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Nature writer & ocean journalist @NZGeographic also @Sciam @BBC_Future @bioGraphic. FEIJOA: A Story of Obsession and Belonging out Mar 2024 with @HachetteNZ

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I am a freelance journalist, science writer and video producer from Aotearoa New Zealand, based back on home turf after a decade abroad.

I write features on science, nature, culture and food for New Zealand Geographic and other NZ magazines.

I recently started writing and reporting for international media - including the Washington Post, National Geographic News, the Guardian, the Observer, Discover Magazine, Hakai Magazine, and Ensia.com.

I occasionally work as a video journalist, producing …

Kate Evans’s Journalist Portfolio

In New Zealand, Locals Rally to Save Fossils from Destruction

In New Zealand, Locals Rally to Save Fossils from Destruction

O ne of New Zealand's most spectacular fossil sites originated 23.2 million years ago. It was formed in a val…

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Swamp Sentinels - bioGraphic

Swamp Sentinels - bioGraphic

In February 2019, Mark Magee was scraping the bucket of his 45-ton excavator through a hillside when it hit s…

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Swamp Sentinels - bioGraphic

Swamp Sentinels - bioGraphic

In February 2019, Mark Magee was scraping the bucket of his 45-ton excavator through a hillside when it hit s…

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The Bookshelf Easter Special: Irish writer Niall Williams

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By Kate Evans Verified, Cassie McCullagh Verified
| Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) Verified
Irish writer Niall Williams with Kate Evans at the 2025 Adelaide Writers Week — with a focus on his Faha novels, History of the Rain, This is Happiness and (his latest) Time of the Child. Williams is also a screenwriter, playwright and travel writer — and his first novel, Four Letters of Love, has just been released as a film.
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The best new books released in March, from Diana Reid, Colum McCann and Abdulrazak Gurnah

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By Kate Evans Verified, Claire Nichols, Nicola Heath Verified, Declan Fry, Rosie Ward
| ABC News (Australia) Verified
Welcome to ABC Arts' monthly book column: a shortlist of new releases read and recommended by The Bookshelf's Kate Evans, The Book Show's Claire Nichols, ABC Arts' Nicola Heath and critics Declan Fry and Rosie Ofori Ward. All five read voraciously and their only guidelines for a recommendation here: make it a new release and make it something you think is great.
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Dark Skies, a quest and nature writing in Inga Simpson’s The Thinning

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By Kate Evans Verified, Cassie McCullagh Verified
| Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) Verified
The Dressmaker’s backstory, a universe of stars to expand our ideas about nature writing, and fragments and tricks galore: Kate and Cassie read Inga Simpson’s The Thinning, Brian Castro’s Chinese Postman and Rosalie Ham’s Molly with guests Ella Jeffery and Amanda Hampson BOOKS Inga Simpson, The Thinning, Hachette Brian Castro, Chinese Postman, Giramondo Rosalie Ham, Molly, Picador GUESTS Dr Ella Jeffery, poet and lecturer in Creative Writing at Griffith University, Qld; ABC Radio National...
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