Karyn Hay
Broadcaster | Speaker | WriterKaryn Hay ONZM is a New Zealand author and broadcaster who became a household name in the early 1980’s as the presenter of music TV show Radio with Pictures. Karyn began her working life as a Radio New Zealand cadet and has gone on to become an award-winning copywriter, a radio announcer both here and abroad, a television front person, newspaper columnist, Producer and Director, and General Manager of radio station Kiwi FM.
An acclaimed novelist, she wrote her debut novel Emerald Budgies while living aboard a canal boat in England and it won the NZSA Hubert Church Best First Book Award in the Montana New Zealand Book Awards. Her second novel The March of the Foxgloves was No 1 on the New Zealand Fiction bestseller lists.
Karyn is a Frank Sargeson Fellow, has been a Writer in Residence at the Michael King Writers Centre and is a member of both the NZ Society of Authors and the Academy of New Zealand Literature. She was awarded the Independent Spirit Award for TV and radio work in the 2022 Taite Music Prize.
An acclaimed novelist, she wrote her debut novel Emerald Budgies while living aboard a canal boat in England and it won the NZSA Hubert Church Best First Book Award in the Montana New Zealand Book Awards. Her second novel The March of the Foxgloves was No 1 on the New Zealand Fiction bestseller lists.
Karyn is a Frank Sargeson Fellow, has been a Writer in Residence at the Michael King Writers Centre and is a member of both the NZ Society of Authors and the Academy of New Zealand Literature. She was awarded the Independent Spirit Award for TV and radio work in the 2022 Taite Music Prize.
Full Biography
Credits
Broadcast
2018 - 2023 - Lately with Karyn Hay - Nights Host - RNZ National
2018 - 2023 - The Panel, Afternoons, Saturday and Sunday mornings - Host - RNZ National
2007 - 2017 -Week Nights - Radio Announcer - Radio Live
2005 - 2007 - General Manager, Radio Announcer - Kiwi FM
2004 - 2005 - Breakfast Radio Announcer - Channel Z
1989 - 1990 - Radio Announcer - 210FM - Reading UK
1985 - 1987 - Radio Announcer - Triple M FM
1980 - Radio Announcer - Radio Hauraki
Director
2003 - Tv Director, Compile Director - Cream TV
1993- Mission of Love - The Verlaines - Music Video
1992 - Mercy of Love - Shona Laing - Music Video
1993 - 1995 - Company Director, Producer and Director - Maxwell Film and Television
1992 - 1993 - Studio Director - Kids TV / TVFM
1989 - 1991 - Field Director - TVNZ - UK
MC, Presenting
2020: Delivered the annual Lilburn Lecture at Alexander Turnbull National Library. NZ Music: Living the Dream
Producer
1995 - Music Nation - TVNZ
1995 - Chart Top 40 - TVNZ
Television
2018 - The Project - Guest Host - Mediaworks NZ
2015 - New Zealand Women in Rock -Presenter - Documentary - Kingfisher Films
2008 - Rocked the Nation - Host - C4
2005 -NZ Women in Rock - Presenter - Prime TV 2004 - Intrepid Journeys - East Timor - TVNZ
2004 - NZ Idol - Guest Judge - TVNZ
1993 - The Edge - Presenter - The Gibson Group
1992 - Coca-Cola TVFM - Presenter - TV3
1992 - 1993 - TVFM Music Program - Frontperson- TV3
1981 - 1986 - Music With Pictures - Presenter - TVNZ
Writer
2018 - Winged Helmet, White Horse - Author - Esom House Press
2018 - Resident Michael King (Writers) Centre
2016 - The March of the Foxgloves - Author - Esom House Press
2009 - Way Back Then, Before We Were Ten - Contributor - New Zealand writers and childhood compiled and edited by Graeme Lay - David Ling Publishing
2000 - Emerald Budgies - Author - Vintage
2005 - The Best of New Zealand Fiction Volume 2 - Contributor - Edited by Fiona Kidman - Vintage
2005 - Home: New Short Stories by New Zealand writers - Contributor - Edited by Graeme Lay and Stephen Stratford - Black Swan
1999 - The Picnic Virgin - Contributor - Edited by Emily Perkins - Victoria University Press
1991 - 1992 - TV Columnist - Sunday Star
2018 - 2023 - Lately with Karyn Hay - Nights Host - RNZ National
2018 - 2023 - The Panel, Afternoons, Saturday and Sunday mornings - Host - RNZ National
2007 - 2017 -Week Nights - Radio Announcer - Radio Live
2005 - 2007 - General Manager, Radio Announcer - Kiwi FM
2004 - 2005 - Breakfast Radio Announcer - Channel Z
1989 - 1990 - Radio Announcer - 210FM - Reading UK
1985 - 1987 - Radio Announcer - Triple M FM
1980 - Radio Announcer - Radio Hauraki
Director
2003 - Tv Director, Compile Director - Cream TV
1993- Mission of Love - The Verlaines - Music Video
1992 - Mercy of Love - Shona Laing - Music Video
1993 - 1995 - Company Director, Producer and Director - Maxwell Film and Television
1992 - 1993 - Studio Director - Kids TV / TVFM
1989 - 1991 - Field Director - TVNZ - UK
MC, Presenting
2020: Delivered the annual Lilburn Lecture at Alexander Turnbull National Library. NZ Music: Living the Dream
Producer
1995 - Music Nation - TVNZ
1995 - Chart Top 40 - TVNZ
Television
2018 - The Project - Guest Host - Mediaworks NZ
2015 - New Zealand Women in Rock -Presenter - Documentary - Kingfisher Films
2008 - Rocked the Nation - Host - C4
2005 -NZ Women in Rock - Presenter - Prime TV 2004 - Intrepid Journeys - East Timor - TVNZ
2004 - NZ Idol - Guest Judge - TVNZ
1993 - The Edge - Presenter - The Gibson Group
1992 - Coca-Cola TVFM - Presenter - TV3
1992 - 1993 - TVFM Music Program - Frontperson- TV3
1981 - 1986 - Music With Pictures - Presenter - TVNZ
Writer
2018 - Winged Helmet, White Horse - Author - Esom House Press
2018 - Resident Michael King (Writers) Centre
2016 - The March of the Foxgloves - Author - Esom House Press
2009 - Way Back Then, Before We Were Ten - Contributor - New Zealand writers and childhood compiled and edited by Graeme Lay - David Ling Publishing
2000 - Emerald Budgies - Author - Vintage
2005 - The Best of New Zealand Fiction Volume 2 - Contributor - Edited by Fiona Kidman - Vintage
2005 - Home: New Short Stories by New Zealand writers - Contributor - Edited by Graeme Lay and Stephen Stratford - Black Swan
1999 - The Picnic Virgin - Contributor - Edited by Emily Perkins - Victoria University Press
1991 - 1992 - TV Columnist - Sunday Star
Training
N/A
Awards
2022 - Taite Music Prize - The Independent Spirit Award - for TV and radio work
2020 - Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit - for services to Broadcasting and the Music Industry
2018 - Resident Michael King (Writers) Centre
2001- Hubert Church Best First Book Award - Montana Book Awards
2020 - Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit - for services to Broadcasting and the Music Industry
2018 - Resident Michael King (Writers) Centre
2001- Hubert Church Best First Book Award - Montana Book Awards
Skills
Writer, Broadcaster, Journalist, Producer, Director