In case you missed it, last night's Showcase was devoted to the final Off The Page session for this year - @michelleduff.bsky.socialchats to @thomconroy.bsky.social about her book "Surplus Women". Listen here: bit.ly/off-the_page... and find the rest of the series at mpr.nz/show/offthep...

A century on, Mrs Dalloway speaks in so many ways to our own moment of militarisation, neo-imperialism and political crisis.

Kia oraTania! We did make a good team, eh? And what an amazing night! 🥂

The devastating, shortsighted attack on literature continues. List from Magic City Books. Who'd they miss? Note: the small publishers selected here for financial attack include (among other very worthy and important presses) @transitbooks.bsky.social, publisher of 2023 Nobel laureate Jon Fosse.

#OverheardOnZoom: “Dogs are one of the few good things in the world right now.”

Great to make the Ockhams longlist alongside some very fine titles. www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

Meri Kirihimete! To celebrate the holidays we're bringing you a new blog from Lal Medawattegedara titled 'The Old Christmas Card.' headland.org.nz/blog/the-old... have a read!

oh, This gon be gud .. lets see if Chuckles has any guts

Into the hills!

Every single school should have a library & a librarian, to help every single child find the books that will make them readers, and give them all the lifelong benefits of literacy. Libraries & librarians change children's lives FOREVER! #literacy #libraries #librarians

Stuff is reporting that Parliament grounds are essentially full with still thousands on the hikoi yet to arrive. I am so so proud to be tangata Tiriti & Pākehā today. Te Tiriti gives me a place to stand here in this whenua alongside tangata whenua. Thank you Aotearoa. PHOTO: Megan Jones

This is how you become a writer: just pick one of the things that is deeply wrong with you. Make it a character. Now send it on a self-help journey or try to kill it. Now call it a book.

As someone who works on language revitalisation, one of the things we care a lot about is the restoration of old place names. For this reason, I wanna share this map of Auckland compiled in 1938. The map has a bit of a backstory, so indulge me for a moment.

Good morning. Word of the Day is as beautiful as it is underused. ‘Confelicity’ is finding joy in the happiness and success of others.

Come to a Hataitai Literary Afternoon on Sun 10 Nov, 4-6pm: "Celebrate local writers with live music and a relaxed chat, followed by readings by local poets Jenny Bornholdt, Gregory O'Brien, Dame Fiona Kidman, Tim Jones and Sarah Scott". More info & how to get tickets: www.timjonesbooks.co.nz/blog/

What joy - to read the word kindness - nzpoetryshelf.com/2024/10/31/p...

The Ruahine Kiwi Project seeks a Project Lead for a 20-hour/week role in Palm Nth, initially fixed for 12 months. The position, focuses on enhancing strategic leadership for predator control and kiwi habitat restoration in the Southern Ruahine Ranges. www.trademe.co.nz/a/jobs/offic...

Spread the word to all your writer friends: the deadline for submissions to our journal Turbine | Kapohau is approaching fast! This weekend would be a good time to check out the guidelines and sendus some work before 1 November turbinekapohau.org.nz

Kia ora! Join us in 2025! Applications close 31 October ✨

COWS WATCH SUNSETS

Amazing show, beautiful vibe! #palmydragfest

Tawhiti Museum today was AMAZING. Daughter described it as what happens when one man’s collecting gets out of control. Private museum in Hawera.

Tomorrow 12.30pm at Unity Books Wellington, the prize-winning David Coventry, author of Performance, will appear in conversation with Damien Wilkins www.unitybooks.co.nz/news-and-eve...

Flowers in my life right now!

This Campaign in a nutshell

September in books. 3 audiobooks. 4 books. 4 of them Aotearoa New Zealand titles. All uniquely brilliant.

Keep an eye out! 👁️ Headland's Issue 22 is coming soon! ✨🎉✨

“History is still what hurts, and Jameson’s writings are still here to help us register that wounding and working, in our registration of its effects, towards its undoing and redemption.” Dougal McNeill remembers Fredric Jameson.

A new kind of factory farming is on the horizon, one that grows meat in giant steel vats, either from real-live cells taken from real-live animals or from tiny microorganisms. What will that mean for the $1 trillion global meat industry?

Another instalment of ‘on form’ featuring poets Lynley Edmeades, Alison Glenny and others, curated by John Geraets

Don't miss your chance to enter the Monica Taylor Poetry Prize 2024 & get your poems in front of judge Renee Liang! 💚💚💚 Entries close very strictly on Monday 30th September at 11:59pm. For all the details and to enter, see: takahemagazine.submittable.com/submit

As we come to the end of this year's Te Wiki o te Reo Māori/Māori language week I want to share some new-to-me examples of the fusion of Māori and Pakeha culture in the 19th century from various GLAM institutions which point to an alternative way NZ society could have evolved...

So excited to celebrate some of our Creative Writing students at Friday’s Showcase! 🎉

New Zealand’s future under climate change is likely to be even warmer – and drier – than scientists previously forecast, fresh projections show. The new data, just released in an interactive national map, offers the most comprehensive picture yet ... www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/new-proje...

No, they haven't increased the fund, no, school libraries and ebooks still aren't included. They just made some boring admin changes. #writer #author

Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #9,325,202! Yippee, I guess?

My trusty assistant!

Engineers at NASA have successfully fired up a set of thrusters Voyager 1 hasn’t used in decades to solve an issue that could keep the 47-year-old spacecraft from communicating with Earth from billions of miles away.

Antarctic krill store as much carbon as the world’s mangroves, salt marshes and seagrass beds

Now announcing the release of Issue 4.3! Read our table of contents to see the new stories and their excerpts! If you haven’t subscribed already, head over to our website or Weightless Books to buy a copy: khoreomag.com/shop/ This gorgeous cover is by Charis Loke.

Researchers from Rangitāne o Manawatū, Plant & Food Research and Victoria University of Wellington collected and sequenced the DNA of maire tawake or swamp maire (Syzygium maire). www.rnz.co.nz/news/te-manu...

Well, yeah. www.cnn.com/2024/09/15/h...

Kia kaha te reo Māori! ❤️🩷🧡💛💚💙 The theme for Te Wiki o te Reo Māori 2024 is 'Ake ake ake – A Forever Language’, symbolising the resilience, adaptability and endurance of the language.

A reminder that two IIML writing residencies for 2025 are open for applications RIGHT NOW: Writer in Residence (12 months, a salary, a room of your own, closes 30 Sept) and the Emerging Māori Writer in Residence (3 months, $15000 stipend and a mentor, closes 31 Oct) www.wgtn.ac.nz/modernletter...

Thanks to the New Zealand Book Awards Trust for the great honour of being part of the 2025 Ockhams judging team! ✨📚✨

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