Nicola Brown Nicola Brown

Before & After by Nicola Brown

A moving personal essay by Nicola Brown, commissioned by Ōtepoti Writers Lab. Contains description of sudden death, please proceed with care.

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Verb Wellington Verb Wellington

WHAI: A Q & A with writer Nicole Titihuia Hawkins

“One of my hopes for Whai is that it shares a message that we aren't ever just one thing. We are as expansive as Te Moana Nui a Kiwa and beyond.” Nicole Titihuia Hawkins. Read more for a Q & A with the author of the poetry collection, WHAI.

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Angela Trolove Angela Trolove

All Those For

The third commission from Ōtepoti Writers Lab is this stunning piece of creative non-fiction from Angela Trolove.

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Sam George-Allen Sam George-Allen

Flights

An essay by Sam George-Allen in response to the theme of Flight at Verb Readers & Writers Festival Gala Night 2021.

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Rebecca Támas Rebecca Támas

The Oracle at Delphi

An poem by Rebecca Támas in response to the theme of Flight at Verb Readers & Writers Festival Gala Night 2021.

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Trish Harris Trish Harris

FLIGHT

An essay by Trish Harris in response to the theme of Flight at Verb Readers & Writers Festival Gala Night 2021.

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Talia Marshall Talia Marshall

Blue. Mother. Orange. Go.

An essay by Talia Marshall in response to the theme of Flight at Verb Readers & Writers Festival Gala Night 2021.

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Lynn Davidson Lynn Davidson

Divorce, violence and violets

“I have been called a shrinking violet. But it’s not true. I love the beautiful, regretful, dangerous world. I like being out in it. It suits me.”
Lynn Davidson writes about being unmoored, but finding anchorage in memories, friends, help and nature.

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Murdoch Stephens Murdoch Stephens

On how to write too much

Find it hard to find the time to write? Author and publisher Murdoch Stephens ponders the predicament and evokes ‘excessive authors’ like Brannavan Gnanalingam, Maggie Nelson and Georges Simenon to help find some solutions.

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Alie Benge Alie Benge

Shitfight

Wellington writer Alie Benge recalls her time spent in the Australian Army. Originally published in Landfall.

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Lana Lopesi Lana Lopesi

Extend and Snap: by Lana Lopesi

Lana Lopesi reflects on ten years of art writing and criticism in the latest in the Verb and City Gallery Wellington series ‘Art History is a Mother’.

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