What does it mean to enjoy writing? What does it mean to be creative? Like, these are questions that come up when you’re trying to create something great. Or something fun. Or just something at all, really. Like academia – my world for the past four years – writing is a lot of time and […]

As the name ‘young adult’ suggests, YA is a book category targeted towards young people. For the sake of argument, let’s say 25 years and below – although there’s definitely a wider perception that it’s made purely for high schoolers. As a 21-year-old, I grew up in the dystopian golden age of YA. The Hunger […]

There’s a soft amount of pressure, being the first person on the Te Papa Tupu program to release their blog post. I don’t really know what people are expecting. A literary masterpiece. Something to rival William Shakespeare or Charles Dickens or Colleen Hoover (the three greatest writers of all time, unquestionably, uncontroversially). Luckily for me […]