Meet Our Tutors
We are extremely proud of our tutoring team at NZ Writers College.
Our writing tutors are full-time, professional writers who have won many writing awards, including Qantas Awards, Commonwealth Writers’ Prizes, Montana New Zealand Book Awards, the Reed Fiction Award, Philip K Dick Memorial Award and the Arthur C Clarke Award.
They are passionate about writing and, at the same time, are warm, supportive teachers with years of understanding and experience in assessing writing.
Tania Hutley
Award-winning novelist Tania Hutley tutors the Write a Novel Course and the Write a Romance Novel Course.
Sarah Lang
Sarah Lang tutors the Freelance Journalism Course
Ewan McDonald
Ewan McDonald tutors the Travel Writing Course, the Freelance Journalism Course and the Advanced Journalism Course.
Andrew Salomon
Award-winning novelist Andrew Salomon tutors several of our fiction writing courses.
Nadine von Moltke-Todd
Nadine von Moltke-Todd tutors the Business Writing Toolkit
Paul Dunn
Paul Dunn tutors the Writing for Video Games Course
Arja Salafranca
Award-winning poet Arja Salafranca tutors the Introduction to Poetry Course.
Marian Michaux
Marian Michaux tutors the Grammar Skills Course.
Helen Brain
Award-winning author Helen Brain tutors several of our Creative Writing Courses.
Alex Smith
Award-winning novelist Alex Smith tutors the Write a Novel and Literary Short Story Course.
Di Smith
Di Smith tutors the Copy-editing and Proofreading course.
Donna Dailey
The award-winning writer Donna Dailey tutors the Freelance Journalism for Magazines and Webzines Course and the Travel Writing Course.
Susan Williams
Susan Williams tutors several of the Business Writing Courses.
Amy Tjasink
Award-winning copywriter Amy Tjasink tutors the Copywriting Course.
Fiona Walsh
Fiona Walsh tutors the e Press Release and Media Writing Course.
Rosemary Hepözden
Auckland-based Rosemary Hepözden tutors the English Grammar for Writers course and the Copy-editing and Proofreading course.
Sonny Whitelaw
Award-winning author Sonny Whitelaw tutors the Write a Novel Course, the Literary Short and Flash Fiction Course, and the Writing Science Fiction and Fantasy Course.
Lorraine Forrest-Turner
Lorraine Forrest-Turner tutors the Writing SEO Copy for Websites Course
Jana du Plessis Müller
Award-winning copywriter Jana du Plessis Müller tutors the Copywriting Course.