Featuring 'Obsidian Dream'. With originality and insight, these poems and short stories express compassion, concern, curiosity, suffering and joy.
Featuring 'Hinepūkohurangi and Uenuku'. A lively, stimulating and engaging retelling of purakau - Maori myths - by contemporary Maori writers.
Featuring 'White Elephant.' Here are the glorious, painful, sharp and funny 21st century stories of Maori and Pasifika writers from all over the world.
Featuring an essay I wrote about about Diana Rigg. This anthology mourns 27 public figures who died in 2020.
Featuring 'Dust.' The best short stories from the Pikihuia Awards for Māori writers 2019.
Featuring 'Obsidian Dream.' The best short stories and novel extracts from the Pikihuia Awards for Māori Writers 2017.
Featuring 'A Good Friday.' The best novel extracts and best short stories written in English and Māori from the Pikihuia Awards for Māori Writers 2013.
Featuring 'East End Beach,' 'Time Zone,' and 'The Winter Show.' The best short stories from the Pikihuia Awards for Māori Writers 2009.
Featuring 'The Claw.' The best short stories from the Pikihuia Awards for Māori writers 2007.
Featuring 'Transient.' The best short fiction from the E tuhi! Get writing! Awards for Maori Writers 2003
In this ground-breaking special edition of Māori literary journal Ora Nui, writing and artwork by the Indigenous peoples of New Zealand and Taiwan.
Featuring 'Mt. Taranaki.' Literary Journal, Just Another Art Movement Collective.
Featuring 'Painted Eggs.' An annually published art and literature magazine.
Featuring 'The Voice of a Magic Realist,' an article about artist Ben Pearce.
Catalogue essay for 'Te Aho Mutunga Kore - The eternal thread' exhibition by Lissy and Rudi Cole. Commissioned by Ramp gallery.
Catalogue Essay for 'Diagrammatic' an exhibition by Olga Krause/Leafa Wilson. Commissioned by Gallagher Academy of Performing Arts Gallery.
A review in Pacific Arts of 'Hohou Te Rongo: A Strategy towards Health & Wellbeing,' an exhibition curated by Margaret Aulland and Cerys Davidson.
'Housemates' and 'The Caretaker.' Twenty-one stories, all of which are set in Kapiti.
'Tui' Junior Journal 49, Level 2, 2014
'Wētā.' School Journal Level 2, August 2019
'He Toi Whakairo.' School Journal Level 2, November 2020
'Kākano.' Junior Journal 50, Level 2, 2015. This poem describes a kākano (a seed) as taonga and explains what makes it special.
My creative writing journey began 20 years ago. Since then I have had stories published in Huia Short Stories 5, 7, 8, 10, 12 and 13; and in various literary journals including Ora Nui and Takahe. I have won the highly commended award for the Pikihuia Awards for Maori Writers three times. My stories have been broadcast on National Radio and I’ve written several poems for the School Journal.
My work was included in the anthologies Black Marks on the White Page and Pūrākau: Māori Myths Retold by Māori Writers published by Penguin. Recently I was invited to write a piece for Death Never Dies, a US anthology that won numerous awards including the popular culture category of the IPPY awards. I have published contemporary art reviews that have featured in publications such as the Journal of the Pacific Arts, and I have written gallery catalogue essays for Ramp Gallery, Creative Waikato and Waikato University.
I spent eight weeks on Kapiti Island as the Tau mai e Kapiti Maori Writer in Residence and I was the recipient of an Emerging Māori Writers Residency at the Michael King Writers Centre. In 2019 I was invited to participate in the Authors of Troy Festival in Çanakkale, Turkey and also that year I participated in the Auckland Writer’s Festival. The New Zealand Society of Authors Mentor Programme, a year long mentorship programme, allowed me to receive guidance from renowned short story writer Owen Marshall.
I was script writer, production designer and wardrobe designer for the short film Nine of Hearts. This film was funded by the IFF and directed by Briar Grace-Smith. It was included in the Wairoa Maori Film Festival and the NZ International Film Festival, where it was shortlisted for Best Short Film Programme. I was also a finalist in the NZWG short film script competition for my script, The Strap.
Last year I edited Paku Manu Ariki Whakatakapōkai, a children’s book written by Michaela Keeble and published by Gecko Press. In 2023 I will be included in new anthology of short stories called Te Awa o Kupu, published by Penguin Books.