Katherine Mansfield Menton Fellowship

For over fifty years, since 1970, the Fellowship has allowed a New Zealand writer to live and write for three months or more in Menton in southern France. There, they have access to the writing room in Villa Isola Bella where Katherine Mansfield once lived and worked.

Sue Wootton was awarded the Fellowship in 2019 and was set to travel to Menton in 2020 when the Covid-19 pandemic put a significant hold on that plan.

Sue finally arrived in Menton in early September 2023 and was based there for the remainder of the year.