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Talia Marshall on Whaea Blue

Talia Marshall's debut book Whaea Blue (2024) is a force of nature. Abandoning neutral expressions of praise, New Zealand's reviewers have spoken of it...

Touching Time With Anastasia Ames

This week, continuing my series of conversations on writers talking about their writing (see the previous conversation here), Anastasia Ames discusses her debut novel...

The Story Problem: Five Tips to Tame a Plot

Lately I've been wrestling a ferocious shape-shifting beast of immense proportions that breathes fire, spits venom in my eyes and generally makes a nuisance...

21 Approachable Publishers of Literary Fiction & Translation

If there’s one group of people who have already perfected the art of ‘social distancing’, it’s publishers. Like the endangered Ribbon-tailed Astrapias of Papua...