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NZSA Oral History Podcast features Barbara Else
“I thought, I’ve got to [join NZSA], this is a chance to actually stand up and say to myself, ‘I am a writer, I’m involved in the Society’…” Season 4 of the NZSA Oral History podcast continues with Barbara Else, in the first of two episodes from her 2020 oral history interview with Naomi […]
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NZSA Oral History Podcast featuring Philip Temple
Philip Temple discusses half a century of living as a writer in Aotearoa, on the NZSA Oral History Podcast “I tend to think that one of the reasons public institutions are not very keen on writers is because they have too much to say.” Season 4 of the NZSA Oral History podcast continues with Philip […]
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Kyle Mewburn continues on Episode 2 of NZSA Oral History Podcast
“I’m writing for certain children, for what they need…I’m not trying to have a generic, bland thing.” Season 4 of the NZSA Oral History podcast continues with part 2 of Naomi Arnold’s 2020 oral history interview with Kyle Mewburn. Naomi and Kyle talk about the issues authors face, both on and off the page, and […]
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NZSA Oral History Podcast Season 4 launches with Kyle Mewburn
“I said well, I’m going to write. So I sat down and decided to write. I wrote full-time, I wrote eight hours a day, every day, six days a week, seven days a week. For a year and a half.” Kyle Mewburn is one of New Zealand’s most prolific and eclectic writers. Working full-time as […]
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NZSA Oral History Podcast – New Season
Season Four of the New Zealand Society of Authors Oral History Podcast is launching next week! We are delighted to have Karyn Hay returning as host. In the new season we will bring you the voices of authors from the deep south of New Zealand. We’ll be featuring interviews from last year, and some from […]
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NZSA Oral History Project: Funding helps record stories of Otago authors
Thanks to funding from the Otago Community Trust and NZ National Commission for UNESCO, NZSA has been able to record three important oral histories from authors in the Otago region. At the end of July 2020 New Zealand author and oral historian Naomi Arnold, spent a week meeting and interviewing authors Brian Turner, Barbara […]
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NZSA member Tina Makereti – Going West podcast interview with Selina Tusitala Marsh
Where the Rēkohu Bone Sings https://www.goingwestfest.co.nz/audio/tinamakereti In her prizewinning debut novel Where the Rēkohu Bone Sings Tina Makereti confronts the complexities of cultural heritage, the past and the present, and Moriori, Maori and Pakeha identity. The novel is a compelling, powerful and haunting work. In 2014, Makereti came to Going West to discuss her […]
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Explore NZSA’s Podcast Library
Have you listened to any of NZSA’s two podcast series? The NZSA Oral History Podcast Series is hosted by our own Karyn Hay, Kiwi broadcaster, NZSA member and author, and takes audio from our author oral history archives. Authors relate their stories of involvement with NZSA, chat about other writers of their generation, and describe […]
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Owen Marshall on the Work of Writing
“…As well as the imaginative (or the magical) aspect of writing where the inspiration strikes, there’s the craft aspect of it where it’s just a matter of sitting there doing the job…” In our last episode of the NZSA Oral History Podcast Season 3 we hear from Owen Marshall. Owen Marshall is a celebrated New Zealand […]
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Chris Else Discusses His Writing Life on Latest NZSA Podcast
In our last episode, author Chris Else talked to Deborah Shepard about his many years of active service for the New Zealand Society of Authors. During those years Chris was also writing and working as a literary agent. His writing life is the focus of our latest episode, released today. Chris’s episode, and […]
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In the Books Bubble with Brandy Scott
Stacy Gregg Stacy Gregg is HarperCollins NZ’s third best-selling children’s author of all time (after David Walliams and Dr Seuss). Mystic, the BBC TV adaptation of her international best-selling Pony Club Secrets series, screens soon on TVNZ. Nicky Pellegrino Nicky Pellegrino is a former editor of the New Zealand Woman’s Weekly. She is the author […]
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CLNZ $120,000 Contestable Fund Grants awarded – recipients announced
We are pleased to announce the successful recipients of the Special Round of Contestable Fund Grants 2020. In order to support the industry during the COVID-19 pandemic, Copyright Licensing New Zealand released a special fund of $120,000 for short-term projects that could be started straight away and completed by the end of September this […]
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