Evening Author Talk: Eva Wyles

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Come and celebrate Eva Wyles’s debut short story collection, Deliverywoman (https://www.influxpress.com/deliverywoman) (Influx Press, UK).

This event will feature a reading and introduction from Tamara Tulitua, and a discussion between Pip Adam and Eva Wyles.

About the book

Described as ‘haunting and beautifully constructed’ by Booker-shortlisted author Daisy Johnson, Deliverywoman is the stunning debut collection from Eva Wyles – thirteen short stories that dive into the complexities of human connection, the pursuit of meaning, and modern-day loneliness.

Across a diverse cast of characters – from teachers and gas station workers to hedonistic revellers and wealthy gamers – Wyles explores the strange dimensions of our world and the dangers of ordinary life, with needle-sharp writing both real and surreal.

Deliverywoman sits alongside A.M. Homes’ The Safety of Objects and Ottessa Moshfegh’s Homesick for Another World, announcing the arrival of a powerful new voice in contemporary fiction.

About the speakers

Eva Wyles (https://www.evawyles.com/) is a graduate of Te Herenga Waka and the MA programme in fiction at the International Institute of Modern Letters, where she worked on a short-story collection that received the Jean Squire Project Scholarship. She grew up in Te Whanganui-a-Tara and is currently based in London. Deliverywoman is her first book.

Pip Adam (https://pipadam.com/) is the author of Audition (https://teherengawakapress.co.nz/products/audition), which was shortlisted for the Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize for Fiction; Nothing to See (https://teherengawakapress.co.nz/products/nothing-to-see) (2020), also shortlisted for the Acorn Foundation Prize for Fiction; The New Animals (https://teherengawakapress.co.nz/products/the-new-animals) (2017), which won the Acorn Foundation Prize for Fiction; I’m Working on a Building (https://teherengawakapress.co.nz/products/im-working-on-a-building-b-format) (2013); and the short story collection Everything We Hoped For (https://teherengawakapress.co.nz/products/everything-we-hoped-for) (2010), which won the NZSA Hubert Church Best First Book Award for Fiction in 2011. Pip makes the Better off Read podcast (https://better-read.com/) and lives in Te Whanganui-a-Tara, Aotearoa.

Tamara Tulitua is a writer and performance poet of Samoan descent, living in Te

Whanganui-a-Tara. She writes across poetry, fiction, creative non fiction. Tamara

completed the MA programme in fiction at Te Pūtahi Tuhi Auaha o Te Ao| International

Institute of Modern Letters (IIML) and was the IIML Emerging Pasifika Writer in

Residence in 2022. Her prose/poetry, reviews, fiction, and creative non fiction have

appeared in anthologies, literary journals and online publications including Pantograph

Punch, Poetry Shelf, Turbine|Kapohau and The Post.