William Burroughs

It’s a difficult choice for authors when it comes to choosing their cover photo. Pose with a pencil or a cat? Gaze broodingly into the camera or off into the distance? Clutch a chicken (see Kinky Friedman) or a gun (Hunter S Thompson)?

For this month’s Pānui, we want photos of authors, the weirder the better. And the person who submits the best author photo wins a prize.

The only rule is the photo has to be from a book cover in the UC collections. We’ll create a wondrous montage and select the weirdest and spookiest as our cover boy/girl.

Please direct all entries to Simon Cooke, Kiera Tauro, or Fiona Tyson. The judges’ decision is final and no correspondence will be entered into.