Sarah Laing is a fiction writer and graphic designer. Her first collection of short stories, Coming up Roses, was published in 2007, and followed her win of the 2006 Sunday Star Times Short Story Competition. She illustrated the book Macaroni Moon (2009) and in the same year published the novel, Dead People’s Music, which is… Continue Reading
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Jo Randerson
Jo is a Wellington-based writer, performer and theatre-maker. She has published 4 books: The Spit Children, The Knot, The Keys to Hell and Through the Door. For more information please see www.joranderson.com and www.barbarian.co.nz. Read the story, listen to the podcast, and watch…
Eleanor Catton (Audience’s Choice Award winner)
Eleanor won the Adam Prize for her first novel The Rehearsal in 2007. Published by VUP in New Zealand, it has been since sold to publishers in the UK, the USA, and Europe. In 2007 Catton also won the Sunday Star- Times Short Story Competition, and was awarded the 2008 Schaeffer Fellowship to the University… Continue Reading
David Geary (Judges’ Prize winner)
David Geary is a dual citizen of New Zealand and Canada, and of English, Scottish, Irish, and Maori (Ng! M!hanga – Taranaki) blood. He graduated from Victoria University of Wellington, NZ, with a B.A. in English Literature, including Bill Manhire’s Creative Writing course. He then went on to receive an Acting Diploma in Drama from… Continue Reading
Carl Nixon
Carl lives in Christchurch, New Zealand where he was born in 1967. He lives with his wife and two young children. He has a Masters in Religious Studies from the University of Canterbury. He is a professional full-time writer of plays, short stories and novels. Carl has twice won the Sunday Star Times Short Story… Continue Reading
Briar Grace Smith
Briar Grace Smith is descended from the Ngapuhi tribe in the north of New Zealand. She writes for theatre, television and film and her short fiction has been included in various anthologies. Her plays have toured both New Zealand and internationally and include Purapurawhetu, Haruru Mai, When Sun and Moon Collide and Potiki’s Memory of… Continue Reading
Tara June Winch
Tara was born in 1983. She is a Wiradjuri woman. In 2004 she won the David Unaipon Award for Indigenous Writers, for her novel Swallow the Air (UQP). In 2006 she was awarded the Victorian Premiers Literary Award for Indigenous Writing, and also nominated for The Age Book of the Year Award for Fiction, The… Continue Reading
Ruth Hessey
Ruth is currently working on two screen projects set in different periods of Australian history. Over the last fifteen years Ruth has juggled commitments as a performer, fiction writer, and journalist working in film, television, radio and print journalism. Most recently the editor of Australia’s leading arts journal, Australian Art Review (2003-2005), Ruth was film… Continue Reading
Lewie JPD (Bryce Courtenay Award winner)
Lewie JPD was born in Kings Cross on Elvis’s birthday, grew up in the Aussie bush until ten, then spent the next eight years in Tokyo, Japan. He started writing comedy skits for television (NHK Tokyo) at the age of fifteen. Since then he hasn’t stopped writing – for film, TV, radio and magazines; living… Continue Reading
Joy Aimee
Joy Aimee Question: Joy, what’s with this constant reinvention? Answer: Why should Madonna have all the fun? Joy Aimee is the latest incarnation of Sydney-based writer and creativity coach, Joy Atkin. The author of So, What’s Today’s Brilliant Excuse? and the soon-to-be released So Where’s My Happy Ever After? Joy is a storyteller who found… Continue Reading