Browsing by Degree Name "Master of Professional Writing (MPW)"
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4u
(The University of Waikato, 2020)I was thirteen the first time I took notice of my body. My girlfriend had left me without citing a reason. I had taken a bath, grabbed a towel and caught myself out the corner of my eye. I have not unnoticed since. Not a ... -
A dead ordinary woman
(The University of Waikato, 2022)Muriel Murdoch died in 1961 yet she asked – bullied me more like – into telling her story. ‘Write it all down – all of it,’ she insisted from her an unmarked Essex grave that Mum never let me visit. She was furious to be ... -
A Distant Star: Creative writing thesis: speculative science fiction
(The University of Waikato, 2022)When Humanity left a ruined Earth, they vowed to leave behind everything that brought them to that bleak choice. It was the end of the world; if they could not change, they weren’t worthy of a second chance on another ... -
All I remember is forgetting
(The University of Waikato, 2021)All I Remember is Forgetting is a novel about the complex weaving of memory, relationships and works of art. We observe these through the eyes of Roger Phillips, whom we first encounter washed up and living in his car after ... -
Bite
(The University of Waikato, 2020)Bite is a collection of blunt confessional poetry draped in honesty, identity, and 21st century feminism, examined through lived experience with eating disorders, sexuality, trauma, disconnect from family and culture, love ... -
'Fish of New Zealand'
(The University of Waikato, 2022)‘Get off the road you lycra-clad cunt!’ A bond is formed with a foul-mouthed kahawai hitchhiking along Surf Highway 45. A penis-riddled espionage colours a Catholic School’s swimming sports. A group of children trek ... -
!!!FR33D0M 0FF SP33CH!!!
(The University of Waikato, 2021)My title is “FR33D0M 0FF SP33CH”, a play on the saying “freedom of speech”. I write with the intent of voicing tough subjects that others haven’t or don’t, and often exposing things that I wouldn’t tell or share personally. ... -
Keeper of the light
(The University of Waikato, 2022)Keeper of the Light is an historical novel based on the true story of Mary Jane Hebden, a country gentleman’s daughter, who in 1839 at the age of 22 sails to New Zealand on the emigrant ship Duke of Roxburgh. There she is ... -
Passing lane & other stories
(The University of Waikato, 2022)Abstract The process of growing into ourselves is one that we navigate through interactions with other people and, in turn, through interactions with the self. We learn from how the world refracts back to us and lodges ... -
Pōuri: Two original screenplays
(The University of Waikato, 2022)Pōuri, as defined on Te Aka Māori Dictionary, means “regret, mournful, gloomy, in the dark.” It is an apt description of the following stories: Unprivate Moments, and Haytham; or, The Māori Gothic. A common thematic tie ... -
Terra cry : the first birth
(The University of Waikato, 2020)Five hundred years have passed. Earth is dead. Cetera is our new home. The ruling conglomerate G.R.A.Z.I.A. strips another planet of its resource. But Cetera isn’t quite like Earth... Beth will do anything to become ... -
The ethics of fiction: Representations of New Zealand history in the poetry of Chris Tse and Airini Beautrais, and how an author's sense of self affects the story
(The University of Waikato, 2020)The landscape of contemporary literature and film is saturated with interpretations of recorded histories and events. We have passed them down through generations—orally at first, written recordings when we had the ... -
The Lois Tapes
(The University of Waikato, 2022)Abstract Take one stylish, unfulfilled woman with dramatic ambitions and perfectionist tendencies, and one alienated and disappointed soldier returned from World War Two. Give them a disabled son and a lively, rebellious ... -
The Phoenix Prophecy
(The University of Waikato, 2022)When Soraya Merridan wakes from a recurring nightmare, she finds herself drawn to a box of her mother’s belongings. After discovering an antique necklace with a strange stone, Sora accidentally triggers a prophecy and finds ... -
Whitewashed Jasmine
(The University of Waikato, 2020)A young brown girl stands with her arms and feet apart. Snowmanned in Fair & Lovely. She does not know why she has to do this. She wonders why the way she was born isn’t enough. Why she’s not enough. Whitewashed Jasmine ...
