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Stella at Volume Books gives us a sneak preview of It Gets in Your Blood, Marty Smith's book on horse racing culture that's being launched at the Hawke's Bay Racecourse next weekend, and Thomas recommends Kathryn Scanlan's Kick the Latch as a companion read

NEW BOOKS AND BOOK NEWSRead our 492nd newsletter! 31 July 2026mailchi.mp

Including a poignant poem by Kerrin P. Sharpe

Great to see books by Ingrid Horrocks and Nafanua Purcell Kersel shortlisted for the PANZ Book Design Awards 2026 - Black Sugarcane is shortlisted in three categories!

2026 ShortlistPANZ Book Design Awards 2026 Shortlist Click on cover images for more information Penguin Random House New Zealand Award for Best Illustrated Book   Award for Best Non-Illustrated Book   …www.bookdesignawards.co.nz

Heads up Māori writers - applications are now open for the 2027 Emerging Māori Writer in Residence hosted by the IIML — apply by 31 October 2026! (Picture shows 2026 EMWR, Terri Te Tau) www.wgtn.ac.nz/modernletter...

Emerging Māori Writer in Residence | Te Pūtahi Tuhi Auaha o Te Ao / International Institute of Modern Letters | Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of WellingtonApply for the Emerging Māori Writer in Residence—$15,000 stipend, mentorship, and writing space.www.wgtn.ac.nz

Our 2026 Emerging Pasifika Writer in Residence is Kasi Valu - Kasi will use the residency to develop a collection of poems, spoken-word pieces, and short stories with the working title Frangipani Thorns.

Kasi Valu named as 2026 Emerging Pasifika Writer in Residence | Te Pūtahi Tuhi Auaha o Te Ao / International Institute of Modern Letters | Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of WellingtonTe Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington’s International Institute of Modern Letters (IIML) is delighted to announce the appointment of Kasi Valu as the Emerging Pasifika Writer in Residence ...www.wgtn.ac.nz

Tomorrow night at Meow

‘With much of the content available online now exhausted — and increasingly polluted with poor-quality, AI-generated writing — AI labs are turning to uncorrupted texts published pre-2022’: the age of destructive scanning is upon us

AI labs buy, scan, shred millions of rare booksIf you have retreated to physical books because the internet is too full of AI slop, bad news — now they’re shredding the books to feed their AI slop machines.www.news.com.au

‘In effect, a generation of school leavers and graduates scarred by Covid and the worst jobs market in history for students, are being punished again by both the fiscal and monetary policies of the Government’ - Bernard Hickey

How NZ punishes our stressed & jobless youthJust as the RBNZ's rate hike deepens the scars of youth joblessness, the Govt will remove benefits of 4,700 jobless teenagers, including 1,885 with mental health issues & some being treated for canceropen.substack.com

Two recent novels taking place during the historic Hong Kong protests of 2019 and 2020.

An Echo, a Movement | Los Angeles Review of BooksTwo recent novels tackle the complex aftermath of the 2019–20 Hong Kong protests.lareviewofbooks.org

The Booker longlist is here - as judged by Jarvis Cocker, Patricia Lockwood, Raymond Antrobus, Mary Beard and Rebecca Liu

This Booker longlist may have two previous winners, but it’s keen to experimentMarlon James, Douglas Stuart and Elizabeth Strout may be names we know, but there’s a welcome element of absurdism and surrealist thought herewww.theguardian.com

Te Waka Taki Kōrero – Māori Literature Trust is hosting a webinar on navigating writers’ festivals ‘suited to mid-career/experienced Māori writers with at least two published titles and who are currently actively drafting a manuscript.’ Register here.

The poet Christopher Reid gave our MA students a terrific masterclass in 2009, the year his book The Song of Lunch was published.

With National Poetry Day less than a month away, check out the latest Ōrongohau | Best New Zealand Poems in preparation for our Writers on Mondays event (24 Aug) featuring Nick Ascroft, Tusiata Avia, Jenny Bornholdt, Kate Camp, Mauatua Fa'ara-Reynolds, Jackson McCarthy, and Chris Tse

Current Issue - ŌRONGOHAU | BEST NEW ZEALAND POEMSCilla McQueen introduces her selection of the best 25 poems by Aotearoa poets published in 2025, poems that are 'exceptionally well written, vivid and insightful'.www.bestnewzealandpoems.org.nz

‘People find it difficult to tell their psychiatrists the truth, or even themselves, let alone the public’ - required (terrifying, funny) reading for anyone writing a memoir.

‘My next book project excavates the intellectual terrain of my backyard, unearthing the deep-rooted ideologies of the intransigent local and surfacing fresh approaches to being-in-place to shed light on new ground. That is to say, it is about gardening.’ www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/my-...

My Next Book Project“My next book project is a trans-species manifesto-cum-collage assembled from excised first editions of Ernest Hemingway novels, decaying roadkill gathered o...www.mcsweeneys.net

‘Capitalism does not thrive in an apocalypse’

'O is the signature Manhire vowel (“eventually we all shall go / into the dark furniture of the radio”), and the way O can sound elation, exhalation, deflated recognition and dismissal - from O! to ohhh to oh - is as good a guide as any to what I love about what’s at work here'

Today!

The Galley Beggar Press Short Story Prize 2026/27 (ignore date on link card!) is open for entries: First Prize £3000, deadline 8 November

Prize — Galley Beggar Presswww.galleybeggar.co.uk

Good to see MA grads Amelia Reynolds and Marlon Moala-Knox continuing to work on their writing with the help of the NZSA manuscript assessors!