Claire Mabey
@clairemabey.bsky.social
Writer. Founder of Verb Wellington. Books editor at The Spinoff. Sylvia Townsend Warner fan. Mum. Author of The Raven’s Eye Runaways, an MG adventure (2024) 🍃Substack at clairemabey@substack.com | clairemabey.com
Thanks @clairemabey.bsky.social for this careful and close reading of both my book and the subject of lostness over at the Spinoff share.google/wzv3orXBCwso...
Lost in the New Zealand bush: John Summers’ Green Sea, reviewed
What happens when something that is supposed to be so good for us goes wrong?
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@clairemabey.bsky.social Love the book, loved our conversation nzpoetrybox.wordpress.com/2026/09/10/p...
Poetry Box celebrates Cass and the Beast by Claire Mabey and Jill Calder
Cass and the Beast Claire Mabey and Jill CalderGecko Press, 2026 Gecko Press page Like poems, children’s picture books can be and do so many things. Claire Mabey’s debut picture book, Cass and the …
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I am the very model of a modern day typographer A font take on the tune “Modern Major General” by Gilbert & Sullivan #typography #fonts #graphicdesign
The Queenstown Writers Festival has just announced its programme
Queenstown Writers Festival
The Queenstown Writers Festival brings writers and readers together to celebrate books, literature and words in many forms.
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Diary of a writers’ festival: Word Christchurch 2026
Diary of a writers’ festival: Word Christchurch 2026
A report on the crowds, chaos and bathroom selfies of a busy and brilliant festival....
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This is the session that I was most looking forward to and Noelle McCarthy and @clairemabey.bsky.social certainly delivered. I loved learning more about how Stakes came to be, the themes and Bram Stoker trivia. ^MT my.christchurchcitylibraries.com/blogs/post/s...
Stakes: Noelle McCarthy and Bram Stoker’s “Beyoncé of Monsters” at WORD Christchurch 2026
Moata reports back from a WORD Christchurch 2026 session with Noelle McCarthy, author of Dracula-infused memoir, Stakes.
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Sometimes I'm in a pleasant and cosy frame of mind, and I look back at something I wrote and go daaaamn I was not fucking around hahahaha
Lost in the New Zealand bush: John Summers’ Green Sea, reviewed
Lost in the New Zealand bush: John Summers’ Green Sea, reviewed
What happens when something that is supposed to be so good for us goes wrong?...
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Oh it's out! Thanks @clairemabey.bsky.social Original title of this intro in the book is 'Stuck in the middle with you'.
Sidney Wong@sidneygjwong.bsky.social · 2w ago"Pan-Asian solidarity here is a precarious balance between historical colonisers and the historically colonised, transported to a new colonial framework in the Pākehā settler state." @tzemingdynasty.bsky.social thespinoff.co.nz/books/03-09-...?
More disasters on the staff front at New Zealand's National Library www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO26...
Our Precious History Under Threat As National Library And Archives Face More Govt Cuts
The key custodian of our nation’s history, the National Library and Archives NZ is again being savaged by Government spending cuts, with a proposal to shed 12% of its workforce.
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this poem is so vital so heart aching so moving I am holding my stick next to Lynn Jenner - to bang on the floor with you and you and you nzpoetryshelf.com/2026/08/31/p...
Poetry Shelf Monday Poem: What can we do about Palestine? by Lynn Jenner
What can we do about Palestine? I stand in front of you nowa metaphorical stick in my handI bang it three times on the wooden floorThree is the sound of an urgent alarm Genocide speaks in a passive…
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Today in Writers on Mondays, pip adam, Terri Te Tau, and Tim Corballis discuss their exciting and inventive new novels, writing the weird present, and possible futures.
Writers on Mondays: Uncanny Valley – pip adam, Terri Te Tau, and Tim Corbalis | Te Papa
Three brilliant novelists discuss their exciting and inventive new novels, writing the weird present, and possible futures.
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Noelle McCarthy on facing people after you’ve told your story of alcoholism and horrible sex
Noelle McCarthy on facing people after you’ve told your story of alcoholism and horrible sex
Having a memoir out is like people have gotten hold of your diary and the reason they have it is because you gave it to them....
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‘I felt every one of our cuts’: Catherine Chidgey on finishing Kelly Ana Morey’s ‘epic Māori novel’
‘I felt every one of our cuts’: Catherine Chidgey on finishing Kelly Ana Morey’s ‘epic Māori novel’
'I cried as I worked on it, a lot. Sometimes I felt as if Kelly was writing about her own death.'...
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This is the letter kids got at the end of Dolly’s Imagination Library. I defy you to read this and not cry.
Rewilded land remains green amid drought-stricken English countryside, images show
Rewilded land remains green amid drought-stricken English countryside, images show
National Trust’s Holnicote estate says restored wetlands and rivers offer proof of resilience to drought, wildfires and flooding Aerial footage of an estate in Somerset has revealed the benefits of rewilding land in the face of extreme weather brought about by the climate crisis. The area of the National Trust’s Holnicote estate where rivers have been returned to their natural courses and wetlands have been restored have remained green and lush during the five heatwaves across the summer. In contrast, the surrounding countryside has become parched and brown. Continue reading...
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The Unity Books children’s book review roundup for winter
The Unity Books children’s book review roundup for winter
Eleven beautiful books to finish up New Zealand children's book week....
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ME: I am always banging on about my books and events. THEM: I did not know your events existed. Wait you wrote a book?? lesson to writers: talk MORE about your books and events.
Here's Sacha Cotter and Josh Morgan with the background on Margaret Mahy Book of the Year A GUIDE TO ROCKS: www.thesapling.co.nz/the-margaret... 📸 Rebecca McMillan Photography @nzcyabookawards.bsky.social
😂 Yup www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...
‘Like a seagull in a stiff breeze’: what it’s like flying into Wellington, the world’s windiest city
Anyone who has frequently landed in New Zealand’s capital has a hair-raising story to tell, and this year’s ‘super’ El Niño could only intensify the winds
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Live updates from the 2026 NZ Book Awards for Children and Young Adults
Live updates from the 2026 NZ Book Awards for Children and Young Adults
All the action as it happens....
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The greatest children’s books in the world, according to our childhood selves
The greatest children’s books in the world, according to our childhood selves
We celebrate New Zealand Children's Book Week by remembering the books we loved most when we were kids....
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Technically possible: How Paul Goldsmith can fit 11 ministerial roles into his schedule
Technically possible: How Paul Goldsmith can fit 11 ministerial roles into his schedule
10am: Rewatch the video of Judith Collins saying ‘my husband is Samoan, so talofa’. Minister for Pacific peoples job status: Complete....
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‘A creature not a tool’: Pip Adam’s new novel shoots for the heart of AI
‘A creature not a tool’: Pip Adam’s new novel shoots for the heart of AI
'It’s the best book I could have written – but it breaks my heart that I wrote it.'...
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New episode of Better off Read. My new book kluge comes out on Thursday. i'm doing four events to celebrate the four colours the cover comes in. You can read about them and listen to a short excerpt here better-read.com/2026/08/11/k...
kluge: four covers four events
My new novel kluge is released in Aotearoa this week. Read about kluge Thanks to the amazing work of Te Herenga Waka University Press and Todd Atticus it has a beautiful cover which comes in four c…
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LOTS of talk about truth in memoir, imagination in fiction and taking liberties or not (Cusk). I made a whole series asking these questions. Enjoy wrestling with them :) www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
BBC Radio 4 - Whose Truth Is It Anyway?
Writer and broadcaster Damian Barr explores reality, truth and fiction in literature.
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