Josie Shapiro

This looks promising thanks !

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Writers & artists, I've decided to remove the paywall on my eight essays on the creative process, written between January and September this year. My newsletter is called SUBTRACTION and you can find it here.

Calamities! In her second, spine-cracking collection, Jane Arthur wants ‘to get morbid’. Moving with ease between the cerebral and the ethereal she measures her anxieties against a cosmic canvas – taking in...

I'm good at being terrible at self-promotion. However, my book 'Calamities!' came out earlier this year & then kinda vanished from existence & made no end-of-the-year lists or anything like that but fuck it, I'm quite proud of it. It's angry & a bit funny. Poems: shop.goodbookshop.nz/p/calamities...

The Aotearoa books of the year for 2023 The best fiction, nonfiction, poetry and children's books published in New Zealand this year, according to our panel of readers.

What an incredible year for Aotearoa books. From Bird Life to Birnam Wood, to Blood & Dirt to Big Fat Brown Bitch - and that’s just the Bs! thespinoff.co.nz/books/05-12-...

Zeitgeist walking: here's an unplanned companion to my piece by @emilyp.bsky.social
www.1news.co.nz/2023/11/13/f...

Writing about someone running a marathon definitely had parallel meaning for me...can she finish this race/draft? 🤣🩷

Cheryl Strayed, Victoria Bruce and the history of finding solace one step at a time An essay on books that reveal the transformative, and subversive, powers of walking and writing.

My first bluesky post. - stoked to share a piece about walking and what can be found in the footsteps thanks to @clairemabey.bsky.social at The Spinoff for publishing thespinoff.co.nz/books/12-11-...

Incredible first session @verbfestival Wellington today, the awesome @josieshapiro.bsky.social in conversation with Tessa Duder. 💖💫🎉👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

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My World War I Poem

Inside each trench, the sound of prayer.
Inside each prayer, the sound of digging.

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