carcanet Press. This is a prestigious publication and a great honour for Kerrin.
Her poetry collection, Three Days in a Wishing Well’, published last year by VUP, has been very favorably reviewed by the UK website London Grip. Click here to read the review
Hagley graduate, Tanya Moir was reading from her latest novel, Anticipation, at the recent
Akld Readers’ & Writers’ festival in good company with Kate Atkinson, Charlotte Grimshaw and Hamish Clayton. Here she is after the event with Kate Atkinson in the background already signing books.Tanya is about to start her term as the last Buddle Findlay Sargeson fellow in Auckland
Frankie McMillan and Kerrin P Sharpe are both featured in the 2012 Best NZ Poems, edited
by Poet Laureate, Ian Wedde and published online by the International Institute for Modern Letters at Victoria University. This is a great accomplishment for them both and highlights their standing as NZ poets. Read their work here - you can also hear Frankie read her poem.
Hagley graduate cum laude, Deborah Rogers, has been shortlisted for the prestigious Commonwealth Writers’ Short Story Prize – a formidable accomplishment as there are 18 writers only on the shortlist from all over the commonwealth, 2 of whom are New Zealanders. The story was one she initially wrote while on the course.We are very pleased for and proud of her. Check it out here.
Hagley student, Pat Deavoll has a short story in the latest edition of Boulder Pavement, a well-regarded Canadian literary journal.Pat is one of NZ’s most accomplished mountaineers and her memoir, ‘Wind from a Distant Summit’was highly commended in the Cathay Pacific Travel Media Awards. Read her story here and check out her website, www.pat.deavoll.co.nz.
Congratulations to Robyn Anderson who has won the Cooney Insurance Short Story Competition run by the Cambridge Autumn Arts Festival. You can read her story here.
Nod Ghosh, a graduate from the 2012 programme has won first prize for both fiction and non-fiction in the NZSA Flash Queer competition. She also has work appearing in a future edition of Takahe – well done, Nod
Hagley graduate, Tanya Moir will be appearing in an event with best-selling author, Jenny
Pattrick to talk about their new novels at the Philatelic Society rooms at 67 Mandeville St, Riccarton on Monday 18 March at 7.30. Koha at the door.
Tanya’s new novel is entitled ‘Anticipation’ and is certain to attract critical acclaim.
Hagley graduate, Marisa Cappetta who won the Margaret Mahy award in 2011 for her poetry portfolio, will be appearing in this great event on 14th March at 8pm at the Pallet Pavillion
Two leading New Zealand fiction writers have been announced as the recipients of the annual Buddle Findlay Sargeson Fellowship for 2013.
The two new fellows, Hamish Clayton and Tanya Moir, will each spend five months in residence at the Sargeson Centre in central Auckland and receive a $20,000 grant.
Buddle Findlay National Chairman Peter Chemis says the fellowship is about giving New Zealand writers the freedom to craft their stories.
“It has given creative space to some of New Zealand’s most notable writers, allowing them time to develop and polish their ideas into works that become part of our heritage” he said.
“Being a writer can be a difficult task, it requires a lot of self sacrifice. Our involvement with the fellowship acknowledges this”.
Tanya Moir, is a novelist based at Muriwai in Auckland, Had her first novel La Rochelle’s Road published by Random House New Zealand in 2011 and her second novel Anticipation is due to be published in March 2013. Tanya has previously been long-listed for the Commonwealth Book Prize. Her career, prior to writing novels, included stints as a radio copywriter, print journalist and television promo producer.
Tanya is a graduate of the Hagley Writers’ Institute and was the first recipient of the Margaret Mahy Award for best portfolio.
Tanya says of the fellowship “I’m hugely excited to be given the chance to sit down to five months of uninterrupted, guilt-free work on my new project. After some years of living and writing in relatively remote locations, it will be fabulous to have not only the quiet of the Sargeson Centre in which to work, but research facilities like the Central and Auckland University Libraries on my doorstep”.
Tanya plans to use her time at the Sargeson Centre to work on the first draft of her new novel, a contemporary western about an “outlaw” and would-be cowboy who has gone to ground in the hills of Central Otago.