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Grounded Reflections in Richard Shaw’s The Good Settler
To round off my Matariki month reads, I felt drawn to include something that sits with the other side of the New Zealand experience, the other side of me, of my upbringing, and the histories and experiences many of us Pākehā New Zealanders are wrestling with today. Colonialism struck Aotearoa New Zealand in ways that…
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My First Year at Auckland Writers Festival
In May, I attended the Auckland Writers Festival for the first time, and I was mesmerised from beginning to end. From the content of the sessions and insights into authors’ research, the challenges in the industry, the writing process, and how life got them to this point, to the wonderful people I was fortunate enough…
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