I’m using conservative, euphemistic language to describe reproductive health out of concern for immigrant women

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Comparison: Frequency of years of birth for authors longlisted but not shortlisted for the fiction prize at the Ockhams

GOLDEN GENERATION? Does NZ need a Young Writers prize for under 50s or is everyone born after 1975 a flop? Authors shortlisted for the Ockham fiction prize by year of birth (data from the last ten years)

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entranced by this article that makes the nz literary scene sound like the writers are cage fighters and there’s a lot of scope for tipsters . . . many in the fiction world are tipping big things