Anne Cleary Anne Cleary was born and raised in West Auckland and moved to Tauranga in 2016. Her short stories have won places in competitions and feature in magazines and anthologies in Aotearoa and Australia. She takes creative writing worshops and co-organises Tauranga Writers' monthly event, Writers on Writing. The Nowhere Boy is Anne's debut novel and the winner of the Allen & Unwin Fiction Prize 2025. Read More Read Less