Contact
- Dr Bryan Walpert
- Paper Coordinator
- Tel. 06 350 5799 ext. 2732
- b.walpert@massey.ac.nz
- Bryan is a senior lecturer in English at Massey and is the coordinator of this paper. He is the author of a book of poems, Etymology (www.cinnamonpress.com) and book of short stories, Ephraim's Eyes (Pewter Rose Press). His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in journals, magazines and anthologies in New Zealand (e.g. The Listener), the U.K. (Only Connect) and his native U.S. (e.g. Agni, Mid-American Review and Tar River Poetry). Bryan's work recently won first prize and third equal prize in the New Zealand Poetry Society's 2007 International Poetry Competition, the James Wright Poetry Award (U.S.) and the fiction section of the Royal Society of New Zealand Manhire Award for Creative Science Writing. His essays on poetry have appeared in Australia, New Zealand and the U.S. A former journalist, he has published more than 800 pieces in daily, weekly and monthly publications, such as The Washington Post. Bryan is the poetry editor of the New Zealand literary journal Bravado.
- Dr Thom Conroy
- T.Conroy@massey.ac.nz
- Thom teaches creative writing and fiction as literature. The recipient of the Katherine Anne Porter Fiction Prize, Thom's fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in a number of literary journals, including Agni, Alaska Quarterly Review, Prairie Schooner, Quarterly West, and Landfall. From 1998 to 2002, he edited Quarter After Eight, a journal of innovative prose, based out of Ohio University. He is currently at work on a novel and a second collection of short fiction.
Thom's teaching interests include creative writing, fiction as literature, fictive theory, and American literature.
- Dr Ingrid Horrocks
- Paper Coordinator, Wellington
- i.horrocks@massey.ac.nz
- Ingrid is based on the Wellington campus where she teaches creative writing with an emphasis on creative nonfiction. She coordinates this paper in Welllington. She has published two books: a book of poetry, Natsukashii (Pemmican Press, 1998), and a genre-bending book, Travelling with Augusta, 1835 & 1999 (VUP, 2003), which is part travel memoir, part biography, part history of women's travel. Her poetry, short fiction and book reviews have appeared in a number of literary journals, including Landfall, Sport, NZ Books and The Evening Post. Since 1999 Ingrid has lived in York, Princeton, New York and, most recently, Berlin. She returned home in 2006.
- Sarah Jane Barnett
- Sarah has just started a PhD at Massey University in the field of eco-poetics. She lives in a small, 1970s house in Wellington that is perfect for airplane spotting. She shares her house with her ginger cat, Chicken. Although her main area of work is poetry, Sarah also writes short fiction and book reviews. Her work has appeared in a range of literary journals such as Landfall, Sport, and Takahe on the e-zines Blackmail Press, Snorkel and Turbine. In 2008 Sarah’s poem, The Drop Distance, was selected for the collection, Best New Zealand Poems 2007. Her key areas of interest are New Zealand fiction and contemporary American Poetry including a minor obsession with the work of Robert Hass. You can read some of her work on http://theredroom.org.
- Joan Fleming
- Joan Fleming lives in a pretty wee shack in Golden Bay, where she reads, writes, studies buddhism, dances butoh, and pours coffees. Her poetry has appeared in Sport, Turbine, Hue & Cry, Snorkel, JAAM, Blackmail Press, The Lumiere Reader, Moving Worlds and Takahe, and is forthcoming in a chapbook series which will showcase emerging US and NZ poets. Joan won the Biggs Poetry Prize in 2007, after completing her MA in Creative Writing through the IIML. She also edited Turbine that year. As well as tutoring for Massey, Joan has taught creative writing to children, in her Wellington studio, and to adults, at festivals and living-room writers groups. Joan is currently working on a lyric essay about two colours: red and blue.
- Joy Green
- Joy has been writing for most of her life, and since she immigrated to New Zealand fifteen years ago has been writing for a living, in one way or another. She writes both poetry and fiction and has published regularly in anthologies and magazines including the New Yorker and the Listener. For several years she had work included in the now sadly defunct "Voices" anthologies - an annual collection of new and established poetry for British schools. She is fascinated with poetry that crosses the boundary from page to the physical world, seeking audiences that wouldn’t normally engage with “traditional poetry,” and has contributed extensively to festivals, creating multi-voice poems for actors, filmed poetry and multimedia installation pieces. This year she is coordinating an international prize in poetry for performance. She has been teaching at Massey for nearly 10 years, since the Creative Writing paper was launched.
- Mary McCallum
- Mary is a tutor in creative writing. Her first novel The Blue (Penguin 2007) saw her shortlisted for this year's Prize in Modern Letters. The Blue in draft form also won her the Lilian Ida Smith Award and was her folio for the MA in Creative Writing at Victoria University's International Institute of Modern Letters. Mary studied poetry with Bill Manhire when she attended Victoria's Original Composition course 25 years ago, and at that time she was a Pen Young Writer of the Year, commended for the Denis Glover Award and published in Landfall. Mary is working on her second novel Precarious with the help of Creative NZ's 2007 Louis Johnson Bursary. With a BA in English Literature and a Journalism Diploma, Mary has worked as a TV and radio broadcaster in NZ and Europe. She continues to freelance as a book reviewer, feature writer, manuscript assessor and tutor. Mary and her husband Ian have three children and live beside Wellington Harbour.
- Sean Monaghan
- After long walks on the beach at sunset, Sean curls up with a book and a cup of hot chocolate. Having studied Creative Writing at both Victoria University and the University of Queensland, Sean now writes fiction and book reviews, and works in a busy public library. His stories, poems and reviews have appeared in New Zealand and abroad. You can find more information about Sean's writing at his website www.venusvulture.com
- Anna Sanderson
- Anna was born in 1970 in Auckland. She holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts and Bachelor of Arts (majoring in English and Art History) from the University of Auckland. Her writing began as a kind of art journalism, after founding and co-editing the art review magazine Monica. In 2005, Anna studied for a Masters in Creative Writing at Victoria University of Wellington with Damien Wilkins. Brainpark, a work of non-fiction, was published the following year by Victoria University Press. Her essay Dr Yang received the Landfall essay prize in 2006. In 2007 she received Arts Foundation New Generation award. She currently lives in Wellington with her partner and two children, and is researching for a new project.
- Tim Upperton
- Tim's poetry and fiction are published or forthcoming in AGNI, Bravado, Dreamcatcher, Landfall, New Zealand Books, New Zealand Listener, North & South, Reconfigurations, Sport, Takahe, Turbine and Best New Zealand Poems (2008 and 2009). He is a former poetry editor for Bravado, and tutors creative writing, travel writing and New Zealand literature at Massey University. His first poetry collection, A House On Fire, was published by Steele-Roberts in 2009.
- Lee Wood
- Lee is an American writer with seven published novels in various genres, including science fiction, fantasy, feminism, crime and thriller, many of which have been translated into a dozen foreign languages. Her first novel, Looking for the Mahdi, was named a Book of the Year by the New York Times as well as recommended on their Summer Reading List in the USA, and was shortlisted for the Arthur C. Clarke award in the UK. Her latest novel, Kingdom of Silence, is the sequel in her on-going crime novel series for St. Martin's Press in the United States. She has previously lived in France and Great Britain, holds a Master's degree in English Literature and is working on her doctorate at Massey Palmerston North. She is a member of the NZSA and is currently rewriting the final draft of her eighth novel.