Memoir magic
Love, Loss and Lifelines: My Year of Grief on the Run is my friend Dawn Picken’s recently released memoir of…
Trigger warnings
I think the article below is super interesting. The list this writer created made me question my biases and look…
Hysterical
Went to an amazing poetry show at the Herald Theatre in Auckland recently. Performed by Carrie Rudzinski and Olivia Hall,…
Escape Festival – Mohamed Hassan
Mohamed Hassan wrote the book ‘How to be a bad Muslim’, a selection of essays about being a Muslim New…
To prologue or not to prologue
Do you skip reading the prologue? I sincerely want to know. I’ve always been a huge fan of reading a…
Libraries got me thinking
Remember going to the library as a kid? My mother used to take us to the local library every couple…
Workshop with Silkpunk author Ken Liu
Last weekend I was one of twenty-something people to hang with multi-award winning epic fantasy author and creator of the…
Super scribe Deryn Pittar in new story collection
Sir Julius Vogel winner, young adult fantasy and romance writer, short story extraordinaire and flash fiction fanatic. Deryn Pittar is…
Aftermath – stories of survival in a future NZ
Am so excited to have a story accepted into the SpecFic NZ anthology ‘Aftermath’. Such a great collection of fiction…
Planning Shlanning and other things I said before writing a book series…
We’ve all got our routines. Breakfast routine, exercise routine, maybe even a pre-dinner gin and tonic routine. Especially in these…