Stephenjohn Holgate
@mistaholgate.bsky.social
Writer type person. Professional immigrant. PEN/Dau Prize winner. MA from the IIML, Wellington. Contramestre of Capoeira Angola. #author 🇯🇲 ➡️ 🇳🇿 https://open.substack.com/pub/jackmandorastory
They would have run for weeks on this when Jezza was leader of the Labour party
Adam Bienkov@adambienkov.bsky.social · 11h ago'So we've heard the concerns of the Jewish community about standing a convicted neo-Nazi anti-semite as a local candidate and decided to give him a national job instead...'
This needs to be a bigger story. Google Docs is no longer safe for copyrighted material. Any writer on contract needs to stop using it *immediately*.
Bogi Takács / WE'RE HERE ToC announced!@bogiperson.bsky.social · 8h agoGoogle Docs leaks private information - www.reddit.com/r/IndieDev/c...
Enrolling to vote in NZ is much more civilised than the UK. And it is pretty civilised in the UK.
‘I knew my first book was done when no more body bags came out of my past, when I could hear the call of my favourite creatures nearby.’ Don’t be fooled by the pic of Kate Camp: the interview is with Adam Foundation and Sarabande Essay Prize winner Joseph Trinidad!
'In a way, writing essays should be easy' - STARLING | An online literary journal for young NZ writers
An interview with Joseph Trinidad for Issue 22 of Starling
starlingmag.com
NEW | A corrective to the gushing tributes… LIDDLE TO BE CELEBRATED An honest obituary for Rod Liddle, dead at 66, dead inside for many years before that. brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/liddle-to-...
Liddle to be celebrated
An honest obituary for Rod Liddle, dead at 66, dead inside for many years before that.
brokenbottleboy.substack.com
This Rod Liddle? Credit for image and alt text: @snig.bsky.social
Ben Goldacre@bengoldacre.bsky.social · 3d agoSad to see people posting on social media negatively about Rod Liddle, who died yesterday. If I have disagreed with you very strongly in life - and you die - I hope I'll be either silent, or kind.
I will remember Rod Liddle for the fact that the lawyer who checked my book before publication had no issue with me writing that Liddle couldn’t be a teacher because he’d have had sex with the students. Why? Because Liddle wrote it in a national magazine.
The world is better with him having shuffled off
Snigdha@snig.bsky.social · 3d agoYour reminder Rod Liddle not only said he couldn't have become a teacher because he "could not remotely conceive of not trying to shag the kids" in The Spectator, but he also wrote laws banning child pornography are "absurd" in The Guardian. Abhorrent.
Be interesting to see who mourns the death of a journalist who was arrested for punching his pregnant partner and who said he couldn't become a teacher because "I could not remotely conceive of not trying to shag the kids." Bet it's the "protecting women and children" crew
Do people hate their children? Because we should be rioting over this
NinjaKitty 忍者キティ🥷🐈⬛@ninjakitty.bsky.social · 3d agoTerm 3, Week 3 of #Seymour’sSlop. It’s dire, people. #nzpol
At the risk of causing a firestorm: which translation of The Aeneid might be best to get for the school library?
‘Across multiple interviews, industry representatives for theatre companies, dance studios, writers festivals and more expressed dismay about the impact of the latest funding decisions. Some were restructuring their companies, figuring out how to move forward. Others were considering giving up.’
Has the arts sector ever done it this hard?
We asked arts industry representatives what funding cuts and political indifference is doing to the arts. The answer? 'This is really fucked.'
thespinoff.co.nz
“Within Māori framings of the past, Cook has become one of the most potent symbols of empire and its bitter and enduring legacies.” — Historian Tony Ballantyne, author of ‘Captain Cook and the Unsettled Afterlives of Empire’.
Contested empire | E-Tangata
“Within Māori framings of the past, Cook has become one of the most potent symbols of empire and its bitter and enduring legacies.” — Historian Tony Ballantyne, author of ‘Captain Cook and the Unsettl...
e-tangata.co.nz
Using lists of three is not an "AI tell." It's a common trait in human writing because our brains biologically want to make sure there's always one thing to marry, one thing to fuck, and one thing to murder.
Claude write this story for me. Claude go outside and appreciate the birdsong please. Describe it in detail. Claude can you take my wife on a date to a nice French restaurant and figure out why she's crying all the time.
The 'Inv-Asian' migration wave of the 90s was dominated by nuclear family units. To be an Asian kid in the 90s like Lawrence (or me, though I was born here) was to grow up isolated & in the shadow of hatred and violence instigated by a guy who is currently the Deputy PM still doing the same thing.
If you destroy books, especially rare books, you are bad.
Heads up Māori writers - applications are now open for the 2027 Emerging Māori Writer in Residence hosted by the IIML — apply by 31 October 2026! (Picture shows 2026 EMWR, Terri Te Tau) www.wgtn.ac.nz/modernletter...
Emerging Māori Writer in Residence | Te Pūtahi Tuhi Auaha o Te Ao / International Institute of Modern Letters | Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington
Apply for the Emerging Māori Writer in Residence—$15,000 stipend, mentorship, and writing space.
wgtn.ac.nz
Te Waka Taki Kōrero – Māori Literature Trust is hosting a webinar on navigating writers’ festivals ‘suited to mid-career/experienced Māori writers with at least two published titles and who are currently actively drafting a manuscript.’ Register here.
Te Tupu Hauroa Workshop: RSVP today - Building your Professional Profile
mailchi.mp
At last, the 7 film cycle of the Faerie Queene has a chance!
Jesse Hawken@jessehawken.bsky.social · last wk.Studio execs are going to want to adapt more poems for the big screen now
Thys doth sounde lyke a joke, but it ys a reallye pointed observacioun about what partes of the ancient poeme are ignored: "There are no sex scenes, and all the food looks horrible." -Emily Wilson, 2026, about *The Odyssey* film
