AUT's Master of Creative Writing alumni have won literary prizes and found publishing success. Here are just some of our notable creative writing alumni.
Belinda Aycrigg
- Author of Ocean of Milk, Lasavia, 2017
- Graduated in 2015
Suzanne Day
- Recipient of 2016 New Zealand Society of Authors CompleteWrite Mentorship for The Spider's Tale (MCW Thesis)
- Graduated in 2015
Hanadi Falki
- Two book publishing deal signed in India
- Graduated in 2015
Michael Giacon
- Winner of the 2016 Kathleen Grattan Prize for a Sequence of Poems
- Graduated in 2016
Ann Glamuzina
- Author of Rich Man Road, Euonia Press, 2015
- Graduated in 2010
Rowan Johnson
- Author of Swamp Gum, Lasavia, 2016
- Graduated in 2012
Anne Kayes
- Winner of the 2016 Storylines Tom Fitzgibbon Award for Tui Street Tales (MCW Thesis)
- Tui Street Tales is soon to be published by Scholastic New Zealand
- Graduated in 2015
Irena Ljubobratovic
- Story editor, Lasavia Publishing
- Graduated in 2012
Helen McNeil
- Author of A Striking Truth, Cloud Ink, Eunoia 2016
- Graduated in 2011
Maris O'Rourke
Jennifer Rackham
- Illustrator of bestselling children's book Taniwha
- Cover designer
- Author of Bella Donna, Lasavia, 2017
- Graduated in 2014
Iona Winter
- Recipient of the 2015 New Zealand Society of Authors Mentorship and published in volume six of Headland literary journal
- Graduated in 2015