ANNA MACKENZIE

Auckland - three weather extremes in an hour, traffic mayhem even on a Sunday, every second retail outlet an eatery. I had a full...

Festivals are fun. There's the standing on a stage in front of an audience of hundreds with the opportunity to talk about your work....

I had a day-long meeting in Auckland yesterday (I know: Sunday. It’s a writer’s life…). A lot of my meetings these days are online or...

Late July heralded Evie's official arrival into the world (though she'd been with me far longer!). The launch, held in the beautiful...

​ Launching a new book is an exciting thing, a beginning but also an ending. It marks the moment when the job is truly complete, and...

Evie is 18 and eager to tell you her story. Astonishing to think she was born in both 1897 and 2011 (when I first began thinking about...

You know it's a bad week when the courier loses your corrected page proofs two days from final sign-off, when material for a magazine you...

When I was a child my family marked Anzac Day, 25 April, by climbing to the trig station on the hill behind our house. It was steep and –...