We're stoked to announce the return of the Matariki Short Short Story Celebration for 2026!✨✨✨
Nine selected stories receive editorial feedback and publication in the August issue (#117) of takahē, along with NZ$150.
www.takahe.org.nz/competitionn...
We are so happy to announce this year's winners of the Neilma Sidney Short Story Prize! Head here to read more about the winning authors and their work: overland.org.au/2026/03/fina...
I loved editing the short fiction for this issue of takahē! As always. Why are our writers so incredible? 😭
The inimitable Mikee Sto Domingo is Guest Fiction writer for the April issue of takahē!
We can't wait to share her short story, 'Touched By An Angel' 🖤
#takahēmagazine #takahē116
everyone I still know who's inside the country tells me russians are pretty depressed. bad news but historically speaking it's good for world literature
I love to run up with a story about running 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 Thank you @overlandjournal.bsky.social and big congrats to Madeleine and Tom!!
Thank you lovely @overlandjournal.bsky.social 🤩
And if the landlords received the tax cut, the public servants have all been fired, the ferries were cancelled, benefits have been denied, hospitals need staff, schools need staff, regional councils have gone, etc - then who did they borrow the $120 billion for?
Themselves?
#nzpol
Paper bag of feijoas from an Eastern Suburbs aunty via Roskill distribution hub
Socialist fruit season has begun
Congrats @zoemeager.bsky.social !
Aww thank you!!
PS: We have a giveaway running for Angie’s debut crime/thriller ‘Melaleuca’ that’s open to Aus/NZ! If you want to get your hands on a copy, check out the IG post here: www.instagram.com/p/DVZ522TDw8...
#NZBooks #AusBooks
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in 2022 i wrote a series for webworm about NZ's biggest megachurch, arise. webworm exposed bullying, abuse & the coverup of rape. it led to the leaders john & gillian cameron resigning, & much of arise folding. well: they've emerged footloose & fancy free in australia: www.webworm.co/johnbrentcam...
Comics retailing legend Greg Ketter standing up to ICE in Minneapolis. Yes, that's tear gas. He's 70 years old.
get it in my veins
Your reminder that what happened to Renee Nicole Good is something that happens regularly in America. This is not new, but it is an expanded version of militarized people targeting Black people in particular.
From ICE detention to murder with impunity, we've been doing it. Now it's broadened.
Fellow biologists, this is a poem that discovers the tonal beauty of the word "ribosome"
stop what you're doing and let Amber Glenn take you to church #USPrevagenChamps #figureskating
Huge congratulations to our Pushcart Prize 2026 nominees! 🎉 We’re cheering loudly and wishing you all the luck.
www.takahe.org.nz/nominations/
Check out the December issue!
Featuring guests Tony Guo, Helen Rickerby, Ruby Porter and John Fenton, along with the Monica Taylor Poetry Prize winner, Jilly O'Brien.
There's also an art essay by Samuel Te Kani, and so much more!
We hope you love it 🩵
www.takahe.org.nz/takahe-115/
We're so excited to be bringing you Guest Fiction from Ruby Porter!
Her brand new story, 'Eye Contact' explores love, loss, optometrists and Christmas shopping, and will feature in the December issue (coming very soon!).
#takahēmagazine #DecemberIssue #GuestFiction #RubyPorter 🇳🇿📚
Welcome to the takahē whānau, John Fenton!
John's essay, 'Lost Libraries—Biblioclasm: a deadly sin' will feature in the December issue, coming very soon! As ever, the entire issue will be free to read online, for everyone, everywhere 🖤
Great culture can save lives. Literally.
Amazing letter in today’s @thetimes.com about Tom Stoppard
Nice one, Feby!
The problem with that Whamageddon thing is that Last Christmas is a stone cold banger and trying to avoid it proves that you don't truly understand the meaning of the season, to celebrate our Lord and Savior, Saint George Michael.
Legendary British musician Brian Eno, who helped organize & produce the Together for Palestine benefit concert, performs the poem “Oh Rascal Children of Gaza, ” written by Palestinian poet Khaled Juma
#Wembley
❤️Join us this Saturday 13th September 2025 to March the Bridge!
🖤Meet at Onepoto Domain for a 9:30am start
🤍Or join at the end point, Victoria Park
💚Demand we Sanction Israel Now!
❤️Organised by Aotearoa for Palestine
Australian writers propose a modest pay cut for the VC of Melbourne Uni could be used to fund Meanjin
