# Catherine Chidgey

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2026 Sargeson Prize winner

The Sargeson Prize is New Zealand's richest short story competition, named after Frank Sargeson and sponsored by the University of Waikato. Conceived by writer and lecturer Catherine Chidgey, it's open to original, unpublished work of no more than 5,000 words, with a prize of $15,000 for the Open D…

Episode 27 - "The Starving Bride” is Warning Us All of Catastrophe: Catherine Chidgey

Catherine Chidgey’s latest captivating novel follows Hazel, a young woman who signs up as a Blackpool sideshow act where she won’t eat for 40 days. As the days tick by and strangers watch Hazel transform, she must decide how far she’s willing to go for what she wants. Books mentioned in this epis…

The creepy act that inspired Catherine Chidgey's new novel

Catherine Chidgey is back with a new novel The Starving Bride, a darkly comic spectacle based on a sideshow in Blackpool.

Catherine Chidgey: Kiwi author on her new book 'The Starving Bride'

Catherine Chidgey is incredibly talented.  The Kiwi author is highly acclaimed, having won the Prize in Modern Letters, the Katherine Mansfield Award, the Katherine Mansfield Fellowship, the Janet Frame Fiction Prize, and the Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize for Fiction twice.  A theme Chidgey explores…

Full Show Podcast: 10 October 2026

On the Saturday Morning with Jack Tame Full Show Podcast for Saturday October 10, 2026, Kiwi author Catherine Chidgey has a new novel on the shelves, so she joined us to tell us all about 'The Starving Bride'.  Jack recently found out a product he thought was left in the nineties has come back int…

Bookenz - Catherine Chidgey, Fiona Farrell and Piers Furney

Catherine Chidgey - 3:10 Fiona Farrell - 26:24 Piers Furney - 40:52

Book review: Lucy Black's picks

Lucy Black reviews two books: The Starving Bride by Catherine Chidgey (Te Herenga Waka University Press), and Orsola by Linda Martelletti (Alpine Star Press).