Adrienne Jansen is a New Zealand creative writing teacher, editor and a writer of fiction, non-fiction and poetry.
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Adrienne Jansen has worked closely with immigrants, and her writing often relates to the migrant experience.
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Adrienne Jansen worked as a writer at the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa for 11 years.
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Adrienne Jansen was heavily involved in refugee resettlement and teaching ESOL.
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Adrienne Jansen has frequently worked alongside migrants to help them tell their stories.
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Adrienne Jansen's 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 and Best New Zealand Poems.
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Adrienne Jansen's stories have been highly commended in the Commonwealth Short Story Competition and shortlisted for the BNZ Literary Awards.
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Adrienne Jansen worked with Guy Jansen in the last years of his life on his book Sing New Zealand: the story of choral music in Aotearoa.
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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.
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Adrienne Jansen founded the Creative Writing Programme at Whitireia Polytechnic in 1993.
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Adrienne Jansen 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.
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Adrienne Jansen 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.
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Adrienne Jansen has appeared at numerous author talks and writing festivals.
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Adrienne Jansen has run creative writing workshops for Maori writers, Pasifika writers and in Vanuatu and Indonesia.