New Zealand is a country that is notoriously bad at reviving plays, even successful ones. Black Faggot is as relevant now as it was 10 years ago. thespinoff.co.nz/pop-culture/26…

Selina Tusitala Marsh becomes first Poet Laureate for the Commonwealth 🤩💪🏽 pmn.co.nz/read/arts/seli…

Literature initiative incl sign languages as a first! Congratulations 👏 🎊 💐 🥳 team! Rebecca T. Olul-Hossen Anna Naupa Mikaela Nyman MelanesianWomenToday Sot Sot Storian competition judges wowed by youth sign language submissions | News | dailypost.vu dailypost.vu/news/sot-sot-s…

So exciting to see the submissions for this year’s Sot Sot Storian, Vanuatu’s microfiction competition, now in its 2nd year. Sign language, who’d thought! Vanuatu writers, you continue to surprise and inspire 💪🏾🇻🇺 ⁦Rebecca T. Olul-Hossen⁩ ⁦Anna Naupa⁩ dailypost.vu/news/sot-sot-s…

Looking forward to kōrero with Nafanua Kersel and Tamara Tulitua about poetry, oceans, ancestry, black sand and black sugarcane. Our hearts and souls. Come join us at Writers on Mondays at Te Papa on 21 July. Free lunchtime event, starts at 12:15. wgtn.ac.nz/modernletters/…

📣🌺🇻🇺 A Historic First for New Zealand! Are you ready, Ni-Vanuatu? You should be! Bislama Language Week is now official and will be celebrated for the first time ever in New Zealand! The countdown has begun! #LanguageLearning #vanuatu #aotearoa #Bislama #culture #NewZealand

Congratulations, shortlisted Sot Sot Storian 2025 writers 🎉 Theme: Culture and Identity/Kalja mo Aedentiti. A special new prize for stories in sign language - a historic first! Prize-giving on 25 July in Port Vila. Check Vanuatu Literature for more details 🇻🇺

Come and celebrate Vanuatu's writers! Sot Sot Storian 2025 award ceremony at the National Museum in Port Vila on Friday 25 July at 3:30pm 🎉🇻🇺 Free event. All welcome! Rebecca T. Olul-Hossen MelanesianWomenToday Anna Naupa Leina Isno #vanuatuliterature #taftumas

The first official Vanuatu Bislama Language Week in Aotearoa NZ starts on Sunday 27 July. 🎉 A week of cultural events across the country. Speeches, string band & craft at Te Papa from 10:30am on Sunday. Check events in your area on MPP’s website: mpp.govt.nz/programmes-and…

Two students won awards for sign language micros in Vanuatu’s 2025 #sotsotstorian comp. Bravo, Lorenzo Lawac ‘The Echoes of Malekula’ & Annaline Donald ‘The Smell of Laplap’ 🎉 Prizes sponsored by last year’s winner ⁦Leina Isno.⁩ Justice Viran Molisa Trief did the honours.

If you’re lucky to be in Vanuatu - don’t miss the book launch of Grace Mera Molisa’s autobiography of wan Mama Blong Independence (previously unpublished work). Thursday 7 Aug at 5.00pm, National Museum, Port Vila 🇻🇺 Free event open to the public. Books available for purchase.

Poetry Shelf celebrates The Venetian Blind Poems: a gathering of illness poems | NZ Poetry Shelf nzpoetryshelf.com/2025/08/15/poe…

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Driven to total silliness by a month of packing and posting 1500 books sold in the August sale, the THWUP team are shown here cowering together in a stairwell with various volumes of Selected Poems on their heads. Buy some Selected Poems! Half price! teherengawakapress.co.nz/collections/po…

Fabulous line-up! nzpoetryshelf.com/2025/09/17/poe…

We've been running a book giveaway on our Instagram to mark Te Wiki o te Reo Māori. 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 :) instagram.com/thwupbooks/

The power of #Vanuatu storytelling <3 It’s been great to nurture this over years with a fantastic group of #Vanuatuwriters and friends across #Melanesia 👇🏽 MSG Secretariat Leina Isno MelanesianWomenToday

Ralph Regenvanu, Vanuatu’s climate minister, expressed the frustration of many small developing nations: “This is unacceptable given the urgency we face in light of accelerating climate change.” theguardian.com/environment/20…