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AUTHOR PROFILES 

 

On getting published and my love of history in The Sunday Star Times

What I'm Reading: Author Lauren Keenan | Stuff.co.nz

Māori Literature Trust | Author Spotlight Q&A: Lauren Keenan (mlt.org.nz)

Research Grant Backs Diversity, Provides Validation in The Big Idea

Where I like to write (and confess to being an amoeba luddite) in Stuff.co.nz 

Q&A with Capital Magazine (warning: includes talk of mullets)

Combatting imposter syndrome and other thoughts in Storyo 

Our First Novel: Māori Wāhine Novelist Talks About Where It All Started | Woman+ (womanmagazine.co.nz)

THE IMPORTANCE OF TELLING OUR STORIES

Interview with Jesse Mulligan - RNZ

Stories about us | E-Tangata

THE SPACE BETWEEN

Seven objects that inspired The Space Between | The Spinoff

"The Space Between does something new, something pertinent to right now, and it does it very well indeed." - in the NZ Herald

 

AMORANGI AND MILLIE'S TRIP THROUGH TIME

Review from a fan - in RNZ News

"A perfectly pitched page turner" - in Regional News (plus a bonus dorky photo)

Recommended book to buy for Christmas - The Spinoff 

"... rollicking, funny and enlightening" - on Stuff.co.nz

Parihaka vs the ‘primo’ Tudors: Why history in schools needn’t be a battle | The Spinoff

New children's fiction tells Taranaki's history through time-travelling youngsters - Stuff.co.nz

"A captivating read" - The Sapling 

THE 52 WEEK PROJECT 

"An appealing mix of memoir and psychology" - The New Zealand Herald 

"Wellington woman did one new thing every week for a year," - Stuff.co.nz

"Relatable ... good Kiwi humour" - Newstalk ZB radio interview 

"In a league with Brene Brown, Glennon Doyle, Gretchen Rubin and Elizabeth Gilbert, The 52 Week Project is the perfect book to lead us out of 2020" - Kete Books 

"[M]any lines that are laugh out loud funny. There are plenty others that draw a tear - perhaps partly in recognition." - This NZ Life 

"... a delightful, funny and relatable book ... " - Capsule NZ 

"Lauren is the hero of her own story" - Radio New Zealand interview 

SHORT STORIES

Winner of the 2017 Pikihuia Short Story award

Selected for the 2016 Te Papa Tupu writers incubation programme 

Finalist in the 2019 Best Emerging Writer Pikihuia Short Story award

BLOGS

Blog Modern Mothercraft listed by the New Zealand Herald as being one of New Zealand's top four parenting blogs in 2014

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