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Newsroom NZ @newsroom.co.nz · 13h

Wellington writer Mikee Donato has won the $15,000 Sargeson Prize for her short story about two soul mates

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Winning story of the 2026 Sargeson Prize

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Aaron Hawkins @ahawkins.bsky.social · 13h

Drug testing has (by design) captured all the attention, but it's nowhere near the worst bit. For more than 30 years, benefit levels have been kept lower than the cost of staying alive. On purpose. Campaigning on the back of cutting them even further is monstrous. The cruelty is the point.

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Pip Adam @pipadam.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Also, just a reminder, you can subscribe to the newsletter that comes out every time i publish a Better off Read podcast. i left S#bstack cause i can't stomach it as a human but you can still get a newsletter if you like that kind of thing. better-read.com/newsletter/

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Pip Adam @pipadam.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

In this episode of the Better off Read podcast i speak with Helen Lehndorf about her beautiful, brutal and wild new collection of poetry The Bruise Palette. Thanks so much Helen and Firestarter Press! better-read.com

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Pip Adam @pipadam.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Exactly this. Heartbreaking and like surely shortsighted. It's hard to argue for public funding for the arts when some people never get to see art and the lie that art is for the elite is reinforced by ... limiting access to arts to the elite.

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Pip Adam @pipadam.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

My most unpopular take of the week is that it's breaking my heart that City Gallery is opening with one exhibition that costs $25 per person. Free entry to art galleries, museums and libraries kind of saved my life as a teenager and definitely made me believe the arts were for me.

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Gianmarco Soresi @gianmarcosoresi.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Man who won’t give his employees piss breaks claims many piss breaks on the horizon

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Mountain Tui @mountaintui.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Louise Upston admits people with cancer and mental disabilities will be sanctioned with reduced benefit payments after 2 years, and face random drug tests in #NewZealand under National's new promises. Winston Peters warns Luxon is moving NZ closer to fascism, ironically #nzpol

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🦝 Pepper Raccoon: Trash Priestess 🦝 @pepperraccoon.com · 08/10/2026

In this photo, they’re at Book Hero, who posted a blog post and social media in favour of the PM. So you can, yknow, never shop there again.

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 07/10/2026

These were identical trips, loaded via identical referrer URLs. The difference was that in the browser where Air Canada knew that I was an extremely loyal and prolific customer, they had whacked me with a *44.8% premium* to punish me for my loyalty!

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Doug Dillaman @dillamonster.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

AKL/WGTN/CHCH: BLACK SHEEPS premiere tix on sale now! Or buy a Terror-Fi fest badge and it's included! (Full lineup coming soon, but CRAWLERS, IT ENDS, VICTORIAN PSYCHO and WILD HORSE NINE are already announced.) terrorfifest.com

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Terror-Fi Film Festival | New Zealand's Genre Fest

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Tze Ming Mok 莫志明 @tzemingdynasty.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Also, this is advertorial for a university application-padding consultancy

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Anton Hur @antonhur.com · 07/10/2026

Yay I won a prize but THIS is the REAL news: "The Toji Cultural Foundation and Woori Bank signed a culture and arts cooperation agreement to work together on the full English translation of Land" ... and I am translating Toji (all twenty volumes) into English!

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Translator Anton Hur Wins New Park Kyung-ni Prize Special Award

Translator Anton Hur is the first winner of the Woori Eum Award, a one-time Park Kyung-ni Prize special award with 10 million won.

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Dorothy, a publishing project @dorothyproject.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Dorothy PUB DAY only comes once a year. And it's here! 🎉 Happy pub day to BLUE SUNSET by Denise Rose Hansen and WHAT REMAINS by Brais Lamela (translated from the Galician by Jacob Rogers)! We're honored to be publishing these two beautiful and brilliant debut novels.

Dorothy's editor holding our 2026 books on a sunny day: BLUE SUNSET by Denise Rose Hansen and WHAT REMAINS by Brais Lamela (translated from the Galician by Jacob Rogers)

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Dorothy, a publishing project @dorothyproject.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Oh look, just in time for our pub day . . .

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Queen Olivia III @queenoliviaiii.com · 05/10/2026

The legislation was found to be inconsistent with the Bill of Rights Act and the changes to enrolments could prevent 100,000 or more people from voting.

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Pip Adam @pipadam.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

i mean let's hear from REALLY decided voters. Why have you decided that way? Why are you so sure? What am i missing if i disagree with you?

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Tze Ming Mok 莫志明 @tzemingdynasty.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Dan beat me to it but it's actually a reaction to this moment... Luxon: [rules out Opportunity because 'no new taxes'] Hipkins: But you're happy to work with racists.

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David Slack @davidslack.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Seven properties and no solar panels. And his idea of exciting investment is snow-making machinery.

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Pip Adam @pipadam.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

i don't want to be mean but if I never hear from another undecided voter again it will be too soon.

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Pip Adam @pipadam.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Same. Same. Those papers on the lecterns are making me quite nervous.

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Pip Adam @pipadam.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Hipkins has way better control of his hands than Luxon. As a person who has trouble with their limbs i respect that.

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Elizabeth S @irihapeta.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The gall of Luxon saying that Te Aka Whai Ora / Māori Health Authority didn't achieve anything when his govt disestablished it so quickly. #nzpol Oh, and now he's saying that Three Waters was divisive! Gaaaah!!!

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Pip Adam @pipadam.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

i love chips more than anyone in the world and also 60 bucks is a lot of chips.

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Pip Adam @pipadam.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

i just found out it's us - we are paying to feed Christopher Luxon at Parliament where he gets meals.

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James Nokise @jamesnokise.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The most honest part of the tvnz debate is the audience response to the charisma level of both leaders…

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Pip Adam @pipadam.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

i don't understand who is feeding Christopher Luxon.

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Pip Adam @pipadam.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Luxon's proudest moment for NZ is training Ukrainian bakers to be soldiers and sending them to trenches.

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Pip Adam @pipadam.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Luxon forgets he won the coin toss.

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Peter Ramsey @pramsey342.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Can’t improve on the headline

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Book Haven @bookhavennz.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

It’s BookShop Day on Sat 10 Oct & @pipadam.bsky.social will be in BookHaven at 12.30 for a wee kōrero on ‘ai & technocracy & community & bookshops’. pip knows lots about the evils of AI companies & the joys of books written by real people & available in real shops - so come on by on #NZBookShopDay

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PERFECTLY NORMAL @nzpom.com · 05/10/2026

Thank goodness that the coalition front footed this with their awesome 4 phase fuel response plan scheme, that did fuck all to help #nzpol

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Petrol cost jumps to highest point since start of war

The price of fuel has reached its highest point since the outbreak of the Iran war, according to live fuel app data.

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wordsSHIFTminds @wordsshiftminds.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Congratulations to the National Party for managing to create a TV campaign ad that consists exclusively of lies. It's quite a thing to behold Soviet-level disinformation from a right wing party. #nzpol

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Pip Adam @pipadam.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

i started watching American Horror Story. i like it a great deal - so far it is kind of like a Frank Sargeson short story in that anyone in a heterosexual relationship is doomed. My favorite genre.

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Ben Ross @benakl.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Greens propose Inter City Rail that costs less than Roads of National Party Significance, have a higher Benefit Cost Ratio than Roads of National Party Significance, and even NZF supports it. Of course National wont despite their conservative voters supporting it because Luxon is a fuckwit

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Green Party announces plan for passenger rail between major NZ cities

The Green Party says it will connect the country with intercity passenger rail services, if elected.

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Cath S @cathsheard.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

You mean they lied in their advertising,

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Martin Shaw @thebooksdesk.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The new @catherinechidgey.bsky.social novel,The Starving Bride, appears this week, here reviewed by @ghostspecies.bsky.social: “it interweaves climate anxiety and the derangements of body culture with deeply disquieting results…” thesaturdaypaper.com.au/culture/book...

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The Starving Bride

The Saturday Paper is a quality weekly newspaper, dedicated to narrative long-form journalism.

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Pip Adam @pipadam.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

So freaking embarrassing 🤦

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Tze Ming Mok 莫志明 @tzemingdynasty.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

@brannavan.bsky.social I just noticed the covers, it's like when the two hot besties come to the party dressed alike

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Keith Ng @keithng.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Omfg I just caught up on this and the earlier article. God this protected from disclosure scheme is batshit: relying on scouts honour of megadonors to not tell the candidates, and the candidates to not know.

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Pip Adam @pipadam.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Hard agree and also LOVE the lowering of the voting age.

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Tze Ming Mok 莫志明 @tzemingdynasty.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Things would be markedly duller without these guys 🐾🍎👑

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onion person @junlper.beer · 01/10/2026

it’s amazing that there’s no crime anymore. if you do crime you’re actually just the victim for getting caught. the people who catch you are the criminals

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Whiti Hereaka @whitihereaka.co.nz · 30/09/2026

Terri is awesome — you should read this article and her debut novel “The Valley of Unlikely Acquaintances”.

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Arachne 🏳️‍🌈 @cayemarsh.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Horror fans know the true horror is transphobia 👍

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Lotographia 🍹 @lotographia.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

@jessiegender.bsky.social did a couple of really great videos about how the studio is trying really hard to normalise the boy wizard franchise stuff :(

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Harry Potter Is Manufacturing Your Complicity

YouTube video by Jessie Gender After Dark

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