Emerging Writing Resident Announced

The Caselberg Trust announced today that the recipient of its Elizabeth Brooke-Carr Emerging Writers Residency in 2023 will be Whakatū (Nelson) writer Sabrina Malcolm.

 

Sabrina writes and illustrates fiction for children and young adults and was shortlisted for the 2012 New Zealand Post Children’s Book Awards for her work as an illustrator.  She is the author of Zeustian Logic, a Storylines Notable Book for 2018, and the writer and illustrator of Blue Moon Bird (see fuller list of publications and awards below).

The residency is named after well-known and much-loved Dunedin writer Elizabeth Brooke-Carr who died in 2019.  The residency, which is for one week each year, was established thanks to the generous fundraising undertaken by Elizabeth’s family, friends, and colleagues of Ms Brooke-Carr who wanted to provide for an annual residency at the Caselberg house in Broad Bay in her honour.

“We are absolutely delighted to be able to make this announcement today, and we look forward to welcoming Sabrina to the Caselberg house in 2023. This residency commemorates a great friend and supporter of the Caselberg Trust, Dunedin writer Elizabeth Brooke-Carr” said Dr Janet Downs Chairperson Caselberg Trust “Elizabeth was the inaugural Caselberg Trust writer-in-residence back in 2009, and she often talked about how much the experience meant to her as an emerging writer who took up writing in her later years”

 

Sabrina said, “It is a delight to look forward to living and working in this remarkable place, especially under the residency honouring Elizabeth Brooke-Carr. I’m extremely grateful to the Residency and to the Caselberg Trust.”

 

The residency shifts focus slightly each year by offering emerging writers from a variety of writing genres – poetry, fiction, non-fiction, journalism. This year’s focus is on writing for children and young adults.

 

The Caselberg Trust purchased the Broad Bay, Dunedin home of the late John and Anna Caselberg in 2006, with the aim of hosting creative residencies in the house. Since inception, the Trust has held a variety of creative projects and events, as well as hosting several well-known New Zealand writers and artists at the cottage. 

Sabrina will take up her residency in February.

Please contact Trustee Robert West at info@caselbergtrust.org or mobile 027 608 0641 for further information, or www.caselbergtrust.org.    

Previous publishing history as a writer:

  • Zeustian Logic, YA fiction (Gecko Press Ltd, 2017) (Storylines New Zealand Notable Book 2018)

  • Ruffled Feathers, skit (commissioned by Forest & Bird New Zealand children’s magazine Wild Things, 2015)

  • Book Review: Shaun Tan’s Rules of Summer, invited BookLook (PANZ Book Design Awards, 2014)

  • Mars, poem selected for the poetry collection Eat Your Words (Whitireia Institute of Technology, 2014)

  • Blue Moon Bird, picture book (Scholastic New Zealand Ltd, 2013)

Writing awards / acknowledgements:

  • Storylines Notable Books listing, 2018, for Zeustian Logic (Gecko Press, 2017)

  • Three short-listings for the Joy Cowley Picture Book Awards (2011 and 2013)

  • New Zealand Society of Authors Mentorship (awarded 2010): paired with Fleur Beale

  • New Zealand Society of Authors Manuscript Assessment (awarded 2008): paired with Fleur Beale

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