Randell Cottage Writers' Residency

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Randell Cottage Writers' Residency
Randell Cottage 03.jpg
Randell Cottage, 2021
Awarded forWriting
LocationThorndon, Wellington
CountryNew Zealand
Presented byRandell Cottage Writers' Trust
Reward(s)Rent-free accommodation and stipend
First awarded2002; 20 years ago (2002)
Websitewww.randellcottage.co.nz

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 set at NZ$27,450).[1] The recipients are usually mid-career writers.[2] The cottage itself is listed with Heritage New Zealand.

History[]

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]

Kirsty Gunn, 2009 writer-in-residence, described the cottage:[12]

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]

Heritage registration[]

Randell Cottage
view of a cottage, its street fence, and a heritage plaque
Randell Cottage as viewed from St Mary Street in Thorndon
General information
Typecottage
Designated14 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][13]

Writers-in-residence[]

The recipients of the residency have been:[14][15]

Year New Zealand recipient French recipient
2002 Peter Wells  [fr]
2003 Charles Juliet
2004 Michael Harlow [16]
2005 Renée Dominique Mainard
2006 Beryl Fletcher Annie Saumont
2007 Whiti Hereaka[17]  [fr]
2008 Jennifer Compton  [fr][18]
2009 Kirsty Gunn[19] Fariba Hachtroudi
2010 [20] Yann Apperry[21]
2011 [22][23]  [fr]
2012 Vivienne Plumb
2013 Denis Welch[24] Estelle Nollet[25]
2014 Tina Makereti[26]  [fr]
2015 Witi Ihimaera
Owen Marshall[27]		  [fr]
2016 Stephanie Johnson[28] Nicolas Fargues
2017 Stephen Daisley  [fr]
2018 James Norcliffe  [fr]
2019 Paddy Richardson  [fr]
2020 Michalia Arathimos[29]  [fr]
2021 [30]  [fr][1]
2022 Rose Lu[31]

References[]

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  2. ^ "Applications invited for 2021 Randell Cottage Writers Residency". Read NZ Te Pou Muramura. 16 September 2020. Retrieved 8 March 2021.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  3. ^ Sharp, Iain (2 December 2001). "Biblio file". Sunday Star-Times. p. F2. Retrieved 13 December 2021.
  4. ^ "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.
  5. ^ a b c "Randell Cottage". Register of Historic Places. Heritage New Zealand. Retrieved 13 January 2022.
  6. ^ a b c "Dedicated to Writing". Dominion. 24 September 2001. p. 13. Retrieved 13 December 2021.
  7. ^ a b Cardy, Tom (22 September 2001). "Pair gift writers' retreat". Evening Post. p. 2. Retrieved 13 December 2021.
  8. ^ a b c Penman, Carla (12 June 2012). "Thorndon writers' cottage turns 10". Dominion Post. Retrieved 13 December 2021.
  9. ^ a b Manson, Bess (26 December 2001). "Historic cottage inspires special gift". Dominion. p. 11. Retrieved 13 December 2021.
  10. ^ Kitchin, Peter (1 February 2010). "Hugh Price: Energetic bookworm took words to millions". Dominion Post. Retrieved 13 December 2021.
  11. ^ "Our Partners". Randell Cottage Writers Trust. Retrieved 13 December 2021.
  12. ^ "Write at home in Wellington". Dominion Post. 15 December 2020. p. 9. Retrieved 13 December 2021.
  13. ^ "The Randell Cottage collection". Te Papa Tongarewa. Retrieved 13 January 2022.
  14. ^ "Randell Cottage celebrates 10 years of writer residencies". Creative New Zealand. 10 May 2012. Retrieved 13 December 2021.
  15. ^ "Writers". Randell Cottage Writers Trust. Retrieved 13 December 2021.
  16. ^ Dekker, Diana (8 January 2005). "Found in translation". Dominion Post. p. WM16. Retrieved 13 December 2021.
  17. ^ Edwards, Simon (28 June 2011). "Moon centre stage". Dominion Post. Retrieved 13 December 2021.
  18. ^ Macdonald, Nikki (13 December 2008). "Assailed from space". Dominion Post. p. ID6. Retrieved 13 December 2021.
  19. ^ Harvey, Siobhan (9 May 2009). "The writer's life as a juggling act". The New Zealand Herald. Retrieved 13 December 2021.
  20. ^ Dekker, Diana (22 May 2010). "A study of West Coast tenacity". Dominion Post. p. ID3. Retrieved 13 December 2021.
  21. ^ Macdonald, Nikki (6 November 2010). "On the tip of his tongue". Dominion Post. p. YW6. Retrieved 13 December 2021.
  22. ^ "Successful first month at Randell Cottage". The Big Idea. 9 May 2011. Retrieved 13 December 2021.
  23. ^ Rashbrooke, Max (22 October 2011). "Inconvenient truths". Dominion Post. p. YW30. Retrieved 13 December 2021.
  24. ^ "CNZ Randell Cottage writer in residence 2013". The Big Idea. 28 November 2012. Retrieved 13 December 2021.
  25. ^ Manson, Beth (30 March 2013). "Nomadic novelist -for now". Dominion Post. Retrieved 13 December 2021.
  26. ^ Macdonald, Nikki (17 March 2014). "Finding identity inspires book". Dominion Post. Retrieved 13 December 2021.
  27. ^ "Arts Foundation recipients honoured in New Zealand and abroad". The Marlborough Express. 20 January 2015. p. 10. Retrieved 13 December 2021.
  28. ^ Dixon, Rowena (18 October 2019). "Pukapuka Talks: Why the West Island keeps claiming Kiwis as their own". Stuff.co.nz. Retrieved 13 December 2021.
  29. ^ "Writer Michalia Arathimos on writers' residencies". Radio New Zealand. 13 December 2020. Retrieved 13 December 2021.
  30. ^ Davidson, Lynn (30 July 2021). "The Friday Poem: To Get Here, by Lynn Davidson". The Spinoff. Retrieved 13 December 2021.
  31. ^ "Rose Lu selected as 2022 Randell Cottage Writer in Residence". The New Zealand Society of Authors. 6 December 2021. Retrieved 6 December 2021.

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