Red Zone Pie
2021 Zealandia Te Māra a Tāne Essay Prize: 1st place winner. This place is both a garden and a ruin.
How Blue is Your River?
2021 Zealandia Te Māra a Tāne Essay Prize: 2nd place winner. Mata-au/Clutha River. Before.
Ko Au Te Whenua, Ko Te Whenua, Ko Au: From Camping to Colonisation with Rita Angus
2021 Zealandia Te Māra a Tāne Essay Prize: 3rd place winner. I was never a fan of outside.
Starbursts and Star Times: An Interview with Eileen Merriman
Eileen Merriman’s first young adult novel, Pieces of You, was published in 2017, and was a finalist in the NZ Book Awards for Children and Young Adults and a Storylines…
The Stiff Room
Care of the body after death: Close the mouth before the body starts to stiffen.
Strawberries
Other girls keep taking their clothes off in front of me.
Finding My Turtle Power
I never once heard my tinamatua (grandmother) speaking Samoan when I was a kid. None of my aunties or my mum could speak the language either.
An Elegy for the Land
I. A month after my grandfather dies from pancreatic cancer, my grandmother chops down his cactus in their front yard.
Heart Escape
It was settled. Her heart had turned into a furry creature. The doctors couldn’t tell her how it happened, but it was the only conclusion they reached.