Angela Pope is a writer based in Dunedin, New Zealand. She has published short stories in literary journals and had stories broadcast on Radio New Zealand. In 2020, Angela won the Sargeson Prize for her short story, 'Lies'. In 2025, her short story, 'The Pale Blue Dot' was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Short Story Prize. Angela's short plays have been produced in festivals in New Zealand and Australia. 

 

Although Angela has always written around work and her role as mum to four children, her writing career began in earnest after she took a Creative Writing paper at Otago University in 2018 and was awarded the Otago University Rhys Brookbanks Prize in Writing. She went on to study by distance through Massey University and gained her graduate diploma in Creative Writing from Massey University in 2021. The following year, the manuscript for her novel, 'A Recipe for Disaster' was selected for the New Zealand Society of Authors Complete MS Programme. 

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​Angela has worked as a lawyer, a tea lady, a proofreader, a personal assistant, an early childhood teacher, a medical transcriber, and currently works on the weekends as an activities and wellbeing assistant at a retirement home. She has also occasionally been an extra on film sets.  You can see her here together with son, Corey, in the Holden Malibu ad' as the mum covering her son's eyes. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzffZufAMCU) 

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When Angela is not writing, she is usually reading, doing yoga or walking on one of Dunedin's beautiful beaches. She also enjoys going to the theatre, and spending time with friends and family.