Lucy D’aeth 2014
in Latimer Square,
a magpie gargles her morning report
no change overnight
just the same slow deconstruction
in Latimer Square,
knitted sheep graze
beyond the sterile lawns
bulldozers flock to nibble down buildings
they bow and scrape
and peck it to dust
nom nom
numb numb
Colin Basterfield graduated from The Hagley Writer’s Institute in 2011 with a stage play, poetry and short stories. He moved to Wellington in 2012, to continue his education in creative writing at Victoria University and Wellington High School, as well as improvisation with the Wellington Improvisation Troupe, and Open Mic poetry around town. He also has co-writing credits with the 48 Hour filmmaking team, Christchurch On Air. He’s since moved to Auckland, has recently completed a fresh poetry course, performed and currently waiting for a place on the Masters of Creative Writing 2015 at Auckland University.
Frankie McMillan is an award winning fiction writer and poet. Her publications include ‘The Bag Lady’s Picnic and other stories’ and a collection of poetry, ‘Dressing for the Cannibals’. Recent short stories have been selected for Best New Zealand Fiction, Vintage, 2008 and 2009. She has an MA in Creative Writing from the International institute of Modern Letters and a Certificate in Adult Teaching. In 2005 she was the recipient of the CNZ Todd Bursary. She is currently writing a second collection of short stories which will be published in 2015. She was the winner of the 2013 National Flash Fiction competition. Frankie was the co-recipient of the 2014 Ursula Bethall Residency at the University of Canterbury and an enthusiastic tutor with over ten years of teaching experience at the Hagley Writers’ Institute.
Gail Ingram attended the Hagley Writers’ Institute in its inaugural years, 2008-9 and writes poetry and fiction, which have appeared in NZ Poetry Society Anthologies, Fineline, The Climber, Takahe, Penduline Press, Poetry NZ and Cordite. She has been placed in several short story competitions including the 2010 NZSA one-day and 2013 Takahe short story competitions and 2013 BNZ literary flash-fiction. Currently she is President for the South Island Writer’s Association.
Celia Coyne is a freelance writer and editor living in Christchurch. She attended Hagley Writers’ Institute in 2012 and 2013, graduating with honours in both years. Since then, she has continued to pursue her creative writing. Her work has appeared in The Press, Takahe, Penduline and Flash Frontier as well as Fusion, an anthology of speculative and fantasy fiction, and Sweet As: Contemporary Short Stories by New Zealanders.
Marisa Cappetta graduated Summa Cum Laude from the Hagley Writers’ Institute in 2011. Her poetry has been published in Landfall, Takahe, Snorkel, Turbine, Black Mail Press, Interlit Q, Shot Glass Journal, The Press and several anthologies. In 2013 she received a mentorship from the New Zealand Society of Authors.
Kerrin P. Sharpe completed Bill Manhire’s Original Composition class at Victoria University of Wellington in 1976. Over the last two years she has been published widely, including in Best New Zealand Poems 08,09 and 2010, Turbine 07, 09 and 10, Snorkel, Bravado, Takahe, NZ Listener, Poetry NZ, Junctures, Sport and The Press. In 2008, she was awarded the New Zealand Post Creative Writing Teacher’s Award by the International Institute of Modern Letters. Her first collection of poems Three Days in a Wishing Well was published by Victoria University Press in September, 2012. She has had poems in the Best of the Best NZ Poems and was selected for Oxford Poets 2013: An Anthology. Kerrin is a tutor at the Hagley Writers’ Institute and her second collection of poetry, There’s a Medical Term for This, was published by VUP in 2014
Victoria Broome is a social worker and mental health counsellor with Pegasus Health. She has been published in various NZ journals and anthologies and in 2 books with the Poetry Chooks; The Chook Book and Flap. She was awarded the Louis Johnson Bursary in 2005 from Creative NZ, was second equal in the Kathleen Grattan Award in 2010, a past editor of Takahe magazine and was an inaugural Hagley Writers’ Institute student in 2008 and 2009.
Bernadette Hall is an award-winning poet who lives in North Canterbury. Her many books include The Merino Princess: Selected Poems (2004), and most recently The Lustre Jug (2009), The Judas Tree: Poems by Lorna Stavely Anker (2013) and Life & Customs (2013). In 2004 she visited Antarctica as a guest of Antarctic New Zealand; in 2006 she was Victoria University of Wellington’s Writer in Residence; and in 2007 she held the Rathcoola Residency in County Cork, Ireland. She was instrumental is setting up the Hagley Writers’ Institute in 2008 and tutored there until 2010. She is now the Patron of the Hagley Writers’ Institute and guest editored the first edition of the on-line journal, The Quick Brown Dog.
Melanie Dixon has recently finished her second year at Hagley Writers’ Institute and has had work published for both adults and children . She was short-listed for the Royal Society of New Zealand Manhire prize for creative science writing 2012 and also for the Christine Cole Catley short story competition 2013. She is currently working on her first children’s novel.