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2 years

We at @thwupbooks want to extend our unconditional love and solidarity to essa may ranapiri and all takatāpui and nonbinary people. Poetry reviewer Nicholas Reid’s attack on essa is vile and unacceptable, and we won’t be sending him our books to review anymore.

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2 years

@theockhams Congratulations to The Best First book of Fiction! Our Rebecca K Reilly!!

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10 months

Tusiata Avia, author of Ockham-award-winning The Savage Coloniser Book, returns with BIG FAT BROWN BITCH. These are poems of defiance, confrontation, consolation, satire, sorrow and fury. Available 9 November, pre-order now, $30

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Te Herenga Waka University Press is New Zealand's leading publisher of new fiction and poetry, and a scholarly publisher specialising in NZ history, biography and essays.

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5 years

We are delighted to announce THE ABSOLUTE BOOK by Elizabeth Knox will be published in September. Epic fantasy, intimate in tone. It's a stunning read w a stunning cover by Catherine Nelson. @ElizabethKnoxNZ

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2 years

Exciting news! On 1 January 2022, Victoria University Press will become Te Herenga Waka University Press. You can read more about our name change on our blog.

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5 years

Tayi!!! Winner best first book for Poūkahangatus.

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We’re so sad about the loss of Vincent O’Sullivan, a true luminary in NZ literature, and a friend. Vincent was a delight to work with – it was always an event when a new Vincent manuscript arrived – and we’re grateful to have had the chance to engage with such a brilliant mind.

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1 year

The winner of the 2023 Mary and Peter Biggs Award for Poetry…. Alice Te Punga Somerville!! #theockhams

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5 months

Huge congratulations to Tracey Slaughter, who has won the £10,000 Manchester Poetry Prize! Her poems were praised for their 'forceful, luminous brilliance' – absolutely right. We are delighted to be publishing her stunning new poetry collection next year.🤩

Slaughter and Yee win Manchester Writing Competition prizes

Tracey Slaughter and April Yee have won the 2023 Manchester Writing Competition for unpublished writing.

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4 years

17. Publishers are stubborn. They keep publishing even when there's pandemics & no one can buy them. They continue w this arcane art because books make life better. A good book is company, a touchstone to other ways of thinking, other worlds. Here's to our fellow makers of books.

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4 years

We are delighted to announce this brilliant new novel by @PipAdam - being published in June. Cover art by Russell Kleyn.

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5 years

Ashleigh Young @ashleigh_young is going to get ready..she's just..wait a minute... NOW! New book out in MAY!! w cover by the brilliant Sam Duckor-Jones.

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4 years

We made a book! It's a free book as a gift to you all. It's got stories and poems by 42 of our writers. Free! For you! Get it here

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4 years

The next, also in Feb, is Head Girl, the debut poetry collection by the ‘absolute best’ @FreyaDalySad !

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2 years

The brilliant novel A MISTAKE by our own @CarlShuker is going to be a movie directed by Christine Jeffs and starring Elizabeth Banks!! 🤩🤩🤩

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3 years

Writers! We are calling for expressions of interest in a new VUP anthology about animals edited by Arini Loader and Ashleigh Young. More information here: (pls retweet!)

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7 years

Congratulations to Hera @HeraLindsayBird - recipient of a New Generation Award from the @_ArtsFoundation !

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3 years

MARY AND PETER BIGGS AWARD FOR POETRY. Congratulations to Tusiata Avia!! #savage #theockhams #awf21 #AKLWritersFest

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1 year

Olive! Winner of the 2022 Adam Foundation Prize! 💕

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4 years

1. It's Ockhams Day! Usually the VUP team would be assembled at Wellington airport by the holy bagels stand getting coffee for the flights - not one Koru membership between us. Fergus would be wearing some sort of subtweet teeshirt and sunglasses....

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6 years

Pip!!! Wins the big book prize!!!! Acorn Foundation Prize for fiction #theockhams

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5 years

What a gorgeous photo from the the PM awards! Tayi, Hannah, Jacinda, Ashleigh. Nice!

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5 years

We're excited to announce that we'll publish Rose Lu's debut book, an essay collection, All Who Live on Islands in November! Cover by the multi-talented Sharon Lam. @plainricedinner

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4 years

Congratulations to our shortlisted authors Carl Shuker, Ashleigh Young, Steven Toussaint, Shayne Carter & Sarah Gaitanos for their Ockham Book Award nods. And to our hard working editors, Ashleigh Young, Jasmine Sargent & Kyleigh Hodgson who help bring these books to publication.

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4 years

The NZ Listener also supported our books and writers over the years with many reviews and stories... such a loss.

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5 months

“It’s completely ironic and hilarious that it is the ‘Prime Minister’s’ award . . .' Tusiata Avia! We're so delighted to see this recognition.🌟

The most exciting Prime Minister’s Award list in years

The three recipients of Aotearoa's biggest literary prizes have just been announced.

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2 years

We are very excited to announce the first book by Kōtuku Titihuia Nuttall, coming in November!

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6 months

Congratulations to our six THWUP books for making the Listener's Best Books of 2023!!

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5 years

Super congratulations to @ashleigh_young who is on the shortlist for the Rathbones Folio Prize for Can You Tolerate This? !!

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5 years

Here it is, the 2019 #RathbonesFolioPrize shortlist! Congratulations to everyone who has made it to our final 8, the winner will be announced on Monday 20th May #WritersPrize

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1 year

What a voice. We are lucky to have her. Tusiata Avia forever. ❤️

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5 years

"what my time at Ihumātao confirmed for me is that no one is winning unless everyone is winning." Fantastic essay by Tayi Tibble on Ihumātao. @paniaofthekeef

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11 months

Happy publication day, Alison Green, @kaupapamaori , and all of the contributors to this new, essential work, HONOURING OUR ANCESTORS. Cover by Kahutoi Te Kanawa.

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1 year

The winner of the 2023 Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize for Fiction…. Our Catherine Chidgey!!! @CathChidgey #theockhams

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5 years

We're excited to announce that SPORT 47 will be guest-edited by Tayi Tibble @tayitibble You have one month to send your most brilliant work to Victoria-Press @vuw .ac.nz - submissions close June 1.

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5 years

We are very happy to announce this VUP x TAYI TIBBLE fashion collaboration described by @paniaofthekeef as THE PUKAPUKA of the HOT GIRL SUMMER!!!! 🔥 🌺💋😈 SPORT 47!!!! ⚽️⚽️⚽️

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3 years

We are over the moon & extremely proud of our publicist, Kirsten McDougall @cursesmcd , who won this year’s Sunday-Star Short Story Competition with her fantastic story ‘Walking Day’. (Ashleigh is writing this tweet because Kirsten is too embarrassed.) 🥳

2020 Sunday Star-Times short story open category winner: Walking Day

Kirsten McDougall's story Walking Day took top honours in the prestigious competition, along with the $5000 prize.

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5 years

We are super excited to say that we're publishing essa may ranapiri's debut poetry collection RANSACK in July. The cover features this fantastic piece of exploding art also by the multi-talented poet @ired0mi

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6 years

It’s only @ashleigh_young in the @NewYorker !!! #canyoutoleratethis ?

What We’re Reading This Summer

The heartbreaking tracing of a family history; an engrossing novel set in a women’s prison; an elaborate time-travel thriller; a folk singer’s tender memoir; and more.

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4 years

We're delighted at this news for Elizabeth Knox - an honorary doctorate!

Read NZ Te Pou Muramura

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4 years

Congratulations to wonderful @ElizabethKnoxNZ , who will be awarded an honorary doctorate from @VicUniWgtn in September #nzbooks

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6 years

The Luminaries TV series is happening!

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4 years

The first, coming in February next year, is the debut novel from the fab @eamonnmarra - 2000ft Above Worry Level

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6 years

Congratulations Bill Manhire, Icon.

He's an Icon - 'just like Buzzy Bee'

He's being recognised as one of New Zealand's top artists but poet Bill Manhire was feeling a little bit of "imposter syndrome".

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6 years

This is an incredibly moving interview between Chessie Henry and her father Chris about his triage work at Latimer Sq & CTV building on 22/2/11. Thanks to ⁦ @TheSpinoffTV ⁩ for excerpting and ⁦ @chessiehenry ⁩ for writing. The book’s out now.

The Monday Excerpt: February 22, 2011. Christchurch

In this powerful extract from her new book, Chessie Henry interviews her father – a Kaikōura doctor who was caught up in the terrible drama of the Christchurch earthquakes.

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3 years

Beautiful advance copy of THE GOSDEN YEARS.

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1 year

Nafanua! Winner of the 2022 Biggs Poetry Prize 🌺

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2 years

We're excited to announce the unforgettable PEOPLE PERSON by Joanna Cho. October!

People Person

Te Herenga Waka University Press is New Zealand's leading publisher of new fiction and poetry, and a scholarly publisher specialising in NZ history, biography and essays.

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4 years

Congratulations to three VUP writers given honours yesterday - Elizabeth Knox, CNZM, Tusiata Avia, MNZM and Brian Turner ONZM.

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5 years

Fifteen Million Years in Antarctica by Rebecca Priestley is out in September! This gorgeous book is a deeply personal tour of her obsession with the wide white continent. Cover by Keely O'Shannessey. @RKPriestley

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5 years

Mary & Peter Biggs Prize for poetry goes to Helen Heath for Are Friends Electric?

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4 years

Just a note to all the lovely people ordering The Absolute Book from our website. Thanks! We’ve been swamped, and it’s slowed down our supply times, but we’re working to get the books to you as soon as we can. We really appreciate all your interest in this fab book.

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1 year

The winner of the best first book of fiction…. OUR ANTHONY LAPWOOD!!!! @antzlapwood #theockhams 🐴 💪🏽

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4 years

This free form sculpture brought to you by all the copies of The Absolute Book we’ve sent out recently, and a couple of new arrivals.

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5 months

'A love letter to us so-called "plastic" Māori, to us queer Māori, to us still searching for their place Māori, a love letter to the powerful kuia who make us who we are' —essa may ranapiri PLASTIC by Stacey Teague coming 14 March 24!

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6 years

It's not every year you get to announce the publication of a Maurice Gee memoir... but this year is the year! MEMORY PIECES - out in October.

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4 years

We are delighted to announce our forthcoming anthology Monsters in the Garden: An Anthology of Aotearoa New Zealand Science Fiction and Fantasy. Be afraid, be very afraid (especially if you’re a sheep).

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1 year

Incoming! SAGA by Hannah Mettner. It's 'funny and clever and lusty' (Morgan Bach), it 'haunts like a mother's perfume' (Rebecca Hawkes)

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3 years

We're thrilled to announce a new book by John Summers, coming in July – THE COMMERCIAL HOTEL. This book is dazzlingly, infuriatingly good. Contains eels, Elvis, the night train, the Bermuda triangle, the Wairarapa... @johnhsummers

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5 years

We are delighted to announce that we're publishing Jane Arthur's debut poetry collection CRAVEN in September. Gorgeous cover by @kostheory @JaneyArthur

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5 years

At the launch of The Absolute Book by @ElizabethKnoxNZ ✨

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8 years

Ashleigh Young opens a box full of her new book Can You Tolerate This? Out in August.

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5 years

"Some of the poems to me are like carvings.... In absence of writing in the Māori reo this messing with form is my attempt to access a decolonised tongue." @paniaofthekeef interviews @ired0mi on their new book 'ransack' which launches tomorrow!

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2 years

We are delighted to announce the publication of essa may ranapiri's ECHIDNA, out in May! @ired0mi

Echidna

Te Herenga Waka University Press is New Zealand's leading publisher of new fiction and poetry, and a scholarly publisher specialising in NZ history, biography and essays.

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5 years

VUP is almost on leave. We reopen on January 7th. Enjoy good books this summer people, wear sunblock and be kind. Thanks for reading our books this year and supporting our writers, from Kirsten, Fergus, Ashleigh, Craig and Kyleigh.

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7 years

By James Brown in Floods Another Chamber #NationalPoetryDay

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3 years

JANN MEDLICOTT ACORN PRIZE FOR FICTION! Congratulations to Airini Beautrais!!! #theockhams #awf21 #AKLWritersFest

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1 year

Huge Congratulations to our @johnhsummers who is the recipient of the 2022 Janet Frame prize for imaginative prose worth $7000! Well done John so deserved 🤩

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2 years

@theockhams Congratulations to the winner of the Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize for Fiction, @WHereaka !

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5 years

We are super thrilled that Scribe UK and Australia are publishign Annaleese Jochems's brilliant first book BABY!

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5 years

A thrilling tale of obsession and escape by one of the most exciting new voices in New Zealand fiction #sneakpeek #Baby #AnnaleeseJochems #Marchbook

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6 years

Best first book award for poetry goes to Hannah Mettner for Fully Clothed and So Forgetful .... Go Hannah!!!! #theockhams

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7 months

Rebecca Priestley reading from END TIMES. Her daughter Pippi’s review of the book: ‘Too much weed and swearing’

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3 years

Loving this as a set. Covers by Sarah Wilkins.

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3 years

Middle Distance - a new anthology for long short stories, to be published by VUP, opens for submissions on January 11 next year.

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3 years

Tayi Tibble's launch @unitybookswgtn tonight, 6pm! All welcome. RANGIKURA is a terrific book, Tayi is on fire.

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4 years

Advance copy! Out in November. @pacificraft

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5 years

We're having extra cream in the 10am coffee today.... congratulations to all 12 VUP authors on the longlist for @theockhams

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1 year

The winner of the best first book of non-fiction… Noelle McCarthy! #theockhams

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5 years

'I like how a person changes when they’re in the presence of an animal, because there is nothing worse than being rejected by one.' —Ashleigh Young Q&A is on our blog now.

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7 years

The big fiction prize at #theockhams for $50k goes to Catherine Chidgey!!!

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7 years

This today, bc it's not every day your editor wins USD$165k.

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6 years

Pip’s on the telly! #theockhams

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1 year

Hot off the press! @EmmaHislop2 Out April 23 🔥

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10 months

This was great! Jenny Bornholdt and Frances Samuel talking poems, gardens, Joan Didion, moa and their parasites, new books…. with Jane Arthur at @GoodBookshopNZ

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3 years

Very excited to announce this new Tracey Slaughter story collection DEVIL'S TRUMPET - out in April!

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6 years

In October we are publishing a new novel by Anne Kennedy! THE ICE SHELF. Fab cover by Ant Sang.

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2 years

Congratulations to Rebecca K Reilly for winning the Aotearoa Booksellers' Choice Award with Greta & Valdin! And congratulations to all the booksellers for this excellent choice :)

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2 years

An award close to our hearts, the Aotearoa Booksellers’ Choice Award goes to Greta and Valdin by @rebeccakreilly , published by @thwupbooks .

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@theockhams Congratulations to the best first book of general non fiction, to our Dave Lowe!

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5 years

Happy publication day to these 4 beasties!!! ⁦

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2 years

Thrilling news about the masterpiece GRETA & VALDIN 🤩

Amy Guay

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thrilled that i will have a hand in ushering GRETA AND VALDIN into this part of the world! @rebeccakreilly 's voice is inimitably irrepressible, and her debut is fresh, hilarious, and alive. i can't wait for us to debate which line best captures being gay and young come 2024!

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“We are born with a way of viewing the world that is beautiful and poetic. Trust in that and recognise our legacy of coming from a people who are artists and creative."🌟Tayi in the Post this morning 💛

Poet's 'dream placement' as first wahine Māori in The New Yorker

Pōneke poet Tayi Tibble is only the fourth New Zealander to be published in the illustrious magazine.

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5 years

Dead People I Have Known by the legendary Shayne Carter will be published by VUP in May this year. Here's what it looks like:

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2 years

Birnam Wood is on the move...

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6 years

We had the best visitor today. It's writing a murder mystery called MOUSE.

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6 years

We are delighted to announce we're publishing ARE FRIENDS ELECTRIC? by @Helen__Heath in June! Fantastic cover by Kerry Ann Lee.

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4 years

We're delighted to announce that we'll be publishing Chloe Lane's debut novel THE SWIMMERS in August this year.

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3 years

We are hiring! Please apply or retweet or send a link to your editor friend.

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4 months

😍Advance copies of @staceteague 's first poetry collection, PLASTIC, are in the house. Out in March!

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4 years

A new September title - Airini Beautrais's first collection of stories, BUG WEEK. You can read about it here. Cover by Philip Kelly. @AiriniBeautrais

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7 months

It is baby’s (Ashleigh’s) first Frankfurt Book Fair and the main thing to know is that it is mind-bendingly gigantic

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5 years

On Thursday Ashleigh Young's 2nd book of poetry HOW I GET READY goes on sale. It is stupendously good. It has ghost bears, a fallen horse (it lives), eels & turkeys in it. It has humour that makes you cry and sadness that makes you laugh. @ashleigh_young

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