1. Titles are important. Well, they are to me. This one is an optimistic title, because it assumes I’ve learned something—anything at all—and at art school of all places, where I am quite sure I went to learn nothing—and got close—when I think back to art school and what it […]
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The Mermaid Chronicles: A Midlife Mer-moir is my latest book published by Penguin Random House New Zealand on August 13, 2024. Listen to my feature interview with Kathryn Ryan on RNZ Nine to Noon. The Mermaid Chronicles is about my mid-life calling to meet the real mermaids. It’s been a […]
Things I Learned at Art School was released on August 24th, 2021, in lockdown. I’ve only recently managed to have a flurry of in-person events, including a reading at Unity Books Wellington on Thursday November 18th. I asked Harry Ricketts to intro me for good reasons revealed below. His speech, […]
MY PUBLISHER SAYS: From the writer who brought you Tinderbox, a book about a woman trying to write a book, comes Things I Learned at Art School, a memoir by a woman who has never kept a diary. Part memoir, part essay collection, Megan Dunn’s ingenious, moving, hilariously personal Things I Learned at […]