Michelle
Elvy
Michelle Elvy is a writer, editor and manuscript assessor based in Dunedin. She founded Flash Frontier, Aotearoa New Zealand’s international journal of flash fiction, and chairs National Flash Fiction Day. Her book, the everrumble, published in 2019, is a small novel in small forms.
Michelle has co-edited the anthologies Bonsai: Best small stories from Aotearoa New Zealand (CUP, 2018) and Ko Aotearoa Tātou | We Are New Zealand (OUP, 2020), and she is currently curating Love in the Time of COVID: a Chronicle of a Pandemic with Witi Ihimaera.
James
Norcliffe
Described by The Sapling as a National Treasure, James Norcliffe has published several highly acclaimed volumes of poetry and over a dozen award-winning novels for young people including the Loblolly Boy series and the first of the recently released Mallory, Mallory series (Penguin Puffin).
He has extensive experience as an editor and mentor and has had a long association with the School for Young Writers and Re-Draft.
Glyn
Strange
In 2010 Dr Glyn Strange received the Storylines Betty Gilderdale Award for his work as founder and director of the School for Young Writers, set up in 1993 to foster creative writing opportunities for young New Zealanders. Re-Draft grew from this, and is now in its 20th year.
Also a publisher, Glyn rarely has time to write much of his own, but fascinated by wartime disaster, has recently published No Glory Without Effort/Pas de Gloire Sans Effort. Perhaps that title suits him well, except he hasn't died yet!