From Tracy Farr’s new work Wonderland, to Mary McCallum’s new poems Tackling the hens, to Notes to John by the late Joan Didion, find out what I’ve been reading in the piece written for The Post on 8 June 2025.
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Latest book – The Midnight Plane: Selected and new poems by Dame Fiona Kidman
The Midnight Plane: Selected and new poems
May 2025
Otago University Press
My latest book The Midnight Plane: Selected and new poems was launched at Unity Books, Wellington, on 29 May, by Harriet Allan. at Unity Books, Wellington.
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Latest book: So Far, For Now
So Far, For Now: More of my life stories, a catch-up since the last memoir, published about ten years ago. These have been busy years, marked by the writing of more books, the birth of family, widowhood, political involvement, travel, leading writing workshops, grief and joy in near equal measure.
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CISS Irish Writers Fellowship
Fiona was awarded the inaugural CISS Irish Writers Fellowship offered by the Centre for Irish and Scottish Studies at the University of Otago, and took up this exciting opportunity in Dunedin during September and October 2021.. “I was astonished by my good fortune to be invited to take up the Irish Writers Fellowship. Being of Irish descent, …
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New book: All the Way to Summer: stories of love and longing
All the Way to Summer: stories of love and longing is a collection that celebrates a long history of my storytelling; it brings together a variety of my previously published stories, as well as several that are new or previously uncollected. They are stories about love, one way and another, not always happy but always life changing.
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This Mortal Boy wins Ngaio Marsh Award for New Zealand crime writing
This Mortal Boy won the prize for the best novel at the 2019 Ngaio Marsh Awards for New Zealand crime writing. Dame Fiona received a trophy, a special edition of a Dame Ngaio book, and $1,000 courtesy of WORD Christchurch.
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Winner: 2019 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards
This Mortal Boy won the $53,000 Acorn Foundation Fiction Prize at the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards
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Contributor to 4 new books in 2018
The Writing Life, by Deborah Shepherd (Massey University Press) Interviews with twelve New Zealand writers (interview)
Women Now, the Legacy of Female Suffrage, ed. Bronwyn Labrum, Te Papa Press (essay, Playing with Fire)
The Friday Poem, ed Steve Braunias, Luncheon Sausage Books (poem, Man Weeping)
A Conscientious Bloody Clergyman, The diaries of Reverend William Levack 1952–1964, curated by the Waipu Museum Trust (essay, 1954 Reflections)
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Visit to Frankfurt Book Fair 2016
Visit to Frankfurt Book Fair 2016, funded by Creative New Zealand in association with PANZ. Report from Fiona Kidman
I would like to express my appreciation for the opportunity to attend the Frankfurt Book Fair. It was a first for me and offered a major and enriching experience. My thanks go to Creative New Zealand for funding the trip, to PANZ staff for their meticulous organisation, and to
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New fiction title, All Day at the Movies
My new novel is called All day at the movies. I describe it as an ‘episodic novel’ that follows the fortunes of one family from the 1951 waterfront strike to 2015.
I talk about it and my other books in an interview…
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