Joanna Preston re-interviews Joanna Preston Today, once again, I’ll be interviewing poet, editor, chicken-keeper, creative writing tutor and masochistic glutton-for-punishment, Joanna Preston. Joanna, good morning. Good morning, Joanna. Lovely to be here again. Love what you’ve done with the curtains. I haven’t done anything with the curtains. I know. This is the way I love …
The Last Post (… well, for this year)
Well here we are, the end of another year gradually tattered and worn away to the frayed ends of its tapestry (and the usually-invisible-but-probably-essential polyesterish filaments that give the whole thing some chance of making it through a whole twelve months). (Probably not my best analogy, but then I’m married to a textile technologist.) It’s been …
Call for submissions – takahē 83 (the birthday issue)
As you will have gathered from my previous post, takahē is this year celebrating 25 years survival in the perilous wilderness that is the world of the Little Magazine. Hooray! Work is underway on the final issue for this year – #83, due out in December. It’s going to be big. Very big. Fifty percent bigger than usual. Which …
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Awards! Parties! Prizes! Cake!
Break out the party hats and hoist the streamers! It’s that time of year again: the announcement of the New Zealand Post Book Awards! The full guff can be viewed on the official BookSellersNZ website, but Book of the Year went to Jill Trevelyan’s biography, Peter McLeavey: The Life and Times of a New Zealand Art Dealer; …