NZ Society of Authors

NZ Society of Authors

Listen to the New Zealand Society of Authors Oral History Podcast, hosted by Karyn Hay and including author interviews collected over 30 years. Also find our new podcast, NZSA Live! Featuring audio recorded at NZSA events.

  1. NZSA Live! Charlotte Grimshaw's 2025 Janet Frame Address

    11/03/2025

    NZSA Live! Charlotte Grimshaw's 2025 Janet Frame Address

    This podcast was recorded at the Janet Frame Memorial Lecture, given by the NZSA President of Honour 2025, Charlotte Grimshaw, in October 2025 in association with Verb at the New Zealand National Library. The prestigious position of NZSA President of Honour, is bestowed on a senior writer and long-serving member in recognition of their contribution to writing and writers and the literary arts sector in Aotearoa

    50 min
  2. 2024 Janet Frame Memorial Lecture

    02/19/2025

    2024 Janet Frame Memorial Lecture

    This podcast was recorded at the Janet Frame Memorial Lecture, given by the NZSA President of Honour 2024 Barbara Else in November 2024 as part of the Verb Festival, Wellington. The prestigious position of NZSA President of Honour, is bestowed on a senior writer and long-serving member in recognition of their contribution to writing and writers and the literary arts sector in Aotearoa.

    31 min
  3. Fluer Adcock Part 2

    02/07/2024

    Fluer Adcock Part 2

    In 2019, Deborah Shepard travelled to England to spend two days recording the oral history of writer Fleur Adcock. In the last episode Fleur talked about some of her life in New Zealand; this episode focuses more on her life in London, her permanent home now for nearly fifty years.

    39 min
  4. Fleur Adcock part 1

    01/17/2024

    Fleur Adcock part 1

    Fleur Adcock lived between New Zealand and England for many years. Although Fleur settled in London as a full-time writer in the 1970's, she is still published here and we still regard her as 'one of our own'. Over two episodes we are going to drop into parts of Fleur’s oral history, collected in 2021 by Deborah Shepard - here's part one.

    30 min
  5. Denys Trussell

    12/27/2023

    Denys Trussell

    Denys Trussell is well known for his environmental poetry and advocacy, yet there is much more to learn about him. In this episode we drop into his 2021 discussion with Kelly Ana Morey where they talk about his turn towards writing, and why he spends so much of his time fighting for what he believes in.

    32 min
  6. Graeme Lay

    12/06/2023

    Graeme Lay

    Graeme Lay is the author of more than forty books of fiction and non-fiction, and many many shorter works. He was good friends with most Auckland writers of his generation. Graeme spoke with Kelly Ana Morey in 2021, and they start by talking about the first works of short fiction he had published as a young writer.

    35 min
  7. NZSA Live! Witi Ihimaera-Smiler, 2023 Janet Frame Address

    11/26/2023

    NZSA Live! Witi Ihimaera-Smiler, 2023 Janet Frame Address

    This podcast was recorded at the Janet Frame Memorial Lecture, given by the NZSA President of Honour 2022-2023, Witi Ihimaera-Smiler in November 2023. The prestigious position of NZSA President of Honour, is bestowed on a senior writer and long-serving member in recognition of their contribution to writing and writers and the literary arts sector in Aotearoa.

    48 min
  8. Marilyn Duckworth

    11/15/2023

    Marilyn Duckworth

    In 2016, Marilyn Duckworth won the Prime Minister’s Award for Literary Achievement in Fiction. The award came more than 50 years after she had won the New Zealand Literary Fund Award for Achievement in 1963. Marilyn talks to Deborah Shepard in this episode about her career as an author over those 50 years.

    40 min
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Listen to the New Zealand Society of Authors Oral History Podcast, hosted by Karyn Hay and including author interviews collected over 30 years. Also find our new podcast, NZSA Live! Featuring audio recorded at NZSA events.

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  • Creator
    NZ Society of Authors
  • Years Active
    2018 - 2025
  • Episodes
    66
  • Rating
    Clean
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