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2024 Kirihimete Gifting Guide

  Pukapuka make fantastic gifts for Kirihimete – especially when you are supporting kaituhi Māori! Pukapuka are the gift that keep on giving, there’s something for all ages and interests, and the perfect companion to take on holiday over Hine Raumati, even if you aren’t venturing further than your own

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Shilo Kino, pictured centre

Author Spotlight Q&A: Shilo Kino

Shilo Kino (Ngāpuhi, Ngāti Te Ata, Ngāti Maniapoto) is a writer residing in Tāmaki Makaurau. She has worked for Marae, Newsroom, North and South, The Spinoff, The Guardian and Pantograph Punch as a journalist. In 2018 Shilo was awarded a place on the Māori Literature Trust writers’ incubator, Te Papa

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Rachel Buchanan pictured centre, at Verb Te Aro Pā poetry event

Author Spotlight Q&A: Dr Rachel Buchanan

Dr Rachel Buchanan (Taranaki iwi, Te Ātiawa) is a historian, journalist and a member of Te Aro Pā Poets collective and Te Pouhere Kōrero Māori Historians Network. She is the author of The Parihaka Album: Lest We Forget (Huia, 2009), Stop Press: The Last Days of Newspapers (Scribe, 2013) and

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Steph pictured at the 2024 Hīkoi mō te Tiriti left, Hana-Rawhiti Maipi-Clarke pictured centre, a picture of the hīkoi right

Weaponising Art for Good

Since I last blogged, the world has kind of imploded. Trump was elected. That three-word sentence punches my gut with every syllable. David Seymour has carried the Treaty Principles Bill to its first hearing. My words struggle in the shallow waters of my patience for this man and his twisted

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Three people in front of the Pikihuia Awards signage - Toni Wi centre.

Rā whānau Huia 15!

A couple of weeks ago I attended the first birthday party for Huia Short Stories 15 at Unity Books in Wellington, where my friend and fellow Te Papa Tupu writer Steph Julian was reading. It’s quite cool that we’re both published in the same pukapuka alongside our other Te Papa

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