Essays
It's better to write the feelings than to try and outrun them
From the separation diaries
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What is the point of art/story?
In (metaphorical) conversation with Jack Trolove and Anahera Gildea
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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?
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The bend in the river where the driftwood collects: A Taitā love story
Irony makes for the best and worst stories
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Not another climate change story tell me a love story instead
Tell me honestly, will you click on this or scroll right past?
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The only writing prompt you might ever need
I met a couple of kids on the banks of the Wairoa and we got talking.
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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.
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"Bro, we're all good. Are you all good?"
Climate Change, via a detour of colonial history and Te Tiriti o Waitangi
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There's still time to get it right
If you could break bread with someone you lost, what would you say?
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Feeling the fear and publishing anyway
A mihi + a pledge
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Journals keep us honest. Is that why we always want to burn them?
The best writing skill no-one told me about
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One for the hustlers
What are we to make of the media stampede towards newsletters?