Michelle Duff

Eleven finalists emerge for 2025 Science Journalism Awards From over 60 submissions that included television and audio pieces, interactives, online news stories, and long-form features, we have eleven finalists for the 2025 Science Journalism Awards. Many tha...

Winners will be announced Weds 18th June. Check out the rest of the finalists here: www.sciencemediacentre.co.nz/2025/05/15/e...

Looking forward to the New Zealand Science Journalism Awards tomorrow evening - a finalist for this story for The Guardian.

‘Hollowing out’: why are so many people leaving New Zealand? - podcast Michelle Duff speaks to Reged Ahmad about why the country is facing a mass exodus

For an increasing number of NZ citizens, life in the country is not the dream they planned. We spoke to @michelleduff.bsky.social as she reports on why so many are fleeing the economic downturn for greener pastures. #FullStory @australia.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Stunning essay from @michelleduff.bsky.social about where the women in her short story collection came from. I knew yet somehow I was still surprised/delighted! thespinoff.co.nz/books/22-04-... @modernletters.bsky.social

Awww thanks Tina! I had fun writing this. Thanks to @clairemabey.bsky.social and @thespinoff.bsky.social for having me.

Review: Surplus Women 'There is a journalistic quality to the writing, a weight to the stories that is satisfying to read. There is artistry, something more playful, irreverent and dreamlike in many of them too, and it’s t...

I launched a book and it’s a short story collection called Surplus Women!! Pretty excited about the whole thing tbh. You can buy it now! Here is a great review from Nat Baker at Kete books: www.ketebooks.co.nz/en/reviews/r...

Surplus Women Te Herenga Waka University Press is New Zealand's leading publisher of new fiction and poetry, and a scholarly publisher specialising in NZ history, biography and essays.

Happy launch day to Surplus Women @michelleduff.bsky.social @thwupbooks.bsky.social Unity Books Wellington 6pm featuring @tinamakereti.bsky.social and Emily Writes. All welcome! teherengawakapress.co.nz/surplus-women/

Surplus Women - Michelle Duff

Tory whanau and Michelle duff

Emily writes and Tory whanau

At Michelle Duff’s book launch at Unity. Can’t wait to read this! Plus it’s always nice to hang with badass women.

@michelleduff.bsky.social

Lovely to see you and thanks for coming! X

Awesome to see so many books from my faves and so many on the to-read list! Thanks for the write up @clairemabey.bsky.social

‘Never seems to end’: exhausted quake-hit Vanuatu rebuilds again True cost and psychological toll of the December quake emerges as the Pacific country grapples with its third major disaster in two years

"Half of villages still have no drinking water...At least 4,000 children are set to start school this week in UNICEF-provided tents during the hottest time of the year, in cyclone season."

Thanks @michelleduff.bsky.social at @theguardian.com for writing this.

Extremism researchers: 'momfluencers' push hate messages alongside wholesome content NPR's Leila Fadel speaks with extremism researcher Eviane Leidig about how some white nationalist housewives are using social media to normalize and amplify their beliefs.

‘momfluencers’ who spread white nationalist messaging under the guise of lifestyle content"

I and others @michelleduff.bsky.social have talked about women and their participation in extremist spaces - and it is still a ongoing element in NZ. 1/3

www.npr.org/2025/01/01/n...

Eeek thanks Tina! ❤️

Surplus Women Te Herenga Waka University Press is New Zealand's leading publisher of new fiction and poetry, and a scholarly publisher specialising in NZ history, biography and essays.

Find out more and pre-order here:
teherengawakapress.co.nz/surplus-women/

Cover photograph: Tia Ranginui
Cover design: Johnson Witehira
Book by @michelleduff.bsky.social

Here are some words from early readers:

Wrote some words and I couldn’t be more excited. Surplus Women is out April 2025. Thank you for having me @thwupbooks.bsky.social!

I keep trying to write something eloquent and just being tired.
History matters. Philosophy matters. Languages and literature matter. Indigenous studies matter. Arts and humanities and social sciences matter. All of them.

Signed,
a physicist

Started reading this and cannot put it down - how fun is it writing men tho?! Heartbreaking and funny af, one of the NYT best 10 books of 2024 too: www.nytimes.com/2024/12/03/b...