Tune in live on YouTube on Friday 17 July (1pm NZ / 11am SYD / 9am HK / 8am UK / 9pm NYC (Thurs)) to hear from award-winning NZ speculative fiction authors Anthony Lapwood and Pip Adam on the draw of writing that sits outside of our reality and the lessons we can learn from speculative fiction.

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ANTHONY LAPWOOD

Anthony Lapwood (Ngāti Ranginui, Ngāi Te Rangi, Ngāti Whakaue, Pākehā) is a fiction writer and teacher based in Te Whanganui-a-Tara Wellington. His story collection Home Theatre (Te Herenga Waka University Press) won the Hubert Church Prize for Fiction in 2023 and was a finalist in the Sir Julius Vogel Awards that year. His novel The Carnivore Diaries is forthcoming from Āporo Press.

Website: www.anthonylapwood.com

PIP ADAM

pip adam is a Queer, Tangata Tiriti writer of five novels: kluge (2026), Audition (2023), Nothing to See (2020), The New Animals (2017) and I'm Working on a Building (2013); and the short story collection Everything We Hoped For (2010). She makes the Better off Read podcast in which she speaks with writers and artists about making and working.

Pip lives in Te Whanganui-a-Tara. Her novels have been published in Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States of America. Audition will be published in the United States and Canada in 2025.

Website: https://pipadam.com