Joy Cowley says the child in her will never die. In her life-affirming, life-challenging workshop, she will take participants through the stages of life and what they mean, with a focus on what Joy calls “the ...
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 ...
Rachel McAlpine’s hit play The Secret Lives of Extremely Old People is part of her mission to find out all she can about old age. She and Robin Payne, who directed Secret ...
'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 ...
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 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 ...
By day, Mark Pacey is the go-to man for Wairarapa's history at the local archives. After hours, he’s the author of books on subjects as diverse as the U.S. Marines, pharmacies, brewing and the Wairarapa coastline. ...
The left is at a crossroads in New Zealand – the Labour Party struggles to be relevant while the radical left gathers strength in other parties. Do lefties want the traditional face of the Labour Party ...
Robin Ramsden shows you how to make a 4th century Nag Hammadi codex. Her design is reusable and the leather will last long after you fill your notebook, and with her written instructions you can make your own at home. ...
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 ...
