This past weekend, I attended the New Zealand Society of Authors’ (NZSA) Writing Roadshow — a series of lectures, discussions, and workshops about all things writing.

I’ve attempted to attend a few different writing conferences over the past two years, but all were canceled because of different Covid-19 outbreaks. I booked to go to the NZSA one a couple months ago with high hopes that it would go ahead. I was not disappointed.

It was refreshing to be surrounded by authors, all of us at ...