The fellowship, offered for the first time in 2003, was renamed in recognition of the late Dr Michael King for his contribution to literature and his advocacy for a major fellowship for New Zealand writers. The fellowship enables established New Zealand writers, with a significant publication record, to work on a major project which will take two years or more to complete.
Previous recipients include:
- Dr Danny Keenan (2023) - towards a study of Māori responses to three pandemics, grounded in customary frameworks
- Dr Monty Soutar (2021) - towards the completion of Kāwai - a saga from the uttermost end of the Earth, a trilogy of historical novels that address the impact of colonisation in Aotearoa, each told from a Māori perspective
- Mere Whaanga (2019) - to complete a book that draws together all aspects of applying rongoā to healing land and people
- Dr Philip Norman (2017) - (now awarded every two years)
- Dr Martin Edmond (2015)
- Elizabeth Knox (2014)
- Fiona Farrell (2013)
- Dr Peter Simpson (2012)
- Peter Wells (2011)
- Kate De Goldi (2010)
- Philip Simpson (2009)
- Dame Fiona Kidman (2008)
- Neville Peat (2007)
- Rachel Barrowman (2006)
- C K Stead (2005)
- Vincent O’Sullivan (2004)
- Owen Marshall (2003)
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