Landfall Tauraka 251
Landfall Tauraka is the country’s longest-running literary and arts journal and sits at the heart of literature in Aotearoa New Zealand. Bringing together voices and perspectives from established practitioners and emerging talents, Landfall Tauraka offers a vital snapshot of innovation and creativity in Aotearoa today.
Alongside the finest new writing, art and reviews from across the motu, Landfall Tauraka 251 announces the winner of the Landfall Tauraka Young Writers’ Essay Prize, an annual competition that encourages emerging writers to explore the world around them through words. This issue features the winning essay alongside the judge’s report from editor, Lynley Edmeades.
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.
‘In an age where we are channeled content via the overlords of the internet, picking up a print copy of Aotearoa’s Landfall Tauraka right now feels like an act of subversion. It’s a quiet act of participation against the dopamine delivering machines we clutch ... Somehow, nearly 80 years on from its inception – in today’s testy climate of eyeball harvesting –Landfall’s spring edition, edited by Lynley Edmeades (with a new name Landfall Tauraka) not only pulls this off, but it does so very well. It is dense. It is modern. It contains some of the best of Aotearoa’s new and not so new writers.’
Claris Harvey for Kete Books Read
Lynley Edmeades
Lynley Edmeades has an MA in Creative Writing from Queen’s University Belfast and a PhD in avant-garde literature from the University of Otago. Her previous books include As the Verb Tenses (OUP, 2016), Listening In (OUP, 2019) and Bordering on Miraculous, a collaboration with artist Saskia Leek (Massey University Press, 2022). She is the current editor of Landfall Tauraka and teaches English and creative writing at Ōtākou Whakaihu Waka.
More About Lynley Edmeades
Listening In 
As the Verb Tenses 
Hiding Places