Dunedin writer, Wilma McKay worked throughout the South Island of New Zealand as a journalist from 1987 and has produced thousands of stories in communities across the South Island of New Zealand. She has also written for international mastheads, including a front page expose on the Christchurch Mosque shooter for The Washington Post with a team of freelancers in March 2019. Wilma published children's book SHARKIE SMARTIE about a precocious yellow eyed penguin with Dunedin artist and illustrator Pauline Bellamy in 2016 and her Space Tinker published in a local anthology. Since 2017 Wilma has researched and written her first novel - a young adult dystopian adventure based in future New Zealand which is in its final stages in 2025. 

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