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Sonya Wilson

Sonya Wilson is a broadcaster, writer and freelance journalist. She has a BA in Broadcasting Communications and a Masters Degree in Creative Writing from the University of Auckland. She is the author of Spark Hunter, an adventure-fantasy novel for middle-grade readers and is also the founder and executive director of the children’s book charity Kiwi Christmas Books.

The Secret Green MCW Books

The Secret Green

Winner of Storylines Notable Book Awards 2025 - Junior Fiction List. Almost a year has passed since Nissa Marshall was found alive after miraculously surviving a month lost in the vast, dense, isolated wilds of Te Rua-o-te-Moko Fiordland, but her heart still remains there. When one connection to her former…
Sonya Wilson
December 20, 2025
Spark Hunter MCW Books

Spark Hunter

Winner of the NZSA Best First Book Award 2022 NZ Book Awards for Children and Young Adults and the Storylines Notable Book Award 2022. Shortlisted for the Esther Glen Junior Fiction prize. Over a million hectares of wild bush-clad land and one young hunter ... Nissa Marshall knows that something…
Sonya Wilson
May 10, 2024
Auckland Shorts © Angelique Kasmara2019 SpringT3SHORTS

Auckland Shorts

GREEN The lichen clinging to Dominion Road's footpath has a colour that I cannot name. It is pale anaemic blood splatter, little patches of not-quite life that are not-quite green, the almost-colour of an almost-plant. KFC glows red on one corner, golden arches glare at me from another, and I…
Sonya Wilson
December 15, 2019