We are excited to announce the shortlist for the 2025 Neilma Sidney Short Story Prize. Head here to read more about the authors! overland.org.au/2026/03/anno...

PS: We have a giveaway running for Angie’s debut crime/thriller ‘Melaleuca’ that’s open to Aus/NZ! If you want to get your hands on a copy, check out the IG post here: www.instagram.com/p/DVZ522TDw8... #NZBooks #AusBooks

Thrilled to share some big news: my next book, The Carnivore Diaries, will be published later this year with Āporo Press 🍎 #TheCarnivoreDiaries #pukapuka #NZbooks @damienlevi.bsky.social

Pō mārie ✨

Research for my next novel… loving this iceberg series from RNZ with artist Joseph Michael. I wish I’d seen this exhibition back in 2017

We’ve nearly made it through January - well done everyone. February’s gonna be wild.

Congratulations to all who made the long-list and a special shout out to my talented pal Mark Forman for his amazing, novelistic biography of Tony Fomison. Y’all should read it, it’s captivating 🫶🥳🤗 thespinoff.co.nz/books/29-01-...

January Film Club (with super work colleagues) was a hoot and a shocker. Talk about a twist, and now, keen to read the book also 🙌

DELIGHTED to be included as a summer fiction writer for NZ Listener 🥳🙏 A wonderful way to start 2026, and in such fine company, esp @antzlapwood.bsky.social 🥂🥰

Thanks to @literaryhub.bsky.social for highlighting CLUTCH as one of its 2026 most anticipated books! It's hard to believe that my novel is out in just four weeks. Preorders are open and much appreciated! @tinhouse.bsky.social @zandoprojects.bsky.social emilynemens.com/books/

Random fiction writing thought: “Raising the stakes“ is rarely “increasing the scope of the threat“ and is almost* always “deepening the character’s emotions.” *Maybe not almost. Maybe just always.

Happy new year! We're now open for fiction collections. The most recently published book from this list, Show Me Where the Hurt Is b @haydenmcasey13.bsky.social, was recently longlisted for the PEN/Bingham award. Could YOU be next? Dust off that manuscript, and send it to us!!!

Happy New Year All, wishing you a wonderful year ahead 🥂✨

For anyone in Aotearoa looking for a worthwhile cause to make a Christmas donation to, please consider the Aunties Christmas appeal. Any contribution is gratefully received. #kikorangi #nzpol givealittle.co.nz/cause/the-au...

Take care today team.

One of the many reasons AI can't produce good writing is it can't hate its own writing. It can't think to itself "Maybe I'm illiterate" during the writing process. And that's essential

Hey, it's Cozy Up with Fantasy! TODAY ONLY (December 12, 2025), you can get more than 70 (!) cozy fantasy books, from all different authors, for only 99 cents. It includes my yarn shop/witchy sapphic romance Spellcasting On. You can find all the books at: www.cozyupwithfantasy.com

Male colleagues caught in a ‘must have last word infinity loop’ Bring on Christmas 🎄

I sometimes think of scenes I know exist but haven't written yet as rooms I'm struggling to reach. Today I walked into a room I first glimpsed two years ago, and finally witnessed the scene I knew would happen there, a moment a long time coming that did not prevent it from unfolding into surprise.

It's Bandcamp Friday! meaning if you buy music on Bandcamp in the next 24 hours, 100% of the money goes to the artist. I'm grabbing one of the Fu Manchu albums that's missing from my collection isitbandcampfriday.com

1/2 Measles outbreak in NZ is not under control. Cases continue to pop up across the country, risk of community transmission high. Measles is highly contagious - please check your immunity before summer travel. ✅ Born after 1969? You need 2 MMR doses. 📞 Symptoms? Call Healthline: 0800 611 116.

… the most dangerous/delightful thing about COUNTING DOWN to the end of the working year is all the amazing books I can’t wait to read… what are you reading this holiday season? 📚💫✨💕

Only a couple days left to apply! Kick off 2026 with a short fiction fix 😎

‘We are calling for essays from young people campaigning for a more equitable, sustainable and compassionate world.’ Writers under 25 are eligible - deadline 27 March.

Applications are open for the 2026 Penguin Random House Māori and Pacific Publishing Scholarship. Deadline 31 January 2026 (and expressions of interest in the course itself should be made by early December).https://authors.org.nz/call-for-applications-for-maori-and-pacific-publishing-scholarship/

Day two. Loving the cheeky Weka 🐤

Beautiful Day One on the Queen Charlotte Track 🫶

Please read, an incredibly important, sobering and moving account of the future, happening now: www.theguardian.com/environment/...

These all sound so good! I definitely need a copy of Flashlight and Audition 🤗 www.rnz.co.nz/life/books/b...

Another incredible afternoon hosted by the incredible Women’s Bookshop #Ladiesliteratea 🫶👏

What he said ❤️

not to bignote but um five or six of the things I have worked or advised on have won prizes or been longlisted. so there.

Book for the day 💕 Wonderful NORTHBOUND by @naomiarnold.bsky.social 🫶

“On any given day we could be spooning in bed archival as ammonite” Our latest #fridaypoem is SPIRALS EXIST IN NATURE AND HAVE ALWAYS BEEN HERE by Rae White. overland.org.au/2025/10/spir...

Waitomo District Council posted these photos today, saying that the road to recovery will likely take years & cost millions of dollars. We are starting to see the multi-year impacts of climate change induced extreme weather events. We can't socially or financially afford to keep going this way.

Me getting an ultrasound on my hip. Sonographer: oh, there’s your issue. Points to blurry black and grey streaked image to a tear in my muscle. Me: so, how does that get fixed? Sonographer: honestly, I don’t know. No-one ever comes back after I see them. Me: fair.

Laura Borrowdale's latest collection is a heart-stopper. Thanks @ericastretton.bsky.social for the opportunity review extraordinary (and sometimes frightening) NZ fiction!! 😱⭐ www.ketebooks.co.nz/en/reviews/r...

the year is 2030. a doctor solemnly informs you that you have plastic in your testicles bc millions of people persuaded by celebrity marketing bought synthetic pubic hairs that were eventually consumed by fish that you ate

Is that WAKE, Elizabeth Knox’s horror novel, on Jacinda’s bedside table during Covid? Almost yelled out in the theatre. Really good film anyway. PRIME MINISTER @elizabethknoxnz.bsky.social

If you’ve not yet voted in your local election - please do - there’s still time! Our democracy relies on each of us exercising the (historically hard won) privilege of having our say 🗳️ 🤗💕 www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

Exciting times for all those short-listed!! Congratulations 🥂 Hoping to listen in between work meetings.

Me: I’m trying to write ✍️ Onyx: … same…

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!

Oh. That doesn’t seem right

Paula, as ever, has been incredibly generous about my work. 💙

Me… trying to write…

Horray for the long list!! 🥳 Famed cook & fungus lady among Surrey finalists newsroom.co.nz/2025/09/17/f...

Look, did a bunch of us organise to have a pro Māori wards billboard on the same sign Hobson’s Pledge put their bullshit? Absolutely. Did we all put our names to it cause we're community leaders staunch in our position? Absolutely.

Petite read on the ferry ⛴️