Kate Duignan

Kate Duignan is a novelist, essayist and short story writer. She convenes an MA Fiction workshop at the IIML Te Herenga Waka Victoria University. You can read her recent story, 'Orange Warning' on Newsroom, and essay 'Submission' in Strong Words 4: Best of the Landfall Essay Competition published by OUP in 2025.

Photo credit Ebony Lamb

Verb Readers & Writers Festival 2026 events Kate Duignan features in:

Michelle de Kretser: Theory & Practice