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Randell Cottage Writers' Residency

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Randell Cottage Writers' Residency
Randell Cottage, 2021
Awarded forWriting
LocationThorndon, Wellington
CountryNew Zealand
Presented byRandell Cottage Writers' Trust
Reward(s)Rent-free accommodation and stipend
First awarded2002; 22 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

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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

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Randell Cottage
 
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][15]

Writers-in-residence

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The recipients of the residency have been:[16][17]

Year New Zealand recipient French recipient
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 [fr]
2008 Jennifer Compton Olivier Bleys [fr][20]
2009 Kirsty Gunn[21] Fariba Hachtroudi
2010 Pat White[22] Yann Apperry[23]
2011 Peter Walker[24][25] Florence Cadier [fr]
2012 Vivienne Plumb
2013 Denis Welch[26] Estelle Nollet[27]
2014 Tina Makereti[28] Thanh-Van Tran-Nhut [fr]
2015 Witi Ihimaera
Owen Marshall[29]		 David Fauquemberg [fr]
2016 Stephanie Johnson[30] Nicolas Fargues
2017 Stephen Daisley Josef Schovanec
2018 James Norcliffe Amélie Lucas-Gary [fr]
2019 Paddy Richardson Karin Serres
2020 Michalia Arathimos[31] Amaury da Cunha
2021 Lynn Davidson[32] Caroline Laurent [fr][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

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  1. ^ 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.
  2. ^ "Applications invited for 2021 Randell Cottage Writers Residency". Read NZ Te Pou Muramura. 16 September 2020. Retrieved 8 March 2021.
  3. ^ Sharp, Iain (2 December 2001). "Biblio file". Sunday Star-Times. p. F2. ProQuest 313987315. 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". New Zealand Heritage List/Rārangi Kōrero. Heritage New Zealand. Retrieved 13 January 2022.
  6. ^ a b c "Dedicated to Writing". Dominion. 24 September 2001. p. 13. ProQuest 315359743. Retrieved 13 December 2021.
  7. ^ a b Cardy, Tom (22 September 2001). "Pair gift writers' retreat". Evening Post. p. 2. ProQuest 314752207. 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. ProQuest 315373543. 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. ^ 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.
  13. ^ "Write at home in Wellington". Dominion Post. 15 December 2020. p. 9. ProQuest 2469837220. Retrieved 13 December 2021.
  14. ^ a b c "Caroline Laurent arrives at Randell Cottage – Randell Cottage Writers Trust". Randell Cottage Writers' Trust. Retrieved 23 April 2023.
  15. ^ "The Randell Cottage collection". Te Papa Tongarewa. Retrieved 13 January 2022.
  16. ^ "Randell Cottage celebrates 10 years of writer residencies". Creative New Zealand. 10 May 2012. Retrieved 13 December 2021.
  17. ^ "Writers". Randell Cottage Writers Trust. Retrieved 13 December 2021.
  18. ^ Dekker, Diana (8 January 2005). "Found in translation". Dominion Post. p. WM16. ProQuest 338195115. Retrieved 13 December 2021.
  19. ^ Edwards, Simon (28 June 2011). "Moon centre stage". Dominion Post. Retrieved 13 December 2021.
  20. ^ Macdonald, Nikki (13 December 2008). "Assailed from space". Dominion Post. p. ID6. ProQuest 338400315. Retrieved 13 December 2021.
  21. ^ Harvey, Siobhan (9 May 2009). "The writer's life as a juggling act". The New Zealand Herald. Retrieved 13 December 2021.
  22. ^ Dekker, Diana (22 May 2010). "A study of West Coast tenacity". Dominion Post. p. ID3. ProQuest 506786755. Retrieved 13 December 2021.
  23. ^ Macdonald, Nikki (6 November 2010). "On the tip of his tongue". Dominion Post. p. YW6. ProQuest 767066850. Retrieved 13 December 2021.
  24. ^ "Successful first month at Randell Cottage". The Big Idea. 9 May 2011. Retrieved 13 December 2021.
  25. ^ Rashbrooke, Max (22 October 2011). "Inconvenient truths". Dominion Post. p. YW30. ProQuest 900813232. Retrieved 13 December 2021.
  26. ^ "CNZ Randell Cottage writer in residence 2013". The Big Idea. 28 November 2012. Retrieved 13 December 2021.
  27. ^ Manson, Beth (30 March 2013). "Nomadic novelist -for now". Dominion Post. Retrieved 13 December 2021.
  28. ^ Macdonald, Nikki (17 March 2014). "Finding identity inspires book". Dominion Post. Retrieved 13 December 2021.
  29. ^ "Arts Foundation recipients honoured in New Zealand and abroad". The Marlborough Express. 20 January 2015. p. 10. ProQuest 1646777446. Retrieved 13 December 2021.
  30. ^ Dixon, Rowena (18 October 2019). "Pukapuka Talks: Why the West Island keeps claiming Kiwis as their own". Stuff.co.nz. Retrieved 13 December 2021.
  31. ^ "Writer Michalia Arathimos on writers' residencies". Radio New Zealand. 13 December 2020. Retrieved 13 December 2021.
  32. ^ Davidson, Lynn (30 July 2021). "The Friday Poem: To Get Here, by Lynn Davidson". The Spinoff. Retrieved 13 December 2021.
  33. ^ "Rose Lu selected as 2022 Randell Cottage Writer in Residence". The New Zealand Society of Authors. 6 December 2021. Retrieved 6 December 2021.
  34. ^ "Rachel O'Neill – 2023". Randell Cottage Writers Trust. Retrieved 29 December 2023.
  35. ^ "Sedef Ecer – 2023". Randell Cottage Writers' Trust. Retrieved 23 April 2023.
  36. ^ "Hinemoana Baker selected as 2024 Randell Cottage Writer in Residence". Randell Cottage Writers Trust. Retrieved 29 December 2023.
  37. ^ "Julien Blanc-Gras announced as the French resident for 2024". Randell Cottage Writers Trust. Retrieved 29 December 2023.
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