Reading at the beach.
Annabel Wilson
Tangata Tiriti writer Annabel Wilson lives in Swannanoa, NZ. Her poetry has been published and performed in Aotearoa and overseas. Her works include No Science to Goodbye (RNZ 2017), Aspiring Daybook (Mākaro 2018), dusk & us (Ghost City Press 2024) and Making mixtapes with Seichan (TBA 2025). She holds a PhD in creative writing in which she investigated hybrid forms (Massey University 2023). Annabel is a regular performer at arts festivals and on the spoken word circuit. Her first book, Aspiring Daybook: The diary of Elsie Winslow won the NZ Mountain Book and Film Festival Award for Best Fiction (2018) and was longlisted for the Ockhams (2019). Annabel has also been awarded an R A K Mason Fellowship at NZ Pacific Studio, the inaugural Australasian Association of Writers’ Programmes Emerging Writers’ Prize (2016), and a residency at the Robert Lord Writers’ Cottage (2017).