We need more politics! Article by Annemarie Jutel: newsroom.co.nz/2026/07/05/h...

One week left!! Be in quick to send us your ultra short fiction. Nine selected stories will be published in the August issue of Takahē and receive $150 ✨✨✨ Entry is $3 and every dollar goes towards paying writers. www.takahe.org.nz/competitionn...

More racial purges: Australian edition

Production has almost wrapped for our next edition, issue 260. Make sure your subscription is up to date by July 1st to ensure that you receive your copy. 260 will be arriving in your mailboxes in mid-late August. overland.org.au/shop/

Artist and author Marjane Satrapi has passed away.

@kathrynreese.bsky.social and I have a collab ghazal in here, and I have an ekphrastic piece about toast. @the-engine-idling.bsky.social is awesome and this whole issue is 🔥🔥🔥

If Paul Goldsmith doesn't like being called out every time he freeloads at an arts event, maybe he should actually DO something to support the arts, rather than starving us out. Not content to criminalise the homeless, he seems intent on driving artists onto the streets.

Poetry Shelf toasts nz music month with 23 poems nzpoetryshelf.com/2026/05/29/p...

as an 80s teen it was so liberating to see women like this, who moved on stage like this, who uncompromisingly spoke & behaved & called shit out as the Topps did. & who were tangata tiriti. we demanded our 6th Form HGHS drama skit was based on Untouchable Girls & our feminist teacher let us do it 🫡

'NZ First is admitting that they do not care about science, which is 100 percent the basis of biology, thus, are creating a farce about science and forcing a legal definition where one is not possible - especially in medicine.' says Co-President Alma De Anda. #transrights #reproductivejustice #nzpol

Sharing this PSA, while thinking about how many of my publishing/speaking opportunities have come as emails or DMs from strangers... AI makes it way less possible to trust what's legit, which I suspect most impacts early-career, self-pub, and financially vulnerable writers.

There are only two days left to sign the petition by Migrants Against the Acceptable Standard of Health Aotearoa to remove the archaic and eugenicist rules that have seen so many disabled and chronically ill migrants deported form the country, including children. Please, please, PLEASE sign this.

Pleased to have a new short story, "Silence", out via ReadingRoom @newsroom.co.nz A musician confronts difficult questions years after the tragic death of his lover... 🎻👬 newsroom.co.nz/2026/04/25/s...

My usual Anzac Day post. George was Ngāi Tahu.

We're stoked to announce the return of the Matariki Short Short Story Celebration for 2026!✨✨✨ Nine selected stories receive editorial feedback and publication in the August issue (#117) of takahē, along with NZ$150. www.takahe.org.nz/competitionn...

A deep dive into turmoil in French publishing and the Hachette group in particular

We are so happy to announce this year's winners of the Neilma Sidney Short Story Prize! Head here to read more about the winning authors and their work: overland.org.au/2026/03/fina...

I loved editing the short fiction for this issue of takahē! As always. Why are our writers so incredible? 😭

The inimitable Mikee Sto Domingo is Guest Fiction writer for the April issue of takahē! We can't wait to share her short story, 'Touched By An Angel' 🖤 #takahēmagazine #takahē116

everyone I still know who's inside the country tells me russians are pretty depressed. bad news but historically speaking it's good for world literature

I love to run up with a story about running 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 Thank you @overlandjournal.bsky.social and big congrats to Madeleine and Tom!!

And if the landlords received the tax cut, the public servants have all been fired, the ferries were cancelled, benefits have been denied, hospitals need staff, schools need staff, regional councils have gone, etc - then who did they borrow the $120 billion for? Themselves? #nzpol

Socialist fruit season has begun

Congrats @zoemeager.bsky.social !

in 2022 i wrote a series for webworm about NZ's biggest megachurch, arise. webworm exposed bullying, abuse & the coverup of rape. it led to the leaders john & gillian cameron resigning, & much of arise folding. well: they've emerged footloose & fancy free in australia: www.webworm.co/johnbrentcam...

Comics retailing legend Greg Ketter standing up to ICE in Minneapolis. Yes, that's tear gas. He's 70 years old.

get it in my veins

Your reminder that what happened to Renee Nicole Good is something that happens regularly in America. This is not new, but it is an expanded version of militarized people targeting Black people in particular. From ICE detention to murder with impunity, we've been doing it. Now it's broadened.

Fellow biologists, this is a poem that discovers the tonal beauty of the word "ribosome"

stop what you're doing and let Amber Glenn take you to church #USPrevagenChamps #figureskating

Huge congratulations to our Pushcart Prize 2026 nominees! 🎉 We’re cheering loudly and wishing you all the luck. www.takahe.org.nz/nominations/

Check out the December issue! Featuring guests Tony Guo, Helen Rickerby, Ruby Porter and John Fenton, along with the Monica Taylor Poetry Prize winner, Jilly O'Brien. There's also an art essay by Samuel Te Kani, and so much more! We hope you love it 🩵 www.takahe.org.nz/takahe-115/

We're so excited to be bringing you Guest Fiction from Ruby Porter! Her brand new story, 'Eye Contact' explores love, loss, optometrists and Christmas shopping, and will feature in the December issue (coming very soon!). #takahēmagazine #DecemberIssue #GuestFiction #RubyPorter 🇳🇿📚

Welcome to the takahē whānau, John Fenton! John's essay, 'Lost Libraries—Biblioclasm: a deadly sin' will feature in the December issue, coming very soon! As ever, the entire issue will be free to read online, for everyone, everywhere 🖤

Great culture can save lives. Literally. Amazing letter in today’s @thetimes.com about Tom Stoppard

The problem with that Whamageddon thing is that Last Christmas is a stone cold banger and trying to avoid it proves that you don't truly understand the meaning of the season, to celebrate our Lord and Savior, Saint George Michael.

Legendary British musician Brian Eno, who helped organize & produce the Together for Palestine benefit concert, performs the poem “Oh Rascal Children of Gaza, ” written by Palestinian poet Khaled Juma #Wembley

❤️Join us this Saturday 13th September 2025 to March the Bridge! 🖤Meet at Onepoto Domain for a 9:30am start 🤍Or join at the end point, Victoria Park 💚Demand we Sanction Israel Now! ❤️Organised by Aotearoa for Palestine

Australian writers propose a modest pay cut for the VC of Melbourne Uni could be used to fund Meanjin

Once again, better reporting in international press #nzpol www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

Here's me in Guardian Australia on the total debacle with Meanjin. www.theguardian.com/books/commen...

Calling New Zealand English teachers. As part of my PhD research, I'm conducting a survey on teacher perspectives on the topics of Shakespeare and of the inclusion of mātauranga Māori. Please complete this survey if you are an English teacher massey.au1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

Biography by Kelly Ana Morey, published today on Reading Room. newsroom.co.nz/2025/09/06/s...

Haere ra Kelly Ana. Moemoe tonu ake

Excited to share my new story in takahē and read the other contributions. Weekend reading sorted! #booksky #litfic #pukapuka

Out now! The 114th issue of takahē is free online for everyone to enjoy. www.takahe.org.nz/takahe-114/ This issue is a little slimmer, but just as carefully curated with new words and art to challenge, stimulate and engross. We hope you love it. Let us know your favourites! 🖤

Excited to share my new story with you all, in the new issue of takahē, coming soon!

Wheeeen theee Bird in your room represents all your gloom Nevermoré When you're trying to grieve but that corvid won't leave Nevermoré It will rap Tippy tippy tap Tippy tippy tap Waking you from naps aaand Your dream-a Then will fly Never tell you why Even if you cry Landing on your sideboard Athena

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