# Pip Adam

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{{Use dmy dates|date=November 2017}}
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| birth_place = [Christchurch](/source/Christchurch), New Zealand
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| alma_mater = [Victoria University of Wellington](/source/Victoria_University_of_Wellington)
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| notableworks = ''Everything We Hoped For'', ''I’m Working On A Building'', ''The New Animals'', ''Nothing To See''
| awards = NZSA Hubert Church Best First Book Award for Fiction, New Generation Award, [Acorn Foundation Fiction Prize](/source/Acorn_Foundation_Fiction_Prize)
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'''Pip Adam''' is a novelist, short story writer, and reviewer from New Zealand.

== Background ==
Adam was born in [Christchurch](/source/Christchurch), New Zealand. She attended the [New Zealand Film and Television School](/source/New_Zealand_Film_and_Television_School) in Christchurch before moving to [Dunedin](/source/Dunedin). Adam has an MA in Library and Information Studies<ref name=":0">{{Cite news|url=http://www.thearts.co.nz/artists/pip-adam|title=Pip Adam|date=26 September 2015|work=The Arts Foundation|access-date=25 November 2017}}</ref> and an MA in creative writing from [Victoria University of Wellington](/source/Victoria_University_of_Wellington).<ref>{{cite thesis |last=Adam |first=Pip |year=2011 |type=Masters thesis |title=Everything we hoped for |publisher=Open Access Repository Victoria University of Wellington, Victoria University of Wellington |doi=10.26686/wgtn.14551287 |url=https://openaccess.wgtn.ac.nz/articles/thesis/Everything_We_Hoped_For/14551287/1|doi-access=free |url-access=subscription }}</ref> In 2012 she completed her PhD, also from Victoria University, supervised by [Damien Wilkins](/source/Damien_Wilkins_(writer)).<ref name=":1">{{Cite news|url=http://www.anzliterature.com/member/pip-adam/|title=Pip Adam|work=Academy of New Zealand Literature|access-date=25 November 2017|language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{cite thesis |last=Adam |first=Pip |year=2012 |type=Doctoral thesis |title=At the Service of the Unusual: Ways to Write the Built Environment |publisher=Open Access Repository Victoria University of Wellington, Victoria University of Wellington |doi=10.26686/wgtn.14551299 |url=https://openaccess.wgtn.ac.nz/articles/thesis/At_the_Service_of_the_Unusual_Ways_to_Write_the_Built_Environment/14551299/1|doi-access=free }}</ref>

Adam lives with her partner, Brent McIntyre, and their son, Bo Adam, in [Wellington](/source/Wellington).<ref name=":0" />

== Works ==

Adam has been published in a number of literary journals including ''Overland'' (2015),<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://overland.org.au/author/pip-adam/|title=Pip Adam|work=Overland literary journal|access-date=25 November 2017|language=en-US}}</ref> ''takahē'' (2014),<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.takahe.org.nz/t81/|title=takahē 81 – April 2014|date=3 December 2015|work=takahē magazine|access-date=25 November 2017|language=en-NZ}}</ref> ''Fire Dials'' (2014),<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://fivedials.com/files/fivedials_no32.pdf|title=Five Dials #32|website=Five Dials|access-date=25 November 2017}}</ref> ''Sport'' (2008–2014),<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.sportmagazine.co.nz/past-issues/sport-44-contributors/pip-adam|title=Pip Adam|date=28 February 2016|work=Sport|access-date=25 November 2017|language=en-US}}</ref> [''Landfall''](/source/Landfall_(journal)) (2009, 2010), and ''Hue & Cry'' (2007–2013).<ref name=":1" />

Adam is a book reviewer on [Jesse Mulligan's](/source/Jesse_Mulligan) show broadcast on [Radio New Zealand](/source/Radio_New_Zealand).<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.radionz.co.nz/national/programmes/afternoons/audio/2018622436/book-critic-pip-adam|title=Book critic Pip Adam|date=21 November 2017|work=[Radio New Zealand](/source/Radio_New_Zealand) |access-date=25 November 2017|language=en-nz}}</ref> She also hosts the Better off Read podcast.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://betterreadnz.wordpress.com|title=Better off Read|website=Better off Read|language=en-US|access-date=25 November 2017}}</ref>

The photographer [Ann Shelton](/source/Ann_Shelton_(photographer)) used writing by Adam in her 2015 installation ''House Work: a project about a house''.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.annshelton.com/works/house-work|title=house work|website=Ann Shelton|access-date=25 November 2017}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://enjoy.org.nz/house-work|title=House Work|website=Enjoy Gallery|access-date=25 November 2017}}</ref>

Adam has taught creative writing at Victoria University of Wellington, [Massey University](/source/Massey_University)<ref name=":0" /><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.massey.ac.nz/massey/expertise/profile.cfm?stref=763150&_ga=2.123680008.229461979.1511623867-1685595084.1511623866|title=Pip Adam – Senior Tutor|website=Massey University|language=en|access-date=25 November 2017}}</ref> and at [Whitirea New Zealand](/source/Whitireia_New_Zealand). With the ''Write Where You Ar''e collective, she has taught writing at the [Arohata Women's Prison](/source/List_of_prisons_in_New_Zealand).<ref name=":1" />

She was appointed Creative New Zealand Writer in Residence for 2021 at Te Herenga Waka - Victoria University of Wellington’s International Institute of Modern Letters.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2020-10-23 |title=Pip Adam to be writer in residence at VUW in 2021 |url=https://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/books/300137718/pip-adam-to-be-writer-in-residence-at-vuw-in-2021 |access-date=2023-01-14 |website=[Stuff](/source/Stuff_(website)) |language=en}}</ref> In February 2023 it was reported that ''The New Animals'' would be published in the USA.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Braunias |first1=Steve |title=Kirsten goes to London |url=https://www.newsroom.co.nz/kirsten-goes-to-london |access-date=7 February 2023 |work=Newsroom |date=7 February 2023 |language=en-AU}}</ref>

== Awards ==

''Everything We Hoped For'' won the NZSA Hubert Church Best First Book Award for Fiction at the 2011 [New Zealand Post Book Awards](/source/New_Zealand_Post_Book_Awards).<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.nzbookawards.nz/new-zealand-book-awards/past-winners-by-author/|title=Past Winners by Author|website=New Zealand Book Awards Trust|access-date=25 November 2017}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Best First Books |url=https://www.anzliterature.com/feature/best-first-books/ |access-date=2023-02-24 |website=Academy of New Zealand Literature |language=en-NZ}}</ref>

Adam also received the New Generation Award in the 2012 Macquarie Private Wealth New Zealand Arts Awards from the [Arts Foundation of New Zealand](/source/Arts_Foundation_of_New_Zealand)<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.creativenz.govt.nz/news/2012-arts-foundation-award-recipients-announced|title=2012 Arts Foundation Award recipients announced|work=Creative New Zealand|access-date=25 November 2017|language=en}}</ref> and was a runner up in the 2007 Sunday Star Times Short Story Competition.<ref name=":1" />

''The New Animals'' won New Zealand's top fiction prize, the [Acorn Foundation Fiction Prize](/source/Ockham_New_Zealand_Book_Awards) for 2018<ref>{{Cite web|date=2018-05-15|title=Wellingtonian Pip Adam wins Ockham New Zealand Book Award for The New Animals|url=https://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/103903822/wellingtonian-pip-adam-wins-ockham-new-zealand-book-award-for-the-new-animals|access-date=2019-07-13|website=[Stuff](/source/Stuff_(website)) |language=en}}</ref> and ''Nothing to See'' was shortlisted for the same award in 2021.<ref>{{Cite web|last=|date=2021-03-03|title=Ockham New Zealand Book Awards 2021 shortlists announced|url=https://www.booksandpublishing.com.au/articles/2021/03/03/163470/ockham-new-zealand-book-awards-2021-shortlists-announced/|access-date=2021-03-03|website=Books+Publishing|language=en-AU}}</ref>

''Audition'' was shortlisted for the Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize for Fiction at the 2024 [Ockham New Zealand Book Awards](/source/Ockham_New_Zealand_Book_Awards).<ref>{{Cite web |date=2024-03-06 |title=Ockham 2024 shortlists announced |url=https://www.booksandpublishing.com.au/articles/2024/03/06/248210/ockham-2024-shortlists-announced/ |access-date=2024-03-06 |publisher=Books+Publishing}}</ref>

''Audition'' made longlist for the 2025 [International Dublin Literary Award](/source/International_Dublin_Literary_Award).<ref>{{Cite web |last=IGO |date=2025-01-14 |title=Audition |url=https://dublinliteraryaward.ie/the-library/books/audition/ |access-date=2025-01-15 |website=Dublin Literary Award |language=en-US}}</ref> 

== Bibliography ==

=== Novels ===

*''I'm Working on a Building'' (2013)<ref name=":1" />
* ''The New Animals'' (2017)<ref>{{Cite book |last=Adam |first=Pip |url=http://vup.victoria.ac.nz/the-new-animals/ |title=The New Animals |publisher=Victoria University Press |year=2017 |isbn=9781776561162}}</ref>
* ''Nothing to See'' (2020)
* ''Audition'' (2023)<ref>{{Cite news |last1=Harmon |first1=Steph |last2=Cain |first2=Sian |last3=Wyndham |first3=Susan |last4=Fry |first4=Declan |last5=Touma |first5=Rafqa |last6=Lam |first6=Yvonne C |date=2023-07-05 |title='Exciting', 'bold', 'laugh out loud': the best Australian books out in July |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/jul/05/exciting-bold-laugh-out-loud-the-best-australian-books-out-in-july |access-date=2023-07-06 |work=[The Guardian](/source/The_Guardian)}}</ref>

=== Short story collection ===

*''Everything We Hoped For'' (2010)

== References ==
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== External links ==

* [https://pipadam.podbean.com/ Better off Read] podcast
* {{Twitter|id=PipAdam}}

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