Megan Dunn

Guest writer

Megan Dunn is the author of Tinderbox, Things I Learned at Art School, and The Mermaid Chronicles: A Mid-life Mermoir (forthcoming, 13 August 2024).

Megan Dunn’s latest book, a memoir. Image design: Tina tiller.

What I write about when I write about mermaids

Megan Dunn on the the question of what it means to be more true to your dreams than your fears.

By Megan Dunn | 23rd August, 2024

Sweet Valley High’s iconic covers. (Image: Claire Mabey)

Sweet dreams, Sweet Valley High

'Jessica and Elizabeth Wakefield are our failed goddesses. The women we never became.'

By Megan Dunn | 3rd August, 2024

(Image: Archi Banal).

A swoon for Julian Sands

Megan Dunn on the breathless, infectious joy of watching A Room With A View.

By Megan Dunn | 29th June, 2023

US writer/filmmaker David Shields is holding a workshop at the Auckland Writers Festival next Saturday. (Photo: supplied; Image: Tina Tiller)

‘Unbelievable nakedness’: Author David Shields’ impossible quest for reality

'I was trying to write and read and teach conventional, realistic, linear fiction. And I was bored out of my mind.'

By Megan Dunn | 21st August, 2022

To Meg and Mog (and Owl), with love

To Meg and Mog (and Owl), with love

In appreciation of Helen Nicoll and Jan Pieńkowski's "violently colourful" collaboration, 50 years after their first book.

By Megan Dunn | 20th August, 2022

Olivia Newton-John in Grease

When I grow up can I look exactly like Olivia Newton-John?

A tribute to a woman I wanted to be.

By Megan Dunn | 9th August, 2022

The Earth’s Children series, lurking in high school libraries since the 80s (Design: Tina Tiller)

Remembering The Valley of Horses, a sex bible for young girls

The sexiest book in the high school library.

By Megan Dunn | 29th December, 2021

The Earth’s Children series, lurking in high school libraries since the 80s (Design: Tina Tiller)

Remembering The Valley of Horses, a sex bible for young girls

The sexiest book in the high school library.

By Megan Dunn | 24th August, 2021

Surrealist Art | He Toi Pohewa gallery view. Photo by Maarten Holl, 2021 | Te Papa

Dark dreams and subconscious desires: Surrealist Art at Te Papa, reviewed

Megan Dunn and her six year old daughter spend an afternoon with the surrealists at Te Papa's blockbuster exhibition.

By Megan Dunn | 20th July, 2021

Detail from The Tree of Life, Kushana Bush, 2020.

Art in the waiting room

There is art at the hospital, even in intensive care – but the price of seeing it is everything.

By Megan Dunn | 10th May, 2020