Craig Gamble

A red and white banner features a graphic of the Te Herenga Waka Press logo (THW) and text saying 'New website sale, 50% off all books published 1949-2022, throughout August, while stocks last.'

Huge news! Today we're launching our biggest sale ever, to celebrate the move to a shiny new website.

✨ Smooth website experience
📚 50% off ALL books from 2022 & earlier
🗓️ For all of August, while stocks last

The sale is live now at www.teherengawakapress.co.nz.

Deeply frustrating!

Also happy to say AI was roundly rejected by young writers in a recent workshop I ran, for many reasons including environmental.

‘Horrifying and incredible’: one writer’s argument for making use of AI An AI sceptic interviews one of the people behind a contentious AI workshop for creative writers.

You’ve probably seen this too, a similar brand of stupidity from the creator of, appropriately, Folly

thespinoff.co.nz/books/17-06-...

Matariki is the perfect time to embark on something new as you farewell the year that was. So apply by this Friday for:
Māori and Pasifika Creative Writing | Te Hiringa a Tuhi
Poetry | He Rotarota
Short Fiction | He Kōrero Paki
Writing for Theatre | He Tuhinga Whakaari
Special Topic: World-Building

In Dunedin for Christmas. I think it’s my fave NZ city after Wellington (sorry Auckland, I know we go way back, but a distance has grown between us).

An alternative summer reading list for the prime minister Some additions and alternatives to this year's NZIER summer reading list.

'It is intelligent, entertaining and unearths many knotty opportunities for critical analysis...' The Spinoff's Claire Mabey recommends that Chris Luxon reads the forthcoming Star Gazers by Duncan Sarkies, and the beloved She's A Killer by Kirsten McDougall
thespinoff.co.nz/books/03-12-...

Stop the Treaty Principles Bill - TOITŪ TE TIRITI!! In 1835, 189 years ago, a gathering of great chiefs of Aotearoa signed He Whakaputanga with representatives of the British Crown. Five years from that date, Te Tiriti o Waitangi was signed between Māo...

Everyone I know here may have signed this but just in case. 🖤🤍❤️
our.actionstation.org.nz/petitions/ka...

Poets, fiction, creative nonfiction and script writers, hear that sound? It's the deadline for applications to the 2025 MA Workshops at the IIML approaching at speed. But tomorrow is not too late to start: we want to hear the sound of your writing! www.wgtn.ac.nz/modernletter...

OPINION: ACT's Threat To Arts Funding Provokes Anger ACT has warned Creative NZ not "to tempt fate" of future funding with its continued support of a celebrated artist. Andrew Wood fires back - and the Arts minister responds. 

Our Art Editor, Andrew Paul Wood on ACTs criticism of CNZ.

‘If your piss isn’t boiling, it should be.’

Farewell to my baby brother, Damon/Eme. You were a good one, I wish we’d had more time.

It can work for some things, I reckon you were right :) I’ve just found it really hard lately to write productively just one day a week. Maybe my brain is just old!

I know of some too. It’s hard writing without any real time to do it :(

Man that’s depressing…

Are you here?

It’s the hope that gets ya in the end…

Two senior publishers axed at Penguin Random House amid major restructure New Zealand's largest book publisher has undergone drastic changes this week, leaving its future role in local publishing uncertain.

This is bad news for New Zealand publishing as a whole (though unnecessarily mean about Grace Thomas). It will shrink the number of NZ books published, and weaken the industry as a whole, and Claire is a big loss.

thespinoff.co.nz/books/10-05-...

It’s a close second to the reigning champion ‘Outsourced Client Solutions’

Have added the Mariners arena ‘Industry Group Stadium’ to list of names where people needed to try harder.

It's not often I laugh out loud reading something. Magnificently sarcastic from start to to finish.

So this must be pretty bad!!

Oh. It’s rare that beer is ever a mistake.

Ack I’m sorry to miss this one but you all should go!

No!!

Too many little wobbles today in Wellington!

Home alone for dinner…

Wobbly

Oh man! So sorry to hear this. What an excellent bookshop, and what a loss to the publishing/bookselling world :(

Enjoying The New Look on Apple - beautifully designed and filmed and good acting but please god why didn’t they spend a little more time on the words.

Great heaven! What a wine!