DELIGHTED to be included as a summer fiction writer for NZ Listener 🥳🙏 A wonderful way to start 2026, and in such fine company, esp @antzlapwood.bsky.social 🥂🥰

I’ve done some catalogue searching and am fairly confident in saying that 5/10 titles in this list do not exist (1, 2, 4, 5 and 7). Sloppy, unacceptable, and a real kick in the guts to real authors with real books they’d love people to buy and read!

Today (4/12) every dollar you donate to Orange Sky Aotearoa will be DOUBLED. Orange Sky does amazing work supporting individuals & whānau experiencing homelessness & hardship through access to free laundry & warm showers. give.orangesky.org.nz/holidayappea...

Bong Joon Ho hit me up for the squad you legend deadline.com/2025/11/bong...

How cool is this! Metallica donate $20,000 to Auckland Women’s Centre www.nzherald.co.nz/entertainmen...

Wrote a #shortstory abt sneaking smokes & pills, taking photos, & setting a doll on fire. Huge thanks to @lostballoon.bsky.social for giving Double Image a home 🌿 tinyurl.com/mtsn5yha

Dublin Literary Award nominated titles are out! Kia ora to the writers from Aotearoa New Zealand on this list: 📗1985 by Dominic Hoey 📕Delirious by Damien Wilkins 📘Kataraina by Becky Manawatu and - our pick - 📙The Mires by Tina Makereti. dublinliteraryaward.ie/features/new... #Booksky #ReadNZ ^DR

Teens need to get home from exams at midday, half an hour bus ride, akl city. Y11 waits 15 mins and catches bus straight home that takes 40 mins. Y9 gets impatient, catches bus to another suburb, hops on train for one stop, then catches another bus home, taking the same amount of time.

That’s the kind of kneejerk dismissive advice that makes me violent. Telling people to just grow their own food is tantamount to telling them to eat cake.

So the Prime Ministers new attack on teachers is their 12 weeks of school holidays which we all know many teachers work through. Regardless. NZ Parliament has 20+ weeks of recess each year including a far longer summer break than most professions including teaching!!!

650 Principals are saying 'are you fucking mad', Lord give me the confidence & ignorance of a conservative politician. newsroom.co.nz/2025/10/21/i...

Since the election, there are 37,243 fewer 15-19 year olds in filled jobs. The jobs market for young people is as bad - if not worse - than the GFC. So adding 6% to the cost of tuition fees and halving apprenticeship boost support makes life even harder. Brilliant work National.

I'm so embarrassed for my country right now. Luxon is an empty suit, so shameful, such an unprincipled coward.

I had the most wonderful time at the Surrey last year and am very grateful to have had the opportunity. Congratulations to all on this year’s longlist!

The books sector sets out a new five-year plan.

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

Lovely review in Kete of Kings of this World www.ketebooks.co.nz/en/reviews/r...

Paula Morris farewells Kelly Ana Morey. www.anzliterature.com/feature/kell...

WORD Christchurch Festival 2025 is over - what a great ride it has been! Kia ora and congratulations to our friends at #WORDChch & all the WORD workers. Thanks to the writers, and readers who came along to sessions. Check out our coverage at my.christchurchcitylibraries.com/word-christc...

Climate.

Data shows 'exciting' shift in Kiwis' attitudes to te reo Māori

Trans people are worth protecting. Not because we are amazing people (although we are) or because we offer a great deal to society (although we do) or because we are fine as hell (we are). We are worth protecting because we are HUMAN BEINGS, and it’s amazing how often that simple fact is forgotten.

I am feeling so ill about that Erica Stamford video gleefully announcing that school students are going to be assessed by AI. Esp the bit where she says you’re 2x as likely to get an ‘excellence’ with your own teacher so they are going to iron out that ‘inconsistency’. We are fucked.

In my kid’s lacrosse tournament permission form: Can your child confidently swim 60m? Erm yes but what sort of lacrosse will this be…?

this Ngaati Porou takataa wa is the lifeblood of so many of our takataapui works from @antzlapwood.bsky.social "Home Theatre" to Ruby Solly's "The Artist" to @tainuitillidienui.bsky.social "Poorhara" and so many more in our community and beyond. I'm so so so glad she is being recognised in this way

Poetic genius.

Yay for Nafanua! This is wonderful news 🎉 www.wgtn.ac.nz/news/2025/07...

a wee taster of my book to whet your appetite #booksky #author #YA www.ketebooks.co.nz/en/interview...

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...

Well, this made me feel despairing today.

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

Weather today.

My story 'Generation Brutal' got a mention in Savannah Patterson's thoughtful Kete review of bilingual super-short fiction collection, 'Poto/Short' 💕

Cat update: everyone meet Sage.

Loving the latest obsessive, dark, clever story by @natbaker.bsky.social over at Newsroom - One Night With You newsroom.co.nz/2025/06/07/s...

Congratulations to Morrin Rout, newly minted new Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit. Morrin has done so much great mahi for readers & writers - was co-literary director of WORD, founder of Hagley Writers Institute, & still does Bookenz on Plains FM. toiotautahi.org.nz/our-people/m... #nzbooks

Thank you to the actual humans talking about actual books by actual authors, by the way. It always mattered, but now it extra-fucking-matters given the deluge of lies from the bullshit machine, a bullshit machine that only gets to churn out the bullshit and the artbarf because of billionaires.

Congratulations to all the winners, and nominees, in this year’s Ockham Book Awards www.nzbookawards.nz/new-zealand-... #Aotearoabooks #NZbooks

For anyone attending Auckland Writers’ Festival: I’ve got two tickets for ‘Japan’s Trailblazer’ on Sunday (1pm) with Asako Yuzuki in conversation with Paula Morris that we unfortunately can’t go to. I can’t get a refund and I’d hate for them to go to waste — any takers? #AWF25

@jordanriversnz.bsky.social Thanks for the accurate content.

I just gifted a Women's Refuge Safe Night for Mother's Day - just $20! I hope you will too! #NewZealand #MothersDay

Happy publication day to Mikaela Nyman! We are so proud to be sharing The Anatomy of Sand with the world, it is an excellent volume of poetry. Congratulations, Mikaela 💚 @miknyman.bsky.social teherengawakapress.co.nz/the-anatomy-...

Congratulations to Tina Makereti on the publication of her stunning first book of nonfiction. A huge achievement and a very important pukapuka. We're proud to be sharing This Compulsion In Us with readers 💙 @tinamakereti.bsky.social teherengawakapress.co.nz/this-compuls...

Youth unemployment continues to rise. There are now 70,700 15-24 year olds unemployed in NZ. 96,600 are not in employment, education or training – up 16,000 from March 2023. There is no plan to help these younger workers, and they are bearing the brunt of employment change

We endured six months of submissions and process for the Treaty Principles Bill, a bill cabinet knew would never pass. Yet the Govt gives just 12 hours for radical changes to pay equity laws that directly impact hundreds of thousands of workers, mostly women, & their families.

This petition to stop NZ First's stupid sex definitions bill has been open for nearly a week and has 1.2k signatures The hate group's petition that spawned this bill took four months to get 2.2k signatures Let's show just how little hate there is petitions.parliament.nz/cc70b2c2-cfd...

Come & help celebrate the release of my new novel, The Book of Guilt! The legendary Elizabeth Knox is launching it 13 May at @waikatouniversity.bsky.social. There'll be a Q&A, nibbles, & books for sale. 5pm for a 5:30 start. ❤️💛💚 @thwupbooks.bsky.social facebook.com/events/700867052507512

Pirate cat is still pirate but after 4 vet visits is hopefully now improving. PS the gunk around the eye is antiseptic cream