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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 Tutor forThe Writers' Marketing and Publishing Toolkit

Tania Hutley

Award-winning novelist Tania Hutley tutors the Write a Novel Course and the Write a Romance Novel Course.

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Catherine Chidgey

Award-winning novelist Catherine Chidgey tutors the Write a Novel Course.

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Ewan McDonald

Ewan McDonald tutors the Travel Writing Course, the Freelance Journalism Course and the Advanced Journalism Course.

Nadine von Moltke-Todd, award-winning business writer and tutor at NZ Writers' College

Nadine von Moltke-Todd

Nadine von Moltke-Todd tutors the Business Writing Toolkit

Creative Writing Course tutor at NZ Writers College Andrew Salomon

Andrew Salomon

Award-winning novelist Andrew Salomon tutors several of our fiction writing courses.

Edwin McRae

Edwin McRae tutors the Writing for Video Games Course

Advanced Poetry Course Tutor Arja Salafranca at The Writers College

Arja Salafranca

Award-winning poet Arja Salafranca tutors the Introduction to Poetry Course.

Andrew Murton. Tutor for the English Grammar for Beginners Course

Andrew Murton

Andrew tutors the English Grammar for Beginners Course.

Helen brain creative writing tutor at The Writers College

Helen Brain

Award-winning author Helen Brain tutors several of our Creative Writing Courses.

Alex smith creative writing tutor at the writers college


Alex Smith

Award-winning novelist Alex Smith tutors the Short Story Writing Course and the Write Your Memoir Course.

Copyediting and proofreading course at the Writers College Di Smith tutor

Di Smith

Di Smith tutors the Copy-editing and Proofreading course.

Press Release and Media Writing Course tutor Fiona Walsh

Fiona Walsh

Fiona Walsh tutors the Press Release and Media Writing Course.

Darren Meltz, award-winning copywriter and tutor at NZ Writers' College

Darren Meltz

Award-winning copywriter Darren Meltz tutors the Copywriting Course.

Bestselling NZ author of 35 books for adults and children Justin Brown Author

Justin Brown

Award-winning author Justin Brown tutors our Non-fiction Book Course

Lorraine Forrest-Turner tutor for SEO Web Copy

Lorraine Forrest-Turner

Lorraine Forrest-Turner tutors the Writing SEO Copy for Websites Course

Jana du Plessis Müller, award-winning copywriter and tutor at NZ Writers' College

Jana du Plessis Müller

Award-winning copywriter Jana du Plessis Müller tutors the Copywriting Course.

Creative writing tutor at the Writers College, Sonny Whitelaw

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.

Karen Jeynes scriptwriting tutor at The Writers college

Karen Jeynes

Award-winning playwright Karen Jeynes tutors the Scriptwriting and Advanced Scriptwriting Courses.

Our Refund Policy

If within seven days of starting your course you are not happy on your course, we can either transfer you to a different course or provide a full refund.

If you request a refund after seven days and before 30 days we will charge a 5% administrative fee, as well as any bank fees and tutor fees already incurred.

We do not offer a refund after 30 days on the course.