Join Megan Dunn for a masterclass exploring how writing from life is an active fiction.
Join Mohamed Hassan in this masterclass that weaves together storytelling, journalism and memoir to explore how a personal essay can help you tell your story.
Learn the nuts and bolts of interviewing, journalism techniques, information gathering and structuring a story in this masterclass with award-winning RNZ journalist Guyon Espiner.
Ross Calman and Dr Te Maire Tau on the life of Te Rauparaha, the turbulent history between Ngāi Tahu and Ngāti Toa and the peace marriages that followed.
Fearless contemporary feminist Clementine Ford turns from manifesto to memoir, using her own life to reflect on the nature of love itself.
Annette Lees on a life spent walking at night, and the pleasures of trying to capture the natural world through words.
Tenacious New Yorker staff reporter Patrick Radden Keefe joins us from New York to talk about his gripping books Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty and the newly published Rogues: True Stories if Grifters, Killers, Rebels and Crooks.
Take a spin through America’s heady counter-culture with celebrated US author Rachel Kushner.
Journalist, poet and observer of human behaviour Mohamed Hassan asks what it means to be Muslim in the 21st century.
Tiny lectures which celebrate the weird and wonderful!
Annette Lees guides you through nature’s reclamation of the Avon Loop, revealing the sights, sounds, creatures and stars that emerge when the sun goes down.
Two gifted satirists, Coco Solid and Murdoch Stephens, tackle housing and gentrification in their recent books. Join them for a sparky conversation about the places we live.
Veteran Guardian foreign correspondent and former Russia bureau chief Luke Harding speaks with Guyon Espiner about the war in Ukraine.
Economics commentator Max Rashbrooke and chronicler of life on the poverty line, author, playwright and poet Dominic Hoey, talk wealth, poverty and opportunity with Danyl McLauchlan.
Dr Julia Rucklidge has spent decades looking at nutrition, anxiety, depression and stress. She discusses why we need to be mindful of what we eat.
Nicky Pellegrino and Miriama Kamo share a candid and witty conversation about the realities of menopause, and how to navigate this often-challenging phase of life.
Sarah Krasnostein is one of the finest observers of human nature writing today. She joins Kim Hill to unpack the lives of ordinary people who believe in the extraordinary: things most people would consider impossible.
What makes our moods? What do meditation and medication do to our brains? Is it better to be happy or do good?
Professor Deidre Brown presents the fascinating story of the trade in treasures between 19th-century Māori and Christian missionaries.
Join Tā Tipene O'Regan, Helen Brown and Michael Stevens for a journey through some extraordinary Ngāi Tahu lives.
Whether you want to professionally present your own work, or hone your editing skills to improve other people's writing, this is the workshop for you.
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