Naomi Arnold

Naomi Arnold is an award-winning freelance journalist who writes regularly for New Zealand Geographic, Wilderness, Fairfax, and The Spinoff.

She is the author of World of WearableArt: 30 Designers Tell Their Stories and has had essays collected in two editions of Tell You What: Great New Zealand Non-fiction.

She is the founder of Featured, a website that collects the best of New Zealand storytelling, reviews books for Radio New Zealand, and coordinates the Page & Blackmore Nelson Readers and Writers Festival.

Festival sessions held

Longform Journalism Panel

Longform journalists Naomi Arnold, Charles Anderson, Nikki Macdonald & Mike White

Four of New Zealand's leading journalists discuss how to tell stories in depth in an age of clickbait, and the role of new techniques such as podcasts.