Excited to go to my hometown for Tauranga Arts Festival beautiful Escape! taurangafestival.co.nz/event/night-cl…

Crammed into Meow for Jesse’s Reading Party, the Wellington edition - whoops and hollers for Marama T-Pole! RNZ Verb Wellington Jesse Mulligan Afternoons

Back to back worldbuilding workshops with 10 year olds today - the best humans. Am rinsed but also can’t wait for All Their Books!! 📚✨🧜‍♀️🦞

We're half way through the first half of our British Council funded Island to Island Writer Exchange Residency with Verb Wellington and we're delighted to share some impressions of Aotearoa poet essa may ranapiri's time in Scotland so far. te kootahekore ranapiri

The Spinoff turns 10 this week which means we’ll have some fun, self-indulgent content to celebrate, starting with this exquisite ranking of rankings from Hera Lindsay Bird. And if you disagree, you can rank them yourself at the end thespinoff.co.nz/society/09-09-…

thespinoff.co.nz/books/09-09-20… Gecko Press

First off the ranks in 2025 . . . it's THE alpaca novel by Duncan Sarkies.🦙teherengawakapress.co.nz/star-gazers/

A chain of three cafes closed down and the owner blamed cycleways. But none of the cafes were anywhere near one. How is that possible? I investigated the mystery. What I found shocked me to my core. thespinoff.co.nz/wellington/10-…

New old episode up now. Autumn Journal by Louis MacNeice, with guests Sam West Samuel West 💙💛 and Sophie Ratcliff Sophie Ratcliffe and a newly recorded introduction from Andy Miller John Mitchinson and nickybirch. 📱🍂 backlisted.fm/episodes/220-a…

Super early advances of ALI SMITH’s Gliff just in! Die cut through boards to printed endpapers, with quarter binding and foiling. Design by ⁦Richard Bravery⁩ Out late October but open for preorder now 🌞

thespinoff.co.nz/books/11-09-20…

The Winner of the 2024 #WainwrightPrize for Children's Writing on Nature & Conservation is Foxlight by Katya Balen. Congratulations to Katya for her beautifully poetic and heartwarming adventure, which has truly captured our hearts. #WainwrightPrize24 Bloomsbury Kids & YA UK

🎶✨ Come along to ‘Voices of the World’ tonight where we will have music from The Bookshop Band and readings from our writers-in- residence!✨🎶 More info here: moniackmhor.org.uk/courses/voices…

a 15th century italian manuscript drawn to look as if the pages have been ripped to reveal miniature scenes within

a classic case of discovering that something kinda technical is actually super interesting and important! I love reporting thespinoff.co.nz/politics/13-09…

Just one more thing on that Luke Pierson opinion piece about Wellington's cycling elite, and then I'll stop. He claimed "just 30% of us are happy" with cycleways. I found the document he is referring to and it actually shows 68% want to complete the full cycleway network.

This is such good radio. I hope everyone listens to this. Carers reflect on six months since shock disability rnz.co.nz/national/progr…

Brilliant, by Alice thespinoff.co.nz/politics/18-09…

“I’m not sure what manosphere podcast is telling boys they should explain the plot of IQ84/Crime & Punishment to a woman they’ve just met, but they should know that her & I are making significant eye contact while he’s not looking” thespinoff.co.nz/books/18-09-20…

Poetry Box review and interview: The Raven's Eye Runaways by Claire Mabey nzpoetrybox.wordpress.com/2024/09/19/poe…