New Zealand to Menton: on travelling in Katherine Mansfield’s footsteps, a talk by Sue Wootton

Since 1970, the Katherine Mansfield Menton Fellowship has allowed a New Zealand writer to live and write for three months or more in Menton in southern France. There, they have access to the writing room in Villa Isola Bella where Katherine Mansfield once lived and worked.

Sue Wootton will talk about traveling to Menton in 2023 as the fiftieth Katherine Mansfield Fellow, and the various ways that this opportunity to be immersed in a different place and culture inspired and influenced her writing.

Former Robert Burns Fellow and NZSA Beatson Fellow Sue Wootton writes in a range of genres. Her work includes a novel called Strip (Mākaro Press 2016), the story collection The Happiest Music on Earth (Rosa Mira Press 2012) and five poetry collections (most recently The Yield, OUP 2017).

She has been recognised in a range of literary awards including the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards, the International Hippocrates Prize for Poetry and Medicine, the Gwen Harwood Poetry Award and the University of Canberra Vice-Chancellor’s International Poetry Prize. Sue lives in Ōtepoti Dunedin where she is the publisher at Otago University Press.

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