I am feeling so ill about that Erica Stamford video gleefully announcing that school students are going to be assessed by AI. Esp the bit where she says you’re 2x as likely to get an ‘excellence’ with your own teacher so they are going to iron out that ‘inconsistency’. We are fucked.
05.08.2025 23:51 — 👍 45 🔁 12 💬 1 📌 0
In my kid’s lacrosse tournament permission form: Can your child confidently swim 60m?
Erm yes but what sort of lacrosse will this be…?
05.08.2025 23:29 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
How are you doing?
02.08.2025 20:35 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Congratulations! And boo hiss to possible pneumonia again 😢
28.07.2025 09:30 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
this Ngaati Porou takataa wa is the lifeblood of so many of our takataapui works from @antzlapwood.bsky.social "Home Theatre" to Ruby Solly's "The Artist" to @tainuitillidienui.bsky.social "Poorhara" and so many more in our community and beyond. I'm so so so glad she is being recognised in this way
20.07.2025 11:00 — 👍 16 🔁 7 💬 1 📌 0
Poetic genius.
11.07.2025 12:00 — 👍 16 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 0
Short story: Final Notice, by Anna Scaife
"Virginia found more baby spiders every day for the next week..."
Never posted this here … ReadingRoom published my creepy arachnid story late last year which made me very happy. Another coming soonish 🤞
newsroom.co.nz/2024/09/28/s...
30.06.2025 03:22 — 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Well, this made me feel despairing today.
30.06.2025 05:14 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The ROI on the guest of honour programme has been proven so why did MCH deny funding for NZ to be guest of honour programme at the biggest children’s book fair in the world? How can they value literacy if they don’t value the industry that makes children’s books!
www.thesapling.co.nz
30.06.2025 04:25 — 👍 11 🔁 6 💬 1 📌 0
Weather today.
26.06.2025 20:57 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
What’s to bet money for kicking a rugby ball around doesn’t go to the non-competitive kids either…
16.06.2025 22:40 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Cat update: everyone meet Sage.
08.06.2025 08:04 — 👍 9 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Oh congratulations, that’s wonderful
05.06.2025 09:12 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Congratulations! Fleur will be super impressed too
05.06.2025 09:11 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Oh, congratulations!
04.06.2025 22:23 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Congratulations!
04.06.2025 21:21 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Morrin’s announcement
Congratulations to Morrin Rout, newly minted new Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit. Morrin has done so much great mahi for readers & writers - was co-literary director of WORD, founder of Hagley Writers Institute, & still does Bookenz on Plains FM. toiotautahi.org.nz/our-people/m... #nzbooks
01.06.2025 18:41 — 👍 37 🔁 10 💬 1 📌 0
Also, with my kids there’s ‘complaining about the dinner’ in the process
31.05.2025 04:03 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
One of mine is too. Gosh it’s hard. Fingers crossed for brighter days for yours x
27.05.2025 21:10 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Thank you to the actual humans talking about actual books by actual authors, by the way. It always mattered, but now it extra-fucking-matters given the deluge of lies from the bullshit machine, a bullshit machine that only gets to churn out the bullshit and the artbarf because of billionaires.
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Really love the Poetry Yearbook each year for new and varied. Otherwise, Mary Oliver. Tusiata Avia. Oops that’s three.
20.05.2025 02:52 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
TOO hard!
19.05.2025 04:18 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Winners | New Zealand Book Awards Trust
Congratulations to all the winners, and nominees, in this year’s Ockham Book Awards www.nzbookawards.nz/new-zealand-... #Aotearoabooks #NZbooks
14.05.2025 21:01 — 👍 7 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
For anyone attending Auckland Writers’ Festival: I’ve got two tickets for ‘Japan’s Trailblazer’ on Sunday (1pm) with Asako Yuzuki in conversation with Paula Morris that we unfortunately can’t go to. I can’t get a refund and I’d hate for them to go to waste — any takers? #AWF25
16.05.2025 10:29 — 👍 3 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
A smiling Luxon with the text "Happy Mother's Day. Which I think is 10% less valuable than Father's Day."
@jordanriversnz.bsky.social
Thanks for the accurate content.
10.05.2025 21:41 — 👍 227 🔁 87 💬 3 📌 1
Kia ora. The Ministry of Health - Manatū Hauora works across the health sector to improve health outcomes for New Zealanders. In an emergency, call 111.
Author, writer, journalist, founder and CEO of book gifting charity Kiwi Christmas Books, former TV news and current affairs reporter, lover of trees. 🌳
@Lidbud on X/Twitter .Adam Lambert stan/Politically Left/Rescuer of Cats/Atheist/Won't engage with TERFs, racists or Anti-vaxxers. #ToitūTeTiriti . She/her.
Rainfall is measured in mm, not ml! Some posts are pure BS.
Dairy farmer, Ashburton, NZ.
MG & YA NZ writer now living in WA and loving it! She/her
Books:
How to Bee
In the Dark Spaces
The Dog Runner
Across the Risen Sea
The Raven's Song
The Apprentice Witnesser
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Climate change—down to one cat—Think global act local
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I have too many dogs for a sensible person
One of the Aotearoa NZ Twitter exodus
Mother: Invercargill, father: Simmesport La. Ngāi Tahu, Kāti Māmoe, Cajun, Pākehā, feminist, parent
MA in history, PhD in dork
Terfs and right-wingers can get in the bin
Author & Screenwriter | I 🩶 Arts & Sciences, Sculpting, Cartography, Cooking, Baking, Fashion, Fitness, Fairytales, & Historical Things.
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theatremaker (technically?). comms. writer. i also went to 16 mojos once. very into trains. eph__em__era elsewhere. wellington person. they/them
Writer
2025 Convenor of Judges NZCYA Book Awards
2024 University of Otago CoE Creative NZ Children’s Writer in Residence
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Writer; PhD student. Dog & book lover. 'Damn leftie'
Māori/Irish/Scottish/Proud Kiwi
Shakespeare/mātauranga passionate
God (however he/they/she is thought of) loves ALL people ahakoa ko wai koe
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Toiling in the word mines for decades. Publishing/comms lecturer at Unimelb. Opinions, I got plenty. Join your union/s!
Whakangū ai au, I meditate, e ako ana au i te reo Māori, learn Māori, sing, garden, cook, and enjoy taku mahi ā te Pāremata.
Coffee & dogs, mostly, if that's ok?
Also learning and literacy and language
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Poet/editor • Monica Taylor Poetry Prize • NSW Poetry Prize • Dalkey Poetry Prize • Anamnesis (Eric Hoffer Book Awards Finalist & Rubery Book Award shortlist) • Currently Writer-in-Residence at Don Bank Museum • denise-ohagan.com
Cultural mercenary. Mostly harmless. 🇳🇿
https://www.masseypress.ac.nz/books/shadow-worlds/
Socially awkward political cartoonist. She/her. Like reading and walking.
Ngāi Tahu/Scottish.
Live in Aotearoa New Zealand
writing about art, fame, and connection | marketing director at Split/Lip Press | monthly newsletter on pop culture rabbit holes: http://abigailoswald.substack.com
Kathryn van Beek (she/her) is a Pākehā New Zealander of Dutch and English descent. A Robert Burns Fellow and a Winston Churchill McNeish Writers’ Fellow, Kathryn has a doctorate on the topic of using writing as a tool for positive change.
