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Tomorrow night! Auckland! We have such sights to show you!

Agents in America

Congrats to our Short Fiction workshop convenor Antony Lapwood on the publication of his first novel!

Pretty sure they’ll be awarded more than $1500 per title.

@mohanjdutt.bsky.social is launching a white paper tomorrow (details below) on the implications of the Education & Training Amendment Act 2025 for academic freedom in Aotearoa...in kōrero with tangata wheneu TEU Co-President Garrick Cooper. Come join us on Zoom #nzpol massey.zoom.us/j/82976632619

Serious about writing a book or script in 2027? Time to get serious about submitting your application to the IIML's MA in Creative Writing, and write with the support of the IIML workshop and community in Wellington. Deadline 1 November! www.wgtn.ac.nz/modernletter...

A poem by Ali Choudhary badlilies.uk/ali-choudhary

The kids are all right

Comment from Victoria University: NZ can’t just copy and paste regulation from overseas. We have a distinct culture and demographic makeup that needs to be accounted for.

Health privatisation well underway. #NzPol

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Lula has won a fourth term in spite of Meta, after Brazil’s electoral court had to order platforms to stop throttling his reach while they boosted his Trump-backed opponent. Big Tech tried to rig this but the Brazilian people had the final say ✊

‘I dwell in possibility…’ as do we all now voting has begun in Aotearoa

Great 2010 first-book interview with @ursulakleguin.com prizewinner @pipadam.bsky.social thecraigcliff.blogspot.com/2010/07/mise...

Comment: Every party has a plan for the supermarket aisle but none has one for the imported fuel that raises every price on the shelf, writes Kirsten Corson

Oh yes! There are many dreary little #books about #disability I would never give to my grandchildren. I call such books "improving" and "worthy" books. A lively, entertaining story is what is wanted on any subject. #children #reading #stories www.rnz.co.nz/life/books/h...

gloriously inventive book! Love this and love the conversations - happy reading ! nzpoetrybox.wordpress.com/2026/10/26/p...

We’re still buzzing about Audition by pip adam winning the Ursula K. Le Guin Prize, and we will be for quite a while. Take it as a sign to read or re-read pip's work!! To help with that, for a limited time you can buy Audition together with pip’s latest novel, Kluge, for $50 on our website.

nzpoetryshelf.com/2026/10/26/p...

Thrilled to hear the Wellington premiere went well. Auckland, come out Wednesday night to Reading Cinemas New Lynn for your first chance to discover the goopy fun of BLACK SHEEPS, with @jonathanking.bsky.social in attendance for Q&A! readingcinemas.co.nz/cinemas/Lynn...

Very special to be talking with my mother Marilyn Duckworth @thwupbooks.bsky.social and @hissingswan.bsky.social as part of VerbCrawl Saturday 14 November 140 Cuba St, Drapers Fabrics - 6 - 6.45pm - $10 tickets #motherdaughter #authortalk #aotearoa events.humanitix.com/cut-from-the...

On the death of John Baxter, son of James K Baxter and Jacqueline Sturm 👉 newsroom.co.nz/2026/10/26/t...

Depressing deep dive into the nexus of managerialism and AI in (mainly) Australian universities, and the death spiral it’s producing

‘We haven’t heard much about the arts in this election, which is a shame, because like a lot of things they’re being coshed half to death right now by funding cuts and restructuring.’ simonwilsonhopetown.substack.com/p/the-age-of...

with a few extra photos, links to a conversation and a reading nzpoetryshelf.com/2026/10/23/p...

“Life in Whanganui was fraught with danger. Beneath the warmth of whānau and the comfort of belonging lay a harsher reality, where violence, drugs, and the consequences of destructive choices could seep into everyday life.” — Candice Tutauha

“Little Day’s story was that the shooter came round the back of the flats and jumped the broken fence. Shot a Pā boy multiple times, then took off towards the beach.” — An extract from Candice Tutauha’s debut novel, Rua, which launches this week.

Investigative journalist Aaron Smale says the political posturing over photos with gangs is ignorant, hypocritical, and amounts to gangster chic for Instagram

‘For decades, Chinese intellectuals have appropriated the work of foreign academics and journalists. The scope of what they could do with their borrowings was determined by their language skills. Now, AI has bridged that information gap.’ Mimi Jiang on the age of AI. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Final reminder: You have until midnight to enrol to vote

Gilgamesh prepares to give his cat a worming tablet, sighs "I wish Enkidu were still here to help with this!"

Native bird spotted in Wellington for first time in about 70 years www.rnz.co.nz/news/environ...

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Now this is some long weekend news you can use. pip adam's Ursula Le Guin Prize for Fiction winning book Audition is available now on Libby. libbyapp.com/search/awa/s... (thanks Mike - and @pipadam.bsky.social ) ^DR

Excited (and nervous) to be sharing BLACK SHEEPS with our first NZ audiences tonight! Premiere screening, followed by actual paying customers for the opening of TERROR-FI Film Fest. We’re so proud of this bonkers film and can’t wait for people to see it! Opens NZ nationwide November 12.

Who could have guessed?

This is an exceptional practical course. If I had the free year and the money, I would seriously consider applying.

Been thinking about how we teach (at uni) & how in recent years all our discussions about changing pedagogy have been *reactive:* Covid, financial crises, staff shortages, now AI. We're forced to change not because it makes the learning better but because best practice is no longer possible. 1/2

Just a reminder that the deadline for the 2027 MA in Creative Writing is coming up on 1 November - if you want to write fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction or a script, this weekend could be a good time to work on completing your application! www.wgtn.ac.nz/modernletters

Jo Randerson interviews Pip Adam about Audition, the novel that has just won a major international award

“Every Māori politician in this country gets asked, sooner or later, to account for a relationship no Pākehā politician is ever asked about”—a question framed by those who “have never had to explain their own cousins to a camera.” @mohanjdutt.bsky.social culture-centered.blogspot.com/2026/10/the-...

On Wednesday, Lydia Davis will give this year’s 𝘓𝘰𝘯𝘥𝘰𝘯 𝘙𝘦𝘷𝘪𝘦𝘸 𝘰𝘧 𝘉𝘰𝘰𝘬𝘴 Autumn Lecture in NYC, titled ’Dying, or Doing Something Else: Reflections on Marcus Aurelius and Other Stoics’. In-person and livestream tickets here: www.tickettailor.com/events/londo...

‘…he stomped all over my poems like Gene Kelly in combat boots. I was sent away to read what I had not, which was everything, and was told to stop trying to show off, and go figure out how to move and enlighten the reader.’ - Don Paterson on Douglas Dunn northseapoets.substack.com/p/douglas-du...

Part time 18 month postdoc on radicalisation and extremism available at @tepunahaumaru.bsky.social Applications close 8 November! jobs.govt.nz/jobs/NZ-UWAI...