New Zealand Writers

DAVIDSON, Lynn

‘Highly readable, unpretentious yet substantial.’ - Sunday Star Times

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DAVIDSON, Lynn (1959- ) is a poet and fiction writer.

Lynn Davidson was born and educated in Wellington. A graduate of Bill Manhire’s creative writing course at Victoria University of Wellington, she is the author of a collection of poetry, Mary Shelly’s Window (1999) and a novel Ghost Net (2003).

In the Otago Daily Times Juliette Sandall writes of Ghost Net ‘what is rare is that there is no sense of labour in this novel. It has a gentleness, a lightness which speak of a depth in the writer that is unusual in a first novel.’ Susan Robinson in the Sunday Star Times writes that Ghost Net is ‘highly readable, unpretentious yet substantial.’

Davidson’s poetry and short fiction have appeared in Landfall, Sport, Poetry NZ and the NZ Listener, her poetry has also appeared in Traffic Report, a US literary journal. Her short fiction has been produced for National Radio and Concert FM.

Davidson has been a recipient of an NZSA-Readers Digest Writing Fellowship. In 1994 she won the Aoraki National Short Story competition. In 1989 and 1993 she was awarded Queen Elizabeth II Arts Council incentive grants. In 1992 Davidson held a Fellowship at the Stout Research Centre at Victoria University of Wellington.

Lynn Davidson is a tutor on the Creative Writing Programme at Whitireia Polytechnic, www.whitireia.ac.nz. Lynn tutors short fiction and poetry both online and in the classroom. She lives in Wellington.

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Lynn Davidson was the 2003 recipient of the $18,000 Louis Johnson New Writers' Bursary from Creative New Zealand.

Tender (2006), was published by Steele Roberts Publishers.

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Davidson is happy to visit any age group of students. She is also pretty flexible in terms of travel and visits outside of Wellington. Davidson is willing to discuss writing, creativity, and writing books in particular.