We are proudly independent, committed to fair pay for contributors, and to commissioning work that meaningfully contributes to the conversations our nation is having. This work is made possible ...

Rosabel steps down as editor (but refuses to leave completely) and welcomes the Pantograph Punch's dreamy new team, including Editor-in-Chief Janet McAllister and editors and writers Lana Lopesi, ...

Stacey Teague (Ngāti Maniapoto/Ngāpuhi) is a writer, editor and teacher living in Te Whanganui-a-Tara. Rebecca Hawkes is a poet and painter living in Te Whanganui-a-Tara. Her first book Meat Lovers, a ...

We are proudly independent, committed to fair pay for contributors, and to commissioning work that meaningfully contributes to the conversations our nation is having. This work is made possible ...

Discovering in my first months at CNZ two simple words ‘’public servant”, anchored me and grounded me. I understood my purpose: I tautua and serve my arts village, my community. I believe we need to ...

Amie is Pou Tuku Pūtea / Head of Funding at Irirangi Te Motu / NZ On Air, an independent government funding agency delivering public media to local audiences. Alongside Rachel Trow, she is the ...

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I don’t hate James Cameron, either, even if I find horrific the reports of how he runs his co-workers into the ground with long hours I don’t hate James Cameron, either, even if I find horrific the ...

Uther Dean spends most of his time writing plays but when he’s pretending to be more normal he’s a critic, lighting designer, and director. He was one of the two editors that lead Salient to its 2011 ...

But Spirit House is not that play.It’s quite consciously not that play, but suffers instead from problems of its own design. Set in parallel decades, it follows two artists in the same house – a ...

Six hours in a theatre. Six hours in a darkened theatre on a stunning Saturday afternoon during peak beach hours. Six hours watching five grown adults wearing banana suits enacting a fake break-up. On ...