Welcome to the Aotearoa Literary Hub

Each month we feature the work of a NZ or Pasifika writer through the lens of shared reading.

 

Te Ara-Ripeka Rangihuna

Tēnā koutou katoa,Ko Te Ara-Ripeka Rangihuna ahau, he Ngāti Porou, he Ngāti Kahungunu, he Ngāti Tūwharetoa.I am a Māmā of two with a passion for

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Dominic Hoey

Dominic Hoey is a poet, author and playwright based in Auckland, New Zealand. His debut novel Iceland was a New Zealand bestseller, long-listed for the

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Moata McNamara

Ngāpuhi, Te Mahurehure After what she describes as “too long” in Academia, Moata has come late to writing a series of hybrid works, published in

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Monica Macansantos

Monica Macansantos is the author of the story collection, Love and Other Rituals (Grattan Street Press, 2022), and the forthcoming memoir-in-essays, Returning to My Father’s Kitchen (Northwestern University Press,

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Lucia Ablett

Lucia is a creative writer in all genres including rap, poetry, screenplays. I had a very multicultural upbringing and from this developed a passion for

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Steph Matuku

Steph Matuku (Ngāti Mutunga, Ngāti Tama, Te Atiawa) writes stories for the page, stage and screen. She has generously shared her short story for adults

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Helen McNeil

Twenty-five years as a psychologist has lent Helen McNeil’s writing both insight and compassion. She writes about ordinary people dealing with deep questions: Where is

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J.C. Sturm

We are proud to collaborate this month with our friends at Artspace Aotearoa to present the work of Jacquie (J.C.) Sturm. We will be reading

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Rough Lives Speak

We are spoilt with 6 poets this summer from the Street Poets & Artists Collective Enterprises (SPACE)So we are giving you 3 whole months to

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Daren Kamali 

Daren Kamali (Fijian, Uvean, Futunan, Samoan and Scottish) is a busy man who has just got home from touring Aotearoa with Mad Doggerel Cabaret so

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Rosetta Allan

Meet our September Author: Rosetta Allan When: Wednesday 28 September, 7.00 – 8.00pm (TBC) Where: Online – click the Zoom link below. Join Zoom Join

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Brannavan Gnanalingam 

Meet our August Author: Brannavan Gnanalingam When: Wednesday 31 August, 7.00 – 8.00pm (TBC) Where: Online – click the Zoom link below. Join Zoom Join

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