Anthony Lapwood
Anthony Lapwood (Ngāti Ranginui, Ngāi Te Rangi, Ngāti Whakaue, Pākehā) is a writer based in Te Whanganui-a-Tara Wellington, in Aotearoa New Zealand.
His first book, Home Theatre (Te Herenga Waka University Press, 2022) won the Hubert Church Prize for Fiction in the 2023 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards. Home Theatre was also a finalist in the 2023 Sir Julius Vogel Awards for Best Collected Work and three stories from the collection were finalists for Best Novelette. Anthony was the 2023 recipient of the Louis Johnson New Writer's Bursary.
Anthony's fiction has been published widely, including by At The Bay | I Te Kokoru, Newsroom, Sport, takahē, Turbine | Kapohau, Capital magazine, Radio New Zealand and The London Reader. His stories have been anthologised in Hiwa: Contemporary Māori Short Stories, Middle Distance: Long Stories of Aotearoa New Zealand, and Year’s Best Aotearoa New Zealand Science Fiction and Fantasy.
Anthony teaches creative writing at the International Institute of Modern Letters at Te Herenga Waka – Victoria University of Wellington, from which he holds a Master of Arts in Creative Writing with Distinction and a Bachelor of Arts in English Literature and Film. He was a fiction judge for the 2024 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards.
Visit www.anthonylapwood.com or @antzlapwood on Instagram and @antzlapwood.bsky.social on Bluesky.
Genre:
- Fiction
- Short Stories
Skills:
- Corporate Writing
- Freelance Writing
- Readings (adults)
- Short Story Writing
- Technical Writing
- Tutoring
- Website Content
Branch:
Wellington
Location:
Publications:
Home Theatre
Welcome to the Repertory Apartments—where scenes of tenderness and trouble, music and magic, the uncanny and the macabre play out on intimate stages.
A mother and her young son battle an infestation of ants. A bass player is beset by equine hallucinations. A widow seeks a new home with a spare room for guests. A radio factory foreman intercepts queer broadcasts from the future.
And a time-traveller stranded in a distant corner of the multiverse tries to find his way home.
Moving between the early 20th century and the modern day, this genre-bending collection, spanning the fantastical and the keenly real, introduces an ensemble of remarkable characters—and the fateful building that connects them all.