Pip McKay’s travels through the former Yugoslavia informed The Telling Time, however the connections she forged within the local Croatian community while researching stories of New Zealand’s Croatian immigrants, have been inspirational. Pip holds a Masters in Creative Writing from the University of Auckland (2017) and in 2018, was awarded a Creative New Zealand/NZSA Complete Manuscript Assessment award for the manuscript. The Telling Time is Pip's debut novel and was published in August 2020 under the imprint, Polako Press. It was shortlisted for the 2020 NZSA Heritage Literary Award and its opening pages won the 2020 First Pages Prize, judged by an international panel and Sebastian Faulks, OBE.
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