ANZL Fellow Dr Patricia Grace has been granted the Creative New Zealand Te Waka Toi 2016 supreme award/Te Tohu Aroha mo Te Arikinui Dame Te Atairangikaahu. Patricia is widely recognised as a key figure in the emergence of Maori fiction in English since the 1970s. Her work, expressive of Maori consciousness and values, is distinguished also for the variety of Maori people and ways of life it portrays.
Sarah Laing’s much anticipated graphic memoir, Mansfield and Me (Victoria UP) is a playful exploration of publication, parenthood and coming of age set against Mansfield’s dramatic life story. Read more here.
'I felt energised by the freedom of 'making things up’' - Maxine Alterio
