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Anna Scaife @whatelseanna.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Signing books at University Bookshop today and the campus was honestly showing off 💙📚 #nzfiction #AuthorSky #WriterSky

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Anna Scaife @whatelseanna.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Hush on the shoulders of true giants. 👨🏻 kind of a big deal. 💙📚 #nzfiction #shortstories #BookSky #bedsidetables

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Anna Scaife @whatelseanna.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Debut review at Kete Books was smile-making 🩶🖤 www.ketebooks.co.nz/reviews/revi... 💙📚 #nzfiction #shortstories #debutreview #AuthorSky

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Anna Scaife @whatelseanna.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

‘Hush’ drop off at a city book fridge today. 💙📚 #WriterSky #nzfiction #bookfridge #shortstories

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Anna Scaife @whatelseanna.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Don’t think I’ll ever get used to this. 💙📚 Hush on the shelves at Marsden Books Wellington #BookSky #nzfiction #shortstories #Hush

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Anna Scaife @whatelseanna.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Author copies arrived so I took this one for a walk to the Packe Street Community Garden BOOK FRIDGE N.B. Take your fluff home with you, folks. 💙📚 #littlefreelibraries #Booksky #WriterSky #Shortstories

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Anna Scaife @whatelseanna.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

What to do with post-book-launch anxiety? This poor wall waited for me for three years, masking tape on and everything. All it took to get it done was writing and publishing a whole book. 💙📚 #BookSky #WriterSky #BookLaunch

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Anna Scaife @whatelseanna.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Is there anything better than signing copies of your debut book in the bookshop you visited as a kid? Scorpio Books is my home ground. #BookSky #Writersky

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Anna Scaife @whatelseanna.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

A wee bit gobsmacked to see my collection of short stories ‘Hush’ on the Aotearoa Bestsellers list in its first week in the world. 🤫 www.ketebooks.co.nz/weeklyBestSe...

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Aotearoa Bestsellers – 30 August - 5 September 2026

Weekly best seller list: Aotearoa Bestsellers – 30 August - 5 September 2026

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Anna Scaife @whatelseanna.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

The magnetic Kate De Goldi gave the best speech at the launch of Hush on Wednesday 🥹. What a night! #nzfiction

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Anna Scaife @whatelseanna.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

My book! 🥹 ‘Hush’ is launching September 2nd. Major personal coup 📖🥂thanks to Ugly Hill Press and The Gas Project for the👌cover design.

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Newsroom NZ @newsroom.co.nz · 13/09/2025

When Malcolm saw his wife Susan in a burgundy bathrobe at Tony's townhouse

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Short story: The jeweller's replacement, by Anna Scaife

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Claire Mabey @clairemabey.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

The ROI on the guest of honour programme has been proven so why did MCH deny funding for NZ to be guest of honour programme at the biggest children’s book fair in the world? How can they value literacy if they don’t value the industry that makes children’s books! www.thesapling.co.nz

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Anna Scaife @whatelseanna.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

Never posted this here … ReadingRoom published my creepy arachnid story late last year which made me very happy. Another coming soonish 🤞 newsroom.co.nz/2024/09/28/s...

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Short story: Final Notice, by Anna Scaife

"Virginia found more baby spiders every day for the next week..."

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Anna Scaife @whatelseanna.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

2024 highlight. At the book signing after a WORD festival event, I asked Richard Ford what he imagines happens at the end of his incredible short story Under The Radar … and he told me! Settled a longstanding writing group debate

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Anna Scaife @whatelseanna.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

2024 writing wrap up 🧵 Plenty of this:

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Anna Scaife @whatelseanna.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Finally. I have made a Pav. Is this what being an adult feels like? #asmallmeringuemiracle

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Anna Scaife @whatelseanna.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Most days I spend a good amount of time thinking about what it would be like to work in a writer’s room for TV.

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Rachael King @rachaelking70.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Just a reminder to all you writers out there who published books this year: ‘best of the year’ lists are subjective and their creators can only include books they’ve actually read so it could be that they just haven’t got to yours yet but it’s on their groaning TBR pile.

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Alan Baxter @alanbaxter.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Don't forget that signed books make excellent Xmas gifts. Don't forget that a lot of authors sell signed books directly via their websites. 😃👍

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takahē magazine @takahemagazine.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Announcing the Monica Taylor Poetry Prize 2024 longlist! With huge thanks to judge Renee Liang 梁文蔚 for her enthusiastic and careful consideration, and to every poet who entered for entrusting takahē with your work.

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takahē magazine @takahemagazine.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

A starter pack for our amazing whānau! Contributors and guest editors, if we missed you, please tag us so we can add you 🩵

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Anna Scaife @whatelseanna.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

This is Scout. Scout doesn’t mind that I haven’t written a word for 6 weeks. She only asks that I open the hallway door so she can go and lie in the sun patch please and thank you. 🐾

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Melbourne City of Literature Office @melcityoflit.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Exciting to see that the Writers Vic workshop "Writing your memoir when you are a ghost or other spectral being" is so well attended

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takahē magazine @takahemagazine.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

New interview up! Fiction writer Cassie Hart talks self publishing, the smell of lavender, and inspiration versus perspiration 😅 Read for free at: www.takahe.org.nz/cassie-hart/

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Anna Scaife @whatelseanna.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Having a desk clear out. Six near-new notebooks with scribbles on the first four pages … and counting #writing

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Sascha Stronach🏳️‍⚧️, The Sunforge out now @understatesmen.bsky.social · 10/11/2024

You want New Zealand writer? I got New Zealand writers. go.bsky.app/HC4kCUL

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Amy Stuber @amystuber.com · 15/11/2024

this flash & short fiction writers starter pack filled up incredibly quickly (150 is the max, and I guess there are a lot of us). Anyway share if you're into short and flash fiction! go.bsky.app/53R6ziA

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Amy Stuber @amystuber.com · 14/11/2024

Because tedious tasks are my therapy right now: are you a short fiction writer (flash or short stories only, please) publishing in litmags or aspiring to? I'd like to make a starter pack of short story and flash people! Comment here and please share for visibility #writingcommunity

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Matt Bell @mdbell79.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

Creative writers: come work with us at ASU! We're currently running a search for an Assistant Teaching Professor to teach undergrad CW in-person and online, and to oversee online curriculum development as their service component. More info here: english.asu.edu/about/employ...

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IIML @modernletters.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Maddie Ballard made a dress (of course!) with 100 or more separate panels for the launch of her sewing memoir, Bound, at Unity Books last night. Rose Lu gave the launch speech in a simple bright green suit!

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Anthony Lapwood @antzlapwood.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

I'm delighted to teach CREW254 Short Fiction | He Kōrero Paki for @modernletters.bsky.social again in 2025 — not once, but twice! Join me to explore the art of the short story in T1 or T2. The application deadline for T1 is the 1st of December, so get writing! ✍️💚 www.wgtn.ac.nz/courses/CREW...

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Ngāti Ranginui, Ngāi Te Rangi, Ngāti Whakaue, Pākehā

[Photo of Anthony wearing a red shirt and brown coat.]

Course Convenor

CREW 254 Short Fiction | He Kōrero Paki

2025 T1 & T2

What advice would you give to someone who wants to write?

“Get good at noticing the specifics of the world around you and in the worlds of your stories. As they say, the universal is found through the specific. What you notice is also fundamental to developing your voice — the act of speaking is first of all an act of seeing.”

What do you love about teaching creative writing?

“Nothing beats seeing emerging writers start to find their voice and tell the stories that only they can tell, with the confidence that comes from knowing how to deploy their craft effectively.”

What’s something you get students to do in your workshop?

“I like to ask students to summarise each other’s stories. Sometimes they worry they’ll fail the ‘test’ by not remembering every plot point. But the aim is to remember what was worth remembering — what stood out for them as a reader.”

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IIML @modernletters.bsky.social · 13/12/2023

Waking up slowly the morning after the Adam and Biggs Prizes to say yes, it's true: Turbine | Kapohau 23 has fired up! Congratulations and massive thanks to editors Anna Scaife, Tōrea Scott-Fyfe and Maddie Fenn for their terrific issue, and to Rachel O'Neill for web support. Check it out!

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Current Issue - TURBINE | KAPOHAU

EDITORIAL Welcome POETRY Sasha AbbasovaLou AnnabellJane BloomfieldElla Borrie 🔈Hana Buchanan 🔈Lauren CampCadence Chung 🔈David EggletonAlice FairleyMadeleine FennMiriama GemmellMichael HallGai...

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IIML @modernletters.bsky.social · 13/12/2023

'I think human relationships can sometimes be what you could call symbiotic, but other times there can be a vampiric element. You know, vampires are thirsty!' Te Herenga Waka /CNZ Writer in Residence Noelle McCarthy on her year of Dracula at the IIML

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Interview Noelle McCarthy 2023 - TURBINE | KAPOHAU

AN INTERVIEW WITH NOELLE McCARTHY By Gráinne Patterson Noelle McCarthy has been the 2023 writer in residence at the IIML. This year, alongside writing her second book, she released her first memoir, ...

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