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Let Your Imagination Soar With James Russell!

Join James Russell, bestselling author of The Dragon Brothers Trilogy, and junior fiction series The Dragon Defenders and Children of the Rush, as he takes you on a journey of creativity and shows you how to unleash your ...

On The Couch: Gregory O'Brien

If anybody in Aotearoa New Zealand deserves the description polymath, it’s Gregory O’Brien.  The poet, artist, art curator, and writer of fiction and non-fiction, has this year been longlisted for the ...

The Magic of Mushrooms

Liv Sisson (Fungi of Aotearoa) and Zach Cotogni (Blue Honey) are on a mission to show Aotearoa New Zealand how important fungi are for the mental and physical health of human beings and the health of the planet. From ...

Word Gets Around: Delaney Davidson And Barry Saunders

Delaney Davidson and Barry Saunders are storytellers who use music as their medium, and coming together as collaborators has taken them in new and exciting directions. “These songs just started appearing out of the ...

The Write Stuff: Making Dreams Come True

Catherine Robertson, Lee Murray and Isa Pearl Ritchie stuck to their dreams to write in the genres they love – romance, popular fiction, horror and speculative fiction – and, despite the naysayers, have ...

The Crewe Murders

The murder of Harvey and Jeannette Crewe in their Pukekawa farmhouse in 1970 remains Aotearoa New Zealand’s most famous cold case. It spawned two trials, two appeals, a royal commission finding of police corruption ...

Tea With Jane: A Literary Passion

'Towards Compostela' author Catharina van Bohemen first read 'Pride and Prejudice' when she was fourteen and has read and taught Jane Austen ever since. In 2015 she wrote two chapbooks, 'Letter to ...

Te Tiriti O Waitangi: What Tangata Whenua Say

Te Tiriti o Waitangi remains as important today as it did when it was first signed 184 years ago, but how can Aotearoa honour it, what are the key challenges and where do tangata whenua stand? Papawai Marae kaumātua ...

The Pictures In Our Heads

New life for Auē and The Bone People

The debut novels by West Coast writers Keri Hulme (The Bone People) and Becky Manawatu (Auē) are modern classics. Now both books are being transformed into a variety of media and ...

Hidden Gems: Jenny Bornholdt On Annemarie Hope-Cross

A tribute event to the late Lydia Wevers.
Annemarie Hope-Cross (1968–2022) was a fourth generation photographer who used early photographic processes and antique cameras to produce handmade images that are ...

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