Elizabeth Knox writes where the sacred bleeds into the waking world. She builds dreamscapes that are also argument, theology and longing. She reminds us that in fantasy, we may ask the questions that daylight makes too dangerous. Book covers of Dreamhunter, Dreamquake, The Vintners Luck. The Love School and The Absolute Book.

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Elizabeth Knox
@elizabethknoxnz.bsky.social

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#bookrecommendations #literaryfiction #womenwriters #booklovers #nzbooks #pukapuka #nzlit

Write to Express. Connect. - The Landfall Tauraka Review Tony Beyer reviews Standing on my Shadow by Serie Barford; Between by Sue Fitchett; Dracula in the Colonies by Tim Jones

"Where he excels is in making the personal universal..."

A nice review of my latest poetry collection, "Dracula in the Colonies" - plus new collections by Serie Barford and Sue Fitchett - by poet Tony Beyer in Landfall Review Online: landfallreview.com/write-to-exp...

#poetry #nzlit #nzbooks

The covers of three NZ books I've just bought: "The pets we have killed", short fiction by Barbara Else, "Te Whāriki: Reading ten new poets from Aotearoa" - poetry and criticism edited by Anna Jackson, Dougal McNeill and Robert Sullivan, and "Standing on my shadow" - poetry by Serie Barford.

New books - yum.
#pukapuka
#nzlit
#aotearoabooks
#aotearoalit

Embarrassing for 'journalism'!
Go get Tania's real books, everyone.
#pukapuka
#nzlit
@taniaroxborogh.bsky.social

Kōhine by Colleen Maria Lenihan Tokyo is a humming backdrop to an array of outsiders: a young woman arrives to work as a stripper, the manager of a love hotel hatches a sleazy plan, a spirit wanders Harajuku, and a mother embarks on...

Am LOVING this book - Colleen Maria Lenihan's debut, 'Kōhine'.
#nzlit
#pukapuka
#aotearoabooks
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The biggest selling books of 2025 We farewell the year with a specially compiled bestseller chart of the most popular books of 2025 as officially registered by NielsenIQ BookScan. Merry Xmas!

Catherine Chidgey's Book of Guilt the biggest selling novel in NZ this year! I was really proud to facilitate an OZ publisher (PRH) for CC for the first time in her career this year, thus going some way in bridging that unfortunate low profile most #NZLit has in OZ... newsroom.co.nz/2025/12/19/t...

Folly journal Issue 003 "Banned" red sticker at bottom

Folly is an "internationally awarded" journal, made in Wellington NZ.

The retail chain Whitcoulls banned it from shelf space, citing a "family friendly" policy. 🙄

Good opportunity to finally check it out and support it.
Hope it sells out fast! 😎
#Folly #nzlit

My own article on A State of Siege (repub soon with @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social) asks all the important questions for this spooky season:

🎃 Why are white ladies so afraid of the sea in #NZlit?
👻 Did Frame predict man-made climate change?
🌊 Who owns 'a view'?

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‘Keri was ahead of her time’: The Bone People’s historic Booker Prize win The Bone People won the world’s top literary prize 40 years ago, despite one judge describing it as “unreadable”. Was this global success to blame for author Keri Hulme never publishing a second book?

Still my favourite novel ever. Wonderful article.
www.thepress.co.nz/nz-news/3608...
#nzlit
#thebonepeople
#kerihulme
#keeningharpies

Is the Sunday Star Times short story competition still a thing? Or has that gone along with everything else good in the world? #NZlit

Book review: It's a Bit More Complicated Than That Lisa Finucane reviews It's a Bit More Complicated Than That by Hannah Marshall, published by Allen & Unwin.

Big slay to hear my novel reviewed on Radio New Zealand ! 🎉

#YAlit #NZLit #booksky

www.rnz.co.nz/national/pro...

Congratulations Ingrid Horrocks
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Barry Allan's review of Madam 4/5: Antonia and her husband, Peter, found themselves in New Zealand after sailing around the world from the USA with a (disabled) child and another on the way, so decided they need to set up camp her...

The first from the #dnlibraries #nznonfic collection is Antonia Murphy's Madam, her memoir of starting and running ethical brothel in Whangārei. There are many teething problems in year one, but then things settle down.

#booksky #nzlit

www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

The Dunedin Public Library has done something interesting - it has created a massive display of recent New Zealand non-fiction. I don't expect I'll read them all - even if I had time to - but there are some I must.

#dnlibraries #nzlit #booksky

Cover of the poetry collection "Halfway to Everywhere". by Vivienne Ullrich, published by The Cuba Press

I reviewed Vivienne Ullrich's new poetry collection Halfway to Everywhere - a thoughtful, skilful collection of poems: www.timjonesbooks.co.nz/2025/09/03/b...

#books #poetry #Aotearoa #nz #nzlit #nzpoetry

Event | Puke Ariki

Really looking forward to taking part in this panel at the Story Worlds festival at Puke Ariki, Ngāmotu / New Plymouth in September - with excellent fellow panelists Cassie Hart (facilitator), Clare Moleta, and Mikaela Nyman:

pukeariki.com/event/E29084... #climatefiction #nzlit #books

Really enjoying 'Witi Underwater'
#tereomaori
#nzlit
#kikorangi
www.rnz.co.nz/podcast/witi...

Bonus weekday ep of Meet the Writers.
Earlier I judged the NZ Book Awards—fiction went unanimously to Delirious by Damien Wilkins. We met at Auckland Writers Fest (thanks @lfineranbsky.social) to record the show which you can hear wherever you get your podcasts.
#MeetTheWriters #NZLit #Delirious

my beautiful amazing book that you want to read

they don't know my book came out today

MY BOOK IS OUT

PLEASE READ IT

THANK YOU

#author #booksky #YAlit #NZLit

drop everything and read my book

TOMORROW'S THE DAY

It's a Bit More Complicated Than That is coming soon to a bookstore near you

it's my debut pls be nice

#YA #NZLit #author #booksky

Issue 4: Climate — circular Issue 4 features oceans and rivers, extreme weather, disability, bureaucracy, forest fires, cryptids, pollution, social media, activism, future generations and mokopuna, and hope. We’re privileged to...

Issue 4 of Circular magazine features stunning poetry, short stories, flash fiction, an essay and art on the theme of Climate. I'm reading it slowly to the sound of unwinded rain. Highly recommended. www.circularpublishing.co.nz/issues/climate
#circularmagazine
#nzlit
#climatefiction
#clifi

Sunset over the Sounds, from Raumati South, Kāpiti Coast.

I have a wee chapbook of poems coming out in a couple of months - 'A stoic recovery of disordered seasons'. Wish I could say with any confidence the title's prophetic!
#walleahpress
#nzlit
#poetry

A copy of Bear by Kiri Lightfoot resting on a table, with a bookmark poking out featuring Ernest Hemingway's head

Sunday morning reading ft Hemingway cameo
#booksky #NZlit

My God, this follow up by Becky Manawatu to her debut ‘Aue’ is breathtaking. It’s like reading a dream - I have neither language or experience to understand everything but the work is mesmerizing and her writing almost divine. #NZLit #BeckyManawatu #Makarofiction

Devon Webb's review of Sport 47 5/5: This was the greatest anthologised collection of work, local or otherwise, that I've ever read. Tayi Tibble's opening essay was excellent & it just seemed to keep getting better, particularly tow...

#SportJournal @thwupbooks.bsky.social

this was WILDLY good & I need to read the entire collected works of some of these writers...... Charlotte Simmonds who are you that was one of the greatest pieces of literature I've ever perceived in my life....... #NZLit

www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

A number of you know quite what a wonderful novelist Sue is: this then a most splendid development! #NZLit

Excerpt from three-volume autobiography of Janet Frame: “My homecoming was as sad and desolate as I knew it would be, yet I relished its importance to the Envoy from Mirror City, that watching self, who was already waiting to guide me to my fictional home. Many times in my life I have received and cherished these gifts of fiction. From my home now in Mirror City I can only keep trying to parcel these gifts in language that satisfies the ear and the heart and the demands of truth. (It is the events of living that are not easily recognised as legends and part of myths that are the test of the value of lifelong tenancy in Mirror City; and it is the discovery of the new legends and myths that keeps building, renewing the city.)”

Parcelling “gifts” granted to her through “the events of living” into “language that satisfies the ear and the heart and the demands of truth”. Probably the most succinct single account of her art Janet Frame gives us in her long and often moving autobiography. #NZlit

Excerpt from three-volume autobiography of Janet Frame: “I was also pleased to discover that Dr Cawley, like myself, was interested in the Here and Now and not in theories about the past, and our talks were largely at first an accounting process, an examination of my emotional, personal, and even financial budget with a view to balancing all so that I could survive in spite of the bankruptcy imposed during my long stay in hospital, and my existence since then on unreal notions of myself, fed to me by myself and others, and now my sudden extreme poverty of being myself following the Investigation and the Verdict: the wastage of being other than myself could lead to the nothingness I had formerly experienced.”

“The wastage of being other than myself” And when is Janet Frame ever going to be more truly “herself”, this very long sentence seems to be proclaiming, than when arranging words — here, a great many words — with such skill, and to such effect, as we see here? #NZlit

Excerpt from three-volume autobiography of Janet Frame: “Dr Berger then gave me the task of cataloguing medical papers in the brain museum. The brain museum! Blissfully alone, I spent many days sorting through medical journals in the company of glass display cases filled with preserved, labelled tumours and brains. I learned from studying the journals that ECT (Electric Shock or Convulsive Therapy) was commended as a means of provoking fear in the patient, the fear being as it were a bonus, and salutary – for the psychiatrist no doubt and not for the patient!”

There may be an angel at my table — but someone’s left a bottled brain on the filing cabinet. Having spent most of her twenties in mental hospitals receiving shock treatment without anaesthesia, Janet Frame finally finds the perfect job in London. #NZlit

Excerpt from three-volume autobiography by Janet Frame: “The setting was W., a small town which the publisher later named Waimaru. (Later, when the book was published, I was alarmed to find that it was believed to be autobiographical, with the characters actual members of my family, and myself the character Daphne upon whom a brain operation was performed. Confronted by a doctor who had read the book, I was obliged to demonstrate to him the absence of leucotomy scars on my temples.”

Janet Frame “alarmed” to find her novel “Owls Do Cry” was read by some as autobiographical. Set in South Island coastal town, father a railway worker, brother an epileptic, sibling dies suddenly, principal character in mental hospital? Surely an understandable mistake! #NZlit