Rachael King
@rachaelking70.bsky.social
Writer of novels & other stuff from NZ. MG novel The Grimmelings (“Horse girl folk horror”) out now in Aus, NZ & the UK, coming to the US Oct 2025. Secrets at Red Rocks TV adaptation out 9 March NZ & US. https://www.rachael-king.com Band Pic: J Ganley
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It’s publication day in Nth America for The Grimmelings, my middlegrade ‘horse girl folk horror’ which blends Scottish folklore with an unsettling New Zealand landscape, about a girl and a vengeful kelpie. Out in HB *and* PB! www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Gr... #spookymg #kidlit #middlegrade
Love it when family members are national pub quiz questions! @jonathanking.bsky.social
November 11, 2025 at 8:32 AM
Love it when family members are national pub quiz questions! @jonathanking.bsky.social
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⏰ It's the final countdown! ⏰
Not long left to submit your entries for #BBC500Words, the UK's largest children's story writing competition 🎉✍️
Remember: spelling, punctuation and grammar don't count, it's all about the creativity!
bbc.co.uk/500words.
Not long left to submit your entries for #BBC500Words, the UK's largest children's story writing competition 🎉✍️
Remember: spelling, punctuation and grammar don't count, it's all about the creativity!
bbc.co.uk/500words.
November 7, 2025 at 9:01 AM
⏰ It's the final countdown! ⏰
Not long left to submit your entries for #BBC500Words, the UK's largest children's story writing competition 🎉✍️
Remember: spelling, punctuation and grammar don't count, it's all about the creativity!
bbc.co.uk/500words.
Not long left to submit your entries for #BBC500Words, the UK's largest children's story writing competition 🎉✍️
Remember: spelling, punctuation and grammar don't count, it's all about the creativity!
bbc.co.uk/500words.
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The 2026 Carnegies nominations are live! 🎉 Join us in celebrating the exceptional storytelling and illustration recognised this year. 🏆 Get ready for an inspiring awards season! Congrats to all nominees! 📖❤️
https://carnegies.co.uk/nominations-announced-2026
#Carnegies2026
https://carnegies.co.uk/nominations-announced-2026
#Carnegies2026
November 3, 2025 at 9:00 AM
The 2026 Carnegies nominations are live! 🎉 Join us in celebrating the exceptional storytelling and illustration recognised this year. 🏆 Get ready for an inspiring awards season! Congrats to all nominees! 📖❤️
https://carnegies.co.uk/nominations-announced-2026
#Carnegies2026
https://carnegies.co.uk/nominations-announced-2026
#Carnegies2026
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Some good news: the Whitireia Publishing Course will continue as a collaboration between the Publishers Association of New Zealand (PANZ) and Whitireia. Places for the 2026 intake are limited, so anyone interested can register their interest here: www.whitireiapublishing.co.nz.
Graduate Diploma in Publishing (Applied) | Whitireia and WelTec
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November 2, 2025 at 2:28 AM
Some good news: the Whitireia Publishing Course will continue as a collaboration between the Publishers Association of New Zealand (PANZ) and Whitireia. Places for the 2026 intake are limited, so anyone interested can register their interest here: www.whitireiapublishing.co.nz.
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There's a job going for a Marketing and Partnerships Coordinator at the Auckland Writers Festival
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thebigidea.nz/jobs/marketi...
Marketing & Partnerships Coordinator
Join the Auckland Writers Festival as a Marketing & Partnerships Coordinator - drive audience engagement, support dynamic marketing campaigns, and help deliver outstanding sponsor and fundraising expe...
thebigidea.nz
October 30, 2025 at 2:51 AM
There's a job going for a Marketing and Partnerships Coordinator at the Auckland Writers Festival
thebigidea.nz/jobs/marketi...
thebigidea.nz/jobs/marketi...
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For the latest Things That Happened Thursday—my occasional updates on books I've edited—here's a Kirkus review of Ashley Granillo's upcoming middle grade novel, CHOIR GRRRL: "an emotional, well-realized story about finding your voice." It's out in February!
www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews...
www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews...
CHOIR GRRRL | Kirkus Reviews
The daughter of a former rock star in Los Angeles is torn between playing in a band with her sisters and her wish to sing in a choir.
www.kirkusreviews.com
October 29, 2025 at 8:58 PM
For the latest Things That Happened Thursday—my occasional updates on books I've edited—here's a Kirkus review of Ashley Granillo's upcoming middle grade novel, CHOIR GRRRL: "an emotional, well-realized story about finding your voice." It's out in February!
www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews...
www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews...
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North American readers. Get your hands on the just released MG 'The Grimmelings' by @rachaelking70.bsky.social
www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Gr...
Think, Dark Is Rising mixed with The Silver Brumbies mixed with all those gothic, thrilling tales you read as a kid & re-read as an adult
www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Gr...
Think, Dark Is Rising mixed with The Silver Brumbies mixed with all those gothic, thrilling tales you read as a kid & re-read as an adult
The Grimmelings
A girl must unravel the mystery behind disappearances in her community and the arrival of a strange boy and a wild horse in this spellbinding middl...
www.simonandschuster.com
October 29, 2025 at 9:11 PM
North American readers. Get your hands on the just released MG 'The Grimmelings' by @rachaelking70.bsky.social
www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Gr...
Think, Dark Is Rising mixed with The Silver Brumbies mixed with all those gothic, thrilling tales you read as a kid & re-read as an adult
www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Gr...
Think, Dark Is Rising mixed with The Silver Brumbies mixed with all those gothic, thrilling tales you read as a kid & re-read as an adult
It’s publication day in Nth America for The Grimmelings, my middlegrade ‘horse girl folk horror’ which blends Scottish folklore with an unsettling New Zealand landscape, about a girl and a vengeful kelpie. Out in HB *and* PB! www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Gr... #spookymg #kidlit #middlegrade
October 28, 2025 at 1:20 PM
It’s publication day in Nth America for The Grimmelings, my middlegrade ‘horse girl folk horror’ which blends Scottish folklore with an unsettling New Zealand landscape, about a girl and a vengeful kelpie. Out in HB *and* PB! www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Gr... #spookymg #kidlit #middlegrade
This post has not had nearly enough love for what it is.
There’s a hole in our lounge floor where we had a wall removed, so before we get new carpet laid, I thought I’d make a little something to fill it. Then years in the future when the next owners replace the carpet… they’ll crap themselves. You’re welcome, future people I don’t know 😂😈👁️ #creepy #craft
October 27, 2025 at 11:42 PM
This post has not had nearly enough love for what it is.
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It's a good weekend to be working on your application to the MA in Creative Writing at the IIML in 2026 - the deadline is 1 November!
www.wgtn.ac.nz/modernletter...
www.wgtn.ac.nz/modernletter...
How and when to apply | Te Pūtahi Tuhi Auaha o Te Ao / International Institute of Modern Letters | Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington
We have one application deadline each year for entry into the Master of Arts in Creative Writing. It's a limited entry programme and selection is competitive.
www.wgtn.ac.nz
October 26, 2025 at 2:45 AM
It's a good weekend to be working on your application to the MA in Creative Writing at the IIML in 2026 - the deadline is 1 November!
www.wgtn.ac.nz/modernletter...
www.wgtn.ac.nz/modernletter...
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This is a thousand years worth of Creative NZ government funding
our govt wants to spend 327 times more on a single road ($18b) than they are currently spending yearly on all of basic science in new zealand ($55m) #nzpol
The Northern Expressway we were told would cost $10 billion is now priced at $18 billion, or six times the Cook Strait crossing we were told was unaffordable. This is fantasy stuff. www.nzherald.co.nz/northern-adv...
October 26, 2025 at 10:09 PM
This is a thousand years worth of Creative NZ government funding
Judith Collins: "We don't have sanctions on Israel, we're not at war with Israel, Israel is not our enemy.” This is why we have been demanding sanctions and likely why you’ve been ignoring.
Breaking news: Space Minister Judith Collins admits she knew that we could be abetting Israel's genocide with Rocket Lab launch of Black Sky satellite. #KeepSpaceForPeace #ArmsTradeDeathTrade www.1news.co.nz/2025/10/24/m...
Minister warned about possible Israeli use of NZ-launched satellites
Space Minister Judith Collins said this week the decision to go ahead with BlackSky satellite launches was the right one.
www.1news.co.nz
October 24, 2025 at 10:59 PM
Judith Collins: "We don't have sanctions on Israel, we're not at war with Israel, Israel is not our enemy.” This is why we have been demanding sanctions and likely why you’ve been ignoring.
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October 24, 2025 at 10:56 AM
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What a lovely article from @frankcottrellboyce.bsky.social. It's great that children will be on the judging panel, and that books will be donated to less privileged children. Also good to see @jamiesmart.bsky.social mentioned!
#Booksky
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...
#Booksky
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The Children’s Booker prize will tell kids that they matter
As the number of children reading for pleasure hits a record low, the new award highlights its importance for wellbeing, and will give away thousands of books
www.theguardian.com
October 24, 2025 at 8:24 AM
What a lovely article from @frankcottrellboyce.bsky.social. It's great that children will be on the judging panel, and that books will be donated to less privileged children. Also good to see @jamiesmart.bsky.social mentioned!
#Booksky
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...
#Booksky
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...
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I'm very happy to announce that my next novel TRAITORS' NEST will be published in July 2026 by Macmillan's imprint First Ink!
www.thebookseller.com/rights/first...
www.thebookseller.com/rights/first...
First Ink unveils award-winning Frances Hardinge’s YA historical fantasy
First Ink has acquired Traitors’ Nest, a historical YA fantasy novel by Frances Hardinge, the award-winning author of the Costa Book of the Year 2015, The Lie Tree.
www.thebookseller.com
October 23, 2025 at 9:40 AM
I'm very happy to announce that my next novel TRAITORS' NEST will be published in July 2026 by Macmillan's imprint First Ink!
www.thebookseller.com/rights/first...
www.thebookseller.com/rights/first...
Has anyone asked these guys if they can contribute to the economy to pay for a few things?
October 22, 2025 at 11:48 PM
Has anyone asked these guys if they can contribute to the economy to pay for a few things?
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Parents, please check your kids’ candy this Halloween. I’ve just found an ancient metal whistle with the inscription “QUIS EST ISTE QUI VENIT" inside a Snickers bar. I blew it and heard a note of infinite distance, and now I’m haunted by a figure in pale, fluttering draperies. Be safe.
October 22, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Parents, please check your kids’ candy this Halloween. I’ve just found an ancient metal whistle with the inscription “QUIS EST ISTE QUI VENIT" inside a Snickers bar. I blew it and heard a note of infinite distance, and now I’m haunted by a figure in pale, fluttering draperies. Be safe.
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Thursdays weather has hit the South Island town of Hanmer Springs hard.
‘The worst I’ve seen it’: Hanmer Springs “getting destroyed” by severe gales
Thursdays weather has hit the South Island town of Hanmer Springs hard.
dlvr.it
October 22, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Thursdays weather has hit the South Island town of Hanmer Springs hard.
Congratulations to Libertine Pictures & David Stubbs & all the folk nominated in the NZ Screen Awards for Secrets at Red Rocks! If you haven’t watched it yet, please do — It captures the spirit of my novel and the wild south coast of Wellington beautifully. Well deserved all round.
October 19, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Congratulations to Libertine Pictures & David Stubbs & all the folk nominated in the NZ Screen Awards for Secrets at Red Rocks! If you haven’t watched it yet, please do — It captures the spirit of my novel and the wild south coast of Wellington beautifully. Well deserved all round.
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I was so moved to return to my Robin Hyde chapter and to support Mary Paul's drive to save Penham House. What can you do or add?
nzpoetryshelf.com/2025/10/20/p...
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Poetry Shelf supports saving Robin Hyde’s Penman House: A plea from Mary Paul and my Wild Honey chapter
What would the response be in Wellington if you were waking up to find that the Katherine Mansfield house had fences and a demolition sign on it? Would important people reverse the decision with in…
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October 19, 2025 at 7:03 PM
I was so moved to return to my Robin Hyde chapter and to support Mary Paul's drive to save Penham House. What can you do or add?
nzpoetryshelf.com/2025/10/20/p...
nzpoetryshelf.com/2025/10/20/p...
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Congrats to all the winners in the 2025 Pikihuia Awards!
my.christchurchcitylibraries.com/pikihuia-awa... ^MT
my.christchurchcitylibraries.com/pikihuia-awa... ^MT
October 19, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Congrats to all the winners in the 2025 Pikihuia Awards!
my.christchurchcitylibraries.com/pikihuia-awa... ^MT
my.christchurchcitylibraries.com/pikihuia-awa... ^MT
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There’s a hole in our lounge floor where we had a wall removed, so before we get new carpet laid, I thought I’d make a little something to fill it. Then years in the future when the next owners replace the carpet… they’ll crap themselves. You’re welcome, future people I don’t know 😂😈👁️ #creepy #craft
October 19, 2025 at 12:44 AM
There’s a hole in our lounge floor where we had a wall removed, so before we get new carpet laid, I thought I’d make a little something to fill it. Then years in the future when the next owners replace the carpet… they’ll crap themselves. You’re welcome, future people I don’t know 😂😈👁️ #creepy #craft