This year’s Michael King Writers Centre residency selection panel once again had their work cut out for them with the highest number of applications ever received for the 17 residencies planned across 2024. There were 141 applicants totalling 538 .
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Kirsten McDougall is the winner of the Sunday Star-Times short story competition, open category.
Kirsten McDougall’s love of reading and writing has come a long way since her interest in Enid Blyton and Trixie Belden books as a child. The accomplished Wellington author, who works as a publicist and literary manager for Victoria University Press, lives a life surrounded by words. ”That’s just my world.” And now McDougall can add
Sunday Star-Times short story competition open category winner to her CV for her piece,
Walking Day. She takes home the $5000 prize after almost 700 entries were received and blind judged over two categories.