Notes

Leading NZ writers choose their favourite stories and explain why.



Anderson, Barbara : The girls

Bilbrough, Norman : Down on the corner

Burgess, Linda : Bike ride

Chidgey, Catherine : The sundial of human involvement

Cranna, John : History for Berliners

Farrell, Fiona : Heads or tails

Grace, Patricia : The day of the egg

Haley, Russell : Press play until you find silence

Hulme, Keri : Nightsong for the shining cuckoo

Ihimaera, Witi : Life and death in Calcutta

Johnston, Christine : Funeral shoes

Kidman, Fiona : The whiteness

Koea, Shonagh : Longing

Marshall, Owen : Heating the world

Metcalfe, Rowan : Perfume

Morrissey, Michael : Existential kissing

Nixon, Carl : My father running with a dead boy

O'Sullivan, Vincent : Success, and the oral archive

Perkins, Emily : We're here, Anderson says

Quigley, Sarah : Only connect

Stead, C.K. : A short history of New Zealand

Taylor, Apirana : Parareka

Wells, Peter : The friendly stranger

Wendt, Albert : The eyes have it