Utterly delighted to share the cover for my novel, Mincemeat! On shelves in November. Painting by artistic magician Hannah Ireland & design by prolific virtuoso @toddatticus.com Lovely comments from the brilliant @catherinechidgey.bsky.social & @brannavan.bsky.social #pukapuka #MincemeatNovel
I made this for a friend but it’s worth sharing, printing or saving to your phone so you can get the QR code in front of someone
The August takahē has landed! Our most enormous thanks to everyone who contributed your extraordinary words, art, design, ideas, and mahi to make it happen 🖤 www.takahe.org.nz/takahe-117/
So that's multiple homeless people dead this week thanks to the government's hateful policies leaving them sleeping outside in freezing conditions. What a disgrace.
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Toi Aro d/Deaf and/or Disabled Artist Development Residency! I held the Toi Pōneke version of this residency earlier this year and it was an amazing opportunity. If you're a Wellington region artist and meet the criteria I'd really encourage you to apply. www.toiaro.nz/residencies
Residencies | Discover Art Opportunities — Visit Today — Toi Aro - Home
Apply for Artist Residencies at Toi Aro, showcasing local artists. Discover upcoming residencies, plan your visit, and experience art and culture in Wellington.
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This Saturday!! The August issue of takahē will be live, featuring special guests Rebecca Hawkes, Caoimhe McKeogh and Ann Palmer, plus Tara Black, Pip Goldsbury, and Vashti Johnstone (who’s behind this lush cover art) 🖤
If you don’t look you can’t see, or, the consequences of Southern invisibility in national arts funding. flatcityfieldnotes.com/2026/08/03/i...
If you don’t look you can’t see, or, the consequences of Southern invisibility in national arts funding
Erin Harrington on the lack of South Island investment in Creative New Zealand’s Arts Organisations and Groups (AOG) funding round, including the news that South Island organisations collecti…
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"The Crown filed memorandums... saying it did not have the funds to continue the excavation. They noted the est'd cost would be approx $3.5m." A huge find that could transform our knowledge of Polynesian voyaging and the govt can't spare a few metres of a RoNS to properly excavate and protect it
Grumpy@grumpyyetamusin.bsky.social · last mo.Judge rules Crown must protect buried remains of ancient waka in Chatham Islands www.rnz.co.nz/news/te-manu...
Have you purchasid the Trojan Horse poppe-corne bucket?
No professional accomplishment has ever made me happier than this. theonion.com/translator-o...
Translator Of Original ‘Minions’ Epic Poem Slams ‘Sexless, Bloodless’ Film Adaptation
PHILADELPHIA—In a 4,500-word essay published in Harper’s Magazine, Emily Wilson, known for her popular translation of the Minions epic poem, blasted the latest film Thursday as a “sexless, bloodless” ...
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Kieran McAnulty has just described the entirety of Luxon's Prime Ministerial style in one sentence #nzpol
Katya@nzkatya.bsky.social · last mo.I loved Kieran McAnulty's analysis: “I think he did it by accident, and then he got flustered, and then he ran away”
write the book you want to read because you will have to read it over and over and over when revising
There is a lot to say about the Nolan Odyssey movie. But one point that I think has not been emphasized enough is: this is a film about living in LA, as Nolan, my erstwhile British compatriot and age mate, has done for years. I gather it’s a strange place.
“History shows that when housing is at risk, communities respond”. Activist and oral historian Hannah Garvan on the past and present of occupations as a tactic in the struggle for housing.
We met them at the door: occupations in the fight for housing justice - Overland literary journal
History shows that when housing is at risk, communities respond. Whether it is an economic depression, overdevelopment or a housing crisis, moments such as these demonstrate people’s ability to meet h...
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The incomparable Caoimhe McKeogh is Guest Fiction for our August issue! 🔥 We're counting down the days to publication of her latest story, 'Dry'.
Were I an incredibly rich author I would simply live my life in a way that meant I did not have to send legal threats to Amnesty International.
On the language of Homeric Greek, and the language of a certain forthcoming film: here are a few simple observations.
Where it all began for Sam Neill, instead of concentrating on his law degree (and at my alma mata actually!) natlib.govt.nz/records/2252...
We need more politics! Article by Annemarie Jutel: newsroom.co.nz/2026/07/05/h...
Having the ladder pulled up on you isn't a mental health condition
From Victoria University - Comment: Treating economic stress and climate anxiety as psychological defects instead of political failures overloads a stretched medical system and ignores the structural ...
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One week left!! Be in quick to send us your ultra short fiction. Nine selected stories will be published in the August issue of Takahē and receive $150 ✨✨✨ Entry is $3 and every dollar goes towards paying writers. www.takahe.org.nz/competitionn...
Production has almost wrapped for our next edition, issue 260. Make sure your subscription is up to date by July 1st to ensure that you receive your copy. 260 will be arriving in your mailboxes in mid-late August. overland.org.au/shop/
Artist and author Marjane Satrapi has passed away.
@kathrynreese.bsky.social and I have a collab ghazal in here, and I have an ekphrastic piece about toast. @the-engine-idling.bsky.social is awesome and this whole issue is 🔥🔥🔥
the engine(idling lit@the-engine-idling.bsky.social · 3mo ago✂️ Weekend #Giveaway for e(i 8: #Collage✂️ FREE to read, download, & share! buff.ly/E6d26Y2 Interact w/ this post thru the weekend to help boost our contributors & we'll send you #FREE STICKERS as a thanks! #poetry #writingcommunity #writerscommunity #poetrycommunity #litmag #indielit
If Paul Goldsmith doesn't like being called out every time he freeloads at an arts event, maybe he should actually DO something to support the arts, rather than starving us out. Not content to criminalise the homeless, he seems intent on driving artists onto the streets.
'Same old cliche': Paul Goldsmith brushes off Dame Lynda Topp's criticism
The surviving Topp Twin delivered an emotional broadside at the government during an awards ceremony.
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Poetry Shelf toasts nz music month with 23 poems nzpoetryshelf.com/2026/05/29/p...
Poetry Shelf celebrates Te Marama Puoro o Aotearoa | NZ Music Month 2026
Poetry Shelf toasts Te Marama Puoro o Aotearoa | NZ Music Month 2026 Music streams in the ink of so many poets I love, whether on the page or in the ear/air. Think rhythm, rhyme, chords, key, …
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'NZ First is admitting that they do not care about science, which is 100 percent the basis of biology, thus, are creating a farce about science and forcing a legal definition where one is not possible - especially in medicine.' says Co-President Alma De Anda. #transrights #reproductivejustice #nzpol
