Randell Cottage Writers' Residency
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Randell Cottage Writers' Residency | |
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![]() Randell Cottage, 2021 | |
Awarded for | Writing |
Location | Thorndon, Wellington |
Country | New Zealand |
Presented by | Randell Cottage Writers' Trust |
Reward(s) | Rent-free accommodation and stipend |
First awarded | 2002 |
Website | www |
The Randell Cottage Writers' Residency is a literary residency in New Zealand. It is awarded annually to one New Zealand writer and one French writer, comprising six months' rent-free accommodation at Randell Cottage in Wellington and a stipend (as of 2021[update] set at NZ$27,450).[1] The recipients are usually mid-career writers.[2] The cottage itself is listed with Heritage New Zealand.
History
[edit]The residency is based at Randell Cottage in the suburb of Thorndon, Wellington. The cottage was built in 1868 by William Randell, the great-grandfather of children's author Beverley Randell.[3][4] He and his wife Sarah raised their 10 children at the cottage. After seventy years of the cottage being owned by other families, Beverley and her husband, Hugh Price, bought the cottage in 1994 and restored it to how it had been at the time of William's ownership.[5][6][7][8]
In 2002, on the suggestion of her daughter Susan Price, Beverley Randell decided to gift the cottage to a trust for the purpose of setting up a writers' residency.[6][8][9][10] The plan was partly inspired by an attempt to set up a similar residency in memory of the poet Lauris Edmond, which had been unsuccessful.[7] It was the first dedicated writers' residency in Wellington.[6] In part, the residency reciprocates the Katherine Mansfield Menton Fellowship, which provides a residency based in France for New Zealand writers.[9] The trust is supported by Creative New Zealand, the New Zealand–France Friendship Fund and the Wellington City Council.[8][11] Founding trustees included Fiona Kidman and Vincent O'Sullivan.[12]
Kirsty Gunn, 2009 writer-in-residence, described the cottage:[13]
From the moment I stepped inside the door at Randell Cottage, 14 St Mary St, Wellington, I felt like I was coming home. Everything about the place was familiar — from the New Zealand timber floorboards to the very positioning of the sash windows that looked out to a garden of native trees and hydrangeas. I had spent Wairarapa holidays in cottages like this, with a coal range in the kitchen and a lean-to pantry with a tin roof that gave off to one side. Even the kinds of prints on the wall, the blue-and-white china in the pantry, were familiar.
Caroline Laurent, the 2021 French recipient, was unable to take up the residency during the year due to COVID-19 border restrictions.[1] She eventually was able to{ take up her residency in December 2022.[14]
Heritage registration
[edit]Randell Cottage | |
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![]() Randell Cottage as viewed from St Mary Street in Thorndon | |
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General information | |
Type | cottage |
Designated | 14 December 1995 |
Reference no. | 7281 |
Randell Cottage was registered by the New Zealand Historic Places Trust (now Heritage New Zealand) on 14 December 1995. The building has a Category II classification. The registration covers the building and the section it is placed on and the rationale for the listing was the "historical and cultural heritage significance and value".[5] Some of the household items uncovered during the restoration of the cottage are held at Te Papa.[5][15]
Writers-in-residence
[edit]The recipients of the residency have been:[16][17]
Year | New Zealand recipient | French recipient |
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2002 | Peter Wells | Nadine Ribault |
2003 | Tim Corballis | Charles Juliet |
2004 | Michael Harlow | Pierre Furlan[18] |
2005 | Renée | Dominique Mainard |
2006 | Beryl Fletcher | Annie Saumont |
2007 | Whiti Hereaka[19] | Nicolas Kurtovitch |
2008 | Jennifer Compton | Olivier Bleys[20] |
2009 | Kirsty Gunn[21] | Fariba Hachtroudi |
2010 | Pat White[22] | Yann Apperry[23] |
2011 | Peter Walker[24][25] | Florence Cadier |
2012 | Vivienne Plumb | |
2013 | Denis Welch[26] | Estelle Nollet[27] |
2014 | Tina Makereti[28] | Thanh-Van Tran-Nhut |
2015 | Witi Ihimaera Owen Marshall[29] |
David Fauquemberg |
2016 | Stephanie Johnson[30] | Nicolas Fargues |
2017 | Stephen Daisley | Josef Schovanec |
2018 | James Norcliffe | Amélie Lucas-Gary |
2019 | Paddy Richardson | Karin Serres |
2020 | Michalia Arathimos[31] | Amaury da Cunha |
2021 | Lynn Davidson[32] | Caroline Laurent[1][14] |
2022 | Rose Lu[33] | Caroline Laurent[14] |
2023 | Rachel O’Neill[34] | Sedef Ecer[35] |
2024 | Hinemoana Baker[36] | Julien Blanc-Gras[37] |
References
[edit]- ^ a b c "Applications Invited For 2022 Randell Cottage Writers Residency open now". New Zealand Society of Authors. 22 September 2021. Retrieved 21 December 2021.
- ^ "Applications invited for 2021 Randell Cottage Writers Residency". Read NZ Te Pou Muramura. 16 September 2020. Retrieved 8 March 2021.
- ^ Sharp, Iain (2 December 2001). "Biblio file". Sunday Star-Times. p. F2. ProQuest 313987315. Retrieved 13 December 2021.
- ^ "A Record of the Archaeological Discoveries Made at 14 Mary Street Thorndon, Wellington when the Settler's Cottage was Restored". Te Papa Tongarewa. Retrieved 13 January 2022.
- ^ a b c "Randell Cottage". New Zealand Heritage List/Rārangi Kōrero. Heritage New Zealand. Retrieved 13 January 2022.
- ^ a b c "Dedicated to Writing". Dominion. 24 September 2001. p. 13. ProQuest 315359743. Retrieved 13 December 2021.
- ^ a b Cardy, Tom (22 September 2001). "Pair gift writers' retreat". Evening Post. p. 2. ProQuest 314752207. Retrieved 13 December 2021.
- ^ a b c Penman, Carla (12 June 2012). "Thorndon writers' cottage turns 10". Dominion Post. Retrieved 13 December 2021.
- ^ a b Manson, Bess (26 December 2001). "Historic cottage inspires special gift". Dominion. p. 11. ProQuest 315373543. Retrieved 13 December 2021.
- ^ Kitchin, Peter (1 February 2010). "Hugh Price: Energetic bookworm took words to millions". Dominion Post. Retrieved 13 December 2021.
- ^ "Our Partners". Randell Cottage Writers Trust. Retrieved 13 December 2021.
- ^ Mabey, Claire (29 April 2024). "Vale Vincent O'Sullivan, 1937–2024". The Spinoff. Archived from the original on 29 April 2024. Retrieved 30 April 2024.
- ^ "Write at home in Wellington". Dominion Post. 15 December 2020. p. 9. ProQuest 2469837220. Retrieved 13 December 2021.
- ^ a b c "Caroline Laurent arrives at Randell Cottage – Randell Cottage Writers Trust". Randell Cottage Writers' Trust. Retrieved 23 April 2023.
- ^ "The Randell Cottage collection". Te Papa Tongarewa. Retrieved 13 January 2022.
- ^ "Randell Cottage celebrates 10 years of writer residencies". Creative New Zealand. 10 May 2012. Retrieved 13 December 2021.
- ^ "Writers". Randell Cottage Writers Trust. Retrieved 13 December 2021.
- ^ Dekker, Diana (8 January 2005). "Found in translation". Dominion Post. p. WM16. ProQuest 338195115. Retrieved 13 December 2021.
- ^ Edwards, Simon (28 June 2011). "Moon centre stage". Dominion Post. Retrieved 13 December 2021.
- ^ Macdonald, Nikki (13 December 2008). "Assailed from space". Dominion Post. p. ID6. ProQuest 338400315. Retrieved 13 December 2021.
- ^ Harvey, Siobhan (9 May 2009). "The writer's life as a juggling act". The New Zealand Herald. Retrieved 13 December 2021.
- ^ Dekker, Diana (22 May 2010). "A study of West Coast tenacity". Dominion Post. p. ID3. ProQuest 506786755. Retrieved 13 December 2021.
- ^ Macdonald, Nikki (6 November 2010). "On the tip of his tongue". Dominion Post. p. YW6. ProQuest 767066850. Retrieved 13 December 2021.
- ^ "Successful first month at Randell Cottage". The Big Idea. 9 May 2011. Retrieved 13 December 2021.
- ^ Rashbrooke, Max (22 October 2011). "Inconvenient truths". Dominion Post. p. YW30. ProQuest 900813232. Retrieved 13 December 2021.
- ^ "CNZ Randell Cottage writer in residence 2013". The Big Idea. 28 November 2012. Retrieved 13 December 2021.
- ^ Manson, Beth (30 March 2013). "Nomadic novelist -for now". Dominion Post. Retrieved 13 December 2021.
- ^ Macdonald, Nikki (17 March 2014). "Finding identity inspires book". Dominion Post. Retrieved 13 December 2021.
- ^ "Arts Foundation recipients honoured in New Zealand and abroad". The Marlborough Express. 20 January 2015. p. 10. ProQuest 1646777446. Retrieved 13 December 2021.
- ^ Dixon, Rowena (18 October 2019). "Pukapuka Talks: Why the West Island keeps claiming Kiwis as their own". Stuff.co.nz. Retrieved 13 December 2021.
- ^ "Writer Michalia Arathimos on writers' residencies". Radio New Zealand. 13 December 2020. Retrieved 13 December 2021.
- ^ Davidson, Lynn (30 July 2021). "The Friday Poem: To Get Here, by Lynn Davidson". The Spinoff. Retrieved 13 December 2021.
- ^ "Rose Lu selected as 2022 Randell Cottage Writer in Residence". The New Zealand Society of Authors. 6 December 2021. Retrieved 6 December 2021.
- ^ "Rachel O'Neill – 2023". Randell Cottage Writers Trust. Retrieved 29 December 2023.
- ^ "Sedef Ecer – 2023". Randell Cottage Writers' Trust. Retrieved 23 April 2023.
- ^ "Hinemoana Baker selected as 2024 Randell Cottage Writer in Residence". Randell Cottage Writers Trust. Retrieved 29 December 2023.
- ^ "Julien Blanc-Gras announced as the French resident for 2024". Randell Cottage Writers Trust. Retrieved 29 December 2023.
External links
[edit]- Official website
- "Saving Randell Cottage", video about the restoration of the cottage featuring Beverley Randell and her daughter Susan Price
- "A tour around Randell Cottage, Thorndon, Wellington", video tour by Michalia Arathimos during her residency