Finally, here's a starter pack of writers and people associated with the brilliant @takahemagazine.bsky.social Please follow and repost if you can

Tracey Sharp reviews 'Oceans Between Us: Pacific Peoples and Racism in Aotearoa' (Auckland University Press 2025) edited by Sereana Naepi. www.takahe.org.nz/oceans-betwe...

Tracey Sharp reviews 'Oceans Between Us: Pacific Peoples and Racism in Aotearoa' (Auckland University Press 2025) edited by Sereana Naepi. www.takahe.org.nz/oceans-betwe...

'Writers never ask one another questions like ‘where do you get your ideas’ because we all know the answer will be useless. Every writer’s process is personal and not very replicable.' Read ‘Massive Continuity of Horses’, a new essay by Una Cruickshank 🖤 www.takahe.org.nz/massive-cont...

'Writers never ask one another questions like ‘where do you get your ideas’ because we all know the answer will be useless. Every writer’s process is personal and not very replicable.' Read ‘Massive Continuity of Horses’, a new essay by Una Cruickshank 🖤 www.takahe.org.nz/massive-cont...

Erica Stretton reviews The Book of Guilt by Catherine Chidgey (THWUP 2025). www.takahe.org.nz/the-book-of-...

As many outside the UK can't use BBC Sounds here's the Vis Aeternitatis recording used in the Upload programme My thanks again to the brilliant @takahemagazine.bsky.social The poem's had a good afterlife because of their kindness in publishing it during the pandemic🙏 #poetrycommunity #poetsonbluesky

Lovely news for takahē fave, Breton Dukes! 🖤

My poem Vis Aeternitatis, first published in @takahemagazine.bsky.social and broadcast on BBC Upload is now on BBC Sounds. The poem is about 39 minutes in #poetrycommunity #poetsonbluesky

If you’ve ever been published in takahē, we want to add you to our starter pack! Leave us a comment or DM 🖤 go.bsky.app/MEWV1RM

'Wildly informative and generous…begins as an inquiry into the world of climate change activism and swiftly unfolds into an interrogation of the racist hierarchy of knowledge.' Māia Te Whetū reviews 'Slowing the Sun' by Nadine Hura (Bridget Williams Books, 2025) ❤️🤍🤎 www.takahe.org.nz/takahe-114/

'Wildly informative and generous…begins as an inquiry into the world of climate change activism and swiftly unfolds into an interrogation of the racist hierarchy of knowledge.' Māia Te Whetū reviews 'Slowing the Sun' by Nadine Hura (Bridget Williams Books, 2025) ❤️🤍🤎 www.takahe.org.nz/takahe-114/

If you’ve ever been published in takahē, we want to add you to our starter pack! Leave us a comment or DM 🖤 go.bsky.app/MEWV1RM

'...a sophisticated and multivalent voice, at once wise and vulnerable on its theses of otherness, gender, intimacy, grief and distance.' Dani Yourukova reviews Dear Alter, by Jiaqiao Liu (AUP 2025). www.takahe.org.nz/dear-alter/

'...a sophisticated and multivalent voice, at once wise and vulnerable on its theses of otherness, gender, intimacy, grief and distance.' Dani Yourukova reviews Dear Alter, by Jiaqiao Liu (AUP 2025). www.takahe.org.nz/dear-alter/

Closing tomorrow! The Monica Taylor Poetry Prize 2025 💫 If you have any barriers to sending your entry, please message us or use the contact form to get in touch ❤️ www.takahe.org.nz/submit/

Closing tomorrow! The Monica Taylor Poetry Prize 2025 💫 If you have any barriers to sending your entry, please message us or use the contact form to get in touch ❤️ www.takahe.org.nz/submit/

Maori scholar, Makereti Papakura writing at her desk c.1910. The room is decorated with a mix of Maori & European mementoes whilst the rafters are painted with traditional kowhaiwhai patterns. Makereti will be awarded a posthumous degree in Oxford tomorrow, almost a century after she died in 1930.

. Gaza The dead boy tries to open his eyes. He wants to see the world he is leaving. But there is nothing to see here, nothing and nothing, and anyway he is gone. His parents held him while he died but they are both dead, too. Or he held them, no one remembers. .

Last call for entries! The Monica Taylor Poetry Prize closes at the end of September, so don't miss your chance to be part of this beloved competition. 💚$300 first prize + publication in the December issue of takahē 💚$150 runner up www.takahe.org.nz/submit/

Last call for entries! The Monica Taylor Poetry Prize closes at the end of September, so don't miss your chance to be part of this beloved competition. 💚$300 first prize + publication in the December issue of takahē 💚$150 runner up www.takahe.org.nz/submit/

Hello, friends! We're Monarch Queer Literary Awards, a project of @fifthwheelpress.bsky.social. Monarch is a new anthology recognizing the best new queer writing and art published by literary magazines and independent presses. 🦋 Submissions open September 1. Until then, get to know us: monarch.gay

Late to this from @greenj.bsky.social , but: exactly... "What a shitty waste, and what a tragic confirmation of the Meanjin project’s occasional subtext: that culturally we are inclined to cringe." greenworlds.substack.com/p/the-death-...

'As modern Māori, what do our stories and journeys look like?’ The brilliant Melissa Oliver reviews Overseas Experience by Nicola Andrews (Āporo Press, 2025) 💛🩵🩶 www.takahe.org.nz/overseas-exp...

'As modern Māori, what do our stories and journeys look like?’ The brilliant Melissa Oliver reviews Overseas Experience by Nicola Andrews (Āporo Press, 2025) 💛🩵🩶 www.takahe.org.nz/overseas-exp...

Took me several days to read and reply to all the young poets - but what a special poem challenge. I think I loved reading these as much as the tamariki loved writing them nzpoetrybox.wordpress.com/2025/09/17/p...

We're celebrating 50 years of Te Wiki o te Reo Māori! Did you know takahē publishes short fiction & poetry in Te Reo Māori with English translation? You can also enter the Monica Taylor Poetry Prize with a poem in Te Reo with English translation. It closes at the end of this month, so kia tere!

"Joss is a magnificent linguistic brocade that weaves together lines from museum labels, gravestone markers, diaries, news clippings, films, ancient Chinese poetry, various novels, history books, and interviews." ❤️Cybonn Ang reviews 'Joss: A History' by Grace Yee. www.takahe.org.nz/joss-a-histo...

"Joss is a magnificent linguistic brocade that weaves together lines from museum labels, gravestone markers, diaries, news clippings, films, ancient Chinese poetry, various novels, history books, and interviews." ❤️Cybonn Ang reviews 'Joss: A History' by Grace Yee. www.takahe.org.nz/joss-a-histo...

I really enjoyed this Lime Square Poets open mic last night. @julianday.bsky.social read superbly. I would encourage others in the #poetrycommunity to sample LSP's welcoming atmosphere. I read Vis Aeternitatis, first published in takahē @takahemagazine.bsky.social #poem #poetry #poetsonbluesky

❤️Join us this Saturday 13th September 2025 to March the Bridge! 🖤Meet at Onepoto Domain for a 9:30am start 🤍Or join at the end point, Victoria Park 💚Demand we Sanction Israel Now! ❤️Organised by Aotearoa for Palestine

Rally to save Meanjin magazine Thursday 11 Sept 9am 715 Swanston St Carlton A number of Australian writers, editors and academics will speak in support of this vital cultural institution

❤️Join us this Saturday 13th September 2025 to March the Bridge! 🖤Meet at Onepoto Domain for a 9:30am start 🤍Or join at the end point, Victoria Park 💚Demand we Sanction Israel Now! ❤️Organised by Aotearoa for Palestine

The takahē staff are deeply saddened at the sudden passing of our Essays Editor, Kelly Ana Morey, and send heartfelt condolences to her whānau, friends, and all those in the writing community who will feel this great loss.

If Melbourne University Publishing doesn’t want to keep publishing Meanjin, they should hand over the journal to someone worthy of the responsibility. Me in The Conversation theconversation.com/the-decision...

Biography by Kelly Ana Morey, published today on Reading Room. newsroom.co.nz/2025/09/06/s...

Kelly Ana Morey, remembered by Catherine Chidgey

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

Moe mai rā, e hoa. This is a sad shock. 😭💗

This is indeed a shock and a huge loss. Moe mai rā, KAM. ^MT

Haere ra Kelly Ana. Moemoe tonu ake

I will always love takahē because it published my first ever short story. Sad news.

The takahē staff are deeply saddened at the sudden passing of our Essays Editor, Kelly Ana Morey, and send heartfelt condolences to her whānau, friends, and all those in the writing community who will feel this great loss.

"No matter how hard you try you can never spin as badly again" - the inimitable Jennifer Compton www.takahe.org.nz/first-wool/

If you've been admiring the August issue's cover art, click through for more! We have a special essay by Izzy Hillman (Exhibitions Curator for the Aigantighe Art Gallery) on Maania Tealei's body of work: 'Whakahōnore i tō tātou taonga tuku iho' ❤️ www.takahe.org.nz/maania-teale...

If you've been admiring the August issue's cover art, click through for more! We have a special essay by Izzy Hillman (Exhibitions Curator for the Aigantighe Art Gallery) on Maania Tealei's body of work: 'Whakahōnore i tō tātou taonga tuku iho' ❤️ www.takahe.org.nz/maania-teale...

Oh.... Hey! I have a story in this! 🥰 Thanks so much to @takahemagazine.bsky.social for taking such great care of my work. ❤️

Out now! The 114th issue of takahē is free online for everyone to enjoy. www.takahe.org.nz/takahe-114/ This issue is a little slimmer, but just as carefully curated with new words and art to challenge, stimulate and engross. We hope you love it. Let us know your favourites! 🖤

Kia ora for the review takahē + Melissa Oliver! 😍

Excited to share my new story in takahē and read the other contributions. Weekend reading sorted! #booksky #litfic #pukapuka