Queer Writing Now: Chris Tse and Emma Barnes discuss editing an upcoming anthology of NZ Aotearoa queer literature (Out Here, AUP). With chair Christ Brickell.
29 October 2021 – The Next Page: Dani Yourukova, Clara van Wel, Nkhaya Paulsen-More, Bronte Heron, Gerard O’Brien, Aline Tran, Lachlan Taylor, Janet Holst, Tamara Tulitua, Zoe Higgins, Michaela Tempany, Charlotte Doyle, Flora Feltham, Joe Parker and Callum Knight.
2020
30 October 2020 – The Next Page: Barbara Summer, Hannah Amante, Marita Hunt, Elizabeth Hibbs, Evana Belich, Jo Cho, Samantha Lane Murphy, Linda Martelletti, Areez Katki, Melissa Browne, Sarah Catherall, Thomas Walter and Kōtuku Titihuia Nuttall
Writers on Mondays 2019
29 August 2019 – Best New Zealand Poems 2018: Fiona Farrell (editor), Nikki-Lee Birdsey, Jenny Bornholdt, Doc Drumheller, Sam Duckor-Jones, Bernadette Hall, Anna Jackson, Therese Lloyd, Mary McCallum and Chris Tse.
2 September 2019 – The Next Page 2019: Kate Duignan introduces Caleb Harris, Ash Davida Jane, Elaine Webster, Cris Cucerzan, Rebecca Reilly, Geraldine Warren, Stacey Teague, Una Cruickshank, Mikee Sto-Domingo and Fiona Lincoln.
1 October 2018 – The Next Page 2, 2018: Emily Perkins introduces: Andrei Seleznev, Sinead Overbye, Tim Grgec, Charlotte Forrester, Laura Southgate, Anna Rankin, Johanna Knox, Madison Hamill, Tracey Schuyt and Rose Lu
Joy Cowley Masterclass for The Sapling
Read my illustrated notes from Joy Cowley’s Masterclass on The Sapling
Beth has a pole through her arms. This is not a metaphor. A metaphor would be a lot less inconvenient.
On the other side of the room, Kenneth is creating a new religion. He thinks narrative is the operating principle of the universe. He also thinks he’s the hero of Beth’s story. Beth is worried he’s going to leave her. The creatures living in the pole may have stolen her cat.
Tara Black’s comic is surreal, dark, sad, perversely joyful, and if you bet someone they couldn’t find another book remotely like it, you would win. It’s a little bit about being with Kenneth. It’s a little bit about losing your cat. It’s definitely not about the pole.
‘One of the most potent, unsettling texts I’ve encountered.’ —Tracey Slaughter
‘Poetic, whimsical and painfully honest.’ —Dylan Horrocks
‘A strange and wonderful book, both surreal and very real.’ —Tina Makereti
Know Your Place: Golriz Ghahraman in conversation with Brannavan Gnanalingam about her book, Know Your Place.
Made in Wellington: Elizabeth Knox, Brannavan Gnanalingam, Pip Adam and Murdoch Stephens discuss Wellington, housing, institutions, living and writing.
Diary of a Young Naturalist: Dara McAnulty talks to Paul Stanley Ward about autism and the wonder of the natural world.
Crip the Lit: Featuring Alice Mander, Charlotte Simmonds, Helen Vivienne Fletcher, Henrietta Bollinger, L.J. Ritchie, Maisie Chilton Tressler, Robyn Hund and Trish Harris.
Not That I’d Kiss a Girl: Lil O’Brien and Emily Writes discuss coming out stories, researching how to be a lesbian and memoirs.
So Real: Ashleigh Young, Eamonn Mara, Chloe Lane and David Coventry discuss writing realist fiction.
WOW: Bill Manhire and Kim Hill discuss his new book, Wow.
Show Ponies: The Return, featuring Freya Daly Sadgrove, Chris Tse, Sudha Rao, Sinead Overbye, Jackson Nieuwland, Rebecca Hawkes, Sam Duckor-Jones, Joy Holley, Tayi Tibble and Anahera Gildea. MCed by Eamonn Marra.
My poem comic, ‘Die Hard is not a Christmas film’, is published on Stasis Journal, today. Read it there.
on April 9, 2020
VUP Home Reader 2020: cover process
I was so happy to draw the cover for the VUP Home Reader 2020 which you can download for free here. It also contains an excerpt from my upcoming graphic novel, This Is Not a Pipe.
Lie Down and Listen Poetics at Verb 2019:In which we lay in a creepy Masonic room and listened to Nina Powles, Cilla McQueen, David Eggleton, essa may ranapiri, Hannah Mettner, Amy Brown and Vanessa Crofskey read their poetry.
Litcrawl, Stage One: Sweet Mammalion – Jackson Niewland, Chris Holdaway, Miriama Gemmell, Jasmine Gallagher and Sam Duckor-Jones.
Litcrawl, Stage Two: AUP – Anna Jackson, Chris Tse, Rebecca Hawkes and Carolyn DeCarlo.
Litcrawl, Stage Three: Starling – Mel Ansell, Sinead Overbye, Vita O’Brien, Rhys Feeney, Caroline Shepherd, Isabelle McNeur and Ash Davida Jane.
