Reposted by Josie ShapiroJane A @cravenjaney.bsky.social · 14/12/2023I'm good at being terrible at self-promotion. However, my book 'Calamities!' came out earlier this year & then kinda vanished from existence & made no end-of-the-year lists or anything like that but fuck it, I'm quite proud of it. It's angry & a bit funny. Poems: shop.goodbookshop.nz/p/calamities...shop.goodbookshop.nzCalamities!In her second, spine-cracking collection, Jane Arthur wants ‘to get morbid’. Moving with ease between the cerebral and the ethereal she measures her anxieties against a cosmic canvas – taking in... 23218
Reposted by Josie ShapiroClaire Mabey @clairemabey.bsky.social · 05/12/2023What an incredible year for Aotearoa books. From Bird Life to Birnam Wood, to Blood & Dirt to Big Fat Brown Bitch - and that’s just the Bs! thespinoff.co.nz/books/05-12-...thespinoff.co.nzThe Aotearoa books of the year for 2023The best fiction, nonfiction, poetry and children's books published in New Zealand this year, according to our panel of readers. 22913
Josie Shapiro @josieshapiro.bsky.social · 14/11/2023Zeitgeist walking: here's an unplanned companion to my piece by @emilyp.bsky.social www.1news.co.nz/2023/11/13/f...1news.co.nzForget your fun runs - writer Emily Perkins would rather walkWalking can fix arguments, anxiety and even writer's block. 141
Josie Shapiro @josieshapiro.bsky.social · 14/11/2023Writing about someone running a marathon definitely had parallel meaning for me...can she finish this race/draft? 🤣🩷 110
Josie Shapiro @josieshapiro.bsky.social · 12/11/2023My first bluesky post. - stoked to share a piece about walking and what can be found in the footsteps thanks to @clairemabey.bsky.social at The Spinoff for publishing thespinoff.co.nz/books/12-11-...thespinoff.co.nzCheryl Strayed, Victoria Bruce and the history of finding solace one step at a timeAn essay on books that reveal the transformative, and subversive, powers of walking and writing. 0151
Reposted by Josie ShapiroNat Baker @natbaker.bsky.social · 10/11/2023Incredible first session @verbfestival Wellington today, the awesome @josieshapiro.bsky.social in conversation with Tessa Duder. 💖💫🎉👏👏👏👏👏👏👏 131
Reposted by Josie ShapiroBill Manhire @pacificraft.bsky.social · 10/11/2023. My World War I Poem Inside each trench, the sound of prayer. Inside each prayer, the sound of digging. . 0154