When Malcolm saw his wife Susan in a burgundy bathrobe at Tony's townhouse

newsroom.co.nz/2025/09/13/s... Story up!

The ROI on the guest of honour programme has been proven so why did MCH deny funding for NZ to be guest of honour programme at the biggest children’s book fair in the world? How can they value literacy if they don’t value the industry that makes children’s books! www.thesapling.co.nz

Never posted this here … ReadingRoom published my creepy arachnid story late last year which made me very happy. Another coming soonish 🤞 newsroom.co.nz/2024/09/28/s...

2024 highlight. At the book signing after a WORD festival event, I asked Richard Ford what he imagines happens at the end of his incredible short story Under The Radar … and he told me! Settled a longstanding writing group debate

2024 writing wrap up 🧵 Plenty of this:

Kete books 2024 reviewer favourites!!! My choice was too easy. It’s a cracker. Put these on the reading/gift list #nzwriters #nzfiction www.ketebooks.co.nz/en/reading-l...

I am always very happy to be asked by Kete Books to read something new and say what I think. www.ketebooks.co.nz/en/reviews/r...

Finally. I have made a Pav. Is this what being an adult feels like? #asmallmeringuemiracle

Most days I spend a good amount of time thinking about what it would be like to work in a writer’s room for TV.

Just a reminder to all you writers out there who published books this year: ‘best of the year’ lists are subjective and their creators can only include books they’ve actually read so it could be that they just haven’t got to yours yet but it’s on their groaning TBR pile.

Don't forget that signed books make excellent Xmas gifts. Don't forget that a lot of authors sell signed books directly via their websites. 😃👍

Announcing the Monica Taylor Poetry Prize 2024 longlist! With huge thanks to judge Renee Liang 梁文蔚 for her enthusiastic and careful consideration, and to every poet who entered for entrusting takahē with your work.

A starter pack for our amazing whānau! Contributors and guest editors, if we missed you, please tag us so we can add you 🩵

This is Scout. Scout doesn’t mind that I haven’t written a word for 6 weeks. She only asks that I open the hallway door so she can go and lie in the sun patch please and thank you. 🐾

Exciting to see that the Writers Vic workshop "Writing your memoir when you are a ghost or other spectral being" is so well attended

New interview up! Fiction writer Cassie Hart talks self publishing, the smell of lavender, and inspiration versus perspiration 😅 Read for free at: www.takahe.org.nz/cassie-hart/

Having a desk clear out. Six near-new notebooks with scribbles on the first four pages … and counting #writing

NZ writers. Here it is ⬇️

You want New Zealand writer? I got New Zealand writers. go.bsky.app/HC4kCUL

this flash & short fiction writers starter pack filled up incredibly quickly (150 is the max, and I guess there are a lot of us). Anyway share if you're into short and flash fiction! go.bsky.app/53R6ziA

Because tedious tasks are my therapy right now: are you a short fiction writer (flash or short stories only, please) publishing in litmags or aspiring to? I'd like to make a starter pack of short story and flash people! Comment here and please share for visibility #writingcommunity

Creative writers: come work with us at ASU! We're currently running a search for an Assistant Teaching Professor to teach undergrad CW in-person and online, and to oversee online curriculum development as their service component. More info here: english.asu.edu/about/employ...

Maddie Ballard made a dress (of course!) with 100 or more separate panels for the launch of her sewing memoir, Bound, at Unity Books last night. Rose Lu gave the launch speech in a simple bright green suit!

I'm delighted to teach CREW254 Short Fiction | He Kōrero Paki for @modernletters.bsky.social again in 2025 — not once, but twice! Join me to explore the art of the short story in T1 or T2. The application deadline for T1 is the 1st of December, so get writing! ✍️💚 www.wgtn.ac.nz/courses/CREW...

David Eggleton pushing WCW's wheelbarrow around in the new Turbine turbinekapohau.org.nz/2023-content...

So so thrilled to have my prose poem in this issue of Turbine Kapohau @modernletters.bsky.social !! "On Rakiura, Jane Bloomfield finds her experience of reading a Penguin classic shaped by the island’s personality"

Waking up slowly the morning after the Adam and Biggs Prizes to say yes, it's true: Turbine | Kapohau 23 has fired up! Congratulations and massive thanks to editors Anna Scaife, Tōrea Scott-Fyfe and Maddie Fenn for their terrific issue, and to Rachel O'Neill for web support. Check it out!

'I think human relationships can sometimes be what you could call symbiotic, but other times there can be a vampiric element. You know, vampires are thirsty!' Te Herenga Waka /CNZ Writer in Residence Noelle McCarthy on her year of Dracula at the IIML

Huge congratulations to Joseph Trinidad, awarded the 2023 Adam Foundation Prize last night with his essay collection Lucky Creatures, and to Ella Borrie, who received the Biggs Family Prize in Poetry with her collection Confluence. Just two of this year's talented MA (Page) cohort!

Come hang out with us on Zoom from 7.30pm tonight. All the cool kids* are going to be there. us06web.zoom.us/j/8100317354... Meeting ID: 810 0317 3547 Passcode: 265564 *Subjective

Delighted that my small story Saturday Mornings, written as an exercise for @modernletters.bsky.social workshop, found a home in Landfall.

Launch tonight at Unity Books Wellington!

So thrilled that it's UK publication day for @pipadam.bsky.social's Audition! You know pretty quickly when you're reading something utterly extraordinary, & the brilliant Peninsula Press were onto this in a flash. Big thanks to them then, & congrats Pip!

Hand in party! Good times - but also bittersweet. What should I constantly fret about now? Thanks for an incredible year @modernletters.bsky.social

MA thesis currently at the printers 🤛

Just the final rounds of proofreading to do now on my MA thesis. I can’t believe I wrote a whole thing tbh.

Sargeson Prize-winning story by Anna Woods now on Newsroom

Look at this beauty. I have a story in here, and I’m pumped about it. Landfall 246 is out November 27.

A reflective and heartfelt response to Dream Girl, by Joy Holley, from Naomi Mary Smith. 💙🤍🩷 Read for free, along the rest of our issue 108 reviews, fiction, poetry, essays and more! www.takahe.org.nz/dream-girl/

Entries close 12 Nov for the Sunday Star-Times Short Story Award. First prize is $8,500! For one story! (You better believe I am attempting to write a short story as we speak - you should too!) www.stuff.co.nz/entertainmen...

Stoked to reveal the cover of my new middle grade novel, coming Feb 2024 & pubbed by the wonderful Allen & Unwin in NZ and Aus. Cover image by Max Thompson & design by Katrina Duncan. More info here: www.allenandunwin.co.nz/browse/book/... #kidlit #pukapuka #kikorangi #UKkidlit #middlegrade

Tina Makereti and Harry Ricketts reveal and discuss the five winners of the RNZ Short Story Competition

If you're on campus this afternoon, you can see the shortlisted student films (12-1pm) and a selection of the international shortlist for the Aotearoa Poetry Film Festival (1-2pm) at the Memorial Theatre - no charge, and great work! www.aotearoapff.com/program-apff...

MA23 workshop member Anna Scaife's shortlisted story from the At the Bay competition is now available to read here, along with the winning story and others shortlisted