Pip Adam

Get a taste of Mincemeat in today's edition of The Post! 🔪🥩 "When I was seven years old, I attacked the kitchen wall with a cleaver." Mincemeat is officially published next week but might hit shops early 👀 #MincemeatNovel #pukapuka www.thepost.co.nz/culture/3611...

People are so ready for this to be over. We launch books here. We vote here

A VERY SAD VOTING SUPPRESSION DAY TO THOSE OF YOU ASSUREDLY DO NOT CELEBRATE! #NZPol

Ripping my freaking hair out.

Heidi Wong's Halloween costume (instagram) is as the Shimmer from the Annihilation movie, with a purse using my novel. Really clever, looks good affixed to the purse.

i love my neighborhood. my friend is on the street stopping everyone who passes to say, 'Hi. You're enrolled, eh?' It feels fucking desperate out there but you know candle in storm-times.

Excited (and nervous) to be sharing BLACK SHEEPS with our first NZ audiences tonight! Premiere screening, followed by actual paying customers for the opening of TERROR-FI Film Fest. We’re so proud of this bonkers film and can’t wait for people to see it! Opens NZ nationwide November 12.

Shout out to all the other people working on Labour Weekend because November is the biggest marking month of the year. Bahaaahaaha. Always cracks me up.

I still think AI systems should be paying me 150k per copyright violation. People keep asking me 'what laws do we need for AI?' and I keep saying 'enforce the fucking ones we already have!' There are copyright laws that should be being enforced right now that just... aren't. B/c it's billionaires.

Massive thanks to @bookhavennz.bsky.social for their support and work. Please buy from independent book shops. <3

Congratulations pip! The 2026 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize is a true accolade of the strength of Audition - a book that takes us on a journey: a journey of exploration of ideas of justice & prison abolition, it takes us to worlds of other possibilities. Thank you @pipadam.bsky.social for such a book.

The Green Party have the evidence based policies that would deal with all the problems facing this country. Give them your party vote. You won't regret it #nzpol

Jo Randerson interviews Pip Adam about Audition, the novel that has just won a major international award

All Hipkins should have said You’re distracting from the big issues all people in New Zealand have a story to tell and we are here to listen to all people If pushed- he replies Key & Muldoon did it That’s why he’s not a leader leaders can explain a complex issue simply and he couldn’t 

it should be noted that Hipkins throwing his candidates and caucus under the bus is now 2 for 2 in what are likely to have been two of the most important elections in decades

Oo. Oo. Now do Luxon.

I feel so much sympathy and aroha for Kerrin. I can’t really form coherent thoughts. Family lives and histories are never clean. I wrote this almost 10 years ago, and it seems especially relevant today x thespinoff.co.nz/atea/12-11-2... thespinoff.co.nz/atea/12-11-2...

"The men in the photograph, who were abused by the Crown as children and have since been told that the clothing they wear is itself an offence, watched a woman be publicly destroyed for standing in a room with them and telling them that their vote could change the government."

“Every Māori politician in this country gets asked, sooner or later, to account for a relationship no Pākehā politician is ever asked about”—a question framed by those who “have never had to explain their own cousins to a camera.” @mohanjdutt.bsky.social culture-centered.blogspot.com/2026/10/the-...

Year after year Labour disrespect & sacrifice their Māori MPs & voters cause they think they can capture the white middle. Imagine if Hipkins' had made the 'racist element' comments when he was first asked about gangs& the election? It's a heartbreaking owngoal. www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

Today @thespinoff.bsky.social: a conversation between Jo Randerson and @pipadam.bsky.social about "Audition" that was first published in 2023, upon the novel's release: thespinoff.co.nz/culture/23-0...

Now this is some long weekend news you can use. pip adam's Ursula Le Guin Prize for Fiction winning book Audition is available now on Libby. libbyapp.com/search/awa/s... (thanks Mike - and @pipadam.bsky.social ) ^DR

Like clockwork, the govt that has done more to destroy employment than any other in decades is trying to get re-elected by blaming people for being unemployed. No solutions, only punishment. Pure cynicism. www.stuff.co.nz/politics/361...

So... how do I have a better knowledge of Hipkins' caucus & campaign than he does? & if I don't... Hipkins walked into this KNOWING what he was doing & effectively setting himself up, again, to attack wāhine māori in his OWN PARTY needed to be gone 3 years ago. he's a singular vector for failure

We're in a society now where leaders can lie like Trump and the journos all stand around watching nonchalantly #newzealand

Who wins when #NZ Healthcare is privatised? 54 FTE nurses have been hired this term while thousands hired under Labour. Simeon transferred hundreds of millions from public to private healthcare. And froze doctor hires for over a year. 1News: All governments at fault. Why ignore cause & effect?

Reading Audition, I couldn't help but think of Leguin. Especially the shobies, in a fisherman of the inland sea. So much unsettling and hope.

My acceptance speech was filmed in the library so THANK YOU!!!

You can listen to @pipadam.bsky.social’s (very moving!) acceptance speech here www.ursulakleguin.com/prize26

I love Our Message Remains so much. 🩷

Here’s today’s Chorus. I’ve opened it up for all. National backers say Luxon would be rolled if he refused to deal with Opportunity; Erica Stanford (or Mark Mitchell) would then negotiate to be PM, if Willis & Bishop missed list seats, as expected #nzpol thekaka.substack.com/p/will-we-ha...

You can read the panel's full statement, and watch Adam's acceptance speech, here: www.ursulakleguin.com/prize26

Has everyone but me forgotten that Luxon initially ruled out NZ First in 2023 before flip flopping when it became obvious to even him he would need them to form a government? #NZPol

So freaking grateful to smart and compassionate people. THANK YOU!!

This might be my proudest ever day as an agent? An author who has always been an absolute dream to work with…& writes book after extraordinary book. Pip I am just thrilled for you!

Thank you!!!!!!

Just keep stabbing the nation in the brain

📚 #NZ author wins top imaginative fiction prize 😊 – Well done @pipadam.bsky.social ! The award honours authors who, “can imagine real grounds for hope and see alternatives to how we live now.” #booksky

The announcement has begun!

An ENORMOUS congratulations to Pip Adam, this year's winner of the Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction for her novel AUDITION! 🚀🚀🚀 We couldn't be happier! Pip is a monumental talent and a force of good in the world. Huge thanks to the judges and everyone at @ursulakleguin.com ♥️ @pipadam.bsky.social

Congratulations to pip adam @pipadam.bsky.social and our friends at @coffeehousepress.bsky.social for winning the Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction for pip's novel Audition! We are thrilled to announce that Dorothy will be publishing Pip’s next novel, kluge, in the Fall of 2027!

Wowee! Congratulations Pip @pipadam.bsky.social ❤️❤️❤️

It's absolutely impossible to express how much this means and how unbelievable it seems.