![]() So in my classes I take all this stuff I’ve learnt and be like “Oi here’s the fundamentals of how to write, here's some simple exercises to illustrate it, now go do what you will with these tools”.Īnd a lot of my students have gone on to do amazing shit, win awards, slams, publish books, write dope songs, which is 99 percent them, but I like to think the courses have helped a little too. Now I feel like I can talk about that shit for hours. ![]() And then I spent a year reading and teaching myself about it before I started Poor People With Money. So for example when I wrote my first book I didn’t really know nothing about plot. ![]() You don’t just pick things up like neurotypical people. I think being dyslexic forces you to learn a technique inside and out. I actually mainly teach adults through my Learn To Write Good classes. I read that you teach kids “how to think dyslexic”. How come a dyslexic ended up scoring 40 large to write a novel?Īre you hoping the Taxpayers Union dickheads will get mad with a dyslexic for scoring public money? The outsider, outside again but the $40,000 brings him in. Incredibly, yet predictably, it failed to even get on the longlist for the fiction prize at this year's Ockhams. He works across genres - his poem which basically told the Ockhams to get fucked was the best poem to appear in the Spinoff these past few years, he won the Sunday Star-Times short story award, and his second novel Poor People With Money, a noir crime thriller set in Auckland and the Far North, was named in ReadingRoom as one of the 10 best works of fiction of 2022. ![]() This guy is one of the best natural writers in the country and has also made a valuable contribution as the publisher of Dead Bird Books, an imprint which has released eight titles by writers including Jordan Hamel, Mohamed Hasan, and Laura Borrowdale. But he's now on the inside: he was granted $40,000 in the latest Creative New Zealand funding round to work on his third novel. Many authors like to think of themselves as independent free spirits who operate outside of that vague nebulous org known as the New Zealand literary establishment one of the few who really is an outsider is Auckland novelist Dominic Hoey, a dyslexic who has had nowt to do with creative writing programmes and despite two best-selling novels to his name has been treated like shit by writers festivals, kept at arm's length by the Ockhams, and shut out of arts funding. ReadingRoom Dyslexic author given $40K to write novelĪn outsider artist is finally embraced by the establishment ![]()
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