About our Micro Residencies
Each year we are committed to making space for writers to be paid to write. Our micro-residencies are one week’s paid writing time here in Pōneke. We select writers who we admire and who we’d love to hear more from. Micro-residencies are largely for emerging voices who haven’t held a writer’s residency position before. We also run a three-week residency which you can read about here.
Our 2023 Micro Residents
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Jordan of Māori Literature Blog
Jordan (Ngāti Maniapoto, Ngāti Mahuta) is the curator of Māori Literature Blog, a dedicated exploration of literature written in English by Māori authors of the 20th and 21st centuries. He is a high school English teacher and has a Masters in English Literature from the University of Auckland. Jordan’s writing has been featured in The Pantograph Punch, and he is a finalist for the 2023 Pikihuia Awards in the short non-fiction category. In 2023 Jordan has been working towards publishing the first edition of a new journal of Māori art and literature. -
Mariwakiterangi Paekau
Mariwakiterangi Paekau (she/they) (Waikato, Ngāti Mahuta, Ngāti Mahanga, Tainui - Ngāti Whakamarurangi) is an emerging Māori poet and distinctively honest voice exploring love, loss and identity. Paekau is one of Verb’s micro-residency recipients for 2023 and is currently studying Te Reo Māori at Te Wānanga o Raukawa.He kaituhi Maaori a Mariwakiterangi Paekau (Waikato, Ngaati Mahuta, Ngaati Mahanga, Tainui, Ngāti Whakamarurangi) e koorero pono nei e paa ana ki te ao aroha, te ao poouri me ngaa aahua tuakiri. He kaiwhiwhi ia moo teetahi o ngaa noho kaituhi naa Verb Festival moo te tau nei, aa, e ako ana ia i Te Reo Maaori kei Te Waananga o Raukawa.
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Nadia Hineaorangi Solomon
Nadia Solomon (Ngai Te Rangi) is 21 years old and always trying to look at the brighter side of life, whatever the circumstances. Forever inspired by people, kai, and her big emotions, Nadia has been writing about her life since age 12 as a way to heal and connect with others.Currently living in Kirikiriroa and working full time, she hopes to not do that and become a full time writer instead, preferably by a beach.
In the meantime, Nadia is about to release her first zine and is posting to her instagram @the.dehydrated.poetry.society
Previous residents: Our 2021 Micro Residents
NATHAN JOE
Nathan Joe is an award-winning theatre-maker and performance poet based between Tāmaki Makaurau and Ōtautahi. Recent work includes curating BIPOC spoken word event DIRTY PASSPORTS at Basement Theatre, a staged reading of his play Scenes from a Yellow Peril at Auckland Arts Festival, co-creating Slay the Dragon or Save the Dragon or Neither with A Slightly Isolated Dog, and directing Yang/Young/杨 for Auckland Theatre Company. He is also the current National Slam Champion.
CLAUDIA JARDINE
Claudia Jardine (she/her) was born in Te-Tihi-o-Maru in 1995 and lives in Ōtautahi Christchurch. In 2020 she published her first chapbook, The Temple of Your Girl, with Auckland University Press in AUP New Poets 7 alongside Rhys Feeney and Ria Masae. In the same year, she received the Alex Scobie Research Prize for her Masters level thesis in Classics. For the winter of 2021 Jardine was awarded an Arts Four Creative Residency in The Arts Centre Te Matatiki Toi Ora, where worked on her first collection of poems. She has had poems published in youth journals, not-youth journals, magazines, zines and websites, and her debut folk pop EP North is available online.
ATARIA SHARMAN
Ataria Sharman (Tapuika, Ngāpuhi) is a writer of essays, poetry and articles. She is the Editor at The Pantograph Punch and creator of Awa Wahine. Ataria has a Master of Arts in Māori Studies and spent a year researching mana wahine and atua wāhine as well as interviewing Māori women about their experiences with atua wāhine. The manuscript for her children's fiction novel Hine and the Tohunga Portal was one of five selected for Te Papa Tupu in 2018. She has self-published a collection of writings by wāhine Māori on the atua wāhine.
Hine and the Tohunga Portal comes out with HUIA in August 2021.