Mandy Hager is an award-winning writer and author. In 2019 she received the Storylines Margaret Mahy Medal, for life-time achievement and a distinguished contribution to NZ’s literature for young people. She has also been awarded the 2012 Beatson Fellowship, the 2014 Katherine Mansfield Menton Fellowship and the 2015 Waikato University Writer in Residence.

In 2015 her novel Singing Home the Whale was named Margaret Mahy Book of the Year in the NZ Book Awards for Children and Young Adults. She also writes adult fiction, short stories, non-fiction, educational resources, blogs and articles, and tutored the Novel Course at Whitireia for ten years.

Verb Festival 2021 appearances:
Writing Resistance: The Problem with Fairytales, Sat 6 Nov, 1pm.

Books