Landfall Tauraka 252
Landfall Tauraka is the country’s longest-running literary and arts journal and sits at the heart of literature in Aotearoa New Zealand. Published twice a year, each volume features two full-colour art portfolios and a rich selection of new fiction, poetry, cultural commentary, reviews and essays. Bringing together voices and perspectives from established practitioners and emerging talents, Landfall Tauraka offers a vital snapshot of innovation and creativity in Aotearoa today.
Landfall Tauraka 252 continues the journal’s tradition of publishing outstanding new writing and art from across the motu, and in addition announces the winner of the Landfall Tauraka Essay Prize 2026.
Founded in 1947, Landfall Tauraka has been in continuous publication for nearly 80 years. In that time, it has become a living taonga: a record of creative and critical expression in Aotearoa and a platform for an extraordinary range of voices. More than 2500 contributors have appeared in its pages, together producing almost 9000 pieces of work.
Lynley Edmeades
Lynley Edmeades is the author of the creative non-fiction book Hiding Places (Otago University Press 2025); two poetry collections, As the Verb Tenses (Otago University Press, 2016) and Listening In (Otago University Press, 2019); and a poetry and art picture book for adults, Bordering on Miraculous (Massey University Press, 2022), in collaboration with Saskia Leek. She currently teaches poetry and creative writing on the English programme at the University of Otago. She is the current editor of Landfall Tauraka and teaches English and creative writing at Ōtākou Whakaihu Waka.
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David Eggleton
David Eggleton (Rotuman Fijian/Tongan/Pākehā) has published ten previous poetry collections. He is a six-time winner of the Montana Reviewer of the Year, and a former Robert Burns Fellow at the University of Otago. He received the Prime Minister’s Award for Literary Achievement in poetry in 2016, the same year that The Conch Trumpet won the Poetry Award at the 2016 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards. From 2009–17, Eggleton was editor of Landfall. He received the 2018 Fulbright-Creative New Zealand Pacific Writers’ Residency and served as the New Zealand Poet Laureate 2019–22.
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Landfall Tauraka 251 
Listening In 
As the Verb Tenses 
Hiding Places