The poem ‘Lookout Soldier’ by Claire Beynon was first published in the Otago Daily Times in 2009.
I’ve already been in the kitchen for about twenty minutes, putting together a meal for us. I’m tossing a garden ...
Short story
Amber Sampson walked along the river at about eight in the morning. Mud slowly crept up the soles of her shoes. ...
chappow
Finals were three weeks away. The library was crowded. In spite of this, the seats on either side of him ...
All her feelings… sharp and defined, one as true as the other – yet contradictory. She loathes him, yet she loves ...
Not long after dawn and already the cottage was a hive of activity. Only fools or those with no choice would ...
It was almost spring when the sea mist landed, passing up the valley like a barbarian army, razing everything in ...
Jesse makes a start on the balloons. He manages three – two red and a pink – before leaning back, breathless. He’d ...
Katherine Mansfield Sparkling Prose 2023 - 2nd place
short story
“Who wants to hear the story of the ...
I often wonder if that piano is still there. What a horrible instrument it was, with that cloying echo, that dull ...
If wishes were horses then beggars would ride. At least that was what his mum said, but this this time Rob wasn’t ...
Katherine Mansfield Sparkling Prose 2023 - 1st place
short story
And so, after everything, after all of ...
Rare air, pale light, beyond up south, old world,Rakiura. Step ashore bush masks the way ...
In the village, everybody called him Motherland. No one even remembered his real name. It seemed that he’d always ...
The Black Boar Inn, London SE1
A slate sky and a whiff of the river. Richard zips his jacket against the ...
Esme’s hair hung down almost to her collar, with a little less black colour every year. As time went on, her hair ...
When I was a child I lived in a caravan with a cow’s skull on the dashboard. I slept on a foam mattress on a piece ...
At the End
I arrived at the end with my best friend
he who was steady and true
when he asked me what he could ...
The four cock-covered walls of the high school toilet cubicle. Cracked paint and wet concrete. Catholic school ...
This is the way we brush our teeth. This is the way we study our reflection in the bathroom mirror, ripe with ...
‘The Universe for Beginners’ is a story about navigating family relationships and the demands and sensitivities ...
How does the short story situate itself in Aotearoa's literary history and how will this new publishing arrangement further support the development of short stories in our culture?
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