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If you’ve been enjoying our latest issue, we'd love to ask for your support to continue our mahi in publishing the best emerging and well-known creatives from around Aotearoa. A big thank you in advance for your contribution 🖤 takahe.org.nz/donate-to-taka…

Huge congratulations to Maria Samuela, shortlisted for the Commonwealth Short Story Prize 2025! Read Maria’s beautiful Guest Fiction from takahē 105 🖤 takahe.org.nz/the-peach-tree/

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Check out our takahē merch! We have a limited number of recycled tote + notebook bundles for $23, along with beautiful posters celebrating our 100th issue. We'd love your support in keeping takahē running for another two issues! takahe.org.nz/merch/

Cadence Chung is a poet, classical singer, composer, new managing editor of the New Zealand Poetry Society journal, A Fine Line, as well as our latest Guest Poet! Check out her poems: takahe.org.nz/poems-cadence-…

The Smart Search List of the Day is: Paying Fee-Free General Literary Poems feat. Baltimore Review Takahē Magazine Guernica Magazine Black Fox Lit The Lascaux Review et al. duotrope.com/search/smart/p…

For everyone reminiscing about their OE, and for everyone longing to get away, your Sunday read is 'The map of the tube on the wall' by Julia Craig. takahe.org.nz/the-map-of-the…

Today's listing of the day is: takahe magazine Takahē Magazine duotrope.com/magazine/takah… #WritingCommunity

‘Being an artist is solitary work, and within this internal life the imagined or remembered can feel just as real as the physical.’ Read more in our April Art Essay, 'Paul McLachlan: Layers of Time and Space', by Andrew Paul Wood: takahe.org.nz/paul-mclachlan…

The Takahē Monica Taylor Poetry Prize opens tomorrow, Sunday 1st June! 💚First prize: $300 (NZD) and publication in the December 2025 issue of takahē (#115) 💚Runner-up: $150 (NZD). Full details are available from tomorrow at: takahe.org.nz/competitionnew…

Now open!! 💚First prize: $300 + publication 💚Runner-up: $150 Details and entry: takahe.org.nz/competitionnew…

Hey <3 Putting together a list of "Lit mags that want to be the first place to publish you" Curious to know, what magazine published you for the first time? Bonus points if you link the piece 👀 & also, editors if your pub loves to celebrate emerging writers, lemme know!

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The takahē team were chuffed to publish 'Mystery Kererū,' a comic all in Te Reo Māori! ❤️🖤🤍  The words and art are by Gordon Chaffey from Phat Swag, with editing by Philippa Kenealy and translation by Skye Kimura. #kiakahatereomāori takahe.org.nz/mystery-kereru/

We're delighted to announce Janet Newman as judge for the takahē Monica Taylor Poetry Prize 2025! 💙💚 takahe.org.nz/competitionnew…