Carl Nixon
Carl lives in Christchurch, New Zealand where he was born in 1967. He lives with his wife and two young children. He has a Masters in Religious Studies from the University of Canterbury. He is a professional full-time writer of plays, short stories and novels.
Carl has twice won the Sunday Star Times Short Story Contest (1997, 1999) and won the Katherine Mansfield Short Story Contest in 2007. His collection of short stories, Fish “n’ Chip Shop Song was published by Random House, and immediately went to number one on the NZ best selling fiction list. His stories have appeared in numerous anthologies, and over a dozen have been broadcast by Radio New Zealand.
Carl was the 2007 Ursula Bethell / Creative New Zealand Writer-in-Residence at Canterbury University, where he completed a novel, Rocking Horse Road.
His recent theatrical scripts include: an adaptation of Booker shortlisted novelist Lloyd Jones’ novel The Book of Fame, and an adaptation of Nobel Prize winner J M Coetzee’s novel Disgrace for Auckland Theatre Company. His plays The Raft and The Birthday Boy premiered at the Court Theatre in 2007 and 2008 respectively.
Carl is currently is working on his second novel, Settlers’ Creek.