‘I’ve always been the pain in the ass who wanted to row her own waka in her own way.’

John McCrystal on the imaginative life and legacy of Maurice Gee

Paula Morris takes notes and makes disclosures.

‘Powerful and exciting and real’

Who’s in – and how you can read extracts

Writers on the books that shaped their year.

A tribute by Sarah Quigley

Philip Temple on the complex legacy of Maurice Shadbolt

Other writers talk about their favourite work by the late ANZL Fellow

Selina Tusitala Marsh farewells Caroline Sinavaiana-Gabbard

by Paula Morris

‘I was compelled to write’

David Geary and Alice Te Punga Somerville on the ‘Long-Distance Māori writer’

Emma Neale on Landfall’s Strong Words #3 and thinking aloud about New Zealand culture.

Pip Adam on not liking theatre, scrutinising comedy and questioning realism.

Gina Cole on writing Pasifikafuturism and discovering a ‘galaxy of islands’

Catherine Robertson on commercial fiction.

‘I heard a lot about this story from Frank Sargeson’

Paula Morris asks the writing mentors of the new Aotearoa NZ Review of Books what they really, really want.

Tusiata Avia and the Pasifika Festival take centre stage.

‘Outside Person’: Four writers navigate Japan

‘My father would be so disappointed in me.’ Rachael King, Paula Morris, Sarah Shieff and Philip Temple on NZ literary legacies.

‘In rude health’: Stephanie Johnson on NZ writing, publishing, and genres that refuse to die.

‘I’m sceptical about any group who want others to regard them as special.’

Go dark or go home: Tracey Slaughter and Sarah Strickley dive deep.