Happy pub day to ITHACA by @aliebenge3 ❤️ 'Alie Benge’s essays are jumper cables. In each essay another circuit closes, bringing a jolt of understanding – and heart-stopping, heart-starting wonder.' — Elizabeth Knox teherengawakapress.co.nz/ithaca/

The NZ Society of Authors Top of the South branch committee, which includes me, are pretty chuffed Elizabeth Knox and Stacey Morrison have agreed to be our finalist judges. Entries close 31 May 2023 so get writing!

The winner of the Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize for Fiction is Catherine Chidgey ! Warmest congratulations!! Tama Magpie Te Herenga Waka University Press #theockhams

As a fellow migrant from the West Island, I love this tweet!

Big thanks to Allbirds for supporting the Streetside Open Mic at #awf2023, which little old me won. I love my new Plant Pacers!

I always forget about the admin of death the little manual labours the delicate wording the lilting tone that falls ever downwards until it can be heard no more

Here I was feeling all out of sorts about this platform's new name and then I noticed the big X in the middle of my (now 14-year-old) handle (the only way to squeeze my business name into 10 characters) - YIKES!

So close - only 13% to raise in 11 days! If you can support Iona Winter's boosted.org.nz campaign for the Elixir & Star Press grief anthology, a liminal gathering, please do! (And you'll be able to read my short memoir piece, 'The eagle's gift'!) boosted.org.nz/projects/a-lim…

I've signed up for this - who wants to join me?

I’m surrounded by such awesome company 😀 #ockhamnzbookawards

I am reading!

On spaceweather.com: This is an AI Free Zone! Text created by ChatGPT and other Large Language Models is spreading rapidly across the Internet. It's well-written, artificial, frequently inaccurate. If you find a mistake, rest assured it was made by a real human being.

Weekend programme, full details and tickets for the 3rd annual Lifting The Lid International Festival of Death & Dying, 17-20 November, 2023, available now, link in bio. Kerry Sunderland

Happy publication day to End Times @RKPriestley Te Herenga Waka University Press Next stop Nelson nelsonartsfestival.nz/event/end-time…

The 2024 longlist is announced! Congratulations to all! shorturl.at/sFJP2 Te Herenga Waka University Press Text Publishing Bloomsbury Books UK The Cuba Press Dead Bird Books Otago University Press Auckland University Press Penguin Books NZ Te Papa Massey Uni Press HarperCollins Aotearoa NZ Bridget Williams Books Huia Publishers Allen & Unwin Aotearoa NZ

The 2024 General Non-Fiction longlist is out - Congratulations to all! #theockhams Allen & Unwin Aotearoa NZ Penguin Books NZ Bridget Williams Books Te Herenga Waka University Press Massey Uni Press Huia Publishers The Cuba Press Potton & Burton Economic and Social Research Aotearoa

There are SIX memoirs longlisted in this year's awards! They are revealing, insightful and absorbing. #theockhams @bwb_books @pottonandburton Te Herenga Waka University Press Инесса Allen & Unwin Aotearoa NZ

Only 2 spaces left at the Autumn 2024 Writing Retreat with Elizabeth Knox and only 3 spaces left at the Spring 2024 retreat. Find out more at writeacrossnewzealand.com #writingretreat

So cool that 2x Ngaios winner & The Crime Writers’ Association Gold Dagger shortlistee Jacqueline Bublitz is launching her new feminist thriller LEAVE THE GIRLS BEHIND at Nelson Arts Festival later this month! Check out this Nelson Mail feature: stuff.co.nz/nz-news/350431… and head along if you can! #yeahnoir