password. very short poetry.

Happy to have a micropoem, 'Mother', in the latest lovely issue of Password: A Journal of Very Short Poetry, out today! veryshortpoetry.com #amwriting #micropoetry #haiku

love it!!!

Shelf of colourful NZ fiction books including One to Many and other experiments by Sharni Wilson (ATB|ITK, 2024)

Spotted my book in @unitybooksauckland in some really good company 😍 So happy I made it on this shelf! Sometimes I love being a W...

#startingfromthebottom #writerlife #nzfiction #damienwilkins

Happy New Year! This is my end-of-year publishing roundup for 2025: I branched out and tried some completely new things.

Stoked I could work with such amazing people in 2025 and balance fun projects with working full-time + parenting. Hope to do more and longer in 2026 #2025roundup #amwriting #xl8

V happy (also v surprised) to find name on list with these writers! Renee Liang, Michael Botur, Shelley Burne-Field, Tim Saunders, Lee Hana, Cristin Leach, Jessica le Bas, Lorraine Carmody, Kirstie McKinnon, Anna Scaife <3

(KM Sparkling Prose shortlist, winners announced Oct)

#amwriting #fiction

The City to Sea Bridge – Wellington’s human corridor bridge In September 2024 I posted that the City to Sea Bridge in Wellington is my favourite bit of infrastructure, largely because it is so generously proportioned that it feels like a part of the city ra…

So gutted about the imminent demolition of the iconic City to Sea Bridge in Wellington! Great piece on this by Jo Draper josephinedraper.com/the-city-to-...

A vision of hyper-unequal society and future tech, set in the year 2102 #futuretech #scifi #japaneselit #womenintranslation

The Secret Year 2102 “Hey. My name’s Michi. Nice to meetcha. So, why do I need to wear this? I thought the job was hacking.” Michi stared down her nose at the frilly white apron over the regulation navy-blue dre...

Audio version of scifi story ‘The Secret’ by Fumio Takano now live! Feat TWO amazing voice actors @justineleahva.com & ‪Alex Bankier‬, ed @witchywonderer.bsky.social, prod Jenelle DeCosta, xl8 me. Have a listen, support human-made art and creativity! #WITmonth #xl8 www.khoreomag.com/translation/...

Inland Sea of Japan and South Korea - Alumni and Friends - Washington University in St. Louis

Have you wanted to travel to Japan and South Korea but worried about navigating language barriers? Consider signing up for this 2026 tour of Japan- The Inland Sea- and South Korea organized by Washington University. I will tag along as the talking head.
alumni.washu.edu/destinations...

Te Moana o Reo is about to be reviewed on RNZ (this morning 10.35am NZ time) ...am waiting with bated breath to see what Elizabeth Heritage says. I feel very fond of this book, it's a celebration of Aotearoa languages and has my first ever essay in it, on working in Japan #multilingual #nzfic #essay

2025 Locus Awards Top Ten Finalists Congratulations to all of the Locus Awards top ten finalists! The Locus Awards winners will be announced June 21, 2025, during the in-person Locus Awards Ceremony, held in the historic Nile …

We are excited to share that we are the 2025 Locus Awards' top ten finalists for best magazine! 🧡 🎉 Congratulations to all of the fellow @locusmag.bsky.social finalists!

locusmag.com/2025/05/2025...

thank you so much for reading! I'm honoured.

What's done cannot be undone 😂

Q&A with Sharni Wilson Sharni Wilson stunned us with her story "Only Crying" with its cerebral dialogue and evocative imagery. Motherhood

Q&A: www.thewildumbrella.com/post/q-a-wit...

Only crying Sharni Wilson is an Aotearoa NZ writer and literary translator. Her work appeared in Landfall and WLT, among others.

Flash fiction: www.thewildumbrella.com/post/only-cr...

New flash fiction out today in the Wild Umbrella, an ambitious new journal based in Dublin, Ireland!

Editor Mina El Attar also interviews me on inspiration, writing process and motherhood, which feels very exposing.

Links in comments!

#amwritingfiction #flashfiction #writingmotherhood

Goodreads page of the "Japanese Literature" group, featuring Swan Knight

Swan Knight by Fumio Takano, translated by Sharni Wilson, has been chosen on Goodreads by the Japanese Literature group ❤️ Discover this wild novella, head to the Luna store: www.lunapresspublishing.com/product-page... @sharni.bsky.social

Kicking off in Aucks this eve! Hope it all goes well, and I seriously can’t wait to get my hands on this book, which brings together over forty languages of Aotearoa ❤️

I’ve only seen the tiny part I’ve contributed to – a micro story (my first time writing fiction in Japanese) and a personal essay on my experience working at a Japanese company (which I found absolutely excruciating to write) #amwriting

Excited for this great book, Te Moana o Reo ¦ Ocean of Languages, ed. Michelle Elvy & Vaughan Rapatahana, launching with a national tour! There'll be readings by some amazing people and I so wish I could be there. #nzfiction #multilingual #booklaunch

I'm so sick of being autocorrected to something I didn't want to say!

Amazing to see this Japanese-to-English short story, by Kaori Ekuni, get some more love! The Japanese original text is also included on the page. CW: DV. Happy January in Japan! #xl8

This is a great list of free-to-read short stories, translated from Japanese #JanuaryinJapan

The Year in Reviews: 50 Highlights from 2024 This entirely subjective list of 50 highlights from 2024 include reviews of fiction, literature, poetry and non-fiction. Translations remained strong in this year’s list, including literature, poet…

The @asianreviewofbooks.bsky.social’s Year in Reviews is one of the best parts of my reading year. Lots of Japanese titles included here.

Thank you! 😊

New sci-fi story 'The Secret' by Fumio Takano just dropped, and it's a banger! Transl. by me #newrelease #xl8 #japanese #scifi #futurejapan

segedínský guláš by Sharni Wilson A slow‐roasted never‐tasted Czech mystery in a paprika gravy, stewed with sauerkraut and heavy cream; the acute accents indicate long vowels, the caron (flying bird, inverted hat) at the end hishes wi...

How can food connect us with family and heritage? So happy to have this hermit crab creative nonfiction reprinted in
SugarSugarSalt Magazine today! First published in the Malahat Review. They are open for subs as of today too.
sugarsugarsalt.org/2024/09/01/s...
#familyrecipe #cnf #foodheritage

COVER REVEAL + PRE-ORDERS OPEN! Swan Knight by Fumio Takano, is the latest Over the Moon novella from Luna Press. Translated from Japanese by Sharni Wilson. Available in PB and Digital in all the usual retailers. Join the surreal world of Wagner! www.lunapresspublishing.com/product-page...