Academy of New Zealand Literature

'There’s a kind of heaven that comes from hearing another writer interpret the mysteries of process' - Tracey Slaughter

'I want you to think about what you would like to see at the heart of your national literature ' - Tina Makereti

'There’s a kind of heaven that comes from hearing another writer interpret the mysteries of process' - Tracey Slaughter

'Does historical fiction allow an escape from reality or promote a confrontation with it?' - Thom Conroy

'My readers turn up...and I meet them as human beings, not sales statistics on a royalty statement.' Fleur Adcock

'...poetry makes intimate everything that it touches.' - Michael Harlow

'Character to some extent is much a construction of the reader as it is of the writer.' - Lloyd Jones

'I want you to think about what you would like to see at the heart of your national literature ' - Tina Makereti

'I want you to think about what you would like to see at the heart of your national literature ' - Tina Makereti

'The thirty-five of us were in the country of dream-merchants, and strange things were bound to happen.' - Anne Kennedy