Karyn Hay’s new podcast looks at what makes writers tick. She asks local and international writers, including Sam Hunt, and Andrew Fagan to select a book, poem, song lyric that has influenced them, to do a reading from that work and break it down.
What inspires these writers, and what makes particular pieces of writing so very good? Alexa Forbes turns the tables on Karyn to learn about the motivations behind her varied career.
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Karyn Hay
Karyn Hay is an award-winning novelist and broadcaster: her debut novel Emerald Budgies won the New Zealand Society of Authors Hubert Church Best First Book Award in the Montana New Zealand Book Awards in 2001. She was awarded a Frank Sargeson Fellowship in 2004; and is a literary advisor to the Frank Sargeson Trust, and mentor for the New Zealand Society of Authors. The March Of The Foxgloves was published in December 2016 and was a No.1 bestseller on the New Zealand Fiction list. Her new novel Winged Helmet, White Horse was published in November 2018 to critical acclaim.
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Alexa Forbes
Alexa Forbes arrived in Tāhuna Queenstown in 1986 and enjoyed careers in music, journalism, radio announcing and public relations before retraining in sustainability and tertiary education. A fan of arts, sports, community, the environment and the interconnectedness of all things, Alexa works at Otago Polytechnic, and also represents environment and community as a regional councillor.
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