Before the pandemic hit, Low was working on his second book,
Uprising – a history of the Southern Alps from a Ngāi Tahu perspective. His love for the written word was transformed into a love for being involved with writers’ festivals when he attended the National Young Writers Festival in Australia in his early 20s. “It was full of people all writing, publishing and creating their own work, and there was such a buzz that I had to get involved. I ended up co-directing that festival, and it grew from there.” Low went on to sit on the Melbourne Writers Festival programming committee, and be a judge for both the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards and the Commonwealth Short Story Prize.