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Lynn Davidson shares news from Scotland
- Randell Cottage Writers Trust
- Our writer-in-residence in 2021, Lynn Davidson, has since settled in Edinburgh, where she is teaching and continuing the family research on which part of her writings has been based.
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Francophonie 2026 – Talk with Katia Astafieff French Author
- Randell Cottage Writers Trust
- Immerse yourself in literature this March for Le Mois de la Francophonie, a month-long celebration of French-speaking culture! Join us for a captivating evening celebrating Francophonie with a special talk by Katia Astafieff, the new resident writer at Randell Cottage. “For her special project during the residency, Katia plans to explore the story of Marianne North, an […]
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2026 Term 1 Week 2: Principal Pānui
- Thorndon School
- Mālō Lava Thorndon School Community, Welcome to the 2026 school year! It has been awesome to see our students return, filling our spaces with energy as they establish their new "Ways of Being.
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Katia Astafieff explores the world of 19th century botanical artists
- Randell Cottage Writers Trust
- Randell Cottage welcomes its newest resident, traveller and writer, Katia Astafieff. Katia loves popularising science, especially botany. She also has a particular interest in the great explorers and has brought these two topics together in her book L’Aventure extraordinaire des plantes voyageuses, (The Extraordinary Adventure of the Travelling Plants, Dunod, 2018), in which she tells […]
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2026 Term 1, Week 2: Tumuaki pānui
- Thorndon School
- Mālō Lava Thorndon School Community, Welcome to the 2026 school year! It has been awesome to see our students return, filling our spaces with energy as they establish their new "Ways of Being.
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essa may ranapiri – 2026
- Randell Cottage Writers Trust
- essa may ranapiri (Ngaati Raukawa, Ngaati Puukeko, Te Arawa and Clan Gunn) is a poet, writer and academic living in Kirikiriroa Hamilton.
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A visit to avon and fontainebleau
- Katherine Mansfield House
- Katherine Mansfield House & Garden Director Cherie Jacobson shares her experience of visiting the places where Mansfield spent the last few months of her life and was laid to rest.
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2026 Randell Cottage writer’s residency awarded to essa may ranapiri
- Randell Cottage Writers Trust
- The Randell Cottage Writers Trust is delighted to announce that essa may ranapiri has been selected as Aotearoa New Zealand Writer-in-Residence for 2026. They will take up the six-month residency in July, and will use this opportunity to work on their first novel, Te Rama Tuna | Eeling by Torchlight, a coming-of-age story about two young trans Maaori friends/lovers.
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Titaua Peu’s video launched
- Randell Cottage Writers Trust
- A video recording Tahitian writer Titaua Peu‘s stay in Wellington was launched on 3 December. Titaua describes the explorations she undertook during her residency in Randell Cottage on the historical and cosmological links between Indigenous peoples of Polynesia. She foreshadows her planned dystopian trilogy, beginning with the forthcoming novel Disruptive – a tantalising prospect. French […]
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Weekly E-News for 5 December 2025
- St Andrews on the Terrace Presbyterian Church
- E-NEWSFRIDAY 5TH DECEMBER 2025 Last Saturday we celebrated the beautiful wedding of Ephraim and Ronan at Old St Paul’s in Thorndon. The bells tolled as they made their entrance. Afterwards […]
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An evening with Saraid de Silva and previous Randell Cottage writers
- Randell Cottage Writers Trust
- Don’t miss the highlight of our Randell Cottage writing year! Come along to the National Library on the evening of Wednesday 3 December to hear from our fascinating current writing Fellow, Saraid de Silva, as she shares early glimpses into her second novel, following the critical acclaim of ‘Amma’. You’ll also meet the new French Cultural […]
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Rachel O’Neill awarded Burns Fellowship 2026
- Randell Cottage Writers Trust
- Our congratulations to Rachel O'Neill, the Randell Cottage New Zealand Writer-in-Residence in 2023, who has been awarded the prestigious Burns Fellowship at the University of Otago. We have just had the pleasure of featuring Rachel as one of the guest readers at our annual Open Day, held as part of the Wellington Heritage Festival.
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Randell Cottage Open Day – 19 October
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- Sunday 19 October from 1–4pm is Randell Cottage’s Open Day, in conjunction with Wellington Heritage Festival.
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National Library 60th Birthday Open Home
- Randell Cottage Writers Trust
- We are delighted to join in celebrating the Sixtieth Birthday of the National Library.
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Randell Cottage tours: An exciting travel opportunity
- Randell Cottage Writers Trust
- The Friends of Randell Cottage are delighted to announce their first New Zealand literary tour, a trip to Northland in March 2026, accompanied by Dame Fiona Kidman.
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An evening with Randell Cottage writers, featuring Saraid de Silva: Wednesday 3 December
- Randell Cottage Writers Trust
- Alert: Save the date of 3 December for our annual evening event at the National Library. Please invite your literary friends to join us.
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Applications Invited For 2026 Randell Cottage Writers Residency
- Randell Cottage Writers Trust
- Applications are now open for one of New Zealand’s top writing residencies: the 2026 Randell Cottage Writers Fellowship.
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Katia Astafieff – 2026
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- Katia Astafieff is a travel writer, novelist, and children’s author. She has a particular interest in botanical history and popularising scientific subjects.
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Can the Catholic Church answer my questions?
- Metropolitan Cathedral of the Sacred Heart
- Come and see! Enquiry Evening: 6pm on Wednesday 10th & 24th September 2025@Sacred Heart Cathedral, 40 Hill Street, Thorndon You can ask anything. There is no obligation. Have a coffee […]
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News of French writers past and future
- Randell Cottage Writers Trust
- The Randell Cottage Writers Trustees, in conjunction with the Embassy of France in New Zealand, are delighted to announce that our next French writer-in-residence will be Katia Astafieff.
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Time
- Metropolitan Cathedral of the Sacred Heart
- Walking along the waterfront to the end of Oriental Bay is just one of the delights of living here in Thorndon. Yes, there are the stunning views of the harbour, […]
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Saraid de Silva – 2025
- Randell Cottage Writers Trust
- Saraid de Silva is a Sri Lankan Pākehā writer and arts worker based in Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland, and the first writer of Sinhalese descent to take up residency at Randell Cottage, and intends to work on her second novel during the time of her residency.
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Special screening of The House Within on 21 July
- Randell Cottage Writers Trust
- The Friends of Randell Cottage invite you to a special film evening at the Light House Cuba on 21 July featuring the acclaimed documentary on the life of Dame Fiona Kidman, whose latest poetry collection, The Midnight Plane, has just been launched.
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Amy Kensington
- Friends of Karori Cemetery
- Killed by a fire engine On 18th December 1906, Amy Kensington (aged 55), the wife of Charles Kensington, was heading home to Thorndon with her two daughters Louisa (aged 32)...
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Listen to Randell Cottage resident Titaua Peu on Culture 101
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- Considered one of the principal French-speaking writers of the Pacific, Peu is known for work that considers Polynesian society today with attention to the effects of colonialism. Here she talks with Mark Amery of Culture 101, who visited her at the colonial cottage in Thorndon.
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Meeting The Midnight Plane
- Randell Cottage Writers Trust
- The Midnight Plane has landed in Unity Books and other good bookshops around the country. Dame Fiona Kidman has just launched her collection of selected and new poems at Unity Books, Wellington.
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Hinemoana Baker celebrates her time at Randell Cottage
- Randell Cottage Writers Trust
- Here’s a special glimpse into what inspires our multi-talented writing resident, Hinemoana Baker, in two videos commissioned from Godwit Films as part of our Trust’s oral history. The video series is designed to record the diverse experiences, aspirations and writing styles of Randell Cottage writers-in-residence. Hinemoana spent an eventful second half of 2024 at Randell […]
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An evening with the Alliance Française in Palmerston North
- Randell Cottage Writers Trust
- On Friday 9th of May, at a session titled "Writers in Conversation", Patricia Grace and Titaua Peu discussed their work before an audience of around 50 people.
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Dame Fiona Kidman to become one of Randell Cottage’s two Patrons
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- The Randell Cottage Writers Trust is delighted to announce that renowned author Dame Fiona Kidman has agreed to become one of its two Patrons, alongside the Ambassador of France to New Zealand, H.E. Laurence Beau.
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Friends of Randell Cottage Newsletter May 2025
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- Download and read the latest Randell Cottage Friends Friday Flash newsletter.
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