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      • Ngā Kete Mātauranga
      • Gala Showcase – What Does the Future Hold?
      • Workshop: Self Starters - SOLD OUT
      • Guiding Lights - CANCELLED
      • Crossing Genres
      • Crossing Boundaries – Form & Content in Poetry & Storytelling
      • Escaping the Humdrum
      • Workshop: Lusting for Words – Writing Romance SOLD OUT
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      • At the Drop of a Hat
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      • Love in the Time of Covid – A Chronicle of a Pandemic
      • Workshop: Seeds of Poetry SOLD OUT
      • Magical Rights
      • A New Plaque: Essie Summers
      • Things OK with You?
      • The Language of Flowers
      • Drawing the World
      • NZ Crime – What's Going On?
      • The Books that Made Me
      • Rivers, Riptides & Roads
      • Walking the Heartland
      • Writing Romance in the 21st Century
      • The Wilder Years: Selected Poems
      • Rocketing to Fame
      • Story Time Double Decker Bus
      • The Historical Novel: Germany
      • Mapping Dunedin's Stories
      • A Posse of Poets
      • Decolonisation – Activating Allies
      • Writing for Children
      • Politics of Poetry
      • Girl in the Mirror
      • Placing Fantasy Inside the Real World
    • Guest Bios >
      • Amanda Thomas
      • Angela Wanhalla
      • Annabel Wilson
      • Becky Manawatu
      • Bridget Schaumann
      • Bronwyn Wylie-Gibb
      • Bruce Ansley
      • Catherine Chidgey
      • David Ciccoricco
      • David Eggleton
      • David Elliot
      • Derek Morrison
      • Diane Brown
      • Dougal Rillstone
      • Elizabeth Knox
      • Emma Neale
      • Emma Wood
      • Fiona Farrell
      • Frank Gordon
      • Gareth Ward
      • HG Parry
      • Jacinta Ruru
      • Jared Savage
      • Jasmine OM Taylor
      • Jayne Castel
      • Jessica Thompson Carr
      • Jillian Sullivan
      • Kaitrin McMullan
      • Kathryn van Beek
      • Kirby-Jane Hallum
      • Kyle Mewburn
      • Laura Williamson
      • Liz Breslin
      • Lynn Freeman
      • Majella Cullinane
      • Marcelle Nader-Turner
      • Te Kai a te Rangatira
      • Melissa Boardman
      • Michelle Elvy
      • Mihiata Pirini
      • Nalini Singh
      • Nicola Cummins
      • Phillippa Duffy
      • Rebecca Kiddle
      • Rhian Gallagher
      • Rob Kidd
      • Robyn Belton
      • Roger Hickin
      • Rose Carlyle
      • Sally Peart
      • Shona Riddell
      • Steff Green
      • Steve Braunias
      • Susan Sims
      • Swapna Haddow
      • Vanda Symon
      • Victor Billot
      • Vincent O'Sullivan
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Rose Carlyle 

Rose Carlyle is an author and keen adventurer. Her debut novel, The Girl in the Mirror, was an instant number one bestseller in New Zealand and has also been published in Australia, the US and Canada. It will be published in the UK and in seven languages in 2021, and the screen rights have been sold to Hollywood.

Rose is an alumna of the University of Otago, where she graduated with a Bachelor of Laws with First Class Honours in 1995. She also received a Master’s in Creative Writing with First Class Honours from the University of Auckland in 2017. Rose has practised law as a barrister and has taught the professional legal studies course. She has crewed on scientific yachting expeditions to subantarctic islands and lived aboard her own yacht in the Indian Ocean for a year, sailing it from Thailand to South Africa via the Seychelles.
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Rose was a Michael King Writer in Residence in 2020. She lives in Auckland with her three children and is working on her second novel.


Rose Carlyle at DWRF 2021:
The Books that Made Me 
Girl in the Mirror 
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Photo credit: Jane Ussher

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