Pip Adam

Adam was born in Christchurch, New Zealand. She attended the New Zealand Film and Television School in Christchurch before moving to Dunedin. Adam has an MA in Library and Information Studies{{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}} and an MA in creative writing from Victoria University of Wellington.{{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 }} In 2012 she completed her PhD, also from Victoria University, supervised by Damien Wilkins.{{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}}{{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 }}

Adam lives with her partner, Brent McIntyre, and their son, Bo Adam, in Wellington.

Adam has been published in a number of literary journals including Overland (2015),{{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}} takahē (2014),{{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}} Fire Dials (2014),{{Cite web|url=http://fivedials.com/files/fivedials_no32.pdf|title=Five Dials #32|website=Five Dials|access-date=25 November 2017}} Sport (2008–2014),{{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}} Landfall (2009, 2010), and Hue & Cry (2007–2013).

Adam is a book reviewer on Jesse Mulligan's show broadcast on Radio New Zealand.{{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 |access-date=25 November 2017|language=en-nz}} She also hosts the Better off Read podcast.{{Cite web|url=https://betterreadnz.wordpress.com|title=Better off Read|website=Better off Read|language=en-US|access-date=25 November 2017}}

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

Adam has taught creative writing at Victoria University of Wellington, Massey University{{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}} and at Whitirea New Zealand. With the Write Where You Are collective, she has taught writing at the Arohata Women's Prison.

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.{{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 |language=en}} In February 2023 it was reported that The New Animals would be published in the USA.{{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}}

Everything We Hoped For won the NZSA Hubert Church Best First Book Award for Fiction at the 2011 New Zealand Post Book Awards.{{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}}{{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}}

Adam also received the New Generation Award in the 2012 Macquarie Private Wealth New Zealand Arts Awards from the Arts Foundation of New Zealand{{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}} and was a runner up in the 2007 Sunday Star Times Short Story Competition.

The New Animals won New Zealand's top fiction prize, the Acorn Foundation Fiction Prize for 2018{{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 |language=en}} and Nothing to See was shortlisted for the same award in 2021.{{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}}

Audition was shortlisted for the Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize for Fiction at the 2024 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards.{{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}}

Audition made longlist for the 2025 International Dublin Literary Award.{{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}}

• I'm Working on a Building (2013)
• The New Animals (2017){{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}}
• Nothing to See (2020)
• Audition (2023){{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}}

• Everything We Hoped For (2010)

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

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