| Date: | Tuesday 7 May, 1pm - 2pm |
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| Location: | AUT City Campus WT Building, WT1211 Auckland New Zealand |
Hear from acclaimed New Zealand author Emma Neale about her creative writing journey.
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Emma works as an editor and an occasional creative writing tutor. She was raised in New Zealand, lived for several years in California as a child, and as an adult lived in England for just under a decade. There she gained her PhD from University College London.
Emma has received the Todd/Creative New Zealand New Writer’s Bursary and the (inaugural) Janet Frame/NZSA Memorial Prize for Literature. Her 2011 novel, Fosterling, was short-listed for the youth category of the Sir Julius Vogel Award. Her poetry collection The Truth Garden won the Kathleen Grattan Award in 2011. She has been a University of Otago Burns Fellow, a University of Otago/Sir James Wallace Pah Homestead Fellow and a recipient of the Beatson/NZSA Fellowship. Her poetry was short-listed for the Sarah Broom Poetry award in 2014, and her fifth collection, Tender Machines, was long-listed in the 2016 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards.
Her most recent novel, Billy Bird (2016) was short-listed in the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards and long-listed for the International Dublin Literary Award 2018. She currently edits Landfall. A new collection, To the Occupant, is due out from Otago University Press in May 2019. She lives in Dunedin with her husband and their two children.