{{short description|New Zealand writer}} {{Use dmy dates|date=May 2024}} {{Use New Zealand English|date=May 2024}} {{Infobox person | honorific_prefix = | name = Emma Hislop | honorific_suffix = | image = | alt = | caption = | birth_name = | birth_date = | birth_place = | occupation = Short story writer | education = International Institute of Modern Letters (MCW) | notable_works = ''Ruin'' (2023) | awards = Hubert Church Best First Book Award for Fiction (2024) | spouse = | children = 1 }}
'''Emma Hislop''' is a New Zealand short story writer. Her 2023 collection of short stories, ''Ruin'', won the Hubert Church Best First Book Award for fiction at the 2024 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards.
==Life and career== Hislop is of Kāi Tahu descent and grew up in the Far North District.<ref name="What led">{{cite news |last1=Hislop |first1=Emma |title=What led me to Ruin: Emma Hislop on what inspired her debut short story collection |url=https://thespinoff.co.nz/books/21-12-2023/what-led-me-to-ruin-emma-hislop-on-what-inspired-her-debut-short-story-collection |access-date=17 May 2024 |work=The Spinoff |date=21 December 2023 |language=en}}</ref> When she was 13 her family moved to Taranaki; she moved to London in her twenties and returned to New Zealand in 2006.<ref name="What led"/> {{As of|2024}} she lives in Taranaki.<ref name="Harvey T">{{cite news |last1=Harvey |first1=Helen |title=Taranaki writer wins Best First Book award at Ockhams |url=https://www.stuff.co.nz/culture/350279121/taranaki-writer-wins-best-first-book-award-ockhams |access-date=16 May 2024 |work=Stuff |date=15 May 2024}}</ref>
She completed her master's degree in creative writing at the International Institute of Modern Letters at Victoria University of Wellington in 2013.<ref name="Harvey T"/> Her supervisor for her master's was Emily Perkins.<ref name="Harvey Q">{{cite news |last1=Harvey |first1=Helen |title=Q&A: Taranaki writer Emma Hislop talks about her new book |url=https://www.stuff.co.nz/pou-tiaki/131256920/qa-taranaki-writer-emma-hislop-talks-about-her-new-book |access-date=17 May 2024 |work=Stuff |date=18 February 2023}}</ref> During her course she began working on the manuscript for ''Ruin''.<ref name="Harvey T"/><ref name="What led"/>
Hislop's collection of short stories, ''Ruin'', was published by Te Herenga Waka University Press in 2023.<ref name="Harvey T"/> Hislop has said that the stories "changed significantly" over the ten years between her master's course and publication, but that "the glimmer of truth always stayed the same".<ref name="What led"/> The cover artist for the book was Maiangi Waitai.<ref name="MLT">{{cite web |title=Author Spotlight Q&A: Emma Hislop |url=https://mlt.org.nz/author-qa-emma-hislop/ |website=Māori Literature Trust |access-date=17 May 2024 |language=en-NZ |date=22 March 2023}}</ref> Airini Beautrais, reviewing the work for ''Landfall'', said the book "is not a feel-good book, but a good book for exploring uncomfortable things".<ref>{{cite news |last1=Beautrais |first1=Airini |title=R U Ok? |url=https://landfallreview.com/r-u-ok/ |access-date=17 May 2024 |work=Landfall |date=1 May 2023 |language=en-NZ}}</ref>
In 2023 Hislop successfully sought crowd-funding to support her work on her planned first novel, and spoke to the ''Taranaki Daily News'' to advocate for a universal basic income for artists.<ref name="UBI">{{cite news |last1=Magrin |first1=Federico |title=Taranaki-based writer calls for artists' universal basic income |url=https://www.stuff.co.nz/taranaki-daily-news/news/131821337/taranakibased-writer-calls-for-artists-universal-basic-income |access-date=17 May 2024 |work=Taranaki Daily News |date=21 April 2023}}</ref><ref name="shock">{{cite news |last1=Magrin |first1=Federico |title=Kiwi writer in shock after being selected for international residency |url=https://www.stuff.co.nz/taranaki-daily-news/news/131958183/kiwi-writer-in-shock-after-being-selected-for-international-residency |access-date=17 May 2024 |work=Taranaki Daily News |date=8 May 2023}}</ref>
==Honours and awards== In 2023 Hislop held writer's residencies at Robert Lord Writers’ Cottage in Dunedin<ref name="UBI"/> and at Varuna, The Writers' House in Sydney.<ref name="shock"/>
In May 2024 she was announced as one of six recipients of the Arts Foundation of New Zealand Springboard awards.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Magrin |first1=Federico |title=Taranaki writer receives national award, mentorship |url=https://www.stuff.co.nz/society/350260675/taranaki-writer-receives-national-award-mentorship |access-date=17 May 2024 |work=Taranaki Daily News |date=1 May 2024}}</ref> The prize for the award was $15,000 and a mentorship from Patricia Grace.<ref name="Harvey T"/>
In 2024 ''Ruin'' won the Hubert Church Best First Book Award for Fiction at the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards.<ref name="Harvey T"/> The category convenor said that Hislop's stories demonstrated an "artful control of situation, character, and language to examine the fallout of painful events which largely occur off stage" and that Hislop is a "striking new voice" in New Zealand literature.<ref name="Harvey T"/>
==Selected works== * ''Ruin'' (short story collection, Te Herenga Waka University Press, 2023)<ref name="Harvey T"/>
== References == {{Reflist}}
== External links == * [https://newsroom.co.nz/2022/11/11/short-story-previous-selves-by-emma-hislop-1/ "Previous Selves"], short story by Hislop, published by ''Newsroom'', 11 November 2022 * [https://newsroom.co.nz/2023/06/23/short-story-a-safe-place-by-emma-hislop/ "A Safe Place"], short story by Hislop, published by ''Newsroom'', 23 June 2023
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