Hagley Writers excel

Hagley Writers' Institute tutors, Frankie McMillan and Kerrin Sharpe feature in the online poetry collection, Best NZ Poems, edited by Poet Laureate, Ian Wedde . This is a prestigious anthology reflecting, as it says, the very best of NZ poetry and is published annually by the International Institute of Modern Letters at Victoria University.  You can check out the website here -
Best NZ poems

 Frankie McMillan is a short story writer and poet. She completed an MA at the International Institute of Modern Letters at Victoria University in 1998. Her publications include The Bag Lady’s Picnic and other stories and a collection of poetry, Dressing for the Cannibals. Her short stories have been included in Best New Zealand Fiction (Vintage, 2008 and 2009). In 2005 she was the recipient of the CNZ Todd Bursary. In 2009 she won the New Zealand Poetry Society International Poetry Competition.

Kerrin P Sharpe is a poet and teacher of creative writing. She completed the Victoria University Original Composition Programme taught by Bill Manhire in 1976. Her poems have appeared in many journals including Hue & Cry, JAAM, the Listener, Poetry New Zealand, Sport, Takah?, Turbine, the London Grip, Snorkel and the Press, Best New Zealand Poems 08, 09 and 10, and in The Best of the Best New Zealand Poems. In 2008 she was awarded the New Zealand Post Creative Writing Teachers’ award from the International Institute of Modern Letters. Her debut poetry collection, three days in a wishing well, was published by Victoria University Press in 2012. A selection of her poems will appear in Oxford Poets 2013 from Carcanet Press later this year.