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 […]
Tinderbox
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The pencil was on loan from Waitakere College. It wasn’t until I was tapping the model’s redhead with it—as though she was an egg I might crack—that I felt things were working. The pencil became the irritant. As writing is often an irritant for me. Each point bearing down on […]
Ahoy, reader! On November 9th 2017, a small, obscure red paperback called Tinderbox was published. It was about a woman who tried to rewrite Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 from the perspective of the female characters and failed. It was also about a woman who worked as a bookseller for doomed chain bookstore Borders (RIP) […]
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 […]
In early 2018 I had a Wellington launch event for my first book Tinderbox at City Gallery. Thanks to all who attended. If you weren’t there here are the speeches. First from Robert Leonard, Chief Curator of City Gallery and then below from yours truly… Robert’s Introduction I’m introducing Megan […]
Here’s the speech I read out at the launch of Tinderbox, my first book, in London, November 2017. When I was writing Tinderbox I occasionally read things out loud to my partner. Then I asked: Does this sound stupid? Does this make sense? Is it boring? So if you have […]
My first book Tinderbox has been published by Galley Beggar Press, UK. It is about the end of the Borders book chain, Julie Christie and me – but not necessarily in that order. It is also about Ray Bradbury, censorship and the end of the world – but not necessarily in […]