I was re-watching Star Trek: Generations this weekend. I was

Brian Bargh of Huia left a message. He asked I return his call. ‘It’s good news,’ he said. I went all goose pimply, and great gulps of excitement came tinged with fear.
I began writing Zhu Mao three years ago at the start of the Diploma of Creative Writing course at Whitireia Polytechnic. When I applied I submitted a short story, one of many, inter-connected, which I wanted to shape into a novel.

I may not have gone where I intended to go,

Tania Butcher builds on memories of Maketu • 14 July 2010 •

I’ve recently had broadband connected at my house. The digital