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This time of year can be especially tough for some whānau. If you're in a position to donate $20 for a night of safety at a women's refuge, that would be👍
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Gift A Safe Night - Women's Refuge
Gift a Safe Night and help a woman and her children escape family violence.
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December 21, 2023 at 8:16 AM
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“Imagining a new work always feels more like a haunting to me than an act of creation” — the brilliant @pipadam.bsky.social
Thanks to The Arts Desk for supporting me to write this on the sound of injustice. I write about how my interest in the jurisprudence of noise gave life to Audition
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First Person: novelist Pip Adam on the sound of injustice
I know it rattles me, so I try to prepare for it. But I am never fully prepared for the noise.
theartsdesk.com
December 20, 2023 at 8:43 AM
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My programme has a position for a Lecturer in Māori Literature and Creative Communication - it would be fantastic if this ad could be shared widely across academic and Ao/NZ bluesky #kikorangi www.wgtn.ac.nz/about/workin...
December 6, 2023 at 6:57 PM
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Our beautiful new issue is live!

Showcasing guest work by James Brown, Alice Tawhai, Michael Armstrong, Andrew Paul Wood, Cadence Chung, and Pita Mei, alongside book reviews, poetry and prose by some incredible new and established writers 💜

takahē 109 is free to read and share online, so enjoy!
takahē 109 - takahē
Editorial EssayPink Sugar - an ode to queer femininity: Cadence Chung ArtMichael Armstrong ComicAo Legends: Pita Mei Guest FictionPayment to the Ferryman: Alice Tawhai FictionA Dusty, Poorly-Lighted P...
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December 5, 2023 at 12:06 AM
Earlier this year I ran a Boosted Campaign and was humbled by everyone's generous support. Thanks to you all I've been able to book flights to Ōtepoti and will be at the Robert Lord Cottage in late 2024 for novel writing and car hire and research. THANK YOU ❤️
December 3, 2023 at 10:10 PM
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My chat with Shehan Karunatilaka at the Auckland Writers Fest is up here player.fm/series/auckl...
November 29, 2023 at 11:26 PM
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I've a new YA sci-fi fantasy book coming out next year which deals with colonisation and how it's good to fight oppression, but it's also good just to ignore it and carry on being indigenously wonderful.
Ngā mihi, bitches.
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November 28, 2023 at 3:07 AM
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Huge congratulations to Shelley Burne-Field on her appointment as the Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington and Creative NZ Emerging Māori Writer in Residence for 2024.

It's a special moment for us too, as we were the first publication to feature Shelley's work:
The grind of racism | E-Tangata
“Racism is wearisome. Literally tiring. It does not create a pearl after years of grinding. It creates sickness, fear, anxiety, sadness, resentment, and worry.” — Shelley Burne-Field.
e-tangata.co.nz
November 25, 2023 at 11:25 AM
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Tusiata Avia's got a substack! Also Nadine Anne Hura, delicious writers both
Tusiata Avia: Giving myself permission | E-Tangata
“Year after year, I wrote and performed and did the astonishing amount of admin it requires. And stayed broke. I perform at festivals and win awards and look fab in sparkling red dresses at the open...
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November 25, 2023 at 7:30 PM
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This new approach to covid is working really well. We have staff off with covid and just cancelled half our bookings for the week because other people also have covid. So glad it's finally over.
November 27, 2023 at 12:40 AM
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Please show up tomorrow - it’s one of the few things we can do right now
November 3, 2023 at 1:45 AM
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If you've not already signed, calling on our govt to demand a ceasefire, pls consider doing so now 🙏 (Also a ceasefire should be just the beginning: we must demand an end to an occupation that has violently dispossessed Palestinians of their land & lives for 75 yrs) www.change.org/p/call-the-n...
Sign the Petition
Our Petition is to call the New Zealand Government to advocate and call for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza where 4500+ innocent civilians have been killed of whom nearly 2000 are children. 75% of Gaza...
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October 27, 2023 at 9:12 AM
Deal news! So delighted at @shawliterary.bsky.social to announce that @pipadam.bsky.social's latest novel, the extraordinary 'Audition', has been acquired for publication in the US by Coffee House, and by Strange Light in Canada! Here's what the two publishers had to say:
October 24, 2023 at 6:27 PM
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"The New Animals is a strange, remorseless, powerful book, leaving the reader drained, angry, and frightened."

That's Joy Williams on Pip Adam's THE NEW ANIMALS . . .
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Review: Joy Williams on Pip Adam
Joy Williams finds a New Zealand writer, now published in the US for the first time, who hit her like a wind of hurricane force. Introducing Pip Adam.
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October 21, 2023 at 12:13 AM
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ICYMI
Between the Covers conversations with Palestinian novelists
Adania Shibli about Minor Detail: tinhouse.com/podcast/adan...
Isabella Hammad about Enter Ghost: tinhouse.com/podcast/isab...
Adania Shibli : Minor Detail - Tin House
The latest book by Palestinian novelist Adania Shibli, Minor Detail, was a finalist for the National Book Award for Translated Literature, and longlisted for the International Booker Prize. Shibli tal...
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October 8, 2023 at 1:04 AM
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Oh. Wow. Pinching self. TNA reviewed in The Believer. Don't tell 'ten years ago Pip' she'll implode. @thebooksdesk.bsky.social @dorothyproject.bsky.social
A Review of The New Animals - Believer Magazine
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October 13, 2023 at 2:13 AM
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If you are sick, bed ridden, agoraphobic, or just unable to get to a voting place you can still vote. Please read the details here. #Aotearoa #NewZealand
vote.nz/2023-general...
October 7, 2023 at 5:11 AM
Good way to start the day @pipadam.bsky.social @dorothyproject.bsky.social
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October 7, 2023 at 7:26 PM
Looking forward to this talk
October 7, 2023 at 5:59 AM
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Oh this is a special day: agent copies of @pipadam.bsky.social’s The New Animals from @dorothyproject.bsky.social arrive, the day before US release! Getting Pip’s miraculous books out into the wider world has been a little pet project of mine…so delighted!
October 2, 2023 at 1:10 PM
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USA Publication day for The New Animals. Celebrating by cutting some friends' hair tonight. So happy. Thank you @dorothyproject.bsky.social
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October 2, 2023 at 6:32 PM
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Heading to Hongoeka Marae to celebrate the launch of my darling's book PAKU MANU ARIKI WHAKATAKAPŌKAI with the whānau. Lots of events down here this weekend including Pātaka Museum tomorrow. Get a copy!
September 28, 2023 at 11:14 PM