Huge congrats to the #Ockham finalists!! 🎉
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Huge congrats to the #Ockham finalists!! 🎉
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Delighted and honoured to be longlisted for the Ockhams in poetry alongside many friends and some bitter rivals (kidding).
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Happy Pride, Aotearoa! 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
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Happy Pride, Aotearoa! 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
However you're celebrating, we’re sending aroha your way. Takahē Magazine is honoured to be a member of the Safe Space Alliance. We are committed to being a digital home where takatāpui and LGBTQIA++ whānau can express themselves freely and confidently.
Enjoy 'The Butcher of Whack-a-White', winner of the Monica Taylor Poetry Prize 2025, by Jilly O’Brien 💙💚
The insightful judge’s report by Janet Newman is also available online: www.takahe.org.nz/the-butcher-...
Enjoy 'The Butcher of Whack-a-White', winner of the Monica Taylor Poetry Prize 2025, by Jilly O’Brien 💙💚
The insightful judge’s report by Janet Newman is also available online: www.takahe.org.nz/the-butcher-...
Saraid de Silva is the inaugural recipient of the Kidman Writers Residency in London - congrats Saraid! - a lovely post-script to the London flat controversy of times gone by
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Very unexpected and welcome news!
QUT will become the new custodian of Meanjin, Australia's most eminent literary journal, bringing the publication back to Brisbane.
www.qut.edu.au/about/meanjin
New episode of SERVED WITH RICE now available, guest starring the wonderful @chrisjtse.bsky.social 🥰
Check it out on your fave podcast platform here: servedwithricepoddy.com/watch
Kia ora! We’re so glad to hear you’re enjoying takahē & hope you get to visit NZ one day 😊
A throwback to April 2014!
As we look forward to this year's April issue, we wanted to get nostalgic for takahē issue 81, which featured such a treasure-trove of artists and writers 💙
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And reviews of:
💙Life and Customs by Bernadette Hall
💙Kōkako 19 edited by Patricia Prime and Margaret Beverland
💙100 Tanka by 100 Poets of Australia and New Zealand edited by Amelia Fielden, Beverley George, and Patricia Prime
💙Christchurch Crimes and Scandals 1876-99 by Geoffrey W. Rice
💙With poetry by: Elizabeth Welsh, Anna Rugis, Nicola Thorstensen, Elizabeth Morton, Jan Vernon, Philip McKibbon, Maryrose Doull, Deidre Thorsen-Lavery, Reihana Robinson, Helen McKinlay, Audrey Cook, Pat White, Madeleine Slavick, Kieran Doody, Keith Nunes, David Taylor, Sandi Sartorelli, & Kim Fulton
💙takahē Cultural Studies Competition 2014 judge’s report by Cassandra Fusco and Brenda Allen
💙With fiction by: Joel Pearson, Tracey Slaughter, Shirley Eng, Karen Phillips, Eileen Merriman, David Hill, Marion Lucy, Rebecca Styles, Sean Monaghan, and Wix Hutton
💙Guest Fiction by Pip Adam
💙Guest Poetry by Aleksandra Lane
💙Essays by Ludmila Sakowski, Sue Wootton, John Ewen and Wendy Williamson
💙Art by Katie Gold, Talulah Belle Lautrec-Nunes, Kathryn Furniss, Marilyn Andrews, and Candy Clarke
A throwback to April 2014!
As we look forward to this year's April issue, we wanted to get nostalgic for takahē issue 81, which featured such a treasure-trove of artists and writers 💙
www.takahe.org.nz/product/taka...
Congratulations to the 2026 Ockham Longlist! 🎉🎉
Click through for reviews of every fiction and poetry book on the list 💚
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Congratulations to the 2026 Ockham Longlist! 🎉🎉
Click through for reviews of every fiction and poetry book on the list 💚
linktr.ee/takahemagazine
Big thanks to @clairemabey.bsky.social for asking me to do The Spinoff Books Confessional, out today 🥰
thespinoff.co.nz/books/28-01-...
Catch Samuel Te Kani’s art essay 'Tony Guo: The Sweet Unbearable' in the latest issue of takahē 🖤
www.takahe.org.nz/tony-guo-the...
Catch Samuel Te Kani’s art essay 'Tony Guo: The Sweet Unbearable' in the latest issue of takahē 🖤
www.takahe.org.nz/tony-guo-the...
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So well deserved, Melissa!
Thrilled to be nominated! Thank you so much 💞
There's more to celebrate! Massive congratulations to these nominees for The Best Small Fictions 2026 🎉
It was such a pleasure publishing these works over the past year 🖤
www.takahe.org.nz/nominations/
There's more to celebrate! Massive congratulations to these nominees for The Best Small Fictions 2026 🎉
It was such a pleasure publishing these works over the past year 🖤
www.takahe.org.nz/nominations/
‘Refugees in a new world’: The story of my grandparents’ escape from Yugoslavia
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