Landfall 239: Autumn 2020
The Friday Review
03/07/2020
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Reviews
Shape of the Heart by Kevin Ireland
The Friday Review
26/06/2020
‘There’s some kind of jigsaw lurking in the subconscious that has to be reeled up, brought to the surface.’ – Lloyd Jones
The room where it happened
Ockhams fiction judge Mark Broatch comes clean.
Ockham NZ Book Awards: Shocks and Stats
Lockdown Ockhams Shockers: Tom Moody investigates.
Writers’ Round Table | 2020
Rough guides, truest voices: the Ockhams 2020 Fiction Round Table.
The Interview: Vincent O’Sullivan
Vincent O'Sullivan on the drive to write, the contradictions of fiction, and the dangers of lingering in the poetry hot-house.
Listen, Memory
David Howard learns how to appear in Ulyanovsk, City of Literature.
Our Many Pasts: Historical Fiction
Thom Conroy asks: is historical fiction New Zealand’s defining genre?
Conversation/Kōrero: Tracey Slaughter and Sarah Strickley
Go dark or go home: Tracey Slaughter and Sarah Strickley dive deep.
The Interview – Fiona Kidman
Fiona Kidman in conversation with Kelly Ana Morey - July 2016
Fiona Kidman talks to Kelly Ana Morey about real life and other fictions.
‘I tend to live inside my characters for a long time when I’m thinking about a book.’
New releases
Landfall 239: Autumn 2020
Published by Otago University Press on June 15, 2020
You Have a Lot to Lose (memoir)
Published by Auckland University Press on June 18, 2020
Nothing to See (novel)
Published by Victoria University Press on June 11, 2020
One Minute Crying Time (memoir)
Published by Massey University Press on May 9, 2020
Every Now and Then I Have Another Child (poetry)
Published by Otago University Press on May 6, 2020
Funkhaus (poetry)
Published by Victoria University Press on May 14, 2020
The Reed Warbler (novel)
Published by Victoria University Press on May 14, 2020
'One of writing’s greatest magics is to allow us – to use Kiri Piahana-Wong’s phrase – to slide outside the trap of time.' - David Taylor