Join essa may ranapiri and Jenni Fagan for their first event together at Edinburgh International Book Festival this Friday at 3.30pm as part of the Island to Island writers residency exchange in partnership with Verb Wellington, supported by British Council.✨ Book your space here: buff.ly/4dS14zu

We are so grateful to British Council for supporting this incredible exchange - if you’re in Edinburgh don’t miss this!

It’s National Poetry Day in Aotearoa. Poetry will be heard in all the halls.

Thanks everyone who purchased my book this month! What a dream! ketebooks.co.nz/en/reading-lis…

Every day I'm reminded of the power of poetry to connect, enlighten and inspire. As I wrote in my introduction for BNZP23, poetry is a shared language that helps us to hold up a mirror to the world so we can make something happen, from a declaration of love to a call for change.

It's Janet Frame's 100th birthday today. I once asked her if it was strange going on the set of the Jane Campion movie and meeting the three versions of herself. Oh, that was fine, she said. It was very strange meeting dad again though.

"The IIML is home to one of New Zealand's most unusual literary treasures: the Landfall/Janet Frame Desk. The desk sits just inside our front door, beneath photographs of its two previous owners, Charles Brasch and Janet Frame." wgtn.ac.nz/modernletters/…

Jo Randerson on Janet Frame thespinoff.co.nz/books/28-08-20…

Wonderful news! Congratulations Airini ❤️

Today would've been Janet Frame's 100th birthday. In her honor, we're resurfacing Frame's "My Last Story" from the Recommended Reading archives. buff.ly/3Xo8EMw

Verb x WORD Christchurch as our founder Claire Mabey heads South for the amazing WORD Christchurch fest with her amazing debut novel - talking with long time friend and festival colleague Rachael King! wordchristchurch.co.nz/programme/adve…

The Island to Island Exchange is live! Exciting new writer residency between Verb Wellington (NZ) and Moniack Mhor (Scotland). Kicked off with essa may ranapiri & Jenni Fagan at Edinburgh International Book Festival. essa's now at their Highland residency! Jenni visits Aotearoa later this year.

In case you missed it – yesterday we revealed the winners of this year's Moth Short Story Prize, judged by Louise Kennedy! Congratulations again to our 2024 first prize winner, Tracey Slaughter. Here's a snippet of her prize-winning story 'reasons to end us (an aerial view)'.

Don't miss literary power couple Anna Smaill and Carl Shuker in conversation with Emily Perkins about their new books, their life together, and how to survive both artistic setbacks and triumphs Te Papa (Te Huinga Centre), Monday 1215 #WritersonMondays tepapa.govt.nz/visit/events/a…

Crammed into Meow for Jesse’s Reading Party, the Wellington edition - whoops and hollers for Marama T-Pole! RNZ Verb Wellington Jesse Mulligan Afternoons

We're half way through the first half of our British Council funded Island to Island Writer Exchange Residency with Verb Wellington and we're delighted to share some impressions of Aotearoa poet essa may ranapiri's time in Scotland so far. te kootahekore ranapiri

The story of The Spinoff, told in one crucial moment from every year, by founder Duncan Greive. thespinoff.co.nz/business/10-09…

We need third spaces where the unemployed can apply for work & the unhoused can be warm & people have access to knowledge but this government gave us an expensive referendum on Māori Wards. wellington.govt.nz/news-and-event…