User:Pippipip

I'm a writer for children and young adults, living in Wellington, with a special interest in conveying the fascination of history and science to a young audience.

Special interests
Antarctica Women in Antarctica Wiki Project Women in Red New Zealand writers

Projects and edit-a-thons

 * Attended 2017 #WikiSciWomen NZ Women in Science workshop
 * Attended 3 Wellington #EditforEquity edit-a-thons held in October and November 2018.
 * Attended Meetup/Wellington/Wikidata 1 in January 2019
 * Attended Wikipedia: Meetup/Wellington/NZ Comics and cartoons in January 2019
 * Attended Meetup/Wellington/Archives NZ in August and September 2019
 * Attended Meetup/Wellington/Women in STEAM Edit-a-thon 2022 in October 2022
 * Attended Wikimedia User Group of Aotearoa New Zealand/Wellington WikiCon 2023 March 2023

Women in Antarctica
Pamela Young, first New Zealand woman to live and work in Antarctica Marie Darby, marine biologist and teacher, first New Zealand woman to visit the Antarctic mainland Dorothy Braxton, first New Zealand female journalist to visit Antarctica

New Zealand writers and illustrators
• Leonie Agnew

• Ronda Armitage

• Jennifer Beck

• Robyn Belton

• Sarah Broom

• Rachel Bush

• Pauline Cartwright

• Frances Cherry

• Sue Copsey

• Fifi Colston

• Shirley Corlett

• Rachael Craw

• Maureen Crisp

• Elena de Roo

• Barbara Else

• Laurence Fearnley

• Janis Freegard

• Maria Gill

• Whiti Hereaka

• Sharon Holt

• Ingrid Horrocks

• Des Hunt

• Eirlys Hunter

• Adrienne Jansen

• Jack Lasenby

• Renee Liang

• Juliette MacIver

• Sandy McKay

• Anna Mackenzie

• Frankie McMillan

• Tina Makereti

• Janice Marriott

• Cath Mayo

• Kyle Mewburn

• Jessie Munro

• James Norcliffe

• Lorraine Orman

• Joanna Orwin

• Chris Price

• Susan Price

• Elizabeth Pulford

• Maggie Rainey-Smith

• Catherine Robertson

• Nikki Slade Robinson

• Mary-anne Scott

• Jillian Sullivan

• Melinda Szymanik

• Vasanti Unka

• Mere Whaanga

Other figures in New Zealand literature
Robyn Bargh

New Zealand comic artists and cartoonists
Jem Yoshioka

New Zealand musicians
Janetta McStay

New Zealand literary sculptures
Wellington Writers Walk

New Zealand literary awards
Adam Foundation Prize in Creative Writing Antarctica New Zealand Community Engagement Programme Anzac Bridge Fellowship CLNZ Writers' Award Elsie Locke Award for Non-Fiction Gaelyn Gordon Award Kathleen Grattan Award Kathleen Grattan Prize for a Sequence of Poems Landfall Essay Competition LIANZA Elsie Locke Non-Fiction Award LIANZA Young People's Non-Fiction Award NZSA Janet Frame Memorial Award NZSA Laura Solomon Cuba Press Prize NZSA Peter & Dianne Beatson Fellowship Sarah Broom Poetry Prize Tessa Duder Award University of Otago College of Education / Creative New Zealand Children's Writer in Residence

Pages improved
Brooklyn, Wellington

Did You Know?

 * Marie Darby (5 Dec 2017)

Helpful lists
List of New Zealand literary awards

List of New Zealand writers

List of New Zealand women writers

Category: New Zealand children's writers

List of New Zealand poets

Edit for Equity: the list

Links and reminders to self
Wikipedia basics

Meetup/Wellington

Wikimedia User Group of Aotearoa New Zealand

WikiProject Biography

WikiProject New Zealand

WikiProject New Zealand/Members

WikiProject Women in Red/Missing articles by nationality/New Zealand

The Wikipedia Library

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