Josie Shapiro
@josieshapiro.bsky.social
Novelist !!
My debut novel Everything is Beautiful and Everything Hurts
2024 Sargeson Fellow
My debut novel Everything is Beautiful and Everything Hurts
2024 Sargeson Fellow
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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.
Archive - Subtraction
Full archive of all the posts from Subtraction.
charlottewood.substack.com
November 19, 2024 at 12:41 AM
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.
Reposted by Josie Shapiro
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...
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...
shop.goodbookshop.nz
December 14, 2023 at 2:24 AM
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...
Reposted by Josie Shapiro
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-...
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.
thespinoff.co.nz
December 5, 2023 at 4:55 AM
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...
www.1news.co.nz/2023/11/13/f...
November 14, 2023 at 1:03 AM
Zeitgeist walking: here's an unplanned companion to my piece by @emilyp.bsky.social
www.1news.co.nz/2023/11/13/f...
www.1news.co.nz/2023/11/13/f...
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-...
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.
thespinoff.co.nz
November 12, 2023 at 1:37 AM
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-...
Reposted by Josie Shapiro
Incredible first session @verbfestival Wellington today, the awesome @josieshapiro.bsky.social in conversation with Tessa Duder. 💖💫🎉👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
November 10, 2023 at 8:16 AM
Incredible first session @verbfestival Wellington today, the awesome @josieshapiro.bsky.social in conversation with Tessa Duder. 💖💫🎉👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
Reposted by Josie Shapiro
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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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My World War I Poem
Inside each trench, the sound of prayer.
Inside each prayer, the sound of digging.
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November 10, 2023 at 5:43 PM
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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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My World War I Poem
Inside each trench, the sound of prayer.
Inside each prayer, the sound of digging.
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