*drumroll* Very honoured my book made the shortlist for the 2026 William Saroyan International Prize for Writing (fiction category). Find it really hard to believe my paper baby is among such incredible books! Huge thanks to ATB ¦ ITK & everyone who supported me #amwriting #litfic #nzfiction

Happy to have a micropoem, 'Mother', in the latest lovely issue of Password: A Journal of Very Short Poetry, out today! veryshortpoetry.com #amwriting #micropoetry #haiku

Spotted my book in @unitybooksauckland in some really good company 😍 So happy I made it on this shelf! Sometimes I love being a W... #startingfromthebottom #writerlife #nzfiction #damienwilkins

Happy New Year! This is my end-of-year publishing roundup for 2025: I branched out and tried some completely new things. Stoked I could work with such amazing people in 2025 and balance fun projects with working full-time + parenting. Hope to do more and longer in 2026 #2025roundup #amwriting #xl8

V happy (also v surprised) to find name on list with these writers! Renee Liang, Michael Botur, Shelley Burne-Field, Tim Saunders, Lee Hana, Cristin Leach, Jessica le Bas, Lorraine Carmody, Kirstie McKinnon, Anna Scaife <3 (KM Sparkling Prose shortlist, winners announced Oct) #amwriting #fiction

So gutted about the imminent demolition of the iconic City to Sea Bridge in Wellington! Great piece on this by Jo Draper josephinedraper.com/the-city-to-...

Audio version of scifi story ‘The Secret’ by Fumio Takano now live! Feat TWO amazing voice actors @justineleahva.com & ‪Alex Bankier‬, ed @witchywonderer.bsky.social, prod Jenelle DeCosta, xl8 me. Have a listen, support human-made art and creativity! #WITmonth #xl8 www.khoreomag.com/translation/...

Have you wanted to travel to Japan and South Korea but worried about navigating language barriers? Consider signing up for this 2026 tour of Japan- The Inland Sea- and South Korea organized by Washington University. I will tag along as the talking head. alumni.washu.edu/destinations...

Te Moana o Reo is about to be reviewed on RNZ (this morning 10.35am NZ time) ...am waiting with bated breath to see what Elizabeth Heritage says. I feel very fond of this book, it's a celebration of Aotearoa languages and has my first ever essay in it, on working in Japan #multilingual #nzfic #essay

We are excited to share that we are the 2025 Locus Awards' top ten finalists for best magazine! 🧡 🎉 Congratulations to all of the fellow @locusmag.bsky.social finalists! locusmag.com/2025/05/2025...

New flash fiction out today in the Wild Umbrella, an ambitious new journal based in Dublin, Ireland! Editor Mina El Attar also interviews me on inspiration, writing process and motherhood, which feels very exposing. Links in comments! #amwritingfiction #flashfiction #writingmotherhood

Swan Knight by Fumio Takano, translated by Sharni Wilson, has been chosen on Goodreads by the Japanese Literature group ❤️ Discover this wild novella, head to the Luna store: www.lunapresspublishing.com/product-page... @sharni.bsky.social

Excited for this great book, Te Moana o Reo ¦ Ocean of Languages, ed. Michelle Elvy & Vaughan Rapatahana, launching with a national tour! There'll be readings by some amazing people and I so wish I could be there. #nzfiction #multilingual #booklaunch

Amazing to see this Japanese-to-English short story, by Kaori Ekuni, get some more love! The Japanese original text is also included on the page. CW: DV. Happy January in Japan! #xl8

This is a great list of free-to-read short stories, translated from Japanese #JanuaryinJapan

The @asianreviewofbooks.bsky.social’s Year in Reviews is one of the best parts of my reading year. Lots of Japanese titles included here.

New sci-fi story 'The Secret' by Fumio Takano just dropped, and it's a banger! Transl. by me #newrelease #xl8 #japanese #scifi #futurejapan

How can food connect us with family and heritage? So happy to have this hermit crab creative nonfiction reprinted in SugarSugarSalt Magazine today! First published in the Malahat Review. They are open for subs as of today too. sugarsugarsalt.org/2024/09/01/s... #familyrecipe #cnf #foodheritage

COVER REVEAL + PRE-ORDERS OPEN! Swan Knight by Fumio Takano, is the latest Over the Moon novella from Luna Press. Translated from Japanese by Sharni Wilson. Available in PB and Digital in all the usual retailers. Join the surreal world of Wagner! www.lunapresspublishing.com/product-page...