2015 Writer in Residence announced
Tim Corballis will be the 2015 Writing Fellow, based at the IIML.
We're delighted to announce that the 2015 Victoria University / Creative New Zealand Writer in Residence will be Tim Corballis. Tim has an MA in Creative Writing from Victoria; winning the Adam Foundation Prize in 2000 for his MA thesis which became his first novel, Below (Victoria University Press, 2001). His subsequent novels Measurement (2002) and The Fossil Pits (2005) were also published by VUP.
Tim held the Randall Cottage Writers' Residency in 2003 and the Creative New Zealand Berlin Writers' Residency in 2005-6. He recently completed a PhD at the University of Auckland on aesthetic theory in the context of the Antipodes, and he sees this theoretical work as closely informing all of his creative practice.
Next year Tim will work mainly on a time-travel novel. His next book, a pair of novellas, will be published by VUP in 2015.
Applications for the annual Victoria / CNZ Writer in Residence open mid-year and close in late September for the following year's appointment. Writers of proven merit in any area of literary activity are invited to apply, provided they are normally resident in New Zealand or New Zealanders currently resident overseas. Enquiries about the residency may be made at any time, but a full role description and application will be available on the Current Vacancies page of Victoria's website when applications open each year.