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• • Poetry Power Hour: Free poetry coaching with Hinemoana Baker

    • 1 Sep 2024
    • Randell Cottage Writers Trust
    • POETRY POWER HOUR: Hinemoana Baker is offering some free poetry coaching sessions on weekday mornings, and occasional weekends, while doing the Randell Cottage residency.
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• • Applications Invited For 2025 Randell Cottage Writers Residency

    • 1 Sep 2024
    • Randell Cottage Writers Trust
    • Applications are now open for one of New Zealand’s top writing residencies: the 2025 Creative New Zealand Randell Cottage Writers Fellowship.
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• • Friends of Te Papa Reading Group

    • 29 Aug 2024
    • Friends of Te Papa
    • Our new Reading Group will take place on the first and third Thursday of the month, starting with Sept 5. Each session will showcase a new Te Papa Press book, with monthly […]
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• • Friends of the Turnbull Library present Letters Out Loud

    • 27 Aug 2024
    • Randell Cottage Writers Trust
    • Following the resounding success of Live Letters: Raising the Roof for Randell Cottage, we are excited to support a new event, Letters Out Loud, presented by our colleagues from the Friends of the Turnbull Library.
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• • Friends of Randell Cottage Newsletter August 2024

    • 11 Aug 2024
    • Randell Cottage Writers Trust
    • Download and read the Randell Cottage August newsletter.
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• • Death of Charles Juliet

    • 6 Aug 2024
    • Randell Cottage Writers Trust
    • Randell Cottage marks the death of our 2003 French writer-in-residence with these memories from our Trustee Jean Anderson.
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• • Hinemoana Baker – 2024

    • 11 Jul 2024
    • Randell Cottage Writers Trust
    • Poet and performer Hinemoana Baker (Ngāti Raukawa-ki-te-Tonga, Ngāti Tukorehe, Ngāti Toa Rangatira, Te Āti Awa, Kāi Tahu, England, Germany) will be using her six months in residence at Randell Cottage to work on a new collection of poetry, Exhaust World. Hinemoana is a writer, performer, and educator currently based in Berlin. She has published four previous […]
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• • Dame Fiona raises the roof for Randell Cottage

    • 8 Jul 2024
    • Randell Cottage Writers Trust
    • On RNZ's Sunday afternoon programme 7 July, Dame Fiona Kidman described the fascination of 'letters read aloud'.
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• • New book by former resident Tina Makereti

    • 2 Jul 2024
    • Randell Cottage Writers Trust
    • Former resident at Randell Cottage, Tina Makereti, has launched a challenging new book, The Mires, that tackles big subjects – identity, racism, intolerance and what happens when that becomes extremism.
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• • Raising the roof for historic Randell Cottage

    • 29 Jun 2024
    • Randell Cottage Writers Trust
    • The Post has published an article from Dame Fiona Kidman about the upcoming Raise the Roof for Randell Cottage: Live Letters event.
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• • Creative NZ invites nominations for the 2024 PM’s Awards for Literary Achievement

    • 23 Jun 2024
    • Randell Cottage Writers Trust
    • Nominations are now open for the 2024 Prime Minister's Awards for Literary Achievement.
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• • Friends of Randell Cottage Newsletter June 2024

    • 17 Jun 2024
    • Randell Cottage Writers Trust
    • Download and read the Randell Cottage June newsletter.
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• • Letters read live in support of historic writer’s cottage

    • 8 Jun 2024
    • Randell Cottage Writers Trust
    • The lost art of letter writing and reading will be reignited at Live Letters, a special fundraising event on July 15.
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• • Annual Report of the Friends of Randell Cottage

    • 6 May 2024
    • Randell Cottage Writers Trust
    • The Annual General Meeting of the Friends of Randell Cottage was held on 29 April. Dame Fiona Kidman, Friends' President, provided her report on the 2023/24 year, together with the approved Minutes of the 2023 AGM.
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• • Passing of Sir Vincent O’Sullivan

    • 30 Apr 2024
    • Randell Cottage Writers Trust
    • The Randell Cottage Writers Trust deeply mourns the passing of our much-loved and respected Patron Sir Vincent O'Sullivan. Our Trustee Emerita, and long-time friend and literary colleague of Sir Vincent, Dame Fiona Kidman, gives this tribute on the Trust's behalf.
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• • Julien Blanc-Gras’ new novel, Bungalow, will be released 2 May

    • 24 Apr 2024
    • Randell Cottage Writers Trust
    • Bungalow, the new novel by Julien Blanc-Gras, is due to be published on May 2. Published by French publishing house Stock, Bungalow, is about a French family leaving Paris to travel to South-East Asia, in order to escape professional burn-out, digital madness and Western depression.
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• • History and myth intersect in Peter Walker’s Hard by the Cloud House

    • 15 Apr 2024
    • Randell Cottage Writers Trust
    • In his latest book, Peter Walker, Randell Cottage writer in residence in 2011, explores the history of Haast's Eagle, Te Hokioi.
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• • Friends of the Randell Cottage Writers Trust AGM

    • 5 Apr 2024
    • Randell Cottage Writers Trust
    • You are invited to the Annual General Meeting of Friends of the Randell Cottage Writers Trust to be held on Monday 29 April, 2024, at 11.30 am in Room 3 of the Alliance Franҫaise, Level 3, Dominion Bldg, Victoria St.
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• • Applications open for 2025 French residency

    • 1 Apr 2024
    • Randell Cottage Writers Trust
    • Applications are invited for next year's French residency at Randell Cottage, with a closing date of 30 April.
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• • Julien features at the Alliance Française

    • 24 Mar 2024
    • Randell Cottage Writers Trust
    • Julien Blanc-Gras addressed a large French-speaking audience in Wellington on the evening of 22 March, as part of 'Le Mois de la Francophonie' hosted by the Alliance Française. His talk reflected the wry, humorous and insightful style that he brings to his published works.
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• • Friends of Randell Cottage Newsletter March 2024

    • 11 Mar 2024
    • Randell Cottage Writers Trust
    • Plenty has been going on at the Cottage and amongst the Friends since our Open Day in October last year. So, grab a cuppa, or a wine, polish your glasses and settle in for a bit of a read.
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• • A shortlisting and longlisting for Randell Cottage writer Stephen Daisley

    • 6 Mar 2024
    • Randell Cottage Writers Trust
    • Randell Cottage resident in 2017, Stephen Daisley, has been shortlisted for the Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize for Fiction in the 2024 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards for his book A Better Place.
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• • Julien Blanc-Gras features in ‘Le Mois de la Francophonie’ in Wellington

    • 1 Mar 2024
    • Randell Cottage Writers Trust
    • During the month of March, the Alliance Française is hosting a range of different events, designed to showcase French-speaking countries and cultures, and the diversity of the French language. Two of these feature Randell Cottage resident, Julien Blanc-Gras.
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• • New French writer meets Randell Cottage supporters

    • 25 Feb 2024
    • Randell Cottage Writers Trust
    • On a perfect Wellington evening, Friends and Trustees of the Randell Cottage Writers Trust, along with French Embassy representatives, gathered at the home of Pip and Simon Murdoch to meet Julien Blanc-Gras and his wife Aurore.
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• • Do You Still Have Time for Chaos?

    • 16 Feb 2024
    • Randell Cottage Writers Trust
    • The latest book by Lynn Davidson, Randell Cottage resident in 2021, was launched on 13 February at Unity Books in Wellington.
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• • Invitation to Lynn Davidson’s book launch on 13 February

    • 11 Feb 2024
    • Randell Cottage Writers Trust
    • We are thrilled that Lynn Davidson is about to launch the memoir she worked on while a resident at Randell Cottage. All are welcome to the launch of Do You Still Have Time for Chaos? at Unity Books on 13 February.
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• • From snowy Paris to sunny Wellington

    • 29 Jan 2024
    • Randell Cottage Writers Trust
    • The 2024 French laureate has just taken up residence in Randell Cottage. Julien Blanc-Gras and his son were welcomed at Wellington Airport by representatives of the Randell Cottage Writers Trust and the Embassy of France.
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• • Michael King Writers Centre residency for Rose Lu

    • 20 Jan 2024
    • Randell Cottage Writers Trust
    • Congratulations to Rose Lu, an alumna of Randell Cottage, who has been selected as a 2024 writer in residence at the Michael King Writers Centre in Devonport, Auckland. Rose spent April to September 2022 at Randell Cottage.
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• • Farewell to Caroline Laurent

    • 5 Jan 2024
    • Randell Cottage Writers Trust
    • After a whirlwind two-month stay, Caroline Laurent is on her way back to France via Tahiti, which will be one of the settings of the novel she has been working on during her residency.
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• • Hinemoana Baker selected as 2024 Randell Cottage Writer in Residence

    • 20 Dec 2023
    • Randell Cottage Writers Trust
    • Poet and performer Hinemoana Baker has been selected as the 2024 Creative New Zealand Randell Cottage Writing Fellow, and will be residing and writing in the Cottage from July to December 2024.
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