MKWC Accommodation and writer’s studio

Accommodation and writer’s studio

Visiting writer’s bedroom and en suite:

Studio:

Payment required in advance or on arrival

Visitors must be engaged in a writing project or research

Requests for visits are subject to approval by the Michael King Writers’ Studio Trust

Paula Morris comments on her stay in her blog for 5 June 2007:

A Washhouse of One's Own

I've been writing in the renovated washhouse of the Signalman's House for a number of days, and I have to say: it's ideal. It's quiet, warm and dry, unlike my grandmother's washhouse out the back of the house on Ponsonby Road - amazing what removing coppers, wringers etc and installing insulation and carpet can do. After three lung-stripping walks up Mt Victoria yesterday, I've been locked up in the washhouse all day getting on with things. I've got many things to get on with - reading more stories for the anthology I'm editing; working on a story of my own that refuses, as ever, to finish itself; and doing some re-writes on another big project about which I must be vague and mysterious. Work on all of the above is going well. I wish I had another week here...."