Rosemary Anderson Vivienne Bailey Sarah Jane Barnett Jane Blaikie Mary Cresswell Janet Colson Erin Donohue Mary-Jane Duffy Nicola Easthope Helen Vivienne Fletcher Olivia Aroha Giles Helen Heath Alison Glenny Rata Gordon Rob Hack Wesley Hollis Sue Jamieson Justine Kingdon Rachel Kleinsman Johanna Knox Mary Little Marlon Moala-Knox Jackson Nieuwland Laura Peckyno Maggie Rainey-Smith Judith Lofley …
Category: 2017
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Can you smash concepts?
an interview with Faith Wilson by Jackson Nieuwland Hi Faith. Can you tell me how you came to writing and art? I know your mum is an artist. Did that play any part in it? My mum is an artist, correct. I hate those clichés like ‘she comes from a creative family so …
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How we live in the grey areas
an interview with Sarah Jane Barnett by Johanna Knox I was bowled over by your Death Row poems in your first collection, both the concept and, oh, I want to say the execution. In those poems you worked hard to inhabit the voices of these real men sentenced to death. What did you find …
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INTRODUCTION 2017
Kia ora koutou, When Kellyanne Conway, Counselor to the President, coined the phrase ‘alternative facts’ in January this year it felt, at least within my own echo-chamber, as if she’d flicked a collective emotional switch. You know those times when everything’s been going wrong in your life, or you’ve been sobbing for ages, and then …
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Whānau can do anything
an interview with Olivia Aroha Giles by Johanna Knox I initially – mistakenly – thought you were a self-publisher. I think someone may have told me that once? Ah, there is that thing … the difference between self-publishing and an independent publishing company, of which we have too few in New Zealand. I publish …
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Faith Wilson
Faith Wilson is an artist and writer who currently lives in Te Whanganui-a-Tara but hails from Tokoroa and Kirikiriroa. Her practice centres on the experience of the self, as an afakasi Samoan/Palagi female who grew up in Aotearoa. She completed an MA in Creative Writing at the International Institute of Modern Letters in 2014, and she …
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Darshi Ranmuthu
Darshi Ranmuthu is an early childhood educator and short story writer in New Zealand. She is originally from Sri Lanka. She studied three papers in Whitireia’s Diploma in Creative Writing in 2014. Her short stories have been published previously in 4th floor, Elsewhere and New Asian Writing. By Darshi The saffron robe
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Mercedes Webb-Pullman
Mercedes Webb-Pullman lives in Paekākāriki. She is interested in the differing voices of women, whether mythological, historical, living or imaginary. These three poems come from a work-in-progress, tentatively titled Let’s hear it for the girls. By Mercedes Amelia Meenybradden lady Virginia
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Lesley Watkins
Living on the Kāpiti Coast, Lesley likes to use the environment as a backdrop to her poetry. She is a wife, mother and grandmother, and she has a background in social science. Her interest is in social justice, equality and the environment, joining both the physical and emotional pathways. Her poetry represents these aspects of …
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Judith Lofley
Judith writes stories, poems, reports and manuals. Several of her short stories and poems have been published in anthologies or placed in competitions. She was once an FBI agent, and is living under a pseudonym in New Zealand. By Judith Lady policy In a room How to pour a glass of beer
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