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New Voices of Aotearoa author panel

Join us for this fabulous event featuring some of our brightest new authors and major New Zealand prize winners; Una Cruickshank, Olive Nuttall, Midden Rahurahu and Pip Adam.

Wednesday 29 October 2025
6 – 7pm
Te Whare Hapori o Ngā Puna Waiora, Newtown Community Centre, Te Whanganui-a-Tara

Free event; all welcome!

The rich diversity in current Aotearoa literature is evident in our younger writers and to celebrate and explore this in all its facets Wellington City Libraries, in conjunction with The Coalition for Books and Te Herenga Waka University Press, have brought together three of the brightest lights from the current scene to discuss their work and the state of Aotearoa writing now.

Launch of Hoods Landing by Laura Vincent

Friday 31 October
6pm
Unity Books Wellington, 57 Willis Street, Te Whanganui-a-Tara

interviews

Pip Adam Locks Giants in a Spaceship to Talk About Incarceration: The author of “Audition” on small talk, finding realism in speculative fiction, and writing utopias by Morgan Leigh Davies, Electric Lit

Other, Better Worlds: Pip Adam on the Possibilities of Politically Engaged Speculative Fiction
Danielle Dutton In Conversation With the Author of “Audition”, Literary Hub

reviews

Audition

A Novel That Reimagines the Meaning of Outer Space by Robert Rubsam, The Atlantic

‘Hopeful, but not in a rose-tinted way’: an interview with Pip Adam by Jo Randerson, The Spin-Off

Audition by Pip Adam by Casey Lucas, bad apple

Nothing to See

Book of the Week: Charlotte Grimshaw reviews Pip Adam for Newsroom

On the gobsmackingness of Pip Adam and Nothing to See Briar Lawry for The Spinoff

‘How the fuck do you make a quiche?’ An extract from Pip Adam’s new novel in TheSpinoff

The New Animals

​’Don’t Get Comfortable: A review of The New Animals’ by Briar Lawry in The Pantograph Punch
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‘On the blind, mulish idiocy of reviewers and the genius of Pip Adam’ by Carl Shuker in The Spin-Off

‘Why Pip Adam deserved to win the big prize at the Ockham Book Award’ by Anna Smaill