James Norcliffe has published nine collections of poetry, most recently Dark Days at the Oxygen Café. He is the award-winning writer of 11 novels for for children and young people, including the YA fantasy The Loblolly Boy, which made the USSBY list of best foreign children’s books published in the USA. He has a long-time association with Takahē magazine and the Canterbury Poets’ Collective, and is an editor for the online journal Flash Frontier. He has edited anthologies of poetry and the annual ReDraft anthologies of writing by young people, and as co-edited major poetry and short fiction anthologies, most recently Bonsai (with Michelle Elvy & Frankie McMillan). He has been awarded the Burns Fellowship, the Iowa International Writers Programme residency, the University of Otago College of Education Creative New Zealand Fellowship for Children’s Writing, and most recently the Randell Cottage Residency n Wellington. With Bernadette Hall, he was presented with a Press Literary Liaisons Honour Award for lasting contribution to literature in the South Island.
"His poems invariably get us to attend more closely to the spirit of existence, to moments of being." -- David Eggleton
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