The Setting
Local FeelWhat makes a New Zealand story feel like our story? Makes it recognisable to you? What does ‘an Aotearoa New Zealand story’ mean to you? These were questions we...
Writing Aotearoa
Local Feel“What makes an Aotearoa New Zealand story, well, feel like an Aotearoa New Zealand story? Is it setting or style, character or theme? Or something else entirely?”
This is the...
So you think you have writer’s block? Think again.
Writing through itWe’re continuing our series looking at writing through creative challenges. We recently featured ‘Drawing Blood From Stone’ by Kate Joy Tobin.
Drawing Blood From Stone
Creatively Challenged?Welcome to another blog series for a new issue! For Issue 10 we’re looking at creativity and how to deal with a rut, writers’ block, slump.
People Not Characters
Characterisation Part IIIRay Bradbury wrote in Zen in the Art of Writing: “Plot is no more than footprints left in the snow after your characters have run by on their way to...
Borrowing a rib and breathing life
Characterisation Part IIFollowing on from Craig Burnett’s post Kirk, and continuing our characterisation series, we hear from Alie Benge on crafting a believable character.
So, um, what is creative nonfiction exactly?
By Headland Managing Editor Liesl NunnsWe love getting creative nonfiction submissions at Headland. We’d love to get more. We’d love to publish more.
Who is telling our stories?
Narrative Voice: Part ThreeWe’re wrapping up our Issue 8 narrative voice series with Charlotte Rutty. Read previous posts by Sandra Arnold and Emma Robinson.