The Caselberg Trust and UNESCO City of Literature Dunedin, New Zealand are pleased to announce that the Caselberg Trust Margaret Egan Cities of Literature writers resident for 2024 will be poet Alison Glenny. Alison was selected by the judges from a strong field, and will be welcomed to the Caselberg House in Whakaohorahi/Broad Bay from the start of November till mid-December this year.

Alison Glenny was born in Ōtautahi/Christchurch, and lived in the UK and Australia before returning to Aotearoa, where she lives on the Kāpiti Coast. Her Antarctic-themed collection of prose poems and fragments The Farewell Tourist was awarded the Kathleen Grattan prize for a collection of poetry and was published by Otago University Press in 2018. A second collection, Bird Collector, was published by Compound Press in 2021. A third collection is forthcoming in 2024, also with Compound Press, and her work has been widely published in journals and anthologies.

The Caselberg Trust Margaret Egan Cities of Literature Writers Residency is run jointly and collaboratively by the Caselberg Trust and City of Literature Dunedin, New Zealand. Funding from the Caselberg Trust is provided through a generous bequest by the late Margaret Egan.

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