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What is Speculative Fiction?

In anticipation of our upcoming speculative fiction issue, Headland editor Gina Cole, author of Na Viro, a work of Pasifikafuturism, discusses the value of speculative fiction as a literary form.

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Headland Alumni: Where are they now?

Isabelle McNeur

The Headland team love to watch what happens next in the writing lives of authors we have published—we find out through Facebook updates, tweets, emails letting us know that…

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Guidebook of Noticing

Below, you’ll find what could be described as a photographic diary—little moments of noticing and interactions, recorded on an Iphone camera roll.

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A Love of Food and Writing

What fuels your writing? We've asked some Headland writers about their 'other love', ie what they love to do other than writing, and how their interests feed into their writing.

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Robot Women

I had this image in my head that stayed there for over a decade.

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Figuring it out

I was lucky enough to spend 2020 at home writing, after a long period of not writing. A long period of not writing poems and essays, specifically.

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Reflections of a teacher, writer and rebel

Born and raised in Pātea, Airana Ngarewa (Ngāti Ruanui) reflects on a question that helped shape his narrative in ‘Philosopher, Warrior, Chief’.

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Te Māra a Tāne: Radical Connections to the Larger Ecosystem with Gini Letham, Judge

For Lead Ranger Gini Letham, creative non-fiction and her science communications work at Zealandia Te Māra a Tāne are both about connection.

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Headland Alumni: Where are they now?

Sharon Lam

The Headland team love to watch what happens next in the writing lives of authors we have published – we find out through Facebook updates, tweets, emails letting us…

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