Photo: Ebony Lamb

Lawrence Patchett is a Pākehā writer of fiction. His ancestors come from the Shetland Islands, Scotland, England, and Ireland. Raised near the Waikirikiri/ Selwyn River in Canterbury, he’s currently one of the Ursula Bethell Writers in Residence at Te Whare Wānanga o Waitaha/ the University of Canterbury.

His fiction has been recognised with the NZSA Hubert Church Award for Best First Book of Fiction, and in the Long and the Short of It Short Story Competition. His work has also appeared in Sport, Overland, Landfall, Dominion Post, Hue & Cry, and on Radio New Zealand National.

He has a PhD in Creative Writing from Victoria University, and is a keen but very gradual learner of te reo Māori, currently studying towards Te Aupikitanga ki te Reo Kairangi at Te Wānanga o Aotearoa.

Check out the occasional blog on books, writing, and author interviews, ‘Three Things’, on this website.

EVENTS

Q & A with Lawrence Patchett - Ursula Bethell Writer in Residence
Tuesday, 15 October 2019, 12noon
​Level 2, Puaka James Hight Library, (meet behind the Information Desk)
​Te Whare Wānanga o Waitaha/University of Canterbury

​Book Launch - The Burning River
To be launched by Lynn Jenner
Thursday, 17 October 2019, 6pm
​Unity Books, Wellington

Verb Wellington
Lie Down & Listen
​Jess Richards, Craig Cliff, and Lawrence Patchett
​Saturday, 9 November 2019, 8:30-9:15pm
​The Design Library, 21 Marion Street
Wellington

Climate Changing Fiction
Jeff Murray, Elizabeth Knox, Maru Nihoniho, Lawrence Patchett
​Chair: Helen Lehndorf
​Sunday, November 10 2019, 2-3pm
Te Auaha, Tapere Iti, 65 Dixon Street
​Wellington