Maggie Tweedie

Guest writer

Maggie Tweedie is from Tūtira, a small village in the north of Hawke's Bay. She is the breakfast host at Radioactive FM and in her free time she freelances as a journalist and burrows into books. Maggie lives in Newtown, Wellington.

Joy Cowley in her Ōtepoti home, 2024; and her latest book, A Lot of Silly.

Finding Joy: The fascinating and painful life of Aotearoa’s most prolific writer

Joy Cowley reveals her enthralling life story, from a difficult childhood, to getting drunk with Roald Dahl, to encountering an Arctic polar bear.

By Maggie Tweedie | 24th December, 2024

Joy Cowley in her Ōtepoti home, 2024; and her latest book, A Lot of Silly.

Finding Joy: The fascinating and painful life of Aotearoa’s most prolific writer

Joy Cowley reveals her enthralling life story, from a difficult childhood, to getting drunk with Roald Dahl, to encountering an Arctic polar bear.

By Maggie Tweedie | 28th September, 2024

Liam Jacobson and Maggie Tweedie (Image: Tina Tiller)

Bus rides and black mould: An interview with Liam Jacobson

On their debut poetry collection, Neither, and the joys of filth, grot and mess.

By Maggie Tweedie | 5th October, 2023

Just a few Radioactive.FM alumni (Image design: Archi Banal)

45 years of Radioactive.FM

John Campbell, Samantha Hayes and Tova O'Brien remember the Wellington radio station where their careers began.

By Maggie Tweedie | 4th December, 2022

Britney, Bloomy and JC all featured heavily in requests for Sam Te Kani’s personalised erotic fiction (Photo: Meg Porteous; Design: Tina Tiller)

Meet the man who wrote personalised erotic fiction for horny Aucklanders

When Sam Te Kani was nine the school called his parents because he wouldn't stop talking about sex. Not much has changed.

By Maggie Tweedie | 15th February, 2022