Launching Power to Win in Auckland and Manawatū
In August, Lyndy McIntyre went out on the road to launch her book Power to Win: The Living Wage Movement in Aotearoa New Zealand Auckland and Manawatū. The Auckland launch took place at...Continue reading→
Launching Forms of Freedom and Koe
In August 2024, we had two book launches for our new releases, Forms of Freedom: Marxist Essays in New Zealand and Australian Literature by Dougal McNeill and Koe: An Aotearoa ecopoetry anthology edited...Continue reading→
Geology’s fossil expert awarded Emeritus Professor
In recognition of her outstanding career as one of New Zealand’s most dedicated and passionate palaeontologists, Department of Geology’s Honorary Professor Daphne Lee has been awarded the title of Emeritus...Continue reading→
Launching Power to Win by Lyndy McIntyre
On Thursday 4 July, we launched Power to Win: The Living Wage Movement in Aotearoa New Zealand by Lyndy McIntyre at Unity Books Wellington. The shop was packed and we had fantastic speeches from...Continue reading→
Launching Echoes from Hawaiki
On Thursday 20 June, we launched Echoes from Hawaiki: The origins and development of Māori and Moriori musical instruments by Jennifer Cattermole. We were hosted by our good friends at the University Book Shop Otago, and it...Continue reading→
Origins of Māori and Moriori instruments explored
Passion and perseverance have paid off for Associate Professor Jennifer Cattermole as her book on Māori and Moriori instruments (taonga pūoro) is set to be launched this week, a decade after the project was...Continue reading→
Emma Hughes wins 2024 Landfall Young Writers’ Essay Competition
Emma Hughes has been announced as the 2024 Landfall Young Writers’ Essay Competition winner for her moving essay, ‘Fourteen Robyns’. ‘Fourteen Robyns’ is a narrative essay about visiting a Sexual Wellbeing...Continue reading→
Launching ‘Meantime’ by Majella Cullinane
On Thursday 23 May, we launched Meantime, the new collection by Ōtepoti poet Majella Cullinane. We had a wonderful evening celebrating at the University Book Shop here in Dunedin, joined by family and friends....Continue reading→
Launching Heart Stood Still by Miriam Sharland
We launched Heart Stood Still by Miriam Sharland on Thursday 9 May at the Palmerston North City Library with Bruce McKenzie Booksellers there to run a bookstall for us. A huge thank you to the team at...Continue reading→
Jo McNeice wins the 2023 Kathleen Grattan Poetry Award
Wellington-based poet Jo McNeice has been awarded this year’s Kathleen Grattan Poetry Award for her manuscript, Blue Hour. She receives a $10,000 prize and a year’s subscription to Landfall. Otago University Press...Continue reading→
Siobhan Harvey wins 2023 Landfall Essay Competition
Protection for queer communities and their rights lies at the heart of this year’s Landfall Essay Competition winning essay, “A Jigsaw of Broken Things” by Siobhan Harvey. Powerful and unflinching, Harvey uses...Continue reading→
Landfall and non/fictionLab announce collaboration for 2024
Otago University Press is excited to announce that Landfall and RMIT University’s non/fictionLab are coming together to commission a series of essays on the topic of ‘making space’. The essays will be...Continue reading→