graduates active in all writing spheres

Graduates from the Whitireia Writing Programme appear in almost every aspect of New Zealand writing life. Graduates have published over thirty five books, and a great many shorter works, in both literary and general magazines, on radio, on stage and on the screen.

They are active as performers, events organisers, participants in the Writers in Schools programme, and as organisers of writers' groups. A number of graduates have gone onto MA programmes in Creative Writing.

Graduates include writers as diverse as

• Tusiata Avia, highly-acclaimed Samoan/New Zealand performance poet and children's writer
• prolific award-winning children's writer Vince Ford
• Karen McMillan (Unbreakable Spirit, Love in Aoteaora)
• Maggie Rainey-Smith (About Turns)
• Nathan Hoturoa Gray (First Pass Under Heaven)
• Leilani Unasa (His Mother's Son - stage play)
• Dean Hewison (Maintain - digital feature film)
• Jessica Bromley (Te Pono - stage play).

Excellent writing is a very marketable skill, and graduates are employed in a range of writing work including communications, journalism and editing.

More news about current and former students can be found on the news tab and in the 'things are happening' column under quick links.

Writing by current and former students can be found online at the 4th FLOOR LITERARY JOURNAL.