Emerging Writing Resident Announced
Caselberg Trust Elizabeth Brooke-Carr Emerging Writers Resident 2022 - Anna Woods
The Caselberg Trust announced today that the recipient of its Elizabeth Brooke-Carr Emerging Writers Residency in 2022 will be Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland writer Anna Woods.
Anna Woods is the Caselberg Trust Elizabeth Brooke-Carr Emerging Writers Resident for 2022
Anna writes short and long fiction, and occasional poems. Her fiction has been published in a variety of journals including Landfall, Geometry, takahē and The Three Lamps, as well as the anthology Ko Aotearoa Tātou | We Are New Zealand. Her poetry has been published by the New Zealand Poetry Society and Poetry New Zealand.
She has written three novel manuscripts. The first, Bird’s Nest, was longlisted for the Michael Gifkins Prize for an Unpublished Novel (2021). The second, Apple Moon was completed with the support of an NZSA mentorship (2019). Her current work-in-progress, King Tide, was awarded a CompleteMS Assessment by the NZSA (2021).
The residency is named after well-known and much-loved Dunedin writer Elizabeth Brooke-Carr who died in 2019. The residency, which is for one week each year, was established thanks to the generous fundraising undertaken by Elizabeth’s family, friends, and colleagues of Ms Brooke-Carr who wanted to provide for an annual residency at the Caselberg house in Broad Bay in her honour.
“We are absolutely delighted to be able to make this announcement today, and we look forward to welcoming Anna to the Caselberg house in 2022. This residency commemorates a great friend and supporter of the Caselberg Trust, Dunedin writer Elizabeth Brooke-Carr” said Dr Janet Downs Chairperson Caselberg Trust “Elizabeth was the inaugural Caselberg Trust writer-in-residence back in 2009, and she often talked about how much the experience meant to her as an emerging writer who took up writing in her later years”
Anna said, “It is an honour to be awarded this residency, which will afford me the time and the spark to develop new work. I feel a certain kinship with Elizabeth, as I’ve also taken a circuitous route to becoming a writer. Hearing that I have been offered this residency at the end of a difficult year of lockdowns and the monotony of Covid is just the creative boost I needed’.
The residency shifts focus slightly each year by offering emerging writers from a variety of writing genres – poetry, fiction, non-fiction, journalism. This year’s focus is on short fiction.
The Caselberg Trust purchased the Broad Bay, Dunedin home of the late John and Anna Caselberg in 2006, with the aim of hosting creative residencies in the house. Since inception, the Trust has held a variety of creative projects and events, as well as hosting several well-known New Zealand writers and artists at the cottage.
Please contact Trustee Robert West at info@caselbergtrust.org or mobile 027 608 0641 for further information, or www.caselbergtrust.org.