James' Blog

This book is a fascinating concept, the creative brain child of two of my friends, Vaughan Rapatahana and Michelle Elvy, and published by The Cuba Press. Their awareness that today writing in Aotearoa/NZ embraced writers from a host of languages and cultures led to the decision to publish a collection showcasing as many of these languages as possible. The result: 94 stories (flash / micro) and a dozen or so essays, the stories presented in both English and the writer's own la

Poto - The big book of short stories is a handsome publication, edited by Michelle Elvy & Kiri Piahana-Wong and published by Massey University Press. The concept was to gather a host of short stories / flash and publish these in both Te Reo and English, a significant first in NZ - Aotearoa publishing. The book includes 100 stories by 100 writers. I was delighted to be one of those with my prose poem A Day Like No Other - first collected in Letter to 'Oumuamua and incidenta

I've just realised - to my horror I have not posted anything for over a year. An oversight - as a lot has happened. I'll start now to write about past publications and a big event on the horizon.

The Hippocrates Prize for Poetry and Medicine was founded in 2009 by Professors Donald Singer and Michael Hulse. The founders aimed to...