pip adam

pip adam is a Queer, Tangata Tiriti writer of five novels: kluge (2026), Audition (2023), Nothing to See (2020), The New Animals (2017) and I'm Working on a Building (2013); and the short story collection Everything We Hoped For (2010). She makes the Better off Read podcast in which she speaks with writers and artists about making and working. pip lives in Te Whanganui-a-Tara. Her novels have been published in Australia, Spain, the United Kingdom and the United States of America.

Photo credit Rachel Lynch

Verb Readers & Writers Festival 2026 events pip adam features in:

Verb Showcase: If This Finds You
That’s What She Said: Playing with Dialogue with pip adam
Don’t Worry, Tech will Save Us: A Verb Debate