my idea: any one-off contracted work permits ONE email per $100 they’re paying you

no one feels more free to write whatever they want than someone you’ve emailed the correct spelling of your name and iwi to

how come we can't have arts writing in this country with correctly formatted em dashes

has this year been particularly slow for nz novels? I can't really think of more than three that have come out and one forthcoming

I decided to catch up on the world of nz literature so I bought and read the book I thought was going to win the ockham and then, just now, found out it's not shortlisted

I’m using conservative, euphemistic language to describe reproductive health out of concern for immigrant women

I posted the video of the man being attacked by a hawk while Amelia's happy hardcore beats played on twitter because I don't think you're supposed to do jokes on here

there's no like . . . foreign guest judge for sportsperson of the year or the music awards or nzr of the year or whatever, is there

okay after further investigation my top nz literary concern is the number of people who never publish a second book

my biggest group of haters, other māori, are being outpaced by homophobic women who live in mumbai

thinking about when someone told me about a residency where the accomodation was really bad and the board was really rude and pedantic and then said I should apply

it must be really easy to answer q&a questions if the way you feel about publishing a book is bashful yet hopeful, very grateful, humbly desperate, proud to have overcome 1-3 specific struggles, struck by one inciting inspirational moment and are solely motivated by the concept of representation

is it easier to get funding now that half the eligible people have moved away

I wonder why I've never been asked to chair a panel or interview someone

aw the teen in idaho who uses my email address for his walmart receipts is home from college

once every two years or so you meet a writer who's a normal and popular person and it sucks

GOLDEN GENERATION? Does NZ need a Young Writers prize for under 50s or is everyone born after 1975 a flop? Authors shortlisted for the Ockham fiction prize by year of birth (data from the last ten years)

would it be all right if I post some data about the ockhams or will 1-2 articles crop up about how authors are ungrateful 🌷

please put trigger warnings on your auckland writers festival announcement posts

going anywhere within walking distance of a cruise terminal in the last week of summer

Straight women breathlessly reporting the news: Homophobia and transphobia are on the rise bUT ONE OF THEM THREW JUICE AT SOMEONE TWO YEARS AGO should protesting be illegal...? (for gays)

it's a beautiful life living in a sub tropical city where more than one person is in trouble with the wikipedia editors for extensively editing their own page

on the public lending right site: you have to go to 'update my details' and click save and submit before march 1st EVEN IF YOU HAVE NO DETAILS TO UPDATE or you won't be re-registered for the year

Celebrating the first 50 tracks on my Janet Email karaoke channel by making one for the real freaks youtu.be/6sSL6s4fqdA

I don't know if you're allowed to say things like this on here but every time I see creative non-fiction referred to as CNF I think people have become very open about writing Clothed Female Naked Male erotica

please come and see me on saturday the 15th on a comedy panel where I’m the only person who isn’t an actor

it’s so embarrassing how many emails I get that begin I know you must be really busy when I’m singing popular songs modified to be about my cat :(

whenever I don’t know what to wear for an event I remember when I complained to my friend that people always wear $700 dresses at auckland book events and she said do you have anything that was $400

entranced by this article that makes the nz literary scene sound like the writers are cage fighters and there’s a lot of scope for tipsters . . . many in the fiction world are tipping big things

me and @amamelia.bsky.social have made an account to follow

I am writing a book :(

So many excellent books are coming this winter! Here's my list for The San Francisco Chronicle of December-February releases that I'm stoked about: datebook.sfchronicle.com/books/best-b...

I have seen an american child checking into this prague hotel with a full-sized portable air conditioner