Carolyn Gillum is a writer from Waiheke Island. She was awarded the 2016 Winston Churchill McNeish Writer's Fellowship to travel to Norway to write her first novel. The opening chapters of this work were shortlisted for the 2015 Flash500 Novel Competition, and longlisted for the 2016 Bath Novel Award. Her flash fiction has also been longlisted for the 2016 Fish Flash Fiction Contest and Flash500 Competition.