Writers

Lloyd Jones is well known for his numerous novels including Mister Pip which won the Commonwealth Prize for Literature and was shortlisted for the Man Booker. Audio

Steve Braunias returns to announce the winners of the Surrey Hotel-Newsroom writers residency award. Audio

How many hours in a typical workday do you work? For many people, it's not even close to eight. Mexico City-based journalist Lizzie Wade believes it's actually impossible for most of us to achieve… Audio

She has been legally blind since birth, but that hasn't stopped paranormal romance writer Steff Green (aka Stephanie Holmes) from undertaking a self-publishing career that sees her clear a six-figure… Audio

The Booker, The Ockham, Atwood, Knox, The closure of the New Zealand Review of Books, covering up white suprematist posters in Newmarket with Hone Tuwahre's poem 'Rain', and Lloyd Jones' proclaiming… Audio

The far right in East Germany has long been associated with the disaffected masses, but there is a growing intellectual class helping to change the narrative. Julian Göpffarth's work focuses on the… Audio

Something very cool is happening this Friday in West Auckland ... music will fill the air! And the soaring voices of some of our wisest, cleverest, most insightful and inventive writers. Audio

A new study has found Canadian writers are earning 27 per cent less than they were three years ago. Average incomes dropped to just over $9,000 in that time.  Audio

The Prime Minister says more care needs to be taken with the mental health of MPs following the news over the weekend that Jami-Lee Ross went into mental health care.  Audio

The four-day Manawatu Writers' Festival is the only free event of its type in New Zealand. Organiser Rachel Doré joins us to talk about making literature accessible and which authors she's most… Audio

Isa Pearl Ritchie writes about a family in crisis in her novel, Fishing for Maui, drawing on her own experiences as a young person who's struggled with depression, anxiety and chronic fatigue. Audio

He calls it New Zealand's premiere literary award. The winning writer gets to stay at the Surrey Hotel in Auckland for a week, with a pizza allowance, a Sunday roast and 500 dollars.  Audio

In her new book, The Recovering: Intoxication and its Aftermath, Leslie Jamison lays bare her own recovery from alcoholism and delves into the drinking and recovery stories of other writers and… Audio

Applications open for new Pacific writer residency in Wellington for 2019. Audio

Samuel Beckett remains one of the most perplexing writers of all time - his play Waiting for Godot is a prime example of a play that keeps people guessing and academics debating. But it's Beckett's… Audio

Peter Hoar looks at the writings of 18th-Century music historian, Charles Burney. Audio

It'll come as no surprise to New Zealand authors that it's not easy making a living. But it's also getting harder. Very few can make writing a fulltime career, it's harder than ever to find… Audio

Gavin Bishop - illustrator, co-creator of such beloved characters as Mr Whistler, Quaky Cat, and Mrs McGinty, writer of quirky original stories, and re-teller of European classics and Maori mythology… Audio, Gallery

After several discoveries of previously unknown poems by Katherine Mansfield in recent years, all her authenticated poetry has just been published for the first time in one collection. Co-editor… Audio, Gallery