Dunedin Writers' Workshop - Guest Speaker Octavia Cade (2025 Robert Burns Fellow)

Bio: Octavia Cade is currently the Robert Burns Fellow at the University of Otago. She’s a speculative fiction writer and academic, and her creative work is mostly near-future science or climate fiction. She attended the Clarion West Writers Workshop, has held several other residencies – including the Ursula Bethell at Canterbury – and has received a Creative New Zealand Arts Grant. Octavia will be spending 2026 in Berlin as the CNZ writer in residence there.

Note: The full meeting begins at 5:30 pm with a cuppa. Octavia’s presentation runs from 6:00–7:00 pm, followed by DWW business matters. The meeting will conclude at 7:45 pm.