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Category: The Best Small Fictions

• Aotearoa Dunedin UNESCO City of Literature Flash Frontier Steele Roberts Aotearoa The Best Small Fictions then the wind came Whanau

  Toetoe

  I’m never sure about the limits of self-promotion. I ask myself every time I put something on social media: Is it relevant? Will people think I’m being a show off? Does anyone (outside of my beautiful whānau and friend circles) even look at it? Today, I decided I’ve got to…

  May 5, 2020
• Aotearoa creative writing Dunedin City of Literature events flash fiction indigenous Kamau Taurua/Quarantine Island Landfall multimedia Māori New Zealand New Zealand Literature poetry Queenstown Writers Festival reviews social issues Te Hau Kāika The Best Small Fictions then the wind came

  November…the month of surprises

  October was exceptionally difficult, with the ending of a relationship I had given myself fully to, health issues that resurfaced requiring serious management, and on top of that a tonne of preparation for the Te Hau Kāika exhibition. ‘Bring on freaking November,’ I said (in a surreptitious manner under my…

  November 28, 2019
• Anthology Aotearoa flash fiction Flash Frontier New Zealand Sonder Press The Best Small Fictions then the wind came

  Best Small Fictions 2019

  Last week I was also excited to announce that my story Toetoe had been nominated and selected for the prestigious The Best Small Fictions 2019 Anthology https://www.thesonderpress.com/bsf-selections-2019 Toetoe was published with Flash Frontier and subsequently in my collection then the wind came in 2018. Here’s the link to the original version…

  April 16, 2019