Writer's residency to tell the story of Berlin's alligator

By Creative NZ | Posted: Tuesday Jul 22, 2025

Congratulations Octavia 🤩🐊

2025 Robert Burns Fellow, Octavia Cade is the recipient of the 2026 Berlin Writer’s Residency. She’ll have a year in the city to work on a novel about Saturn, an alligator who really did escape from the Berlin Zoo after it was bombed in WWII.