Emma Neale
@emenspace.bsky.social
Author & editor. Billy Bird (Penguin Random, 2016). To the Occupant (OUP, 2019). The Pink Jumpsuit (QWP, 2021). Liar, Liar, Lick, Spit (OUP, 2024).Author pic by Caroline Davies. Cover photo art work by Sharon Singer.
New album release from our eldest (23) . . . who is a drummer. I've listened to it so much, I woke up at 3 a.m. hearing whole songs unspooling in my mind's ear (comforting: like the soft glow of a night light) . . . Free to sample here! #aotearoa #jazz #newzealand #wellington #dunedin
BEHOLD THE ORB, by abey sparks
12 track album
abeysparks.bandcamp.com
October 27, 2025 at 1:22 AM
New album release from our eldest (23) . . . who is a drummer. I've listened to it so much, I woke up at 3 a.m. hearing whole songs unspooling in my mind's ear (comforting: like the soft glow of a night light) . . . Free to sample here! #aotearoa #jazz #newzealand #wellington #dunedin
A piece commissioned a couple of months ago & just published. 📚📖 #pukapuka #aotearoa #fiction #poetry #Ireland #Ukraine www.thepost.co.nz/culture/3606...
The Post
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May 24, 2025 at 11:56 PM
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Sign the petition: Protect Pay Equity www.together.org.nz/fbt_for_pay_...
Protect Pay Equity – stop scrapping equal pay claims and law
Sign the petition: Protect Pay Equity
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May 7, 2025 at 7:13 PM
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I have a new essay/memoir piece, centering around a childhood friendship, up at North & South magazine.
I hope it finds the readers who need it. 💛🌟💛🌟
#pukapuka #memoir #aotearoa #creativenonfiction #nonfiction
northandsouth.co.nz/2025/04/23/s...
I hope it finds the readers who need it. 💛🌟💛🌟
#pukapuka #memoir #aotearoa #creativenonfiction #nonfiction
northandsouth.co.nz/2025/04/23/s...
April 24, 2025 at 12:00 AM
I have a new essay/memoir piece, centering around a childhood friendship, up at North & South magazine.
I hope it finds the readers who need it. 💛🌟💛🌟
#pukapuka #memoir #aotearoa #creativenonfiction #nonfiction
northandsouth.co.nz/2025/04/23/s...
I hope it finds the readers who need it. 💛🌟💛🌟
#pukapuka #memoir #aotearoa #creativenonfiction #nonfiction
northandsouth.co.nz/2025/04/23/s...
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The students of Waitākere College have started this petition for the reinstatement of the original school lunches programme. (You know, the locally-made, fresh, nutritious and tasty one that was delivered on time.) Please sign the petition and share this post. petitions.parliament.nz/f4fff921-4e5...
March 21, 2025 at 4:05 AM
The students of Waitākere College have started this petition for the reinstatement of the original school lunches programme. (You know, the locally-made, fresh, nutritious and tasty one that was delivered on time.) Please sign the petition and share this post. petitions.parliament.nz/f4fff921-4e5...
The current school lunch programme is effectively worsening poverty in Aotearoa. Please help stop the slop. Petition below.
#schoollunches #socialinvestment #education
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#schoollunches #socialinvestment #education
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Sign the Petition
Reinstate Healthy and Nutritious School Lunches
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March 20, 2025 at 7:13 PM
The current school lunch programme is effectively worsening poverty in Aotearoa. Please help stop the slop. Petition below.
#schoollunches #socialinvestment #education
chng.it/fyJCNQ5ndm
#schoollunches #socialinvestment #education
chng.it/fyJCNQ5ndm
Fantastic news for @louisewallace.bsky.social !! Very proud and delighted to see, and share, and shout about this news. Giddy with it! #pukapuka #Aotearoa #NZ #writers
The great news finally out: @louisewallace.bsky.social's amazing Ash, pubbed by @thwupbooks.bsky.social last year, is getting an OZ release courtesy of @allenandunwin.bsky.social! And, in breaking news, also a US one via @marinerbooks.bsky.social! www.booksandpublishing.com.au/articles/202...
A&U acquires Wallace debut novel ‘Ash’ | Books+Publishing
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March 18, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Fantastic news for @louisewallace.bsky.social !! Very proud and delighted to see, and share, and shout about this news. Giddy with it! #pukapuka #Aotearoa #NZ #writers
March 17, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Music, satire, primates, & even some fairy lights! #aotearoa #music #jazz #kidsthesedays youtu.be/4oGqYvweedI?...
Hazmat Monkey - Cosmic Trash
YouTube video by Hazmat Monkey
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December 16, 2024 at 9:27 PM
Music, satire, primates, & even some fairy lights! #aotearoa #music #jazz #kidsthesedays youtu.be/4oGqYvweedI?...
Let me read to you a little ...
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#poetry #pukapuka #aotearoa #authors #books #writers
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#poetry #pukapuka #aotearoa #authors #books #writers
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Poetry Shelf summer readings: Emma Neale
Over the summer months Poetry Shelf is hosting a series of readings from the incredible range of poetry collections published by mainstream and boutique presses in Aotearoa in 2024. It’s my P…
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December 13, 2024 at 7:24 PM
The Spinoff brings facts, joy, wisdom, comedy, and tbh I've donated to support these things but also in the hope it reconsiders its decision to cut The Friday Poem!!
If you're in a position to support The Spinoff financially, please do so
While publications like The Spinoff struggle, disinfo outlet Reality Check Radio remains well funded. The future is grim if real journalism declines and fake news is what remains
https://thespinoff.co.nz/open-letter-2024
While publications like The Spinoff struggle, disinfo outlet Reality Check Radio remains well funded. The future is grim if real journalism declines and fake news is what remains
https://thespinoff.co.nz/open-letter-2024
Open letter 2024 | The Spinoff
Open letter 2024
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November 27, 2024 at 8:37 PM
The Spinoff brings facts, joy, wisdom, comedy, and tbh I've donated to support these things but also in the hope it reconsiders its decision to cut The Friday Poem!!
A guy who calls a spade an instrument for support & betterment, even as he bludgeons us with it. May such weasel words flop. #nzpol
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ACT wielding 'disproportionate' influence in government - David Seymour
ACT's leader says his party has an outsized say in government, but the Prime Minister says he "wouldn't describe it that way".
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November 25, 2024 at 7:24 PM
A guy who calls a spade an instrument for support & betterment, even as he bludgeons us with it. May such weasel words flop. #nzpol
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My new book of poems, Liar, Liar, Lick, Spit is launching this Thursday. Published by Otago University Press. Gorgeous cover art by Laura Williams. Design by Fiona Moffat. Edited by Anna Hodge. #pukapuka #Aotearoa #poetry #otagounipress
November 11, 2024 at 1:49 AM
My new book of poems, Liar, Liar, Lick, Spit is launching this Thursday. Published by Otago University Press. Gorgeous cover art by Laura Williams. Design by Fiona Moffat. Edited by Anna Hodge. #pukapuka #Aotearoa #poetry #otagounipress
Janet Frame's 100th birthday celebrations continue all week! 🎂 This article raises several glasses to her writing and her steely determination. Thank you, Janet Frame, for your extraordinary example. 📚. #pukapuka #aotearoa #writers #JanetFrame #authors #fiction #poetry newsroom.co.nz/2024/08/28/j...
Janet, 100
A visit to Ōamaru to mark the centenary of Janet Frame, born August 28, 1924
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August 28, 2024 at 8:03 PM
Janet Frame's 100th birthday celebrations continue all week! 🎂 This article raises several glasses to her writing and her steely determination. Thank you, Janet Frame, for your extraordinary example. 📚. #pukapuka #aotearoa #writers #JanetFrame #authors #fiction #poetry newsroom.co.nz/2024/08/28/j...
Would a collective of halls be a haul? Attentive, lyrical, and memorable National Poetry Day to all who celebrate it!
It’s National Poetry Day in Aotearoa. Poetry will be heard in all the halls.
August 23, 2024 at 12:38 AM
Would a collective of halls be a haul? Attentive, lyrical, and memorable National Poetry Day to all who celebrate it!
The image illustrating this story is definitely worth a share! Photo by Ivan Rogers. Story first published by Fish Publishing and now online at Reading Room. #pukapuka #fiction #shortstories newsroom.co.nz/2024/08/03/s...
Short story: Hitch, by Emma Neale
A gothic masterpiece by the great Emma Neale
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August 6, 2024 at 7:59 PM
The image illustrating this story is definitely worth a share! Photo by Ivan Rogers. Story first published by Fish Publishing and now online at Reading Room. #pukapuka #fiction #shortstories newsroom.co.nz/2024/08/03/s...
Apopros of nothing other than the love of an Elizabeth Bishop poem (and the fact that it's winter here in the southern hemisphere):
June 24, 2024 at 4:14 AM
Apopros of nothing other than the love of an Elizabeth Bishop poem (and the fact that it's winter here in the southern hemisphere):
The @pacificraft.bsky.social couplets here are sharp as a tack, and witty to boot. Fist bump to Paula Green, curator!
May 17, 2024 at 4:11 AM
The @pacificraft.bsky.social couplets here are sharp as a tack, and witty to boot. Fist bump to Paula Green, curator!
'I particularly loved the subversive, honed one-liners he’d say sotto voce to me (and to many others, I’m sure) at book launches. They felt like notes passed from the most intelligent tearaway in the class: they often skewered hypocrisy, pomposity and blaggards.'
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‘sheer glitter ringing about’: Emma Neale remembers Vincent O’Sullivan
A tribute to one of the giants of New Zealand literature.
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April 30, 2024 at 7:44 PM
😡I guess for hospital visits soon you'll need to take your own linen, water bottle, pillow, food, torch, camp chair & any painkiller you can afford. & perhaps either rent a hospital gown, cut up your own nightgown, or agree to nude surgery, to save on laundry costs.
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Hospitals asked to save total of $105m by July
New Zealand's public hospitals have been given the target to save a total of $105 million by July this year.
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April 26, 2024 at 8:48 PM
😡I guess for hospital visits soon you'll need to take your own linen, water bottle, pillow, food, torch, camp chair & any painkiller you can afford. & perhaps either rent a hospital gown, cut up your own nightgown, or agree to nude surgery, to save on laundry costs.
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A strong, bite-sized novel, or a narrative in poetic struck-matches.
It reminds me of Janet Frame’s comment, that she thought of all her novels as experiments. Maybe genre-categories will turn to ash, too, in the hands of this short but punchy publication. #pukapuka #aotearoa
It reminds me of Janet Frame’s comment, that she thought of all her novels as experiments. Maybe genre-categories will turn to ash, too, in the hands of this short but punchy publication. #pukapuka #aotearoa
April 13, 2024 at 9:18 PM
An enjoyably dry short story that captures many of the little modern-life obstacles that add up to a weird soul tinnitus.
🇳🇿📚 Read ‘Heat Death of the Internet’ here:
Heat Death of the Internet - takahē
You want to order from a local restaurant, but you need to download a third-party delivery app, even though you plan to pick it up yourself. The prices and menu on the app are different to what you sa...
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April 12, 2024 at 8:52 PM
An enjoyably dry short story that captures many of the little modern-life obstacles that add up to a weird soul tinnitus.
Reposted by Emma Neale
We chatted with Gregory Bennett, whose story 'Heat Death of the Internet' was published in our 110th issue and struck a chord with readers, amassing over 1600 views in the first week!
www.takahe.org.nz/latest-news/
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April 12, 2024 at 5:21 AM
We chatted with Gregory Bennett, whose story 'Heat Death of the Internet' was published in our 110th issue and struck a chord with readers, amassing over 1600 views in the first week!
www.takahe.org.nz/latest-news/
www.takahe.org.nz/latest-news/