The ANZL is a community of writers from New Zealand – authors of fiction, poetry and creative nonfiction.
On our site you’ll find current biographical information for over 100 writers – our ANZL Members – and a range of in-depth features about the diverse strands of contemporary New Zealand literature, as well as extended interviews, reports and a monthly conversation/ kōrero that crosses oceans.
Our group of ANZL Fellows are represented by an appreciation by another writer – and we’ll be adding comprehensive bibliographic information for them very soon.
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In conversation with Adam Dudding - 25 March, 2016
Patricia Grace talks to Adam Dudding about finding her voice, learning to love research, and why character is at the heart of everything she writes.
‘I’d always been interested in writing without really knowing what real invented writing was’.
‘I want the novel to be a reflection of the human mind.’ – C K Stead
David Howard learns how to appear in Ulyanovsk, City of Literature.
Thom Conroy asks: is historical fiction New Zealand’s defining genre?
Elspeth Sandys illuminates the life of an extraordinary New Zealander.
Writers' Round Table: the fiction finalists at the Ockham NZ Book Awards discuss influences, indignation, politics and passions.
An excerpt from the novel shortlisted for this year’s Acorn Foundation Fiction Prize at the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards.
An excerpt from the memoir shortlisted for this year’s Royal Society Te Apārangi Award for General Non Fiction at the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards.
Go dark or go home: Tracey Slaughter and Sarah Strickley dive deep.
'There’s a kind of heaven that comes from hearing another writer interpret the mysteries of process' - Tracey Slaughter
