Another riveting talk by Megan Dunn. Thanks Auckland Writers Festival!

How I got into a pickle...have popped my Speakers Corner talk for Auckland Writers Festival on my website for those who asked. We need to talk about conceptual art... megandunn.org/2022/08/29/how…

"Dorothy Parker in Courtney Love army boots; Eve Babitz with an Auckland accent..." I'll take it. Wonderful to awake to this review of my book, by James Cook on @review31. Thank you. review31.co.uk/article/view/8…

I wrote about Megan Dunn's moving, funny, multi-layered memoir 'Things I Learned at Art School' Penguin Books NZ for Review 31 review31.co.uk/article/view/8…

"Its got to relate to the fact that we're 70% water" Megan Dunn with Te Pātaka Toi Adam Art Gallery on why we are so obsessed with mermaids rnz.co.nz/national/progr…

In this week's Te Hikoi Toi Thomasin Sleigh on the fascinating Megan Dunn and Lucien Rizos shows Te Pātaka Toi Adam Art Gallery stuff.co.nz/entertainment/…

There are a few places left on the prose poetry workshop I'll be teaching up in Waikanae over the next couple of Saturdays! writerspractice.nz/events/the-hyb…

Returning to the 2023 Kāpiti Writers’ Retreat is writer and teacher, Rebecca Priestley. Join Rebecca for her workshop, 'Writing about nature while the world is burning'. writerspractice.nz/the-kapiti-wri…

Do you like poems & mermaids? Midday this Thursday Te Pātaka Toi Adam Art Gallery is final event in my show, talking with artist and poet Jessica Hinerangi Thompson- Carr aka the Māori Mermaid (Jessica Hinerangi on insta). One of my last events as @modernletters writer in residence! Come!

Wrote and drew this deeply personal comic about writing my deeply personal memoir for Guardian Australia. I've had a lot of private conversations with authors where people have shared similar anxieties, it's good to talk about it openly :)

Launching Friday Poem 2023 with the one and only Selina Tusitala Marsh. She wrote this for the Frida exhibition at Auckland Art Gallery. thespinoff.co.nz/books/13-01-20…

I wrote about the wonderful but elusive Dunedin Ōtepoti based painter Joe L'Estrange whose survey is on now Hocken Collections. No one does better cats than L'Estrange! Go see it, catalogue is also richly illustrated. Extract on Newsroom newsroom.co.nz/readingroom/du…

More tips from this essay: 11. If you get stuck, step away. Come back and write by hand -- quickly. 12. Read your work aloud, to yourself, to others. 13. Get a good human voice in your story. Let that person speak early. niemanstoryboard.org/stories/roy-pe…

Megan Dunn on two interesting museum collection shows The Dowse Art Museum & @Auckartgal rnz.co.nz/national/progr…

"My dolls are about memories." Megan Dunn takes us inside a Barbie haven. Gorgeously photographed by Yvonne Todd thepost.co.nz/a/wellbeing/35…

Surfacing to say The Mermaid Chronicles has taken me 10 years but is now here! Epic thanks to publisher Claire Murdoch & to the MANY mers (and whale watchers) I've heard each to each Hannah Fraser MeduSirena Mermaid Linden Philip Hoare & to my OG mermaid Daryl Hannah X

Our fabulous Ladies' Liter-Tea is looking even more fabulous than usual! Tickets and programme here - womensbookshop.co.nz/pages/8333-Lad…

Congratulations to all Ockham NZ Book Awards General Non-Fiction longlisters, with special mention to ANZL member Megan Dunn for her book The Mermaid Chronicles: A Midlife Mer-moir. Best of luck for the next round! #theockhams