Pip Adam’s writing has been described as ‘a kind of post-post modern fiction – nothing meta, no irony, no narrative arc, no insights or character transformations – the stories are flatline and searing and real’ (Helen Lehndorf, Palmerston North Library).
Pip Adam is the author of four novels: Audition (2023), Nothing to See (2020), which was shortlisted for the Acorn Prize for Fiction, The New Animals (2017), which won the Acorn Foundation Prize for Fiction, and I'm Working on a Building (2013); and the short story collection Everything We Hoped For (2010), which won the NZSA Hubert Church Best First Book Award for Fiction in 2011.
Pip's work has appeared in literary journals and anthologies in New Zealand and overseas. In 2012 she received an Arts Foundation of New Zealand New Generation Award.
Pip has facilitated writing workshops in universities and other settings, including with people affected by crime in prisons and communities.
She makes the Better off Read podcast, where she talks with authors about writing and reading.
'In the vanguard of emerging New Zealand writers I’d like to gesture in the direction of Pip Adam, who is PoMo, but PoMo like you’ve never seen it before because Adam out-Hemingway’s Hemingway. She strips away all the literary devices – all the pretentious writing about writing, the irony, the character development, figures of speech or satisfyingly predictable narrative arc – leaving the stark bones and raw meat of scorching cold realism. Rather than providing the emotional insights, her writing draws them out of you. Everything We Hoped For (VUP 2010) and the slightly surreal engineering-made-sexy I’m Working on a Building (VUP 2013) are game changing.' - Andrew Paul Wood, 'Beyond an Angel at my Table: Contemporary Writing in Aotearoa' in Sydney Review of Books
A Brief History of Pip Adam by Justine Jungersen-Smith, NewsRoom
Pip Adam's latest novel is a 'love song' to Auckland by Rosabel Tan in Paperboy
The Forces Running Through: A Conversation with Pip Adam by Kiran Dass in The Pantograph Punch
Pip Adam: Hairdressing as a Metaphor for Narrative Form by Jackson Nieuwland
Pip on Bluesky @pipadam.bsky.social
Pip on Instagram
Pip Adam is the author of four novels: Audition (2023), Nothing to See (2020), which was shortlisted for the Acorn Prize for Fiction, The New Animals (2017), which won the Acorn Foundation Prize for Fiction, and I'm Working on a Building (2013); and the short story collection Everything We Hoped For (2010), which won the NZSA Hubert Church Best First Book Award for Fiction in 2011.
Pip's work has appeared in literary journals and anthologies in New Zealand and overseas. In 2012 she received an Arts Foundation of New Zealand New Generation Award.
Pip has facilitated writing workshops in universities and other settings, including with people affected by crime in prisons and communities.
She makes the Better off Read podcast, where she talks with authors about writing and reading.
'In the vanguard of emerging New Zealand writers I’d like to gesture in the direction of Pip Adam, who is PoMo, but PoMo like you’ve never seen it before because Adam out-Hemingway’s Hemingway. She strips away all the literary devices – all the pretentious writing about writing, the irony, the character development, figures of speech or satisfyingly predictable narrative arc – leaving the stark bones and raw meat of scorching cold realism. Rather than providing the emotional insights, her writing draws them out of you. Everything We Hoped For (VUP 2010) and the slightly surreal engineering-made-sexy I’m Working on a Building (VUP 2013) are game changing.' - Andrew Paul Wood, 'Beyond an Angel at my Table: Contemporary Writing in Aotearoa' in Sydney Review of Books
A Brief History of Pip Adam by Justine Jungersen-Smith, NewsRoom
Pip Adam's latest novel is a 'love song' to Auckland by Rosabel Tan in Paperboy
The Forces Running Through: A Conversation with Pip Adam by Kiran Dass in The Pantograph Punch
Pip Adam: Hairdressing as a Metaphor for Narrative Form by Jackson Nieuwland
Pip on Bluesky @pipadam.bsky.social
Pip on Instagram