At the Bay - I Te Kokoru: Hauntings

Part of the Katherine Mansfield House & Garden 2024 Open Day

Michelle Elvy and Harry Ricketts are thrilled to present this year’s At the Bay | I Te Kokoru celebration and awards. At the Bay | I Te Kokoru provides a platform for Aotearoa New Zealand writers of the short form, from short stories to hybrid, from creative nonfiction small stories to translations and translingual work, from flash fiction to micro.

In 2024, we explore hauntings. The event opens with readings from At the Bay | I Te Kokoru 2024 authors and books published this year by Janis Freegard, Jenna Heller, Sharni Wilson and a collection of Ōtepoti writers celebrating their city and Janet Frame. We’ll also announce the winners of the 2024 Sparkling Prose competition, with stories ‘haunted’.

Image: Detail of 133 Tinakori Road, formerly 75 Tinakori Road, photographed in 1967 by Charles Fearnley prior to demolition. This was Katherine Mansfield's family home from 1898 to 1907, it was later turned into flats and then demolished to make way for the Wellington Urban Motorway. Courtesy of Wellington City Libraries, reference 50003-1371.