Applications are now open for the Toi Pōneke d/Deaf and Disabled Artist Development Residency 2026. This eight-week residency (16 Feb – 12 April 2026) offers a studio space, stipend, and mentor support. Applications close 5pm, Monday 17 November 2025. Find out more and apply here:

Daylight saving is here, it feels like spring, maybe you should grab a copy of the Sunday Star Times and catch up on what the ELCC programme's poet and lecturer Anna Jackson has been reading? www.thepost.co.nz/culture/3608...

A new release is available from Hon Matt Doocey.

actually finally really starting a band! i am quite very excited.

Ahem - we'd just like to point out that if you would like to write your book alongside a cohort of supportive others, and with the guidance of a supervisor (aka mentor), applications for our 2026 MA in Creative Writing are open until 1 November.... www.wgtn.ac.nz/modernletter...

Writers of Aotearoa, his is your reminder that Turbine | Kapohau 2025 is open for submissions of poetry, fiction and creative nonfiction until 1 November - check out the submission guidelines and send us your work!

Spring has sprung 😎Canterbury is the place to be! Featured poets Janet Charman, Jake Arthur, Gregory Kan, Anna Jackson, Mikaela Nyman with local legends Melanie McKerchar, Lee Fraser, Philip Armstrong, Erik Kennedy, Juanita Hepi, Frankie McMillan and Sara Qasem. canterburypoets.org.nz/tickets/

"A poem can / survive things a body / can’t." !!! ❤️

i will hold this review of over under fed, this rush of feeling, courage & understanding, in my body forever. thank you, lovely hebe 💗 & thanks also to the nz poetry society for publishing this review in the winter issue of a fine line. 🪿 www.poetrysociety.org.nz/2624-2/

"There's no next life just this little mouse." From Eileen Myles's Instagram.

Writing is just what I do to frame my longing. Eileen Myles, Inferno

You don’t have to destroy yourself to write a poem. You can pretend you have a field in your chest. Unbutton your shirt to better hear the birds singing. Oh no what is your mom doing there. Why is she driving away in a teal car. And the trees are filled with fathers weeping.

My winter reading highlights - from Solvej Balle to Karl Ove Knausgaard: www.annajackson.nz/enthusiasms....

Poets Amy Marguerite (MA22) and Sophie van Waardenberg are in town to join Emma Barnes in conversations and readings from their new books in Writers on Mondays at Te Papa, 1215 today!

Starling Issue 20 out now!! New work from 20 writers under 25! Plus one of our OG favourites Sophie van Waardenberg as guest author, a look back on 10 years of Starling writing with 20 more all-stars, and cover art from Loretta Riach (also a featured poet)! All live here: www.starlingmag.com

I love the work of these poets so much and all three books they are talking about are achingly good!

people out here raw dogging life without any semblance of communicating joy or verve like sorry but I shall not be in a constant three-legged race with my partner the concept of room temperature

Look at all our elegant hands.

New Zealand poems often have killer titles. Proof: christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/list/disp... Matariki Bennett has a poem called "Matariki Is Now a Public Holiday and My Old Boss Invites Me to a Hospo Party on Facebook With $3 Dollar Spirits and $10 Jager Bombs" #NZPoetryDay #pukapuka

Top of my list of enthusiasms today, the announcement of Robert Sullivan as our new Poet Laureate! www.annajackson.nz/enthusiasms....

Nikky Finney

The technical term is a stack of librarians.

Final feature in the series - nzpoetryshelf.com/2025/08/15/p...

Alice Oswald arrested this afternoon for supporting Palestine Action.

Perhaps one of the most special things I have done with other poets. Thank you. nzpoetryshelf.com/2025/08/12/p...

I've just discovered these brilliantly curated lists from Volume books in Nelson! And Fragments as Form includes Terrier Worrier: volume.nz/volumebooks/...

oh my golly gosh... Genevieve Scanlan's Landfall review of over under fed is so wildly beautiful... ♥️♥️♥️ landfallreview.com/shameless-li...

Paula and I talk about poetry, and her book The Venetian Blind Poems, made up out of "a mix of memory fragments and notebook drifts. It’s why there’s a strange rhythm sometimes, with miniature snags, jarrings and arrivals, along with sweet currents." nzpoetryshelf.com/2025/08/01/p...

over under fed features in Auckland Libraries' We Read Auckland 2025 Bestie selection! All 56 Auckland libraries will have at least one copy that can be borrowed for two weeks. Matariki Bennett's debut collection e kō, nō hea koe features too & that makes me very happy, it is the loveliest book.

PANZ is trying to continue the Wihitreia Publishing programme in 2026 and is looking for a space in Wgtn in which to deliver it. They need a space large enough for 20pax seated at tables, Mon - Fri 8.30am - 5pm. If you know of such a space, email [email protected] and we'll pass it on.

supervision by the river

I have this amazing idea for a story, why would I ruin it by writing it

Oh no! This is terrible. This such a good course. I did it in 2000, and it gave me a whole bunch of useful skills that have kept me in work ever since. 😢

Next Monday, come and hear poets Nafanua Purcell Kersel and Mikaela Nyman in a conversation about rising seas, political and personal poetry, and the local and global. Writers on Mondays, Te Papa, 1215, free! tepapa.govt.nz/visit/events...

If you are a writer, publisher, editor, etc. in Aotearoa New Zealand, please consider signing this letter to our government about the Gaza genocide. mandyhager.com/2025/07/07/a...

just backed this and hopefully 1 or two of you can too. cool shirt is available if the books themselves aren’t quite enough motivation. blessings to all who consider (you don’t even have to donate to get the blessings, just consider it) www.kickstarter.com/projects/bir...

And here are my fave NZ book covers for the year so far. V much love that @erikkennedy.com Sick Power Trip cover by @toddatticus.bsky.social christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/list/disp... #BookCovers #Pukapuka #NZBooks #ReadNZ ^DR

I’ve said it before & Imma say it again cos worth repeating innit. Friends: LIBRARIES! HOW GOOD?! You just go & hang out! & read! & they let you take books away! & you just bring them back later! & then you take more away! & then more after that! ever onwards! Beautiful thing! Blessed places! Glory.

FLAMINGOS FLAMINGOS FLAMINGOS (Also my first poetry collection in ten years lol)

nzpoetryshelf.com/2025/07/09/p... This special book . . .

Um, so this is from my new thing....

We’re looking forward to welcoming Nafanua Purcell Kersel as our 2025 Emerging Pasifika Writer in Residence!

Research Opportunity - Eating Disorder Recovery Among Men Anyone keen to participate is welcome to contact Viktor directly at [email protected]. (Please share)

You know it’s real when you want to delete it immediately after writing it.

Good to hear in the Lowdown that Ella Borrie and Gina Butson (both MA23) and Anna Jackson are going to be Robert Lord Cottage residents — and to see a nice write up for Writers on Mondays, which begins next week with an event featuring Gina and Michelle Rahurahu! thebigidea.nz/stories/lowd...

This is on tomorrow night. I'll be talking to Gwen Isaac who directed the brilliant documentary on Siouxsie Wiles, Ms. Information - if you haven't seen it you can download it from AroVideo! schrodingersbooks.co.nz/pages/12117-...