Friday!!! At Britomart!!! Me interviewing Abi Dell’Avo and Jeremy Hansen and Abel Mercer and Emmy Rākete!!!

sorry I don’t rly post on here but I’m doing a bunch of stuff at the writers festival if you wanna come

I have three books going to print in the next three weeks screaming and crying

selling at zinefest all day today if anyone is coming by—up on the mezzanine

manifesting Rose Matafeo late night show host

You can pick up a copy at Unity Wellington and help try to get us on the Friday bestseller list!!

We have Overseas Experience by Nicola Andrews in our hands! You should be able to get a copy from your local indie bookstore early next week. If they don’t have it, request it or check out BookHub to find where to find one. bookhub.co.nz/p/overseas-e...

I can’t spend money on this game right now you guys, 🅱️lease

460 folks live in the town of Urenui, pretty bold move imo

my dad is randomly using te reo in his messages to me these days 🥲😤🥲😤🥲😤

when u open the essay to edit and they’ve hit the double space at the end of each sentence 

I love that we are publishing a poetry collection that features so much te reo but I also hate that I have to be responsible for checking it all. Te Aka u the realest one.

I’ll be in kōrero with @understatesmen.bsky.social on Saturday 7 June from 2:00pm at Auckland Central City Library, talking about her new short story ‘The Whistle of Wind Through Feathers and Dogskin’ and more as part of our science-fiction ‘Other Worlds Day’. www.eventfinda.co.nz/2025/maori-a...

Āporo Press's next publication, Overseas Experience by Nicola Andrews, will be released in mere weeks! We've been contacting libraries and bookstores to stock it, but if you'd like to help, requesting it at your local does a world of good for indie presses. bookhub.co.nz/p/overseas-e...

Is the man in jorts and a checkered collared shirt in my gym doing okay?

Melbourne Writers Festival into Auckland Writers Festival I’m pretty worn out and I didn’t even have to do anything but attend. Writers running the gauntlet of festivals must be exhausted.

@amamelia.bsky.social catching up on the Please watch Brazil cinema episode and no ‘The Way He Looks’? Feels like the first film from there I watched but hey, it’s been a while so maybe it’s bad

okay lit losers who’s in Auckland for the fest and wants to catch up

Adding ‘Labubu’ to my style sheet for this upcoming book

Closing tonight (Sunday!!!)

Excited to reveal the cover of Overseas Experience by Nicola Andrews, due to release on May 30 via Āporo Press. More information, such as where to purchase upon release, coming soon! @poidivision.bsky.social 🎉

Data on who got published in 2023, inspired previousky compiled by Janis Freegard open.substack.com/pub/damienle...

Excited to reveal the cover of Overseas Experience by Nicola Andrews, due to release on May 30 via Āporo Press. More information, such as where to purchase upon release, coming soon! @poidivision.bsky.social 🎉

Featherston Booktown and the AI images my dudesssss come on

New episode of local loser is up today with @plaest2k.bsky.social as my guest! open.spotify.com/episode/6iXr...

New episode of local loser is up today with @plaest2k.bsky.social as my guest! open.spotify.com/episode/6iXr...

We extended our deadline for the bad apple WORLD TOUR! Now closes Sunday May 11 at midnight in your local timezone.

For anyone interested, from my research 77% of 48 total adult fiction books published by NZ publishers in 2024 were by Pākehā authors. Māori were 16.6% and Asian authors 6.25%. This does exclude authors published by publishers based outside of Aotearoa. Adjusted percentages to follow.

Swiss Ball V Ups are maybe the most humiliating exercise I’ve ever done and my trainer had them twice a week in my programme

We had an Easter collage night

The second episode of my new arts and culture (with a literary slant) podcast, local loser, is out. I chat with Cam Yates of sybs candles! Still figuring out audio but maybe check it out anyway? lol open.spotify.com/episode/6s1y...

(Queer) Māori mā, who would like to write about Matariki Bennett’s debut poetry collection for bad apple?

(Queer) Māori mā, who would like to write about Matariki Bennett’s debut poetry collection for bad apple?

Ok! So if you go here: am.ticketmaster.com/awf/buy?_gl=.... You can buy multiples and bundles!

There’s an $8 per order fee on every Auckland Writers Festival ticket and you can’t buy multiple tickets at a time. Ticketmaster literally a nightmare omg

One of my PT exercises is ‘medium magnum grip seated row’ and simply, what?

you’d think it’s my dream to work on books pretty much all day but maybe 11–4 is my ideal work hours

If any mutuals are visiting Auckland in the next few months and want to take a risk on coming on my new baby podcast hit me up 🙇🏻‍♂️🙇🏻‍♂️🙇🏻‍♂️

Uhhhh I started a podcast and my friend Sherry helped and was the first guest and her girlfriend Karen made an intro song and edited it!! open.spotify.com/episode/1OKg...

Uhhhh I started a podcast and my friend Sherry helped and was the first guest and her girlfriend Karen made an intro song and edited it!! open.spotify.com/episode/1OKg...

We are almost there! Only a few hundred dollars to our goal with a week to go. If you’re able to throw even a few dollars to our Boosted it will be deeply appreciated! www.thearts.co.nz/boosted/proj...

anyone out there got audio editing skills and wanna help out with a podcast lol

bad apple’s had lots of stuff come through recently and I’m finding myself editing almost every night zzz

Jade Kake (Ngāpuhi) is the first architect in the country to have completed her registration in te reo Māori.

Kia ora e hoa mā, we are still raising funds to publish three Māori books with Āporo Press if you have capacity to donate! Only 30% to go! Here’s a new poem from Nicola Andrew’s forthcoming collection that will be supported by your pūtea. www.thearts.co.nz/boosted/proj...

anyone able to give me some feedback on a poem I’m stuck with? it’s a Māori kinda futurist piece

I’ve always related to him