Michael Harlow

Michael has published seven books of poetry, including Giotto's Elephant, which was a finalist in the national Book Awards for Poetry in 1991, and most recently Cassandra's Daughter (AUP 2005, 2006). The Associate and Poetry Editor at Landfall for some ten years, he has also been the Katherine Mansfield Fellow to Menton, France, a New Zealand-Australia Exchange Fellow, and in 2004 was the Randell Cottage Writer in Residence. He has been awarded poetry prizes by the New Zealand Poetry Society, and in 2006 was the winner of the Takahe Magazine Poetry Prize. His work has appeared in translation in French, Spanish, German and Greek. In 2006 he represented NZ at the Festival Internacional de Poesia de Medellin, Colombia, and at the IV Internacional Seminar of Writers, 'Frontiers in Movement' in Monterrey, Mexico; and in 2007 at the III Festival Internacional de Poesia de Granada, Nicaragua, at the IV World Poetry Festival in Caracas, Venezuela. Forthcoming: a new book of poems and short prose texts: The Tram Conductor's Blue Cap (Auckland University Press, 2009); and a bilingual (English and Spanish) Selected Poems, Today is the Piano's Birthday, scheduled for publication in 2009 with Monte Avila (Venezuela) for their Contemporary Collection: Poets from Around the World. Michael Harlow has been awarded the Robert Burns Fellowship for 2009, and is the 1st Prize winner of the Bravado International Poetry Prize for 2008. He lives and works in Central Otago, New Zealand as a writer, editor, and Jungian psychotherapist.

Sue Wootton

Sue has published two collections of poetry: Magnetic South (Steele Roberts 2008) and Hourglass (Steele Roberts 2005). Her poetry and fiction have also been widely published in journals and anthologies. She has won prizes and commendations in various competitions, including a place in the 2008 NZ Book Month Six Pack 3 competition with her short story 'Virtuoso'. Her poem 'Shoe' was placed third in the 2008 Bravado International Poetry Competition, and another poem, 'Kandinsky in Spring', was highly commended. She was a finalist in the 2008 Sunday Star Times short story competition with a tale called 'Beyond Pluto'.

In 2007 she won the Inverawe poetry competition (Tasmania, Australia), and was placed second in the Bravado International poetry competition. Sue won both the Fiction and the Poetry categories of the 2006 Aoraki Festival literary competition. Her poem 'Countdown' appears in Best NZ Poems 2004.

In 2008 Sue was the Robert Burns Fellow at the University of Otago.

 

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