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ALEX WHEATLE ENGLAND
The Guardian Fiction Prize winner and MBE recipient Alex Wheatle grew up in a children’s home and started writing lyrics and poetry and DJ-ing in his teenage years, earning the moniker the Brixton Bard. His acclaimed Crongton trilogy explores the struggles of growing up on a council estate. @brixtonbard
DIANA WICHTEL NEW ZEALAND
NZ Listener journalist, critic and 2016 Grimshaw Sargeson Fellow Diana Wichtel is the author of the Ockham NZ Book Award shortlisted Driving to Treblinka: A Long Search for a Lost Father, about the impact of the Holocaust on her family. @dianawichtel
CHRIS WIKAIRA NEW ZEALAND
Nga- Puhi) is a former Ma-ori issues correspondent for RNZ, and a Director of PR company BRG, who specialises in Ma-ori communications services. In 2018 he co-hosted RNZ National’s Waitangi Day alongside Mihingarangi Forbes.
SIOUXSIE WILES NEW ZEALAND
Dr Siouxsie Wiles is an award- winning microbiologist and science communicator at The University of Auckland. She talks about science on RNZ’s Nine to Noon and recently published her rst book Antibiotic Resistance: The End of Modern Medicine with BWB Texts. @SiouxsieW
BRENT WILLIAMS NEW ZEALAND
Brent Williams is a community lawyer who worked in the area of family violence. He has documented his experience of depression and anxiety in the graphic novel Out of the Woods, illustrated by Korkut Oztekin. outofthewoods.co.nz
MICHAEL WILLIAMS AUSTRALIA
Michael Williams is Director of
the Wheeler Centre in Melbourne, the world’s rst public institution dedicated to the discussion of books, writing and ideas. He previously worked at Text Publishing and is
a regular guest on ABC radio and television. @mmccwill
JOAN WITHERS NEW ZEALAND
Joan Withers is the Chair of Mercury NZ and The Warehouse Group,
a Director of ANZ New Zealand
and a Louise Perkins Foundation trustee. She was the 2015 Women of In uence Awards Supreme Winner, and is the author of A Woman’s Place: Life, leadership and lessons from the boardroom.
BRIAR WOOD NEW ZEALAND
Writer, poet and academic Briar Wood (Te Hikutu-ki Hokianga, Nga-puhi Nui) has published in a number of journals and anthologies and was Senior Lecturer in English at London Metropolitan University. Her poetry collection Ra- wa- hi is shortlisted for the Ockham NZ Book Awards.
SUE WOOTTON NEW ZEALAND
Poet and ction writer Sue Wootton has published ve volumes of poetry for which she has received several awards including the 2015 Caselberg Trust International Poetry Prize. Her latest collection, The Yield, is shortlisted for the 2018 Ockham NZ Book Awards. suewootton.com
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