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PIP ADAM gained an MA in Creative Writing with Distinction from Victoria University in 2007. Her work has appeared in Sport, Glottis, Turbine, Lumiere Reader, Hue & Cry, Landfall and Blackmail Press. Her work has also appeared in publications produced in conjunction with two exhibitions at the Wellington City Art Gallery and her reviews have appeared in Metro. She is currently working toward her PhD Creative Writing at Victoria University. Her PhD project explores how engineers describe the built environment. She is using this research to write stories about our relationships with built forms and the structures that hold them up.

Everything We Hoped For won the NZ Post Best First Book Award in 2011 and is an unusually strong first book, dist ...more

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	Audition 3.52 avg rating — 731 ratings — published 2023 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Nothing to See 3.82 avg rating — 528 ratings — published 2020 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The New Animals 3.28 avg rating — 520 ratings — published 2017 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	I'm Working on a Building 3.78 avg rating — 93 ratings — published 2013 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Everything We Hoped For 4.19 avg rating — 63 ratings — published 2010 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Naar de stad by Sanneke van Hassel (Editor), Annelies Verbeke (Editor), Mehmet Zaman Saçlıoğlu 3.90 avg rating — 42 ratings — published 2012 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	HEAT (Series 3 Number 2) by Alexandra Christie (Editor), Helen Oyeyemi (Goodreads Author), Pip Adam (Goodreads Author) 3.57 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2022 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Sport 39 by Vincent O'Sullivan, Terry Sturm, Kirsten McDougall 4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2011	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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“The only thing that looked at her was the dispassionate sky and it looked at everything with the same gaze.”
― Pip Adam, The New Animals

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“We were taught to go a long way away,” Stanley says. “But there is no advised destination. We were adventurers. Setting out.”
“Like Cook,” Drew says. “A teacher said it in the classroom. It didn’t go down well.”
"Cook's a c--t", Stanley says”
― Pip Adam, Audition

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