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NZSA Oral History Podcast Season 5 finishes with Fleur Adcock
In 2019, Deborah Shepard travelled to England to spend two days recording the oral history of writer Fleur Adcock. Fleur Adcock lived between New Zealand and England for many years. Although Fleur settled in London in the 1970’s, she is still published here and we still regard her as ‘one of our own’. In the […]
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Graeme Lay featured on new episode of NZSA Podcast
Episode four of our new season of the NZSA Oral History Podcast is out today! Graeme Lay is the author of more than forty books of fiction and non-fiction and many many shorter works. If you write short stories you might have read one of his, or entered the New Zealand Society of Authors Graeme […]
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New Episode of NZSA Oral History Podcast Out Today – Marilyn Duckworth
A new episode, featuring writer Marilyn Duckworth, is now available! In 2016, Marilyn Duckworth won the Prime Minister’s Award for Literary Achievement in Fiction. The award came more than 50 years after she had won the New Zealand Literary Fund Award for Achievement in 1963. Marilyn talks to Deborah Shepard in this episode about […]
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NZSA Oral History Podcast Episode 2 Live!
Witi Ihimaera has become one of Aotearoa New Zealand’s most recognised and decorated writers over his 50+ years as an author. The first episode of this season covered some of those highlights; this episode we again join Witi talking to Deborah Shepard about his life as a writer. Hosted by writer and broadcaster Karyn Hay, this […]
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Season 5 of the NZSA Oral History Podcast is Here!
The New Zealand Society of Authors Oral History Podcast is back with our fifth season! Hosted by writer and broadcaster Karyn Hay, this season includes authors who have spent decades in the pursuit of creativity and the art of writing; encountering resistance and criticism, personal tragedies, praise, and success along the way. We start with […]
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NZSA President of Honour Witi Ihimaera will deliver the 2023 NZSA Janet Frame Memorial Lecture
You are invited to hear NZSA President of Honour Witi Ihimaera deliver the 2023 NZSA Janet Frame Memorial Lecture The NZSA Te Puni Kaituhi o Aotearoa (PEN NZ) appoints a President of Honour each year from the ranks of its revered and senior members. This year, NZSA President of Honour, Witi Ihimaera DCNZM, QSM, will deliver the […]
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James Russell introduces Philip Temple in our Summer Encore Podcast Series
In the New Zealand Society of Authors Summer Encore Series, well known NZSA authors introduce you to some of their favourite episodes from the NZSA podcast. In our second to last episode, James Russell, author of the Dragon Brothers trilogy and Dragon Defenders series, introduces you to his favourite episode: Philip Temple’s oral history conversation […]
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Introducing the NZSA Summer Encore Podcast Series
We’ve asked well known NZSA authors to introduce you to some of their favourite episodes from the NZSA podcast so far. This week, Mary-anne Scott, author of the newly released The Tomo, along with Spearo, Sticking with Pigs, and several other books for young people, introduces you to her favourite episode: Joy Cowley from Season […]
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Margaret Mahy Rounds Off Season 4 of the NZSA Oral History Podcast
“I can remember somebody saying, you know, that the picture book was something that we could write on a Saturday morning. Well, it certainly took me a lot longer than that!” Margaret Mahy is New Zealand’s most celebrated children’s writer. She wrote over one hundred books, published in 15 different languages, and continues to be […]
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Brian Turner on a life writing about, fighting for, and enjoying Aotearoa New Zealand
“When I hear ‘progress and development’, I ask people to be specific about what it is that they’re describing. That for me is destruction, depletion, degradation.” The penultimate episode for Season 4 of the NZSA Oral History podcast presents Brian Turner from his 2020 oral history interview with Naomi Arnold. As a poet, essayist, biographer […]
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Barbara Else Talks about the Business of Books
“Writers’ income is always an awkward cash flow – sometimes it flows and sometimes it doesn’t!” Season 4 of the NZSA Oral History podcast continues with a second episode from Barbara Else, from her 2020 oral history interview with Naomi Arnold. Barbara Else is a celebrated New Zealand author but has also been […]
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A Reflection on 18 months as NZSA President: “A call-out to all writers: come gather round, we need your support . . . “
BY MANDY HAGER MAY 4, 2021 I’ve been a member of NZSA for around 30 years, joining before I published my first book, filled with pride when I could transition from ‘associate’ to ‘full’ membership. Although health and time constraints have meant I’ve rarely attended branch meetings or events, I’ve always read the […]
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