You know it, you love it - it's the Mahy Questionnaire! This month we are featuring award-winning author Melinda Szymanik. Read on to...

Another week, another category of NZCYA Award finalists to highlight! Today, it's the Best First Book finalists, answering questions...

Green MP Golriz Ghahraman made history as the first refugee to be sworn into the New Zealand parliament. She has just published her first...

In the last couple of months, we have seen the effects of COVID-19 wreak havoc worldwide. The mental health of both children and adults...

Jackie Clark is a woman who gets stuff done. She may be familiar to readers of The Sapling as the founder of The Aunties, a charitable...

Co-founder of The Sapling Jane Arthur has a long-standing interest in educational publishing – so when the opportunity came along to pick...

This year's NZCYA Awards coverage kicks off with the Russell Clark Award for Illustration Award finalists! We have some exclusive...

Hannah Benbow is the comics and cartoons librarian at the Alexander Turnbull Library in Wellington – and she draws on that expertise in...

If there is one thing we can be sure of in New Zealand publishing, it's that there will be at least a dozen kiwi books published over the...

The annual New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults are a highly anticipated part of the Aotearoa literary calendar, for...

Here's a fresh instalment of the Margaret Mahy Questionnaire, featuring author-illustrator Kat Quin. Read on for her takes on...

It's a feeling all booksellers know too well. A book is one of your eternal favourites, you have perfected your sales spiel, you've...

Dahlia Malaeulu found herself writing every day in lockdown, drafting 12 stories in seven days before realising what we all now know:...

Manuia le Vaiaso o le Gagana Samoa 2020 - Happy Samoa Language Week 2020! Today we have an extract from Teine Sāmoa, by Dahlia Malaeulu,...

Nalini Singh, author of the New York Times bestselling Psy-Changeling and Guild Hunter series, reminisces about the stories and books...