Dunedin writer, Wilma McKay worked throughout the South Island of New Zealand as a journalist from 1987 covering a wide range of news  from Health, Education, to Politics and People. She rarely covers news now but did take up an offer from The Washington Post to freelance  with a team of international writers on a comprehensive profile of the Christchurch Mosque shooter, which ran on the Post's front page in March 2019. For the past three years, Wilma has been in fiction writing classes at Creative Writing Dunedin which have inspired her to turn to fiction writing and poetry which she loved as a child and young adult before entering the very different world of news writing. She has so far had local success with children's book titled SHARKIE SMARTIE which she wrote with Dunedin artist Pauline Bellamy. The story  focuses on the plight of the endangered NZ Yellow Eyed Penguin.  Wilma has also had one of her sci fi short stories Space Tinker published in a local anthology. She is now working with editor Linda Cassels to rewrite a finished draft of a debut novel - a young adult epic based in future New Zealand.     

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