Adrienne Jansen Explained

Adrienne Jansen
Birth Date:1947
Birth Place:Wellington
Occupation:Writer
Nationality:New Zealand

Adrienne Jansen is a New Zealand creative writing teacher, editor and a writer of fiction, non-fiction and poetry. She has worked closely with immigrants, and her writing often relates to the migrant experience.

Biography

Adrienne Jansen was born in Wellington in 1947.[1] [2]

She worked as a writer at the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa for 11 years. She was also heavily involved in refugee resettlement and teaching ESOL (English for speakers of other languages).[3] In the 1980s, she helped set up the Porirua Language Project (now part of English Language Partners).[4] [5] [6] This background and her years of experience of living and working among immigrants is reflected in her writing (both fiction and non-fiction), which often focuses on the migrant experience.[7] She has frequently worked alongside migrants to help them tell their stories.[8]

Her published work includes fiction and non-fiction for adults and children, collections of poetry, short stories broadcast on radio and poems and stories in anthologies such as 4th Floor[9] and Best New Zealand Poems.[10] Her stories have been highly commended in the Commonwealth Short Story Competition (“War”, 2002) and shortlisted for the BNZ Literary Awards. She worked with Guy Jansen in the last years of his life on his book Sing New Zealand: the story of choral music in Aotearoa.[11]

In 1990, Jansen was a Winston Churchill Fellow, travelling to Canada and the United Kingdom to look at access to education for disadvantaged groups in those countries. She founded the Creative Writing Programme at Whitireia Polytechnic in 1993. This was the first full-year, full-time writing course in New Zealand, and it was designed by Jansen to be accessible to all and to encourage diversity and inclusiveness.[12] She was coordinator of the programme until 1999 and taught fiction and editing as well as writing several online courses until most of the programme was disestablished in 2019.[13] [14] She was co-founder of Whitireia Creative Writing Programme's Escalator Press in 2013 and her novel The Score was the first book to be published by this new imprint. In 2016, she helped set up Landing Press.[15]

Jansen has appeared at numerous author talks[16] and writing festivals.[17] She has also run creative writing workshops for Māori writers (with Huia Publishers), Pasifika writers (with Creative New Zealand) and in Vanuatu and Indonesia.

Her manuscript "Light Keeping" was shortlisted for the 2021 Michael Gifkins Prize.[18]

She lives in Titahi Bay, Porirua.

Bibliography

Non-fiction
Children’s non-fiction
Novels
Poetry
As editor

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Jansen, Adrienne. 15 December 2018. Read NZ Te Pou Muramura. 8 December 2019.
  2. Web site: The Monday excerpt: the taxi driver who survived the Khmer Rouge. 30 May 2016. The Spinoff. 8 December 2019.
  3. Web site: 'We're thinking a lot about refugees these days': the story of the famous writer who arrived in New Zealand as a refugee and a nobody. Jansen. Adrienne. 31 January 2017. The Spinoff. 8 December 2019.
  4. Web site: Scoring a novel with a difference. Carlisle. Talia. 20 September 2013. Stuff. 8 December 2019.
  5. Web site: Connection: The Arts Communications Hui. The Dowse Art Museum. 8 December 2019.
  6. Web site: Adrienne Jansen: A Change of Key. 18 September 2018. RNZ. 8 December 2019.
  7. Web site: Saneha and me: Losing and finding. Jansen. Adrienne. 4th Floor 2016. 8 December 2019.
  8. Web site: Adrienne Jansen. Verb Wellington. 8 December 2019.
  9. Web site: Adrienne Jansen. 4th Floor 2016. 8 December 2019.
  10. Web site: A woman is kneeling in a stream. Jansen. Adrienne. Best New Zealand Poems 2016. 8 December 2019.
  11. Web site: 10 Questions with Adrienne Jansen. 7 August 2019. Massey University Press. 8 December 2019.
  12. Jansen. Adrienne. Winter 2017. Why Inclusiveness counts. New Zealand Author. Issue 309. 24–26.
  13. Web site: Whitireia documents show enrolments close for 64 courses. Iles. Julie. 30 July 2019. Stuff. 8 December 2019.
  14. Jansen. Adrienne. Spring 2019. Does it Matter?. New Zealand Author. Issue 318. 10–13.
  15. Web site: About Us. Landing Press. 8 December 2019.
  16. Web site: Author talk: meet Adrienne Jansen. 14 March 2014. Wellington City Libraries Te Matapihi ki te Ao Nui. 8 December 2019.
  17. Web site: Adrienne Jansen. 18 July 2018. Manawatu Writers Festival. 8 December 2019.
  18. Web site: 2020-06-16. Michael Gifkins Prize 2021 shortlist announced. live. 2021-06-16. Books+Publishing. en-AU. https://web.archive.org/web/20210616012731/https://www.booksandpublishing.com.au/articles/2021/06/16/188027/michael-gifkins-prize-2021-shortlist-announced/ . 2021-06-16 .
  19. Web site: I Have in My Arms Both Ways: Migrant Women Talk about their Lives. Bridget Williams Books. 8 December 2019.
  20. Web site: A look at the Indian Muslim community in inner city. 27 July 2015. The Star Online. 8 December 2019.
  21. Web site: Adrienne Jansen and Helmi Al Khattat - Stories from the Taxi. 29 November 2015. RNZ. 8 December 2019.
  22. Web site: LIANZA Elsie Locke Non-Fiction Award. Christchurch City Libraries. 8 December 2019.
  23. Web site: Book Review: A Change of Key, by Adrienne Jansen. Geddis. Penny M.. 22 November 2018. The Reader: The Booksellers New Zealand Blog. 8 December 2019.
  24. News: NZ Books Review - "Keel & Drift" by Adrienne Jansen. Ricketts. Harry. 21 December 2016. RNZ. 8 December 2019.
  25. Web site: 2 poems and a conversation – All of Us by Adrienne Jansen and carina gallegos. Green. Paula. 13 November 2018. NZ Poetry Shelf. 8 December 2019.
  26. Web site: Poetry Box audio spot: Adrienne Jansen's wonderful 'Next year'. Green. Paula. 8 August 2018. Poetry Box. 8 December 2019.
  27. Web site: Book Review: The Curioseum: Collected stories of the odd & marvellous. Forster. Sarah. 26 March 2014. The Reader: the Booksellers New Zealand Blog. 8 December 2019.
  28. Web site: PANZ Book Design Awards 2015 Shortlist. Book Design Awards. 8 April 2015 . 8 December 2019.
  29. Web site: ELP Porirua poems feature in 'More of us'. 8 April 2019. English Language Partners New Zealand. 8 December 2019.

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