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→
Launching Tung by Robyn Maree Pickens
We launched Robyn Maree Pickens’ wonderful debut poetry collection, Tung, in Dunedin at the University Book Shop on 16 August. We had some great kai from The Tart Tin and...Continue reading→
Launching At the Point of Seeing
On the evening of the winter solstice, Thursday 22nd June, we came together to celebrate the release of Megan Kitching’s debut poetry collection, At the Point of Seeing. We had a...Continue reading→
Xiaole Zhan wins 2023 Landfall Young Writers’ Essay Competition
Xiaole Zhan has been announced the winner of the 2023 Charles Brasch Young Writers’ Essay Competition with their vivid, lyrical essay, ‘Muscle Memory’. Currently living in Melbourne, Xiaole is studying...Continue reading→
Launching Katherine Mansfield’s Europe
On May 2, we launched Katherine Mansfield’s Europe: Station to Station by Redmer Yska at the National Library in Wellington. The book was launched for us by the wonderful Fiona Kidman....Continue reading→
Launching Deep Colour by Diana Bridge
We celebrated the release of Deep Colour by Diana Bridge in Wellington at Unity Books on 20 April. It was a brilliant night of poetry, with a fantastic launch speech from fellow...Continue reading→
Launching Respirator: A Poet Laureate Collection 2019–2022 by David Eggleton
On Wednesday 29 March, we launched David Eggleton’s Poet Laureate Collection, Respirator: A Poet Laureate Collection 2019–2022, at Dunedin’s fantastic University Book Shop. It was great to see a crowd...Continue reading→
Launching Histories of Hate: The Radical Right in Aotearoa New Zealand
We launched the long-awaited book, Histories of Hate: The Radical Right in Aotearoa New Zealand, at the brilliant Unity Books Wellington on Thursday 9th March. The three editors, Matthew Cunningham,...Continue reading→
Launching Letter to ‘Oumuamua by James Norcliffe
On the 23rd of February, we gathered at the wonderful Scorpio Books in Christchurch to celebrate the launch of Letter to ‘Oumuamua by award-winning poet and novelist, James Norcliffe. We were also able to...Continue reading→