2019

December 22 - 2019

Highly Commended in the 2019 Takahē Monica Taylor Poetry Prize judged by Cilla

McQueen.

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'As finalists I chose four poems, all of which left me something to think about 

further. They all give a sense of something waiting to be resolved, something 

not quite sayable, at the limits of language.

Awe by Wes Lee... A poem barely under control after the shock and disorientation 

of ‘a grave event’; the poet casting around feeling inadequate, trying to come 

to terms — but far too early — with something disproportionate to previous 

experience.' — Cilla McQueen 

The 2019 Takahē Monica Taylor Poetry Prize is offered by Takahē Magazine.

 

Founded in Christchurch in 1989, Takahē Magazine publishes short stories, poetry 

and art, as well as essays, interviews, and book reviews.

December 14 - 2019

Best of 2019 reading list: Banshee Magazine.

 

Banshee is an Irish literary magazine edited by Laura Cassidy, Claire Hennessy 

and Eimear Ryan. 

December 7 - 2019

Bar-bright appears in fourW thirty: Pearl, launched on Saturday December 7 

at Gleebooks in Sydney, celebrating the anthology's pearl anniversary (thirty 

years of publishing).

 

Edited by David Gilbey, fourW is the annual anthology published by the Booranga 

Writers Centre at Charles Sturt University in New South Wales. 

 

'Booranga Writers Centre celebrates three decades of publishing new writing that 

links the Wagga Wagga region with the world – with panache and verve 

– stretching the boundaries of writing in multi-layered, allusive writing that 

engages, challenges, seduces … Meet and hear writers read from their work.'

December 4 - 2019

New Year's Day: Observation Unit appears in The Aesthetica Creative Writing 

Annual 2020 in the UK.

 

The Aesthetica Creative Writing Annual is an international showcase of new 

poetry and short fiction, featuring the finalists of the Aesthetica Creative 

Writing Award.

The 2020 Annual can be ordered online at Aesthetica Magazine.

December 1 - 2019

Accepted for publication in The Beach Hut a new online literary journal.

 

'An online platform for coastal themed contemporary poetry, flash fiction and 

short stories. Celebrating nature & writing and its therapeutic benefits.'

November 29 - 2019

Shortlisted for the 2019 Takahē Monica Taylor Poetry Prize judged by Cilla 

McQueen.

 

The 2019 Takahē Monica Taylor Poetry Prize is offered by Takahē Magazine.

 

Founded in Christchurch in 1989, Takahē Magazine publishes short stories, poetry 

and art, as well as essays, interviews, and book reviews.

November 16 - 2019

Shortlisted for The Aesthetica Creative Writing Award in the UK.

 

'The Aesthetica Creative Writing Award is an international literary prize that 

celebrates excellence in Poetry and Short Fiction. Hosted by the international 

art and culture publication, Aesthetica Magazine.'

 

The Aesthetica Creative Writing Award panel of judges are: Katy Guest, Professor 

Oz Hardwick, Liz Jones, Martine Pierquin, Steve Toase, and Teresa Palmiero.

 

The winners will be announced in December.

November 16 - 2019

Two poems appear in The Perfect Weight of Blankets at Night: The New Zealand 

Poetry Society Anthology 2019, edited by Raewyn Alexander, and launched at 

the Garden Room, Grey Lynn Community Centre, Auckland, on November 16.

 

‘The New Zealand Poetry Society is dedicated to promoting, developing and 

supporting poetry and poets in New Zealand. Its patrons are Dame Fiona Kidman 

and Vincent O'Sullivan.’ 

November 6 - 2019

Accepted for publication in The Selkie Anthology: Volume 2, to be launched in 

January 2020 by The Selkie, an online literary journal based in Edinburgh, Scotland.

 

Founded by Huriyah T. Quadri, Lis Mesa, Chelsea Welsh & Sonali Misra, The 

Selkie aims to support and nurture voices from diverse and often marginalised 

backgrounds by welcoming submissions and promoting the work of underrepresented 

authors and artists.

 

'Our own stories came together in a flurry of colour and culture – a British 

novelist exploring her Pakistani roots through her craft, a nonfiction writer 

born Cuban yet raised in America reflecting on immigration and identity, a 

Scottish poet from Edinburgh using her country’s heritage as inspiration for her 

work, and an Indian editor and writer navigating between her career in 

publishing and writing fiction – we are united by our need to create.'

November 5 - 2019

Longlisted for the 2019 Takahē Monica Taylor Poetry Prize judged by Cilla

McQueen.

 

The 2019 Takahē Monica Taylor Poetry Prize is offered by Takahē Magazine.

 

Founded in Christchurch in 1989, Takahē Magazine publishes short stories, poetry 

and art, as well as essays, interviews, and book reviews.

October 25 - 2019

Calling in, and The Girl and the Field #2 appear in Mayhem, Issue 7, edited by 

Dr Tracey Slaughter at the University of Waikato. Launched on October 24 at The 

Meteor in Hamilton.

 

'Take the ladder to Mayhem — to work that’s autonomic, undefended, tender, 

frontline, insubordinate, bruised. To work that breathes, risks, cuts, shines, 

calls out, costs.' — Tracey Slaughter

With new writing from: Shivani Agrawal, Kate Mahoney, Sara Ali, Allan J. Manson, 

Melanie Allison, Conor Maxwell, Ivy Alvarez, Jack McConnell, Aimee-Jane 

Anderson-O'Connor, Nina McCullagh, Bill Bradford, Caoimhe McKeogh, Ellen Morgan 

Butler, Olivia Mead, Tania Collins, Tori Mitchell, Maria-Teresa Corino, Layal 

Moore, Ime Corkery, Josiah Morgan, Jeni Curtis, Terry Moyle, Semira Davis, 

Nithya Narayanan, Makayla Dick, Bob Orr, Claire Duncan, Sarah Penwarden, Kirsty 

Dunn, Meg Prasad, Annette Edwards-Hill, Mark Prisco, Racheal Elliott, Hayden 

Pyke, Dara Flaws, Maggie Rainey-Smith, Jasmine Gallagher, essa may ranapiri, 

Eliana Gray, Vaughan Rapatahana, Lynda Hall, Brittany Rose, Jordan Hamel, Dadon 

Rowell, Matthew Harris, Caleb Shepherd, Paula Harris, Carin Smeaton, Jenna 

Heller, Tycho Smith, Michelle Hickman, Rachel Smith, Liam Hinton, Ruby Solly, 

Lily Holloway, Erica Stretton, Jessica Howatson, Loren Thomas, Ed Howell, Rhegan 

Tu'akoi, Maeve Hughes, Kathryn van Beek, Lincoln Jacques, Trish Veltman, Briana 

Jamieson, Heidi Lee Rogers, Ash Davida Jane, Kavesh Vythilingam, Eefa Yasir 

Jauhary, Waikaremoana Waitoki, Wes Lee, Laura Williamson, Andrew T. Lyall, and 

Tim Wilson.

 

Mayhem, Issue 7 can be purchased in independent bookstores or direct through 

the Mayhem website.

October 24 - 2019

I've Let A Man appears in Silence: The University of Canberra Vice-Chancellor's 

International Poetry Prize Anthology 2019.

 

Edited by Shane Strange, the anthology contains the winning and longlisted poems 

from the annual $15,000 prize.

 

The winner was announced at the Poetry on the Move festival by the Vice-

Chancellor and President, Professor Deep Saini, on October 21.

October 6 - 2019

Two poems appear in Pink Cover Zine, Issue 5, guest edited by Kristen de 

Kline, and launched at the Newcastle Young Writers Festival as part of The 

Zine Fair on Sunday October 6 in New South Wales.

 

Issue 5, on the theme of 'Lawlessness', features new writing from: Sarah 

St Vincent Welch, Linda Stevenson, Kit Kelen, Ian C Smith, Anne Walsh, 

Kerry Shying, Rob Schackne, Anne Casey, Beth Spencer, Fernanda Tapia, Ali 

Whitelock, Elsie Koraline, Richard Mudford, Nick Chlopicki, Wes Lee, and 

Samantha Trayhurn.

 

'What does it mean to be lawless? To inhabit the spaces of lawlessness? A 

number of concepts come to mind - exile, anarchy, revolution, criminality 

- but how do we engage with such zones in our creative pursuits? Do they 

come from a space of lawless passion? Or a space embodied by something 

lethal - the nicking of flesh, the letting of blood?' - Pink Cover Zine

October 1 - 2019

Accepted for publication in Mayhem, Issue 7, edited by Dr Tracey Slaughter 

at The University of Waikato.

 

Mayhem, Issue 7 will launch in October.

September 15 - 2019

Trapdoor appears in Heroines: an anthology of short fiction and poetry

, Volume II,  published by Neo Perennial Press in Australia, and edited by

Sarah Nicholson and Caitlin White.

 

'With poetry and short fiction by award winning and emerging writers 

including: Julie Watts, Anna Jacobson, Therese Doherty, Jan Napier, Alicia 

Gilmore, Anne Walsh, Barbara Taylor, Jena Woodhouse, Louise Pieper, Hannah 

Wheeler, Clio Davidson-Lynch, Rita Togini, Pamela Hart, Kim Waters, Julie 

Bozza, Toni Brisland, Deanne Leber, Louise Hopewell, Jayne Fenton Keane, 

Linda Godfry, Toni Brisland, Wes Lee, Margaret Bradstock, Kate O'Neill, 

Freddy Iryss & Jane Frank.'

 

The anthology will be launched at the Heroines Festival on September 15 in 

Thirroul, Wollongong, Australia.

September 8 - 2019

Accepted for publication in fourW, the annual anthology published by 

the Booranga Writers Centre at Charles Sturt University in New South 

Wales, Australia. 

 

Edited by David Gilbey, fourW thirty will be launched in November.

September 4 - 2019

Mrs Goforth! appears in the Australian Poetry Journal 9.1 - 'resist!',

guest edited by John Kinsella.

 

With new writing from: Evelyn Araluen, Magdalena Ball, Javant Biarujia, 

Judith Bishop, Susan Bradley-Smith, Renea ‘Rocket’ Bretherton, David 

Brookes, Jarad Bruinstroop, Michelle Cahill, aj Carruthers, Bonny Cassidy, 

Eileen Chong, Claire G. Coleman, Alison Croggon, Sarah Day, Shastra Deo, 

Dan Disney, Jonathan Dunk, Quinn Eades, Anne Elvey, Michael Farrell, Liam 

Ferney, Sophie Finlay, Toby Fitch, Lionel George Fogarty, Angela Gardner, 

Jane Gibian, Lisa Gorton, Patrick Gunaskera, John Hawke, Matthew Hall, 

Siobhan Hodge, Jill Jones, S.K. Kelen, Paul Kelly, Wes Lee, Bella Li, Kate 

Lilley, Jennifer Maiden, Caitlin Maling, David McCooey, Peter Minter, 

Scott-Patrick Mitchell, Marjon Mossammaparast, Philip Neilson, Vanessa 

Page, Charmaine Papertalk Green, J. P. Quinton, Tara Rostron, Jaya Savige, 

Barnaby Smith, Laurie Smith, Alicia Sometimes, Maria Takolander, Anne-

Marie Te Whiu, Richard Kelly Tipping, Ellen van Neerven, Ann Vickery, 

Corey Wakeling, Ania Walwicz, Kaitlen Wellington, Rae White, Alison 

Whittaker, Les Wicks, Jessica L. Wilkinson, Misbah Wolf, and Ouyang Yu. 

 

APJ 9.1 is available in independent bookstores in Australia and can be 

purchased directly from Australian Poetry

August 29 - 2019

I've Let A Man longlisted for the 2019 University of Canberra Vice-

Chancellor's International Poetry Prize by the judges, Kei Miller, Tricia 

Dearborn and Paul Munden.

 

‘The University of Canberra Vice-Chancellor's International Poetry Prize 

(AUD $15,000) has been offered annually since 2014.'

 

The winner will be announced in October and published alongside the 

longlist in the prize anthology as part of the Poetry on the Move

festival.

 

August 29 - 2019

I Never Forgotcommended in the New Zealand Poetry Society 2019 

International Poetry Competition, judged by Kiri Piahana-Wong. 

 

The winning and commended entries will appear in the annual anthology, 

alongside a number of poems selected by this year's editor Raewyn 

Alexander.

 

‘The New Zealand Poetry Society is dedicated to promoting, developing and 

supporting poetry and poets in New Zealand. Its patrons are Dame Fiona 

Kidman and Vincent O'Sullivan.’ 

 

'The Perfect Weight of Blankets at Night: The 2019 New Zealand Poetry 

Society Anthology' will be launched by the New Zealand Poetry Society in 

November.

August 26 - 2019

Two poems appear in Issue 15 of Noon: journal of the Short Poem, published 

in Tokyo, and selected by the editor Philip Rowland.

 

‘Published in hand-sewn, limited editions between 2004 and 2009, the 

journal aims to put some of the most interesting English-language haiku in 

conversation with other innovative short poetry. The new series appears 

online, with the journal’s style of presentation being retained as far as 

possible. A selection of poems from the online issues are published in 

printed book form every other year.’

August 22 - 2019

Dolls appears in Fast Fibres Poetry 6, launched on August 22 as part 

of Phantom Billstickers National Poetry Day at ONEONESIX, Whangarei.

 

Fast Fibres Poetry Collective's sixth collection is edited by Piet 

Nieuwland & Olivia Macassey.

 

The collection is available to purchase through the Fast Fibres Poetry 

Collective.

 

August 15 - 2019

New Age commended in The Gregory O’Donoghue International Poetry Prize 

2019, chosen by the judge Brian Turner.

 

'The Gregory O’Donoghue International Poetry Prize is one of Ireland’s 

most prestigious open poetry prizes and attracts thousands of entries from 

around the world.'

 

The prize is administered by the Munster Literature Centre and is named in 

honour of the late Irish poet, long associated with the Centre.

 

The winner is invited to read at the Cork Spring Poetry Festival each 

year.

August 15 - 2019

Surfers appears in Another North, an online literary magazine based in 

Liverpool, United Kingdom.

 

'Another North was founded in 2019. Our aim is to showcase both creative 

and non-fiction writing by Northern writers, people who live in the North 

and people who write about the North.'

August 7 - 2019

Noon: An Anthology of Short Poems (Isobar Press, Tokyo & London, 2019) 

is reviewed by Tony Beyer.

 

'New Zealand is well represented by some typically acute haiku from Sandra 

Simpson, Wes Lee’s hard-edged stanzas and, via the Tasman, the 

indefatigable Mark Young.'

 

Noon: An Anthology of Short Poems is published by Isobar Press in Tokyo & 

London and can be purchased here

August 6 - 2019

Body, Remember is reviewed in The North - The Alive & Kicking Issue.

 

The North is the flagship magazine of The Poetry Business in the UK. 

 

'Each issue includes: a lively range of international contemporary poetry 

by new and established writers, book reviews from mainstream publishers to 

smaller presses; critical articles; conversations with writers.'

 

The North 62 - The Alive and Kicking Issue is available in independent 

bookshops around the UK, or direct from the Poetry Business.

 

July 26 - 2019

Nub appears in Geometry, Issue 5, edited by Sophie van Waardenburg & 

Harley Hern.

 

'A literary journal publishing diverse fiction, non fiction, graphic 

narrative, art and poetry from New Zealand and around the world.'

Featuring the work of Elizabeth Smither, Jane Arthur, Tony Beyer, Alexis 

Avlamis, Kyler Marzano, Anna Livesey, Susanna Gendall, Anna Priluka, Jac 

Jenkins, David Merritt, Linette Marie Allen, Ojo Taiye, Damian Wampler, 

Jen Hickman, Josh Bettinger, Elizabeth Morton, Anna Woods, Diane Joy 

Schmidt, Jackie Davis, Violetta Leigh, Eli Karren, and Wes Lee.

 

Issue 5 can be purchased in independent bookstores around New Zealand or 

direct from Geometry.

July 23 - 2019

Accepted for publication in the Australian Poetry Journal, Issue 9.1 

- 'resist!', guest edited by John Kinsella.

 

"Resist! is intended to be an act of advocacy for the marginalised against 

the often silent (and sometime aggressively loud) majority’s desire for 

the ‘Australian’ status quo of nationalistic, Eurocentric, colonial (in

its many derivations), officially empowered, consumer-orientated, language 

control, to be preserved. Resist! won’t have this. Resist! is a non-

violent act of shifting and refusing language-controls. It is not one 

cause, but many causes, but all passionately and determinedly resist the 

power structures of oppression with the peaceful act of the poem-making 

and utterance. This is a collective of individual voices with resolve. 

These are poems of different ‘opinions’, but poems sharing a platform to 

speak out and be heard.” — John Kinsella

 

APJ 9.1 will be launched in August.

July 21 - 2019

I'd Take the Spade appears in Strix, Issue #7, launched on July 20 at The 

Leeds Library

 

Edited by Ian Harker, Andrew Lambeth, and SJ Bradley, Strix is available 

in independant bookshops in the UK, and online here

 

‘Handsome, streamlined and sharp-eyed.’ – Carol Rumens (The Guardian)

 

July 14 - 2019

Accepted for publication in Heroines: an anthology of short fiction and 

poetry.

 

Edited by Sarah Nicholson and Caitlin White, the second in the series of 

anthologies will be published by Neo Perennial Press in Australia.

 

The anthology will be launched at the Heroines Festival on the 15th of 

September in Thirroul, Wollongong, New South Wales.

June 27 - 2019

Shortlisted alongside an esteemed group of poets for the Live Canon Poetry Pamphlet 

Prize in London. 

 

Four pamphlets will be selected for publication by Live Canon Poetry 

Press.

 

'Live Canon are an ensemble, performing poetry at theatres, festivals and 

events throughout the UK, recording poetry for radio and CDs, creating 

poetry installations and digital projects, publishing poetry.'

 

'What an extraordinary art form poetry is, and what justice Live Canon 

does to it...' - Extra Extra

June 26 - 2019

Selected as a contributor to The Sky Falls Down: An Anthology of Loss

edited by Dr Gina Mercer and Dr Terry Whitebeach, and published 

by Ginninderra Press in Port Adelaide, South Australia.

 

The anthology will be launched in Hobart on Wednesday 26 June at 5.30pm

at Fullers Bookshop.

 

'In this compelling collection, eighty-nine writers traverse their 

particular territory of loss and bring back travellers' tales. Their 

skillfully crafted accounts are insightful, inspiring, amusing, heart-

breaking, resilient, and, above all, damn good reading.'

 

The Sky Falls Down: An Anthology of Loss is available in independent 

bookstores across Australia and can be purchased directly from Ginninderra Press.

June 20 - 2019

Between Skyscrapers appears in Story Cities: A City Guide for the 

Imagination, launched on June 20 at The Stephen Lawrence Gallery in 

London, and at Blackwell's Bookshop in Manchester on June 27.

 

Story Cities is part of a collaborative research project at the University 

of Greenwich in London. Published by Arachne Press and edited by Ram 

Kehal, Rosamund Davies and Cherry Potts, the anthology includes work from 

writers in Australia, Eire, Indonesia, Malaysia, New Zealand, Portugal, 

USA, and right across the UK.

 

'Story Cities explores ways in which stories respond to, reflect and re-

imagine the city. A guide book to the fictional city, all cities, any 

city: its markets, squares, cafés, hotels, parks, stations and ports; the 

main streets, side streets, back alleys, dead ends and the crossroads. 

Never identified, the city has a voice of its own.'

 

The anthology can be purchased in bookstores around the UK, or direct from 

Arachne Press.

 

'This brilliant collection of flash fiction sparkles with originality.

David Gaffney

June 14 - 2019

The Poetry New Zealand Yearbook 2019 is reviewed by Emma Shi on The Reader: The 

Booksellers New Zealand Blog.

 

'The winners of the Poetry Prize for 2019 are especially enthralling. Wes 

Lee’s first prize poem The Things She Remembers #1 is a swoon of images 

that shout and burst.' 

The review can be read here

 

 

June 10 - 2019

Body, You Let Me Down appears in Oscen, an online literary journal based 

in Auckland.

 

'Oscen creates and curates thought-provoking content that opens up 

conversation in a time of noise, fakeness and antagonism.'

 

Demolish, the second phase of Issue 2: the Power issue, can be read here.

June 6 - 2019

The Poetry New Zealand Yearbook 2019 is reviewed by Harry Ricketts on Nine

to Noon, June 4, hosted by Kathryn Ryan on Radio New Zealand National.

 

'If I had to pick a standout poem, I would point to The Things She 

Remembers #1 by Wes Lee. I will read an excerpt which will give you 

something of the sense of the energy of the poem... Organised with slashes 

in the text which keep you moving. It's a terrific poem, that's certainly 

one I'm going to remember.'

 

The podcast can be downloaded here

June 2 - 2019

Trajectory and Night Shift appear in NOON: An Anthology of Short 

Poems edited by Philip Rowland, and published by Isobar Press in Tokyo.

 

NOON: An Anthology of Short Poems presents a carefully arranged and 

strikingly diverse selection of poems from the issues of NOON: journal of 

the short poem that appeared between 2004 and 2017. Focusing on poems of 

less than fourteen lines, Philip Rowland has assembled a richly 

suggestive, renga-like chain of over two hundred poems by almost half as 

many poets, at the same time showcasing some of the most interesting 

minimalist poetry being written in English today.

 

'It cheers me up that there are still people on the planet who think 

poetry is worth such care and attention.' – Geraldine Monk

 

'So full of splintered richness.' – Jane Hirshfield

 

'Evidences the wealth of the minimalist tradition, resolutely 

international.' – Alistair Noon

 

NOON: An Anthology of Short Poems will be launched at Flying Books in 

Shibuya, Tokyo, on Sunday 2 June at 7pm.

May 29 - 2019

New Year's Day: Observation Unit appears in Mimicry Journal, Issue 5, 

edited by Holly Hunter & Ollie Hutton.

 

Mimicry, Issue 5 will be launched on Wednesday 29 May, as part of

Mouthfull Productions 'Magnitude series'.

 

'Partnering with Wellington creative media collective Mouthfull 

ProductionsMimicry presents a high-octane issue of electric art, 

poetry, prose, photography and music.'


Contributors include: Eliana Gray, Sean Hartery, Alisdair Armstrong, Molly 

Robson, Rhys Feeney, Erik Kennedy, Tyler Barrow, Carolyn DeCarlo, George 

Turner, Joy Holley, fleshy.disguise, Georgie Johnson, Sara Cowdell, Ursula 

Le Sin, Malibu Stacy, BIGSWEAT, O & the Mo, Gangster Phanny, H4LF CĀST, 

Vanessa Crofskey, Madshrew, Rebecca Hawkes, Jessica Lim, Robbie Motion, 

Briana Jamieson, Wes Lee, Jordan Hamel, Carter Imrie-Milne, Adam Price, 

Liv Gallagher, Michaela Keeble, Rose Peoples, Flynn Gough, Catriona 

Britton, Caroline Shepherd, Curtis Mills, Jane Arthur.

 

Mimicry, Issue 5, is available in independent bookstores and direct from 

the Mimicry Journal website.

May 25 - 2019

Recovery Room appears in The Selkie, an online literary journal based in 

Edinburgh, Scotland.

 

Founded by Huriyah T. Quadri, Lis Mesa, Chelsea Welsh & Sonali Misra, The 

Selkie aims to support and nurture voices from diverse and often 

marginalised backgrounds by welcoming submissions and promoting the work 

of underrepresented authors and artists.

 

'Our own stories came together in a flurry of colour and culture – a 

British novelist exploring her Pakistani roots through her craft, a 

nonfiction writer born Cuban yet raised in America reflecting on

immigration and identity, a Scottish poet from Edinburgh using her 

country’s heritage as inspiration for her work, and an Indian editor and 

writer navigating between her career in publishing and writing fiction 

– we are united by our need to create.'

May 5 - 2019

New Age appears in Landfall 237, edited by Emma Neale and published by 

Otago University Press.

 

With new writing from: John Adams, Peter Bland, Laura Borrowdale, Bill 

Bradford, Iain Britton, Medb Charleton, Stephen Coates, Carolyn DeCarlo, 

John Dennison, Lynley Edmeades, David Eggleton, Joan Fleming, Jasmine 

Gallagher, John Gallas, Brett Gartrell, John Geraets, Tim Grgec, Michael 

Hall, Rebecca Hawkes, Joy Holley, Aaron Horrell, Gail Ingram, Claudia 

Jardine, Sam Keenan, Erik Kennedy, Arihia Latham, Jessica Le Bas, Wes Lee, 

Tina Makereti, Ria Masae, Cilla McQueen, Zoë Meager, Robynanne Milford, 

Sean Monaghan, Art Nahill, Kavita Nandan, Rachel O’Neill, Maris O’Rourke,

Claire Orchard, Joanna Preston, essa may ranapiri, Anna Rankin, Jeremy 

Roberts, Leanne Radojkovich, Carrie Rudzinski, Kerrin P. Sharpe, Sarah 

Shirley, Rachel Smith, Elizabeth Smither, Catherine Trundle, Kirsteen Ure, 

Tam Vosper, Tom Weston, Anna Woods, Kirby Wright.

 

'Landfall is New Zealand’s foremost and longest running arts and literary 

journal. Published by Otago University Press, it showcases new fiction, 

poetry, essays and cultural commentary.'

 

Issue 237 is available throughout New Zealand bookstores and direct

from Otago University Press.

May 5 - 2019

The Gateway to Dark InterCity Bus - Dunedin appear in Pink Cover Zine 

Issue #4, edited by Samantha Trayhurn and launched at the Museum of 

Contemporary Art Zine Fair in Sydney on May 5th.

 

Issue 4 on the theme of 'South' was produced in New South Wales and

Begota, Columbia.

 

Featuring new writing from Rose Hunter, Allan Lake, Linda 

Stevenson, Richard James Allen, Em König, Dr. Laura Roriguez Castro, 

Denise O’Hagan, Wes Lee, Melda Copran, lou verga, Jane Downing, Dennis 

Garvey, Linda Kohler, Kristen de Kline, Stuart Barnes, Brianna Bullen, 

Jake Goetz, leónidas marechal.

 

'To be anywhere is always to be south of somewhere else. We move south in 

hope of different horizons. Sometimes things go south and end up worse 

than they were before. From southern migrations to the Great Southern 

Land, what happens when we orientate our words against a northern gaze?'

May 1 - 2019

Three Poems appear in OtolithsIssue fifty-three. A quarterly literary 

magazine edited by Mark Young, in Queensland, Australia.

 

'Otolith: Any of the granules of calcium carbonate in the inner ear of 

vertebrates. Movement of otoliths, caused by a change in position of the 

animal, stimulates sensory hair cells, which convey the information to the 

brain. An ear stone. Collectively, the otoliths are called ear sand and 

otoconite.'

Issue fifty-three is available in print and online.

April 16 - 2019

Sequelae appears in Meniscus Vol 7: Issue 1, edited by Jen Webb at the 

University of Canberra.

 

‘Meniscus is an online literary journal published by the Australasian 

Association of Writing Programs (AAWP). Its aim is to provide a showcase 

for the best in contemporary international writing.’

 

The editors and advisory board are based in Australia, New Zealand and the 

UK, and welcome submissions from writers anywhere in the world.

 

‘Meniscus publishes high quality, innovative poetry, short fiction, and 

creative essays in English, or in other languages with a good parallel 

translation.’

 

The journal can be read here.

April 6 - 2019

Accepted for publication in Mimicry, Issue 5, edited by Holly Hunter & 

Ollie Hutton.

 

Mimicry is an arts and literature journal from Wellington, Aotearoa New 

Zealand.

April 2 - 2019

Before the Glittering Sea of California appears in Issue 8 of the Irish 

literary journal Banshee, edited by Laura Cassidy, Claire Hennessy and Eimear Ryan. 

 

Banshee will launch in Cork on April 3rd (Roundy Pub), and in Dublin on 

April 11th (Winding Stair Bookshop).

 

The Spring/Summer issue contains new writing from: Louise Kennedy, Cassia 

Gaden Gilmartin, Patrick Freyne, Rose Keating, Armel Dagorn, Chris Newlove 

Horton, Dominique Cleary, Stevie Heaven, Niamh Boyce, Nuala O’Connor, 

Valerie O’Riordan, Adam Trodd, Jill Crawford, Christopher Cusack, E.R. 

Murray, Stephanie Roberts, Ingrid Casey, Ian Dudley, Aria Eipe, Amy 

Kotthaus, Mary O’Donnell, Mary Ellen Talley, Ojo Taiye, John Kelly, Wes 

Lee, David Toms, Eva Isherwood-Wallace, M.T. Samuel, Cliona O’Connell, 

Micheál McCann, and Natalie Crick.

 

Issue 8 is available in independent bookstores in Ireland and can be 

purchased online here.

 

March 26 - 2019

Paula Green reviews the Poetry New Zealand Yearbook 2019 on the NZ Poetry 

Shelf.

 

'I was hooked by Wes Lee‘s winning tour-de-force of a poem, 'The Things 

She Remembers #1’. Phrases accumulate like a rollercoaster memory pulling 

you along in a blaze of sharpness and surprise.' - Paula Green

March 21 - 2019

Sand appears in More of Us published by Landing Press in Wellington. The 

collection was launched by Michael Wood, Under-Secretary to the Minister 

for Ethnic Communities, on Thursday 21 March, 5.30pm, at the National 

Library, Wellington.

 

'A unique collection of poems by 46 writers, from 29 countries, who have 

come to New Zealand as migrants or refugees.' 

 

'Families, language, fear, loss, food, and the victories that can come 

slowly. These are at the heart of this collection. More of Us provides a 

glimpse into the experiences of this diverse group of people, which 

includes those who made New Zealand their home decades ago, and newcomers 

still finding their feet.'

 

More of Us is edited by Adrienne Jansen, and can be purchased in 

independent bookstores around New Zealand or direct from Landing Press.

March 19 - 2019

Accepted for publication in Meniscus Vol 7: Issue 1, in Canberra.

 

Meniscus is an online literary journal published by the Australasian 

Association of Writing Programs (AAWP). Its aim is to provide a showcase 

for the best in contemporary international writing.’

 

The editors and advisory board are based in Australia, New Zealand and the 

UK, and welcome submissions from writers anywhere in the world.

 

‘Meniscus publishes high quality, innovative poetry, short fiction, and 

creative essays in English, or in other languages with a good parallel 

translation.’

 

Vol 7: Issue 1 will launch in April.

March 15 - 2019

A girl dies each night on TV appears in Not Very Quiet, Issue 4, edited by 

Moya Pacey, Sandra Renew, and guest editor K A Nelson.

 

Issue 4, on the theme of 'Performing gender', will be officially launched 

in Canberra on March 18 at Smith's Alternative.

 

Not Very Quiet is an online journal for women’s poetry from Australia and 

overseas. Publishing two issues per year, in Spring and Autumn.


March 15 - 2019

Body, Remember is reviewed by Callan Waldron-Hall in Sphinx, in the UK

 

'In this powerful pamphlet, Wes Lee investigates how the body can play the 

role of both subject and object... It is this lack of being that Lee 

captures so well, this idea that everything’s present but something’s 

still missing.'– Callan Waldron-Hall 

 

Sphinx: Poetry Pamphlet Reviews and Features is published by HappenStance 

Press in Glenrothes, Scotland.

March 12 - 2019

Shortlisted for The Overton Poetry Prize 2018 at Loughborough University 

in the UK.

'Wes Lee's Autobiography... This is very powerful writing that doesn’t 

flinch from difficult, sometimes painful subjects. Dense with visual 

imagery. Haunted by a sense of enclosure in so many different locations. 

‘The wildness I carried away with me’ seems to be the right phrase for the 

narrator and the reader after this collection. We admired and enjoyed this 

work enormously.' – Kerry Featherstone and Carol Rowntree-Jones. 

The Overton Poetry Prize for a sequence of poems was established in memory 

of Professor Bill Overton, a world-respected English scholar and a former 

head of department at Loughborough University. Each year the winner 

is published by Loughborough University in chapbook form.

 

This year’s prize is judged by Kerry Featherstone and Carol Rowntree-

Jones. The winner will be announced in March.

 

March 11 - 2019

Accepted for publication in Landfall 237, edited by Emma Neale.

 

'Landfall is New Zealand’s foremost and longest running arts and literary 

journal. Published by Otago University Press, it showcases new fiction, 

poetry, essays and cultural commentary.'

 

Landfall 237 will launch in May.

 

March 11 - 2019

Accepted for publication in NOON: An Anthology of Short Poems edited by 

Philip Rowland and published in Tokyo & London by Isobar Press.

 

'The anthology brings together a selection of the best poems published in 

the literary journal NOON between 2004 and 2017, offering a distinctive 

and wide-ranging selection of contemporary short poems.'

 

NOON: An Anthology of Short Poems will be launched in May 2019.

March 5 - 2019

The Things She Remembers #1 and By the Lapels appear in the Poetry New 

Zealand Yearbook 2019, launched by Massey University Press at Devonport 

library in Auckland.

 

The Things She Remembers #1 was awarded the Poetry New Zealand Prize 2019

by Dr. Jack Ross for the most outstanding poem accepted for publication in 

The Poetry New Zealand Yearbook.

 

‘The Poetry New Zealand Yearbook is this country's oldest, most 

established poetry magazine. It is interested not only in the work of 

established poets and experimental writing but also in that of new writers 

trying to have their work recognised. It also contains reviews and 

articles concerning poetry in New Zealand and elsewhere.’ 

 

The Poetry New Zealand Yearbook 2019 can be purchased in independent 

bookstores around New Zealand, or direct from Massey University Press.

February 13 - 2019

Accepted for publication in the Canberra literary journal Not Very Quiet.

 

Issue 4 will be edited by Moya Pacey, Sandra Renew, K A Nelson, and 

launched in Canberra on March 18 at Smith's Alternative.

January 26 - 2019

Accepted for publication in Banshee, an Irish literary journal published 

twice a year in spring and autumn.

 

Banshee is edited by Laura Cassidy, Claire Hennessy, and Eimear Ryan, and 

features short stories, flash fiction, poetry, personal essays and 

interviews.

 

Issue 8 will be launched in the Irish spring.

January 25 - 2019

Awarded the Poetry New Zealand Prize 2019 by Dr. Jack Ross at Poetry New 

Zealand.

 

The prize is offered annually by Poetry New Zealand for the most 

outstanding poem accepted for publication in The Poetry New Zealand 

Yearbook.

 

The prize-winning poem will appear in The Poetry New Zealand Yearbook 2019 

scheduled to be launched in March by Massey University Press.

 

‘The Poetry New Zealand Yearbook is this country's oldest, most 

established poetry magazine. It is interested not only in the work of 

established poets and experimental writing but also in that of new writers 

trying to have their work recognised. It also contains reviews and 

articles concerning poetry in New Zealand and elsewhere.’ 

January 24 - 2019

A Dream I Had appears in Skylight 47, Issue 11, launched at an Over the 

Edge literary event in Galway City Library by poet/artist/journalist/film-

maker Tim Cumming.

 

Skylight 47 was established in 2013 and appears in a newspaper format 

twice a year.

 

Issue 11 is edited by Bernie Crawford, Nicki Griffin, and Ruth Quinlan.

January 12 - 2019

Accepted for publication in the Sydney-based journal Pink Cover Zine, 

edited by Samantha Trayhurn.

 

Issue 4 will focus on the theme 'South':

 

'To be anywhere is always to be south of somewhere else. We move south in 

hope of different horizons. Sometimes things go south and end up worse 

than they were before. From southern migrations to the Great Southern 

Land, what happens when we orientate our words against a northern gaze?'

 

Issue 4 will be launched March/April.