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For the week ending 28 November 2021
29/11/2021
for the week ending 28 November
Features and Interviews
Fiction Writers’ Round Table 2021
'NZ literature is such a vast and varied thing' : the Ockhams 2021 Fiction Round Table.
03/05/2021
‘NZ literature is such a vast and varied thing’ : the Ockhams 2021 Fiction Round Table.
Ockham NZ Book Awards Finalists
Who’s in - and how you can read extracts.
22/03/2021
Who’s in – and how you can read extracts.
The room where it happened
Ockhams fiction judge Mark Broatch comes clean.
15/05/2020
‘It was impossible to avoid the conspiracy theories’ – Mark Broatch on judging this year’s Ockhams.
Ockham NZ Book Awards: Shocks and Stats
Lockdown Ockhams Shockers: Tom Moody investigates.
14/05/2020
Lockdown Ockhams Shockers: Tom Moody investigates.
Writers’ Round Table | 2020
Rough guides, truest voices: the Ockhams 2020 Fiction Round Table.
13/05/2020
Rough guides, truest voices: the Ockhams 2020 Fiction Round Table.
The Interview: Vincent O’Sullivan
Vincent O'Sullivan on the drive to write, the contradictions of fiction, and the dangers of lingering in the poetry hot-house.
06/04/2020
‘I’m sceptical about any group who want others to regard them as special.’
Listen, Memory
David Howard learns how to appear in Ulyanovsk, City of Literature.
27/02/2020
David Howard learns how to appear in Ulyanovsk, City of Literature.
Our Many Pasts: Historical Fiction
Thom Conroy asks: is historical fiction New Zealand’s defining genre?
28/08/2019
Thom Conroy asks: is historical fiction New Zealand’s defining genre?
A Communist in the Family: Searching for Rewi Alley by Elspeth Sandys
Elspeth Sandys illuminates the life of an extraordinary New Zealander.
28/08/2019
Elspeth Sandys illuminates the life of an extraordinary New Zealander.
Writers’ Round Table | May 2019
Writers' Round Table: the fiction finalists at the Ockham NZ Book Awards discuss influences, indignation, politics and passions.
09/05/2019
Writers’ Round Table: the fiction finalists at the Ockham NZ Book Awards discuss influences, indignation, politics and passions.
The Immersion Method
Maxine Alterio on researching novels at home and abroad.
18/04/2019
Maxine Alterio on researching novels at home and abroad.
The Interview – C.K. Stead
Karl Stead and Mark Broatch discuss crossing lines, carrying on and writing well.
08/03/2019
‘I’m basically cheerful’. Stead at 86, on the work of a lifetime.
Display It Like You Stole It: Letter from London
‘If Oceania is a continent, then it is a continent as complex as Europe’. David Eggleton in London for the Royal Academy of Art’s ‘blockbuster’ show.
06/03/2019
‘If Oceania is a continent, then it is a continent as complex as Europe’. David Eggleton in London for the Royal Academy of Art’s ‘blockbuster’ show.
Why Aren’t You Reading Queer?
Celebrate Pride month with an LGBTQI book.
04/02/2019
Celebrate Pride month with an LGBTQI book.
Letter from Europe
Fiona Kidman on a ‘split personality’ in London and Paris.
31/07/2018
Fiona Kidman on a ‘split personality’ in London and Paris.
The Pony Club
Owen Marshall's 2017 New Zealand Book Council Lecture
25/07/2018
Owen Marshall’s 2017 New Zealand Book Council Lecture
Fiction and Factions: the Political Novel in New Zealand
Fiona Farrell: What makes a work of the imagination ‘political’?
26/05/2018
What makes a work of the imagination ‘political’?
Vision Test
David Taylor assesses the 20/20 Poetry Collection, and what we’re exploring – and avoiding – in our literature of unease.
27/04/2018
David Taylor assesses the 20/20 Poetry Collection, and what we’re exploring – and avoiding – in our literature of unease.
Writing in Disguise
Stephanie Johnson on definitions and disguises, and the risks of writing under a pseudonym.
27/04/2018
Stephanie Johnson on definitions and disguises, and the risks of writing under a pseudonym.
Essay from Iowa
Anne Kennedy finds a place to think in the country of dream-merchants.
22/12/2017
Anne Kennedy finds a place to think in the country of dream-merchants
The Interview – Fleur Adcock
Fleur Adcock and Emma Neale discuss parallel activities, chance findings and the many angles of place.
14/12/2017
‘There are so many different kinds of poem’ – Fleur Adcock
Writers’ Picks: Best NZ Books for Christmas
#NZChristmasBookChallenge - NZ writer, NZ publisher, NZ book shop. Support our writers and our industry.
14/12/2017
#NZChristmasBookChallenge – NZ writer, NZ publisher, NZ book shop. Support our writers and our industry.
Letter from Romania
Michael Harlow crosses frontiers and shines light at the World Poetry Festival in Romania
14/12/2017
Michael Harlow crosses frontiers and shines light at the World Poetry Festival in Romania.
'I felt energised by the freedom of 'making things up’' - Maxine Alterio