Authors

Liza Adams takes a project-based approach to teaching the skills you will need to begin your journey in the art of sculpting with wool. You will create something meaningful from your very first project, and learn from additional projects all you need to know to needle felt whatever takes your fancy.

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Paul Adamson is the author of the award-winning Beginners Guide to Hunting and Fishing in New Zealand (2014), a non-fiction book for children which shares his enthusiasm for the great outdoors and encourages readers and their families to get active and have adventures. Paul has a BA in Education and a Postgraduate Diploma in Counselling, has worked as an educator, a school principal and counsellor, and is currently Head of Guidance at Wairarapa College. He is an expert on boys in education and has spoken on the subject at several international conferences. He imparted his love of the outdoors to his sons James and Tom, and now loves putting in time with grandchildren Archie and Willow. Paul lives with his wife Suzie on their olive grove in Masterton with their chooks, ducks and labradors Pip and Elsie.

Born in Auckland in 1934, Fleur Adcock is a New Zealand poet, editor and translator who resides in Britain. She has published many collections of poems, and her awards include the 1961 Festival of Wellington Poetry Award, the Jessie Mackay Prize in 1968 and 1972, the Buckland Award in 1968 and 1979, the New Zealand National Book Award in 1984, an OBE in 1986, the Queen’s Gold Medal for Poetry in 2006, and a CNZM for services to literature in 2008.

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Nikki Addison is from West Auckland, New Zealand. She has a Master of Arts in English and began her career as a magazine journalist. She loves cats, coffee and hiking, and her hero is Barack Obama. The inspiration for The Year I Turned Thirty came after she quit her job and embarked on a seven-month road trip across the United States in 2022. Many of the events in the book are based on real life.

Amy Adeney is a teacher with a special interest in Literacy education in the early years. She writes books, hosts Storytime and runs workshops as part of her mission to inspire in children a love of reading. Amy Calautti loved to draw from a young age and often made up games based around drawing to entertain her younger brother and cousins. Amy now lives with her small tribe of humans who inspire her every day.

Vicky Adin is a New Zealand author living on the North Shore of Auckland within walking distance of the beach, the coffee shops and inspiration. Three words sum up her passion in life: family, history and language. After decades of genealogical research and a life-long love affair with words (she actually enjoyed writing essays at school) she combined these skills to write poignant novels. By smoothly weaving family and history together, based on real people, with real experiences, she makes the past come alive. She is an award-winning author, whose writing has been compared with that of Catherine Cookson, and who is a recipient of a Gold Standard Quality Mark, two Indie B.R.A.G medallions and two Chill with a Book Readers' Awards for other novels.

Jenny Sew Hoy Agnew, born in Dunedin, was raised speaking Cantonese; she didn't learn English until she started school. Graduating from the University of Otago with a languages degree, she became a high school teacher. A great-great-granddaughter of Choie Sew Hoy, and fifth generation New Zealander, Jenny has traced the history of her Cantonese ancestors from Guangdong, China, to Melbourne, Australia, to Central Otago, New Zealand. Trevor Agnew has a lifelong passion for New Zealand history. As an award-winning writer and teacher, he has had a wide range of articles and reviews published in New Zealand and Australia. He has combined his interests and skills to help honour a remarkable man in this new history.

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Leonie Agnew may or may not be living in South America with a poodle named Juan. She informs us that her days are spent drinking sangrias and teaching Juan how to bark in Spanish, while trading sombreros on the black market via her iPad. However, our sources have located her in Auckland, New Zealand. They claim she is an award-winning children's author, a former copywriter, and currently moonlights as a primary school teacher. It is possible she has a tendency to make things up. This is called lying, unless you write it down - then it is pleasantly referred to as being an author.