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'...a sophisticated and multivalent voice, at once wise and vulnerable on its theses of otherness, gender, intimacy, grief and distance.'

Dani Yourukova reviews Dear Alter, by Jiaqiao Liu (AUP 2025).

www.takahe.org.nz/dear-alter/

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takahē magazine @takahemagazine.bsky.social · 6d

'...a sophisticated and multivalent voice, at once wise and vulnerable on its theses of otherness, gender, intimacy, grief and distance.'

Dani Yourukova reviews Dear Alter, by Jiaqiao Liu (AUP 2025).

www.takahe.org.nz/dear-alter/

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takahē magazine @takahemagazine.bsky.social · 10d

Closing tomorrow! The Monica Taylor Poetry Prize 2025 💫

If you have any barriers to sending your entry, please message us or use the contact form to get in touch ❤️

www.takahe.org.nz/submit/

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takahē magazine @takahemagazine.bsky.social · 10d

Closing tomorrow! The Monica Taylor Poetry Prize 2025 💫

If you have any barriers to sending your entry, please message us or use the contact form to get in touch ❤️

www.takahe.org.nz/submit/

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Pitt Rivers Museum @pittriversmuseum.bsky.social · 12d

Maori scholar, Makereti Papakura writing at her desk c.1910. The room is decorated with a mix of Maori & European mementoes whilst the rafters are painted with traditional kowhaiwhai patterns. Makereti will be awarded a posthumous degree in Oxford tomorrow, almost a century after she died in 1930.

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Bill Manhire @pacificraft.bsky.social · Nov 8

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Gaza

The dead boy tries to open his eyes.
He wants to see the world he is leaving.
But there is nothing to see here,
nothing and nothing, and anyway he is gone.
His parents held him while he died
but they are both dead, too.
Or he held them, no one remembers.

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takahē magazine @takahemagazine.bsky.social · 14d

Last call for entries! The Monica Taylor Poetry Prize closes at the end of September, so don't miss your chance to be part of this beloved competition.

💚$300 first prize + publication in the December issue of takahē
💚$150 runner up

www.takahe.org.nz/submit/

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takahē magazine @takahemagazine.bsky.social · 14d

Every entry will be read blind by this year's excellent judge, Janet Newman. Entries accepted in English or Te Reo Māori with English translation.

Closes 30th September 2025 at 11:59pm.

Please get in touch if you have any barriers to accessing the entry form. We're here to help ❤️

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takahē magazine @takahemagazine.bsky.social · 14d

Last call for entries! The Monica Taylor Poetry Prize closes at the end of September, so don't miss your chance to be part of this beloved competition.

💚$300 first prize + publication in the December issue of takahē
💚$150 runner up

www.takahe.org.nz/submit/

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Monarch Queer Literary Awards @monarch.gay · Aug 1

Hello, friends! We're Monarch Queer Literary Awards, a project of @fifthwheelpress.bsky.social. Monarch is a new anthology recognizing the best new queer writing and art published by literary magazines and independent presses. 🦋

Submissions open September 1. Until then, get to know us: monarch.gay

Hi, we’re Monarch. Monarch Queer Literary Awards is a new anthology recognizing the best new queer writing and art published by literary magazines and independent presses. We aim to uplift the groundbreaking and often under-celebrated poems, short stories, essays, and artwork that are published in magazines, chapbooks, zines, and other collections.

More about Monarch. We want to celebrate excellence in all regards: great writing and great community stewardship. While submissions from both emerging and established publications will (of course) be given equal consideration, we really hope to see some of our longstanding community members come out and join us in the revelry of it all!

Submit to Monarch. We will accept submissions from September 1 through November 30, 2025. Submissions must come from the editor or editors of the publication. Journals and independent presses are eligible. The work must have been initially published between July 1, 2024 and June 30, 2025, either online or in print.

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Martin Shaw @thebooksdesk.bsky.social · 16d

Late to this from @greenj.bsky.social , but: exactly...

"What a shitty waste, and what a tragic confirmation of the Meanjin project’s occasional subtext: that culturally we are inclined to cringe."

greenworlds.substack.com/p/the-death-...

The Death of Meanjin

Price of everything, value of nothing dept.

greenworlds.substack.com

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takahē magazine @takahemagazine.bsky.social · 18d

'As modern Māori, what do our stories and journeys look like?’

The brilliant Melissa Oliver reviews Overseas Experience by Nicola Andrews (Āporo Press, 2025) 💛🩵🩶

www.takahe.org.nz/overseas-exp...

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takahē magazine @takahemagazine.bsky.social · 18d

'As modern Māori, what do our stories and journeys look like?’

The brilliant Melissa Oliver reviews Overseas Experience by Nicola Andrews (Āporo Press, 2025) 💛🩵🩶

www.takahe.org.nz/overseas-exp...

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Paula Green @paulajoygreen.bsky.social · 22d

Took me several days to read and reply to all the young poets - but what a special poem challenge. I think I loved reading these as much as the tamariki loved writing them
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Poetry Box September challenge: Celebrating te reo Māori

What an astonishing arrival of poems celebrating te reo Māori over the past few weeks. I have loved reading your poems so much – they have filled me with warmth, waiata, light, story, aroha. …

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takahē magazine @takahemagazine.bsky.social · 23d

Send us free general submissions and enter the Monica Taylor Poetry Prize here: takahemagazine.submittable.com/submit

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takahē Magazine Submission Manager

takahemagazine.submittable.com

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takahē magazine @takahemagazine.bsky.social · 23d

We're celebrating 50 years of Te Wiki o te Reo Māori!

Did you know takahē publishes short fiction & poetry in Te Reo Māori with English translation?

You can also enter the Monica Taylor Poetry Prize with a poem in Te Reo with English translation. It closes at the end of this month, so kia tere!

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takahē magazine @takahemagazine.bsky.social · 25d

"Joss is a magnificent linguistic brocade that weaves together lines from museum labels, gravestone markers, diaries, news clippings, films, ancient Chinese poetry, various novels, history books, and interviews."

❤️Cybonn Ang reviews 'Joss: A History' by Grace Yee.

www.takahe.org.nz/joss-a-histo...

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