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Terri Te Tau named as 2026 Emerging Māori Writer in Residence | Te Pūtahi Tuhi Auaha o Te Ao / International Institute of Modern Letters | Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington Fiction writer and artist Terri Te Tau (Ngāti Kahungunu, Rangitāne ki Wairarapa) has been appointed as the Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington International Institute of Modern Letters (...

Delighted to announce that fiction writer (and member of award-winning arts collective Mataaho) Terri Te Tau (Ngāti Kahungunu, Rangitāne ki Wairarapa) will be our Te Herenga Waka—VUW / Creative New Zealand Emerging Māori Writer in Residence for 2026! www.wgtn.ac.nz/modernletter...

Poetry bonanza over the next two nights in Wellington: tonight Sweet Mammalian launches its new issue from 6pm at Bedlam and Squalor, and tomorrow 10 Poets Laureate line up at the National Library in celebration of its 60th birthday! natlib.govt.nz/events/laure...

The @scottpolar.bsky.social are looking for a librarian. This is a rare opportunity! Work with (probably) the world's largest dedicated polar library alongside archive and museum colleagues. The dream 😍

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From Beirut to Gaza, revolution to memory, The Markaz Review has spent the last 5 years publishing SWANA writers and artists. We believe that freedom of expression is a fundamental right.

📖 Get your copy now: bit.ly/the-best-of-...

#TheMarkazReview #TMR5Years #PrintEdition #NewBook

Alison Glenny — Sweet Mammalian

I like this Alison Glenny poem in the new Sweet Mammalian

www.sweetmammalian.com/issue-twelve...

Podcasts-2025 — Dunedin Writers & Readers Festival

The podcasts of this year's Dunedin Readers and Writers Festival are up!

I listened to the conversation with Tāme Iti on my busride home—it’s fantastic. Great questions, generous answers. I learned quite a few things about not-so-distant history.

www.dunedinwritersfestival.co.nz/podcasts-2025

Time to kick this marine menace to the kerb

Researchers have narrowed down the single biggest source of microplastic pollution in NZ’s coastal waters – and ways to tackle it.

‘My heart born naked
was swaddled in lullabies.’ 💞

How Walking Fosters Creativity: Stanford Researchers Confirm What Philosophers & Writers Have Always Known Image via Diego Sevilla Ruiz A certain Zen proverb goes something like this: 'A five year old can understand it, but an 80 year old cannot do it.' The subject of this riddle-like saying has been descr...

How Walking Fosters Creativity: Stanford Researchers Confirm What Philosophers & Writers Have Always Known

Hard Boiled writing for art.

Hard Boiled
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subscribe to me in end times tbh taliamarshall.substack.com/p/carnival

Pinks #38: A Crop of Frost A week of poems from books I'm enjoying

I chose seven poems from new books I’ve been enjoying recently. They’re quite wintry and Welsh substack.com/home/post/p-...

A stunning conclusion to a stunning book @haymarketbooks.org www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2499-p...

And then, in the second half of this week, we will be welcoming 50 speakers from around the world for a conference on 18th-century and Romantic studies www.wgtn.ac.nz/fhss/about/e...

Film, documentary maker Costa Botes dies after nearly a decade with cancer New Zealand documentarian and filmmaker Costa Botes found fame creating Forgotten Silver alongside Peter Jackson in the 90s.

Film, documentary maker Costa Botes dies after nearly a decade with cancer

Writers have a tough time and nobody likes them either! Till they are dead. Then they become quite respectable and useful.

An Asbestos-Bound, Fireproof Edition of Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 (1953) Even by the extreme standards of dystopian fiction, the premise of Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 can seem a little absurd. Firemen whose job is to set fires? A society that bans all books?

‘…not…a dated representation of 40s fascism or 50s repression, but … a too-relevant warning to a distractible society that devalues and destroys education and factual knowledge even as we have more access than ever to literature of every kind.’ www.openculture.com/2022/11/an-a...

since the "google is now training gemini on your email contents" thing keeps bumping around here: it's _not happening_. I say this not to defend google but because I know a lot of people that have broken their filtering and made their lives much more annoying from sheer misinformation.

How to Fix a Typewriter and Your Life (Gift Article) This is the story of how a man traded steady, grinding corporate security for a dying craft and, in the process, found his soul.

This is a lovely article.

www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Meet the AI workers who tell their friends and family to stay away from AI When the people making AI seem trustworthy are the ones who trust it the least, it shows that incentives for speed are overtaking safety, experts say

Meet the AI workers who tell their friends and family to stay away from AI

Re: taking risks on books large publishers wouldn’t. My book Excavation was rejected by ~30 traditional publishing editors before a small press (@futuretensebooks.bsky.social) picked it up. It went on to sell about 10k copies before I sold it to @nupress.bsky.social.

The Friday Poem: ‘Flood’ by Louise Wrightson A new poem by Louise Wrightson.

A poem by legendary (former) Wellington bookseller Louise Wrightson, who also studied creative writing with Bill Manhire in 1996 thespinoff.co.nz/pop-culture/...

Scottish writer an exciting appointment for Otago Fellowship Scottish writer Donald S Murray says he is thrilled and honoured to be awarded a fellowship in Dunedin next year.

Next year, we will welcome Scottish writer Donald S Murray to Ōtepoti for an exciting fellowship 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿✈️✍️

Donald is thrilled and honoured to be awarded the 2026 Scottish Writing Fellowship with Mātai Airana, Mātai Kotirana, in conjunction with the Caselberg Trust! 👏

If you use GMail, AI (Gemini) was turned on yesterday by default and now scans all of your content for machine learning. To turn off, go to Settings>General and scroll down. Uncheck the box for "Smart features."

There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.

Winners of the 2025 National Book Awards Announced Winners of the National Book Awards in the categories of Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Translated Literature, and Young People’s Literature announced at the 76th National Book Awards Ceremony

The rest of the US National Book Award winners 2025

Poetry Shelf Cafe Readings: Harry Ricketts Harry reads from Bonfires on the Ice, along with earlier poems. Harry Ricketts taught for many years in the English Programme at Te Herenga Waka Victoria University of Wellington. He has published …

These cafe readings are moving me so much - thank you nzpoetryshelf.com/2025/11/21/p...

Omar El Akkad : One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This - Tin House In late October 2023, weeks into Israel’s bombing of northern Gaza, the novelist Omar El Akkad retweeted a video taken by a Gazan man. This video showed a lifeless moonscape with endless empty streets...

Congratulations to Omar El Akkad for winning the 2025 National Book Award in Nonfiction! ICYMI: Omar's appearance on the show was one of the great all-time conversations so far.
Audio: tinhouse.com/podcast/omar...

'Every media era gets the fabulists it deserves....this generation’s internet scammers are scavenging in the wreckage of a degraded media environment.'

New Zealand nominees are Becky Manawatu, Dominic Hoey and our colleagues Tina Makereti and Damien Wilkins - congrats everyone!

Acquired Tastes: A Call for Submissions For younger writers, ages 15-21

I'm editing an anthology about unlikable characters and seeking work from younger writers, 15-21. If you know of one such writer who might want to submit their work for consideration, please share this call for submissions: audacity.substack.com/p/acquired-t...