Thea Hughes is an award-winning writer based in Auckland, New Zealand. She has published short and long fiction – stories inspired by the diverse cultures and characters she has come into contact with during her extensive travels around the world.
Thea Hughes graduated from Cape Town University in South Africa with a Bachelor of Social Science and pursued a career in social work, eventually specialising in supporting dysfunctional families.
Thea has always been fascinated by the spiritual journey that accompanies the physical one; and has spent much of her life travelling, hiking and cycling in North and South America, Europe, Africa and New Zealand.
Her walk along the Camino Trail inspired her first novel, Buen Camino – beyond the journey. Thea won first prize in A Woman’s Write Good Read Novel Competition for the unpublished manuscripts of her story Buen Camino. To find out more about what inspired Thea to write this novel, please click here.
Her travels through Africa, and in particular the time she spent in Ethiopia, inspired the award-winning short story “The Miracle of St George”. This was published after being entered and winning the Hidden Talent Short Story Contest in Tall Tales and Short Stories, vol II.
Thea now lives on a small holding just north of Auckland City, close to her four adult children and six grandchildren. Here she is working on her next novel, Cry for the Moon – a young adult fiction set during the Apartheid years in South Africa.
Thea Hughes is available for interviews and for guest speaking appointments at public and private events.
Contact If you have any queries about her books or wish to make contact with her, please do not hesitate to get in touch by emailing office@scintillapublishers.com
