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POETRY

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Nominated for the Pushcart Prize by takahē, 2026.

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'1 Corinthians 14:25,' 'Businessman on a Neon scooter in the rain,' and 'Walruses falling off cliffs because of climate change (on David Attenborough’s Our Planet),' in Tarot #10, 2025.

 

'There is nothing more embarrassing than wanting something,' takahē 113, 2025.​

 

'The first woman to kill,' Starling Issue 19 2025.​​

 

'Water burial in Ōwheo,' 'While we sing the Nunc Dimittis, Russia carpet-bombs Ukraine,' and 'Show Me the Place by Leonard Cohen,' in Tarot #9, 2024.​

 

'More than what it might be.' Written for the NZYWF 'The Remix' event, September 2024​

 

'POV of a sheep being airlifted to a different field,' issue 11 Sweet Mammalian, 2024.

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​Taxidermy Falkland Islands Wolf in the Animal Attic’ and ‘Jenny Craig Weightloss Poster by Countdown Central’ written while on the NZYFW Starling Otago Museum residency 2022. In Tarot #4 June 2022.


‘Spider Night’ in takahē 2022.


‘I Cope With Things Very Well (Which is a Lie)’ in Starling Issue 14 2022.


‘Person Train’ and ‘A Sheep Cradled by its Owner, Who Sits on a Sheepskin Rug’ in Landfall 243, 2022.


‘Christmas is the season of love!’ ‘Chartreuse and viridian’ and ‘Egyptians in the Red Sea’ in Tarot #3.

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‘Nobody’ in Mayhem 2021, Issue 9.


‘Third of March’ in Landfall 242, 2021.


‘Inquisitor’ in a fine line, Winter 2021.


“March Hare’ and ‘Iscariot’ in Starling Issue 11, 2021.

PROSE

 

2026: 'The head girl' co-winner of the Promising Young Writer category in the Peter Wells Short Fiction Contest

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​​2026: 'Blood Moon' published in Landfall Tauraka 251

 

2025: '95 Million Years' published in 'Writer,' ed. Lisa Dick and Nicola Cummins.

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2023 Winner: Staff fiction, University of Otago Creative Writing Competition, '95 Million Years'

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2021 Page & Blackmore short story competition, 3rd, 'God of the Sea'

MISC

 

2026 WriteSpot discussing The Body and the Blood July 15

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2026 Kete Books feature for Landfall 251, 'Blood Moon'

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2025 Reading: Book launch for 'Writer,' reading '95 Million Years.'

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2024 Reading: NZYWF 'The Remix,' with Eliana Gray, Isla Huia (Te Āti Haunui a-Pāpārangi, Ngāti Uenuku), Molly Crighton and Tawhai Huriwai (Tough Guy) (Ngāti Porou, Ngā Puhi), and MC Tate Fountain

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2024 Reading: Small Press Fest for Staling mag, with Dominic Hoey, Liz Breslin, Ruby Appleby, Helena Mayer, and Ada Duffy

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2023 Reading: '95 Million Years'

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2022 Reading: 'I Cope With Things Very Well (Which is a Lie)'

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2022 NZYWF: In conversation with Louise Wallace & Erin Gourley

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