Poppin' Off Pānui #5: And a plea to all the tired but talented New Zealand writers on the fence about newsletters
In which I enthusiastically share with you what I'm writing, reading, listening to, thinking, etc.
Nadine Hura
(165)Hands fluent in silence
A love song to all the words that have ever been crushed inside the chests of hardworking men
It's better to write the feelings than to try and outrun them
From the separation diaries
What is the point of art/story?
In (metaphorical) conversation with Jack Trolove and Anahera Gildea
Parenting Through Separation
I look around the room and try to pick the leavers from the leavees but it’s impossible, everyone looks the same. Left/bereft - who can tell the difference?
The bend in the river where the driftwood collects: A Taitā love story
Irony makes for the best and worst stories
Not another climate change story tell me a love story instead
Tell me honestly, will you click on this or scroll right past?
The only writing prompt you might ever need
I met a couple of kids on the banks of the Wairoa and we got talking.
Decolonising famous writerly advice with Anahera Gildea
Neil Gaiman says you can do whatever you like as long as you do it with enough assurance. Let's unpack that.
"Bro, we're all good. Are you all good?"
Climate Change, via a detour of colonial history and Te Tiriti o Waitangi
There's still time to get it right
If you could break bread with someone you lost, what would you say?
Feeling the fear and publishing anyway
A mihi + a pledge