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Sunday 27 February

Talking about Sound 3.00 – 4.00pm

Pip Adam — reviewer, podcaster and writing workshop facili-
tator, is best known as an award winning author and regarded
as New Zealand’s newest top novelist. Her collection of short
stories, Everything We Hoped For, was described as an unusually
strong first book. In 2018, she won the Acorn Foundation Fiction
prize in the Ockham awards for The New Animals.

She is also shortlisted this year with Nothing to See. Dan Kois
(culture editor of US website Slate) describes Pip’s novel as
‘a total masterpiece. Gripping, weird, funny, close to the bone.
An intense portrait of sobriety, a mystery, a sci-fi novel, an urgent
book about living…’

Pip’s interests are wide and varied. Her PhD topic was the built
environment, the result of which was her 2013 novel, I’m Working
on a Building. Her current interest is in sound. She will talk about
this, and the shift in her work from realism to the unreal.

Venue: Royal Whanganui Opera House

Bookings: Royal Whanganui Opera House
Admission: $15. Door sales available

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