Author Talk | Eva Wyles

Scorpio Books and Influx Press (UK) warmly welcome you to an author talk with Eva Wyles, chaired by Kiran Dass, and with an introduction by Tina Makereti.

Eva Wyles is the author of Deliverywoman, a stunning debut collection of thirteen short stories that dive into the complexities of human connection, the pursuit of meaning, and modern-day loneliness. Across a diverse cast of characters – from teachers and gas station workers to hedonistic revellers and wealthy gamers – Wyles explores the strange dimensions of our world and the dangers of ordinary life, with needle-sharp writing both real and surreal.

All welcome, this is a free event. Refreshments provided. Please send in your RSVP.

About the speakers

Eva Wyles is a graduate of Te Herenga Waka and the MA programme in fiction at the International Institute of Modern Letters, where she worked on a short-story collection that received the Jean Squire Project Scholarship. She grew up in Te Whanganui-a-Tara and is currently based in London. Deliverywoman is her first book.

Kiran Dass is a critic, writer and Programme Director at WORD Christchurch and has written about books, music and culture for a variety of publications including NZ Herald, NZ Listener, Guardian, The Wire, North & South, Metro, The Spinoff, RNZ, Sunday magazine, Sunday Star-Times and Vice. In 2020 she was awarded a Michael King Writers Centre Residency, and in 2023 was the Verb Wellington Writer in Residence at Katherine Mansfield House & Garden. Dass was a judge for the 2024 Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize for Fiction at the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards and was convening judge for the same prize in 2021. She reviews books regularly on RNZ’s Nine to Noon.

Tina Makereti writes novels, short fiction and creative nonfiction. Her latest work is a collection of personal essays, This Compulsion in Us, and the Ockham shortlisted novel, The Mires. She is also author of The Imaginary Lives of James Pōneke, Where the Rēkohu Bone Sings and Once Upon a Time in Aotearoa, and co-editor of Black Marks on the White Page, an anthology that celebrates Māori and Pasifika writing. Tina teaches a Master of Arts Creative Writing workshop at the International Institute of Modern Letters, Wellington.