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Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

I guess that means she won't be attending then...

What I’m Reading: Ingrid Horrocks This Wellington writer chooses short reads that can quickly take you into an entirely new world.

Here’s Ingrid Horrocks in the Writer in Residence office at the IIML that she occupied last year: next year she’ll be teaching in the MA programme while Chris Price is on leave www.thepress.co.nz/culture/3608...

Image of Samuel Leason prior to leaving Ōtaki to join the Sumud Flotilla Vigil Sunday 5th October 2pm-3pm Israeli Embassy 36 Brandon Street Wellington All welcome. BYO poem, prayer and silence. Please share this invite. Release 2.3 million Palestinian hostages held in the open air prison of Gaza. Release the 10,000 Palestinians held without trial in Israeli jails. Release all hostages everywhere. Release NZers Rana Hamida, Youssef Sammour, Samuel Leason and all Sumud Flotilla activists held captive in Israel. ALL EYES ON GAZA

Vigil
Sunday 5th October 2pm-3pm
Israeli Embassy
36 Brandon Street Wellington
All welcome.
BYO poem, prayer and silence. Please share this invite.
#EndGenocide
#FreePalestine
#nzpol

FAFSWAG artist Pati Tyrell's commissioned art work for the cover of Tusiata Avia's new book entitled 'Giving Birth To My Father'. You can also pick up a copy for yourself here:

teherengawakapress.co.nz/products/giv...

Gonna put this on a sandwich board and wear it on the street while ringing a bell like a town crier:

“AI is the asbestos we are shoveling into the walls of our society and our descendants will be digging it out for generations,” he continued.”

RIP to Jane Goodall, who opened the world's eyes to our closest relatives. (Photo by NatGeo's Hugo Van Lawick)

“Every individual matters.
Every individual has a role to play.
Every individual makes a difference.”

“What you do makes a difference,
and you have to decide what
kind of difference you want to make.”

Jane Goodall

"single-use plastic of the mind" had me GAGGED

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Gaza

The dead boy tries to open his eyes.
He wants to see the world he is leaving.
But there is nothing to see here,
nothing and nothing, and anyway he is gone.
His parents held him while he died
but they are both dead, too.
Or he held them, no one remembers.

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They have to pay their journalists somehow - you wouldn't complain about having to pay for a hard copy newspaper.

AI companionship

From the new Private Eye, out now.

2025 Pikihuia Awards - The Māori Literature Trust This year the Pikihuia Awards will celebrate 30 years of supporting and nurturing kaituhi Māori!

Congratulations to our colleague Tina Makereti, who is on the shortlist for the 2025 Keri Hulme Award along with Becky Manawatu and Steph Matuku!
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Geoffrey Palmer's warning Democracies around the world currently face great challenges.

'Democracies around the world currently face great challenges.' Geoffrey Palmer’s warning, on Newsroom today.

newsroom.co.nz/2025/09/22/g...

'Gee's O Trilogy was so important to me when I was 10. I met the guy in my late 30s and didn't tell him this of course. We are supposed to look back and regret such cowardly moments but I don't. There's an honour in not bothering people.' —Nick Ascroft. www.thepress.co.nz/culture/3608...

It's so much better - The Departed is a pale imitation.

Next week Writers on Mondays goes to Circa Theatre! Actors perform dynamic new work by MA Scriptwriting students from the IIML in this entertaining hour of theatre. This week, scripts by Alex Cherian, Chantal Euringer, Crosby Allen-Jennings, Eva Brunel, and Leroy Nurkka are introduced by Ken Duncum.

Ahem - we'd just like to point out that if you would like to write your book alongside a cohort of supportive others, and with the guidance of a supervisor (aka mentor), applications for our 2026 MA in Creative Writing are open until 1 November....
www.wgtn.ac.nz/modernletter...

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A stack of seven different copies of Ngā Pēpeha a ngā Tīpuna, and an eighth copy standing beside them. The books have various cover colours, and some have the old VUP logo while others have the newer THW logo.

We've been running a book giveaway on our Instagram to mark Te Wiki o te Reo Māori. All you need to do is comment a whakataukī on our latest photo to be in the running to a copy of a very special book; Ngā Pēpeha a ngā Tīpuna. We will draw a winner on Monday :)

www.instagram.com/thwupbooks/

Saruman destroying the trees around Isengard

Here's something I prepared earlier #nzpol

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Book review: The Anatomy of Sand by Mikaela Nyman Harry Ricketts reviews The Anatomy of Sand by Mikaela Nyman, published by Te Herenga Waka University Press.

A ‘rewarding’ poetry collection ‘with flashes of Nordic noir humour’ - a delightful review and reading of my ‘Mudlarking’ poem by Harry Ricketts on Radio NZ. You may keep the skates, Harry! 😎🙏 www.rnz.co.nz/national/pro...

Getting excited for the first Next Page reading featuring students from the 2025 MA (Page) workshops tonight - see you at Meow, 6pm, e te whānau!

All Blacks getting thrashed gets 7.5 mins prime time on RNZ just ahead of the PM;
Imagine the coverage if they’d just made it into the RWC semi finals. Would they have been relegated to 5 mins at 630am like the Black Ferns were this morning?
#nzpol

Next week Writers on Mondays moves to Tuesday and Wednesday, 6pm at Meow for the Next Page: grab a drink and check out the next generation of Aotearoa's writers in this lively night of fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction from the IIML's MA (Page) workshops!
www.eventfinda.co.nz/2025/writers...

Tonight at Unity Books Wellington, Elizabeth Knox launches her new YA novel, Kings of this World. 6pm, all welcome!

Great to join Sir Geoffrey for the launch of his new book tonight. #howtosavedemocracy

My favorite bit was when the reporter pointed out that he had shot a policeman, and his supporter said 'Yeah, well he probably shouldn't have done that.'

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