Kirsty Powell

Kirsty Powell was raised east of Eketahuna in a rural community.  She likes to write real New Zealand characters into her fiction, poems and short stories.  She has a Masters of Creative Writing (AUT) and has published in Fresh Ink Anthologies 2017 and 2019.  Her debut novel "The Strength of Eggshells" was released in October 2019 by Cloud Ink Press.  She is currently working on a sequel novel and a chapter book for children.  She also enjoys planting trees, saving the world from marine plastic one bottle at a time and dreams of travelling the world by bicycle or motorbike blogging her impressions on instagram k_j_powell.

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Auckland

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Pukekohe

Publications:

Fresh Ink - A Collection of Voices from Aotearoa New Zealand 2017

Short Story - The Space Between Extra and Ordinary

Fresh Ink - A Collection of Voices from Aotearoa New Zealand 2019

Poem - Savasana

The Strength of Eggshells

Contemporary New Zealand fiction with a part historical setting that follows three generations of rural women. Kate rides a motorbike to find her past. Why did her mother Jane only communicate through poetry? What became of her grandmother Meredith who traveled up the Whanganui River on a paddle steamer to marry a returned soldier in an ill-fated valley, beyond the Bridge to Nowhere? The Strength of Eggshells explores the lives of strong rural New Zealanders, set against the fragile isolation of a farm upbringing, two world wars and a landscape that is inevitably slipping beyond reach.