Janice Marriott
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Janice Marriott | |
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| Born | 3 October 1946 |
| Occupation | Writer |
| Nationality | New Zealand |
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| janicemarriott | |
Janice Marriott is a writer, editor, audio producer, screenwriter, creative writing tutor and mentor, manuscript assessor, poet and gardener. Several of her books have been shortlisted for or won awards and she has also been the recipient of a number of writing residencies, as well as the prestigious Margaret Mahy Medal in 2018. She lives in Auckland, New Zealand.
Janice Marriott was born on 3 October 1946 in England.[1] She lists some of her favourite childhood books as The Wind in the Willows, The Jungle Book, Black Beauty, Lassie, and Enid Blyton's Secret Seven and Famous Five series.[2]
She attended school in Napier and Gisborne, studied at Victoria University of Wellington and took a course in rare books librarianship in San Francisco. She worked in radio and television in California and Vancouver. Later she graduated from the Wellington College of Education. In 1983, she left teaching and began work producing audio books for Learning Media.[3]
Since the publication of her first children's book in 1989,[4] she has written fiction and non-fiction for children and young adults, radio plays, documentaries and scripts for episodes of the TV series The WotWots.[5] Her work includes many educational texts for various publishers as well as stories and articles in magazines and anthologies.[3]
More recently, she shifted from Wellington to Auckland to be closer to her family and to spend more time with her grandson.[2]
She is a tutor for the New Zealand Institute of Business Studies (NZIBS) in the Writing Stories for Children and Poetry courses[6][7] and a member of the New Zealand Association of Manuscript Assessors(NZAMA).[8] She tutors beginning writers through her online courses Go Write Now[9] and writes poetry on her poetry blog.
