New Aotearoa Gothic
Aotearoa has a long-held gothic tradition in our literature, art, film and music. There’s a fresh take rising, from the rural gothic of Laura Vincent’s Hood’s Landing, the gothic grandeur of Dunedin’s St Paul’s Cathedral in Molly Crighton’s The Body and the Blood, to the gothic underbelly of domestic life in Laura Borrowdale’s Dead Ends. They sit down with Dracula obsessive Noelle McCarthy (Stakes) to discuss.
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Laura Vincent
Laura Vincent (Ngāti Māhanga, Ngāpuhi) is an author whose work spans fiction, poetry and food writing. She has writte
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Molly Crighton
Molly Crighton a UK-born writer living in Ōtepoti Dunedin. She studied English and Classics at Ōtākou Whakaihu Waka and
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Laura Borrowdale
Laura Borrowdale is a writer and educator from Ōtautahi, Christchurch. Her second collection of stories, Dead Ends, was
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Noelle McCarthy
Noelle McCarthy is an author, broadcaster and producer. Her latest memoir Stakes is an account of a life-long obsession
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