The Emerging Pasifika Writer's Residency was established in 2019 by Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, with the support of Creative New Zealand. 

The Residency is unique in offering the chance to work within an established community of writers at the University's International Institute of Modern Letters (IIML), with a mentor from the Pasifika arts community.

It is open to Pasifika writers in all areas of literary activity, including drama, fiction and poetry (page and performance), devised performance, creative non-fiction, literary translation, and graphic novels.

Aqua Nullius (FKA Ancestor Incarnate) is an intercultural Melafuturist theatrical work, written by Emele Ugavule, and the third play in the Aqua Nullius universe. It unpacks the relationship between native title cases against the British Crown, Food Sovereignty & Climate Change in Australia and the pressure points these challenges create for First Nations & Melanesian relations.