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Megan Dunn

Wellington

Art Writer at Freelance

Author of Things I Learned at Art School (pub. August 24th) and Tinderbox. https://t.co/g77duyBdI3

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  • Dec 26, 2024 | thespinoff.co.nz | Megan Dunn

    Summer reissue: Megan Dunn’s mer-moir, The Mermaid Chronicles, is an immersive, moving and funny search for the meaning of mermaids and the anchors of interests and family in the ebb and flow of life. The Spinoff needs to double the number of paying members we have to continue telling these kinds of stories. Please read our open letter and sign up to be a member today. What matters to you more than praise and being liked? That question has consumed me while writing The Mermaid Chronicles.

  • Nov 11, 2024 | ensemblemagazine.co.nz | Megan Dunn

    Two silver arches gleam from the warm shadows of a bedroom in Manchester. The arches belong to Nadia Reid’s glasses. I fancy her as a tawny owl on the other end of the world. “You have a sense of inner calm which I like,” I say. The two of us are dialling in to discuss art and motherhood. Our own.

  • Oct 28, 2024 | thespinoff.co.nz | Megan Dunn

    Now 48, Megan Dunn is still paying off the huge student loan she first took out when she was 17. This is her story. Student Loans are going to call me back in 18 to 27 minutes. It would be great if I could write this essay in that space of time … technically I should be able to because I don’t know much about money except that it doesn’t grow on trees, but avocados do. We have an avocado tree in our back yard. The tree is a bit of a local myth.

  • Aug 31, 2024 | nzherald.co.nz | Mark Broatch |Megan Dunn |Elsa C. Richardson |Hona Black

    The Mermaid Chronicles, by Megan Dunn, Rumbles, by Elsa Richardson and Ngā Hapa Reo by Hona Black and Te Aorangi Murphy-Fell. Photo / SuppliedThe Mermaid ChroniclesBy Megan Dunn “I’d never imagined myself as a mother. A mermaid: hell yes.” The Mermaid Chronicles (Penguin), arts writer Megan Dunn’s third book after Tinderbox and Things I Learnt At Art School, is a “midlife mer-moir”.

  • Aug 22, 2024 | thespinoff.co.nz | Megan Dunn

    Megan Dunn’s mer-moir, The Mermaid Chronicles, is an immersive, moving and funny search for the meaning of mermaids and the anchors of interests and family in the ebb and flow of life. What matters to you more than praise and being liked? That question has consumed me while writing The Mermaid Chronicles. I read this question in a book called Playing Big by Tara Mohr that I found on my mother’s painted turquoise bookshelf.

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Megan Dunn
Megan Dunn @MeganDunn90
30 Jan 25

RT @ANZLiterature: Congratulations to all @theockhams General Non-Fiction longlisters, with special mention to ANZL member @MeganDunn90 for…

Megan Dunn
Megan Dunn @MeganDunn90
10 Sep 24

RT @womensbookshop: Our fabulous Ladies' Liter-Tea is looking even more fabulous than usual! Tickets and programme here - https://t.co/8EW2…

Megan Dunn
Megan Dunn @MeganDunn90
19 Jul 24

Surfacing to say The Mermaid Chronicles has taken me 10 years but is now here! Epic thanks to publisher @MurdochClaire & to the MANY mers (and whale watchers) I've heard each to each @HannahMermaid @FireatinMermaid @mermaidsnmotion @philipwhale & to my OG mermaid @dhlovelife X https://t.co/aTwA55miMS