Recent reading I recently finished listening to Barbara Trapido’s novel Sex and Stravinsky on my iPod and quickly followed this up with J...

Blue Friday I got up early this morning to go blue penguin spotting at Tarakena Bay. Turns out it's light already at 5.30am.  I...

Breton Dukes’ first book, Bird North (Victoria University Press) , is a collection of seventeen short stories. The blurb on the back cover...

Get with the programme I went to the launch of the 2012 New Zealand Arts Festival's programme last night at the Opera House here in We...

Checking In It’s been a bit quiet here ever since I lost my mind . I don’t think I’ll ever try to write 6,000 words on the one piece of ...

Background in yesterday's post . 8:20am : Wordcount: 1,247. Was at my desk at 6am. At this pace it'll take about ten hours to reac...

In Her Majesty's Service The Commonwealth Writers Prize has relaunched in its amended form, along with a new website, http://www....

Islands in this dream A thick package containing two copies of Griffith REVIEW 34  (the annual fiction issue, the theme of which is ...