Non Fiction
One Hundred Havens: A history of the Marlborough Sounds
Author Helen Beaglehole first visited the Marlborough Sounds in a small yacht after a very stormy Cook Strait crossing. She returned numerous times over the next 40 years, exploring and sailing the… Audio
Emma Neale - The Pink Jumpsuit
Ōtepoti writer Emma Neale speaks about her latest book The Pink Jumpsuit, a mix of short through to ultra short flash fiction. Audio
Wendy S. Walters writes back
Wendy S. Walters' early career majored on poetry but as her writing career continued she found herself getting drawn more and more towards non-fiction. Her 2015 collection Multiply/Divide: On the… Audio
Sinéad Gleeson: sickness, health, motherhood & writing
Sinéad Gleeson is an Irish writer and the author of the critically acclaimed work of creative non-fiction Constellations. She was diagonosed with arthritis at 13, and an aggressive form of leukemia in… Audio
Artemis Cooper - Doyenne of the historical biography
Artemis Cooper is the author and co-editor of a wide of non-fiction titles including three major biographies: on the author, scholar and adventurer Patrick Leigh Fermor, novelist and wife of Sir… Audio
Sir Antony Beevor: acclaimed historian coming to Auckland Writers Festival
British pre-eminent military historian Sir Antony Beevor's coming to Auckland Writer's Festival in May. He speaks to Jim about what history can tell us about the future. Audio
Imaginary Advice: blending fact and fiction
Ross Sutherland's a writer, poet and actor from Edinburgh who also makes a podcast called 'Imaginary Advice'. He does it all himself and calls the podcast the most important thing he makes, and a… Audio
Susan Faludi on gender and identity
The Pulitzer-Prize winning journalist and author talks with Kim Hill about her most recent book In the Darkroom - a memoir of her transgender father and a meditation on identity. Audio
Too Much Information
TMI is the name of a free, pop-up creative writing course created and run by poet Hera Lindsay Bird in Wellington; one of the guest teachers at the class was fellow poet Gregory Kan. The eight-week… Audio, Gallery
Chris Bourke: Lilburn Research Fellow
Chris Bourke will deliver the 2015 Lilburn Lecture on Wednesday at the National Library in Wellington. He talks to Clarissa Dunn about that lecture and his current work as Lilburn Research Fellow at… Audio
The Best of Upbeat for 10 July 2015
In this week's episode: Eva speaks to British architecture writer Owen Hatherley, before catching up with the star Russian conductor Vasily Petrenko ahead of his New Zealand Symphony Orchestra… Audio
Overland - Australian Literary Journal's NZ edition
Prolific tweeter, translator and long-form essay writer Giovanni Tiso is the editor of the latest edition of Australia's leading literary journal Overland. Giovanni and contributors Morgan Godfery and… Audio
Philip Ball: Science Writer
Philip Ball writes on all sorts of science-related topics, including theories of colour, invisibility, and music. Eva catches up with him ahead of his talks at the Auckland Writers Festival and for… Audio
Jolisa Gracewood and Susana Andrew
Editors of Tell You What: 2015, a collection of some of the best recent New Zealand non-fiction writing. Audio
Non-fiction in New Zealand
A panel discussion tracing the extraordinary growth in popularity of locally-produced non-fiction. Two publishers (Peter Dowling from Reed, and Mary Varnham from Awa Press) and an expert in creative… Audio
Telling True Stories
If writing fiction is the art of the possible, then writing non-fiction can be seen as the seen as the art of the probable There seems to be an almost insatiable demand for our non-fiction to be… Audio