Megan Dunn is the author of three irreverent works of non-fiction Tinderbox (Galley Beggar Press, 2017) her memoir in essays Things I Learned at Art School (Penguin Random House New Zealand, 2021) and The Mermaid Chronicles: A Midlife Mer-moir (Penguin Random House New Zealand, 2024).
Megan is an art writer and essayist. She has published columns, reviews, personal essays and features for a wide range of media including the Guardian Australia, The New Zealand Listener, Metro, Newsroom and Art News New Zealand. She was once the visual arts correspondent on Radio New Zealand’s Saturday morning show, with broadcaster Kim Hill.
Megan graduated with a Masters in Creative Writing from the University of East Anglia. In 2006, she won an Escalator award from the New Writing Partnership (now the National Centre for Writing.) In 2022 she was the annual Writer in Residence at the International Institute of Modern Letters, based at Victoria University of Wellington, Te Herenga Waka. During this residency she worked on the first draft of her mer-moir and also curated an art exhibition The Mermaid Chronicles, based on her journeys to meet the world’s leading professional mermaids.
Topic: Talanoa with Megan Dunn 🙂
Time: Mar 26, 2025 07:00 PM Auckland, Wellington
Time: Mar 26, 2025 07:00 PM Auckland, Wellington
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Mer-mazing session this morning inducting our friends at Selwyn Village into the world of professional mermaiding! We shared some laughs & also some thoughts around how we swim alongside our children & keep time with their dreams… one reader had met a woman who removed prosthetic legs to try swimming with a mermaid tail at Herne Bay when the tide was right.