Life stories: Renée on the transformative power of learning to readThe 92-year-old playwright and novelist describes her childhood, and the year books became a force in her life. By Renée | 10th November, 2021Guest writer
Lockdown letters #28, Renée: A crime novelWriting a crime novel’s easy, right?By Renée | 23rd April, 2020Guest writer
Lockdown letter #23, Renée: A wild patience'My patience, never a very strong part of my character, is being stretched a bit so thinking of something else is preferable to throwing all the cups on the floor.'By Renée | 18th April, 2020Guest writer
Lockdown letters #18, Renée: 1951 and the dictator’s to-do list'Illegal bulletins by Rona and Chips Bailey and cartoons by Max Bollinger continued in spite of police raids'By Renée | 13th April, 2020Guest writer
Lockdown letters #13, Renée: Suffer little children'Yes, it's endearing that the PM said that the Easter Bunny is an essential service but I wondered how many kids had a hope in hell of seeing three good meals a day let alone a chocolate egg.'By Renée | 8th April, 2020Guest writer
Lockdown letters #8, Renée: Cleaning out the store cupboardIn which another lockdown milestone is reached – tackling the kitchen cupboards.By Renée | 3rd April, 2020Guest writer
Lockdown letters #3, Renée: Help yourself to my rhubarbIn our new series some of NZ's best writers tell us what they’ve been up to in the days of alert level four. Today, Ōtaki author Renée.By Renée | 29th March, 2020Guest writer
Renée: Te Tairāwhiti blueIn the final of a special travel writing series, playwright and novelist Renée reflects on the past and ponders the future on a road trip up the East Coast.By Renée | 12th January, 2020Guest writer
Memoir: The night she left her husband for another womanA memoir of the end of a marriage by playwright Renée.By Renée | 24th October, 2017Guest writer
The Mervyn Thompson Affair: ‘I was both angry and hurt at the way I’d been dumped in it by the women who were responsible for the attack’All week we revisit the Mervyn Thompson Affair - the strange, powerful 1984 incident when six women abducted an Auckland university lecturer, chained him to a tree in Western Springs, and labelled him a rapist. Today: a memoir by playwright Renee, who became victimised after the attack.By Renée | 14th September, 2016Guest writer