Pip Adam is a novelist, short story writer, and reviewer from New Zealand.

Background

Adam was born in

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, New Zealand. She attended the New Zealand Film and Television School in Christchurch before moving to

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. Adam has an MA in Library and Information Studies and an MA in creative writing from

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. In 2012 she completed her PhD, also from Victoria University, supervised by Damien Wilkins. Adam lives with her partner, Brent McIntyre, and their son, Bo Adam, in

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Works

Adam has been published in a number of literary journals including ''Overland'' (2015), ''takahē'' (2014), ''Fire Dials'' (2014), ''Sport'' (2008–2014), ''Landfall'' (2009, 2010), and ''Hue & Cry'' (2007–2013). Adam is a book reviewer on Jesse Mulligan's show broadcast on

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. She also hosts the Better off Read podcast. The photographer Ann Shelton used writing by Adam in her 2015 installation ''House Work: a project about a house''. Adam has taught creative writing at Victoria University of Wellington,

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and at Whitirea New Zealand. With the ''Write Where You Ar''e collective, she has taught writing at the Arohata Women's Prison. She was appointed Creative New Zealand Writer in Residence for 2021 at Te Herenga Waka - Victoria University of Wellington’s International Institute of Modern Letters. In February 2023 it was reported that ''The New Animals'' would be published in the USA.

Awards

''Everything We Hoped For'' won the NZSA Hubert Church Best First Book Award for Fiction at the 2011

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. Adam also received the New Generation Award in the 2012 Macquarie Private Wealth New Zealand Arts Awards from the

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and was a runner up in the 2007 Sunday Star Times Short Story Competition. ''The New Animals'' won New Zealand's top fiction prize, the Acorn Foundation Fiction Prize for 2018 and ''Nothing to See'' was shortlisted for the same award in 2021. ''Audition'' was shortlisted for the Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize for Fiction at the 2024

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. ''Audition'' made longlist for the 2025

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Bibliography

Novels

*''I'm Working on a Building'' (2013) * ''The New Animals'' (2017) * ''Nothing to See'' (2020) * Audition (2023)

Short story collection

*''Everything We Hoped For'' (2010)

References

External links

Better off Read
podcast * {{DEFAULTSORT:Adam, Pip Living people Victoria University of Wellington alumni New Zealand fiction writers New Zealand women novelists New Zealand women short story writers Academic staff of Massey University Writers from Christchurch Writers from Wellington City Year of birth missing (living people) International Institute of Modern Letters alumni