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Phew, what a weekend! We're very thankful we got to celebrate with a real-life event before a live audience this year. Kia ora rawa atu to Rachael King and WORD Christchurch for their amazing work in such a tough year, and their ongoing support since we launched in 2010. #yeahnoir

Tonight's the night! Join us - and some fantastic authors - at 6pm at Newtown Library for #WritingNewtown! bit.ly/33GOMYZ Mākaro Press vupbooks Compound Press

Real life and the imagined rubbed shoulders at Newtown Library as we talked about writing Newtown into fiction and poetry. Great night with Michalia Arathimos Rachel Kerr Carl Shuker 🌻 Jackson Nieuwland Food Court Books Wellington City Libraries Mary McCallum and Newtown folks. #writingnewtown

Named ‘Best Publisher As Well’ by Steve Braunias — we’ll take it! It’s been a brilliant year for Mākaro and Steve has been cheering us all the way. #bestpublisheraswell

Woohoo! Congratulations Rachel Kerr and all the other fiction finalists for the Ockham NZ Book Awards — what a fine bunch. #theockhams

Bravo Madison Hamill for your longlisting in the Ockham NZ Book Awards Magic that you have a hand in two other longlisted books (maybe more) proofreading our novel Victory Park and The Cuba Press non-fiction Towards Compostela. You’re on a roll #magiceditor #nznonfiction #ockhamnzbookawards

We are absolutely stoked to welcome and announce the appointment of a new Programme Co-Director, Nic Low (Ngāi Tahu). Nic will work in partnership with Rachael King to curate this year's festival and events, and oversee a digital programme. Read on... wordchristchurch.co.nz/news/introduci…

Love listening to these three bookish passionate women riff on books. Love Jenna’s review of Victory Park in this line-up — what she said about the nuanced writing on poverty & solo mums & her delight in reading a Newtown novel #ockhamnzbookawards #literarypodcast #victorypark

Auē by Becky Manawatu in the Dublin Literary Award longlist with books from 30 countries, the only NZ novel. An emotional moment. Thanks Ngā Kete Wānanga o Ōtautahi and Auckland Libraries for the nomination. #aue #DubLitAward

Hero librarian Neil Johnstone writes about our Newtown Library event, where the writers read from work with places and people just around the corner. Magic. The writers were: Rachel Kerr Michalia Arathimos Carl Shuker 🌻 Jackson Nieuwland creativerights.nz/our-stories/ne…

A fresh cover and a smaller size for Auē. We love this beautiful evening-moon green taken from the moon at the tūī’s throat. The Tūī Taonga are by Penny Howard. Such taonga, exquisite. Penny has an exhibition on called Te Whakahoki, at Whitespace, Grey Lynn. Worth a visit. #aue

Rachel's book makes another awards list! nzbooklovers.co.nz/2021-awards Mākaro Press #victorypark

Stoked with these awards. Victory Park by Rachel Kerr is in the fiction shortlist.

If you’re in a Wellington tsunami zone, I think that one counted as “long”. Check yourself here; wremo.nz/hazards/tsunam… #eqnz

Exciting bunch of first book winners. Proud of Rachel Kerr. That’s a hatrick for us with the Best First Book Award for Fiction – Becky Manawatu winning it last year and Kirsten Warner it the year before that.

Auē makes it onto Shortland Street We are stoked to see NZ fiction on the screen! Only thing is Tillie is too young for it (the character born 2011 seems to be 13/14 onscreen). We recommend Auē for adults, and young adults 16+ Hoping TK or Cece will wrestle it off her ...

Speedy delivery all things considered to a wee cottage in a wee village in the middle of Scotland. Paul had to find it on a map to make sure it existed. Glad it’s arrived Kayden Iona

So good to launch our 2021 novel Entanglement last night by Bryan Walpert of WriteCreative Massey – beautifully hosted online by Jenna Todd of Time Out Bookstore Thanks all who came. Signed copies at Time Out to order. #mākarofiction

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A perfect pairing of science and literature in Bryan Walpert’s novel Entanglement. Thanks to Cushla McKinney for her review in the ODT that opens up this complex and erudite novel for readers and invites them in. At all good bookstores now.