Emma Hislop

Gift A Safe Night - Women's Refuge Gift a Safe Night and help a woman and her children escape family violence.

This time of year can be especially tough for some whānau. If you're in a position to donate $20 for a night of safety at a women's refuge, that would be👍
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“Imagining a new work always feels more like a haunting to me than an act of creation” — the brilliant @pipadam.bsky.social

My programme has a position for a Lecturer in Māori Literature and Creative Communication - it would be fantastic if this ad could be shared widely across academic and Ao/NZ bluesky #kikorangi www.wgtn.ac.nz/about/workin...

Our beautiful new issue is live!

Showcasing guest work by James Brown, Alice Tawhai, Michael Armstrong, Andrew Paul Wood, Cadence Chung, and Pita Mei, alongside book reviews, poetry and prose by some incredible new and established writers 💜

takahē 109 is free to read and share online, so enjoy!

Earlier this year I ran a Boosted Campaign and was humbled by everyone's generous support. Thanks to you all I've been able to book flights to Ōtepoti and will be at the Robert Lord Cottage in late 2024 for novel writing and car hire and research. THANK YOU ❤️

My chat with Shehan Karunatilaka at the Auckland Writers Fest is up here player.fm/series/auckl...

I've a new YA sci-fi fantasy book coming out next year which deals with colonisation and how it's good to fight oppression, but it's also good just to ignore it and carry on being indigenously wonderful.
Ngā mihi, bitches.
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The grind of racism | E-Tangata “Racism is wearisome. Literally tiring. It does not create a pearl after years of grinding. It creates sickness, fear, anxiety, sadness, resentment, and worry.” — Shelley Burne-Field.

Huge congratulations to Shelley Burne-Field on her appointment as the Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington and Creative NZ Emerging Māori Writer in Residence for 2024.

It's a special moment for us too, as we were the first publication to feature Shelley's work:

Tusiata Avia: Giving myself permission | E-Tangata “Year after year, I wrote and performed and did the astonishing amount of admin it requires. And stayed broke. I perform at festivals and win awards and look fab in sparkling red dresses at the open...

Tusiata Avia's got a substack! Also Nadine Anne Hura, delicious writers both

This new approach to covid is working really well. We have staff off with covid and just cancelled half our bookings for the week because other people also have covid. So glad it's finally over.

Please show up tomorrow - it’s one of the few things we can do right now

Sign the Petition Our Petition is to call the New Zealand Government to advocate and call for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza where 4500+ innocent civilians have been killed of whom nearly 2000 are children. 75% of Gaza...

If you've not already signed, calling on our govt to demand a ceasefire, pls consider doing so now 🙏 (Also a ceasefire should be just the beginning: we must demand an end to an occupation that has violently dispossessed Palestinians of their land & lives for 75 yrs) www.change.org/p/call-the-n...

Hurricane Pip @pipadam.bsky.social ❤️‍🔥👊👊🗯

It was only matter of time, so stoked for Pip the world's catching on and congratulations everyone

WORD IS OUT @pipadam.bsky.social

Review: Joy Williams on Pip Adam Joy Williams finds a New Zealand writer, now published in the US for the first time, who hit her like a wind of hurricane force. Introducing Pip Adam.

"The New Animals is a strange, remorseless, powerful book, leaving the reader drained, angry, and frightened."

That's Joy Williams on Pip Adam's THE NEW ANIMALS . . .
books.substack.com/p/review-joy...

Adania Shibli : Minor Detail - Tin House The latest book by Palestinian novelist Adania Shibli, Minor Detail, was a finalist for the National Book Award for Translated Literature, and longlisted for the International Booker Prize. Shibli tal...

ICYMI
Between the Covers conversations with Palestinian novelists
Adania Shibli about Minor Detail: tinhouse.com/podcast/adan...
Isabella Hammad about Enter Ghost: tinhouse.com/podcast/isab...

A Review of The New Animals - Believer Magazine

Oh. Wow. Pinching self. TNA reviewed in The Believer. Don't tell 'ten years ago Pip' she'll implode. @thebooksdesk.bsky.social @dorothyproject.bsky.social

Now you're talking

Excellent!

Hope he had a happy day ❤

If you are sick, bed ridden, agoraphobic, or just unable to get to a voting place you can still vote. Please read the details here. #Aotearoa #NewZealand
vote.nz/2023-general...

Such a useful conversation, thanks everyone x

Good way to start the day @pipadam.bsky.social @dorothyproject.bsky.social
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Looking forward to this talk

USA GET READY

Oh this is a special day: agent copies of @pipadam.bsky.social’s The New Animals from @dorothyproject.bsky.social arrive, the day before US release! Getting Pip’s miraculous books out into the wider world has been a little pet project of mine…so delighted!

USA Publication day for The New Animals. Celebrating by cutting some friends' hair tonight. So happy. Thank you @dorothyproject.bsky.social
dorothyproject.com/book/pip-ada...

Congratulations Pip! Yahooo!! 💚

Dreams With Teeth: Control and Colonisation in Science Fiction and Fantasy — Dunedin Writers & Rea... What happens when technology is levied against those we fear, or those we refuse to understand?

Ridiculously excited for this event!! www.dunedinwritersfestival.co.nz/tickets/drea...