Meet the Panel: Pip Adam

Author image by Victoria Birkinshaw

Coming soon to Newtown Library we have a very special launch event for the new anthology, A Kind of Shelter Whakaruru-taha.

The panel for this event features some of Aotearoa’s most acclaimed authors, poets and artists. Leading up to the launch, we thought we would place a spotlight on just a few of the stellar writers who will be in attendance.

Pip Adam holds a PhD from Victoria University , an MA in Library and Information Studies, an MA in creative writing also from Victoria University of Wellington and she also attended the New Zealand Film and Television School.

So far Pip has released three novels; I’m Working On A Building , The New Animals, Nothing To See and a short story collection called Everything We Hoped For.

Pip also has a new novel in the pipeline called Audition; due out in July 2023.

Pip Adam has won numerous awards including, amongst many others, the NZSA Hubert Church Best First Book Award for Fiction for  Everything We Hoped For, The New Generation Award, The Macquarie Private Wealth New Zealand Arts and New Zealand’s top fiction prize, the Acorn Foundation Fiction Prize in  2018 for The New Animals.

Pip Adam  is one of our honoured guests  at our unmissable A Kind of Shelter Whakaruru-taha event, which will have conversations and readings from some of Aotearoa’s finest writers.

Our other honoured guests include Witi Ihimaera , Michelle Elvy, Tina Makereti, Harry Ricketts, Gregory O’Brien, Ya-Wen Ho and Noa Noa von Bassewitz.

Book launch event on Facebook

Friday 26th of May,  6-7pm

Newtown Library

Please note – we anticipate that this event will be very popular and seating will be on a first-come, first-served basis.

A Kind of Shelter Whakaruru-taha : An anthology of new writing for a new world order / Ihimaera, Witi
“Sixty-eight writers and eight artists gather at a hui in a magnificent cave-like dwelling or meeting house. In the middle is a table, the tepu korero, from which the rangatira speak; they converse with honoured guests, and their rangatira-korero embody the tahuhu, the over-arching horizontal ridge pole, of the shelter. In a series of rich conversations, those present discuss our world in the second decade of this century; they look at decolonisation, indigeneity, climate change . . . this is what they see. Edited by Witi Ihimaera and Michelle Elvy, this fresh, exciting anthology features poetry, short fiction and creative non-fiction, as well as korero or conversations between writers and work by local and international artists. The lineup from Aoteraoa includes, among others, Alison Wong, Paula Morris, Anne Salmond, Tina Makereti, Ben Brown, David Eggleton, Cilla McQueen, Hinemoana Baker, Erik Kennedy, Ian Wedde, Nina Mingya Powles, Gregory O’ Brien, Vincent O’ Sullivan, Patricia Grace, Selina Tusitala Marsh and Whiti Hereaka. Guest writers from overseas include Aparecida Vilaç a, Jose-Luis Novo and Ru Freeman.” ( Adapted from Catalogue)