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Headland: Literary Frontiers and Emerging Voices Headland is a NZ-based e-journal, showcasing new and established literary talent from home and abroa See www.headland.org.nz for submission details.

Headland: Literary Frontiers and Emerging Voices

Headland is a digital journal that publishes quality short literary fiction and creative non-fiction stories. Follow us on Twitter at and visit our website at www.headland.org.nz

The journal gives voice to aspiring writers, and a platform for first-time publication, alongside established authors. New Zealand is home to remarkable

literary talent, and Headland is a springboard for writers to explore and develop their potential, and showcase their early-career works. We welcome overseas submissions and seek to publish an international story in each issue. Headland aims to explore literary frontiers at home and abroad. With no subject parameters, writers are free to submit on any topic. Writers are paid $50 per piece, and every published piece is considered for our annual cash prizes. Cover photo credit: Peter McNeur

Headland is staffed by volunteers and produced in partnership with Massey University's Creative Writing programme.

Tru Paraha shares a stunning visual poem in Issue 21: Kaituhu Māori | Māori Writers.https://headland.org.nz/issues/This ...
18/07/2024

Tru Paraha shares a stunning visual poem in Issue 21: Kaituhu Māori | Māori Writers.
https://headland.org.nz/issues/

This issue is funded by Creative New Zealand.

Shannon Campbell's story 'Our Past, Another Country' appears in Issue 21: Kaituhi Māori | Māori Writers. https://headlan...
18/07/2024

Shannon Campbell's story 'Our Past, Another Country' appears in Issue 21: Kaituhi Māori | Māori Writers. https://headland.org.nz/issues/

This special issue is funded by Creative New Zealand.

Kiri Piahana-Wong shares two poems in Issue 21: Kaituhi Māori | Māori Writers. https://headland.org.nz/issues/This issue...
16/07/2024

Kiri Piahana-Wong shares two poems in Issue 21: Kaituhi Māori | Māori Writers. https://headland.org.nz/issues/

This issue is funded by Creative New Zealand.

Vanessa Ellingham shares her story 'Digital Natives' in Issue 21: Kaituhi Māori | Māori Writers. https://headland.org.nz...
16/07/2024

Vanessa Ellingham shares her story 'Digital Natives' in Issue 21: Kaituhi Māori | Māori Writers. https://headland.org.nz/issues/

This special issue is funded by Creative New Zealand.

Read Tara Leckie's 'Niho Kaiū' in Issue 21: Kaituhi Māōri | Māori Writers.https://headland.org.nz/issues/This special is...
14/07/2024

Read Tara Leckie's 'Niho Kaiū' in Issue 21: Kaituhi Māōri | Māori Writers.
https://headland.org.nz/issues/

This special issue is funded by Creative New Zealand.

Read Nicola Andrews' poem 'Te Toi Uku' in Issue 21: Kaituhi Māori | Māori Writers.https://headland.org.nz/issues/This sp...
14/07/2024

Read Nicola Andrews' poem 'Te Toi Uku' in Issue 21: Kaituhi Māori | Māori Writers.
https://headland.org.nz/issues/

This special issue is funded by Creative New Zealand.

Nicole Titihuia Hawkins shares a trio of poems in Issue 21: Kaituhi Māori | Māori Writers. https://headland.org.nz/issue...
13/07/2024

Nicole Titihuia Hawkins shares a trio of poems in Issue 21: Kaituhi Māori | Māori Writers. https://headland.org.nz/issues/

This special issue is funded by Creative New Zealand

AM Peihopa's story of longing for home, 'The Wigwam Bar', appears in Issue 21: Kaituhi Māori | Māori Writers. https://he...
10/07/2024

AM Peihopa's story of longing for home, 'The Wigwam Bar', appears in Issue 21: Kaituhi Māori | Māori Writers. https://headland.org.nz/issues/

This special issue is funded by Creative New Zealand.

Miriama Gemmell shares her poem 'Tribute to Renee' in Issue 21: Kaituhi Māori | Māori Writers. https://headland.org.nz/i...
09/07/2024

Miriama Gemmell shares her poem 'Tribute to Renee' in Issue 21: Kaituhi Māori | Māori Writers. https://headland.org.nz/issues/

This issue is funded by Creative New Zealand.

Tōrea Scott-Fyfe's hypnotic story 'Hira Walks Quietly' appears in Issue 21: Kaituhi Māori | Māori Writers. https://headl...
09/07/2024

Tōrea Scott-Fyfe's hypnotic story 'Hira Walks Quietly' appears in Issue 21: Kaituhi Māori | Māori Writers. https://headland.org.nz/issues/

This special issue is funded by Creative New Zealand.

Read Stacia Haitana's story 'He Iti te Pounamu' in both English and te reo in Issue 21: Kaituhi Māori | Māori Writers. h...
06/07/2024

Read Stacia Haitana's story 'He Iti te Pounamu' in both English and te reo in Issue 21: Kaituhi Māori | Māori Writers. https://headland.org.nz/issues/

This issue is funded by Creative New Zealand.

Read Steph Matuku's story 'The New Birds' in Issue 21: Kaituhi Māori | Māori Writers. https://headland.org.nzThis specia...
05/07/2024

Read Steph Matuku's story 'The New Birds' in Issue 21: Kaituhi Māori | Māori Writers. https://headland.org.nz

This special issue is funded by Creative New Zealand.

Read Emma Hislop's 'Visualising Huriawa' in Issue 21: Kaituhi Māori | Māori Writers. https://headland.org.nzThis special...
05/07/2024

Read Emma Hislop's 'Visualising Huriawa' in Issue 21: Kaituhi Māori | Māori Writers. https://headland.org.nz

This special issue is funded by Creative New Zealand.

Ariana Tikao shares two new poems in Issue 21: Kaituhi Māori | Māori Writers. https://headland.org.nz This special issu...
04/07/2024

Ariana Tikao shares two new poems in Issue 21: Kaituhi Māori | Māori Writers. https://headland.org.nz

This special issue is funded by Creative New Zealand.

Poet and publisher Kiri Piahana-Wong speaks to our guest editor Briar Wood in an inspiring interview in Issue 21: Kaituh...
02/07/2024

Poet and publisher Kiri Piahana-Wong speaks to our guest editor Briar Wood in an inspiring interview in Issue 21: Kaituhi Māori | Māori Writers. https://headland.org.nz

This special issue is funded by Creative New Zealand.

Issue 21: Kaituhi Māori | Māori Writers is live now. With Briar Wood and Robert Sullivan at the editorial helm, this iss...
30/06/2024

Issue 21: Kaituhi Māori | Māori Writers is live now. With Briar Wood and Robert Sullivan at the editorial helm, this issue brings you writing by Ariana Tikao, Emma Hislop, Kiri Piahana-Wong, Tru Paraha, Steph Matuku, Nicole Titihuia Hawkins, Nicola Andrews, Miriama Gemmell, A M Peihopa, Tōrea Scott-Fyfe, Shannon Campbell, Stacia Haitana, Tara Leckie, and Vanessa Ellingham, and an interview with poet and publisher Kiri Piahana-Wong by Briar Wood. Pānuitia ō rātou kupu ataahua! Funded by Creative New Zealand. https://headland.org.nz

Issue 21: Kaituhi Māori | Māori Writers goes live tomorrow, 1 July 2024!Briar Wood (Ngāpuhi Nui Tonu) is one of our gues...
29/06/2024

Issue 21: Kaituhi Māori | Māori Writers goes live tomorrow, 1 July 2024!

Briar Wood (Ngāpuhi Nui Tonu) is one of our guest chief editors for Issue 21. Briar grew up in South Auckland, Aotearoa New Zealand. She lived and worked as a lecturer in Britain, where she published poetry, fiction and essays, with frequent returns to New Zealand. Welcome Beltane (2012), her first full-length poetry collection, was awarded the Holyer An Gof prize for poetry in Cornwall. Her second collection, Rāwāhi (Anahera Press, 2017), was shortlisted in the Ockham NZ Book Awards 2018. The most recent collection, A Book of Rongo and Te Rangahau was published by Anahera Press in 2022. Her poetry has been extensively published and anthologised.

ONE DAY TO GO! Submissions for Headland Issue 22 close at the end of Sunday, 30 June. See the link in our bio for our su...
29/06/2024

ONE DAY TO GO! Submissions for Headland Issue 22 close at the end of Sunday, 30 June. See the link in our bio for our submissions guidelines and send us your work!

Robert Sullivan (Ngāpuhi, Kāi Tahu) is one of our guest chief editors for Issue 21. His numerous books of poetry include...
29/06/2024

Robert Sullivan (Ngāpuhi, Kāi Tahu) is one of our guest chief editors for Issue 21. His numerous books of poetry include Tūnui | Comet (2022) and the newly released Hopurangi | Songcatcher (2024). He has also authored a graphic novel and an award-winning book of Māori legends for children. With Albert Wendt and Reina Whaitiri, he co-edited two anthologies of Polynesian poetry in English, Whetu Moana (2002) and Mauri Ola (2010). With Reina Whaitiri, he co-edited Puna Wai Kōrero (2014), an anthology of Māori poetry. He has taught at Manukau Institute of Technology and the University of Hawai’i at Mānoa, and is currently associate professor of creative writing at Massey University. His many awards include the Lauris Edmond Memorial Award for a distinguished contribution to New Zealand poetry (2022).

Issue 21: Kaituhi Māori | Māori Writers goes live on 1 July 2024.

Publication day approaches for our Kaituhi Māori—Māori Writers issue, headed by guest chief editors Robert Sullivan and ...
28/06/2024

Publication day approaches for our Kaituhi Māori—Māori Writers issue, headed by guest chief editors Robert Sullivan and Briar Wood. This special issue is funded by Creative New Zealand. Mānawatia a Matariki!

New on our blog page: Neil James Hudson, author of 'The People of the Sea' (Issue 20), meditates on Classical mythology ...
06/06/2024

New on our blog page: Neil James Hudson, author of 'The People of the Sea' (Issue 20), meditates on Classical mythology and the unknowable in 'The First Nightmares'.

We are pleased to now be inviting submissions for Issue 22 of Headland! There is no special theme to this issue, so feel...
16/04/2024

We are pleased to now be inviting submissions for Issue 22 of Headland!

There is no special theme to this issue, so feel free to send us your short fiction and creative nonfiction of up to 5000 words, and on any topic you wish.

We love work from emerging writers as much as we love work from established authors, so please don't hesitate to send us your work!

Submissions close on the 30th June. For full submission guidelines, see the submissions page on our website.

In our most recent issue, two pieces share a curious common thread: birds. While ‘Love in the Time of Te Rāhuinui’ and ‘...
14/04/2024

In our most recent issue, two pieces share a curious common thread: birds.

While ‘Love in the Time of Te Rāhuinui’ and ‘Birds of a Feather’ differ in some ways, in others they seem to be in conversation.

Head to the extras section on our website to read a thought-provoking chat between the authors of these two pieces, Hiria and Chris, as they discuss their work, the future of conservation, and how people can be united through caring for nature more than themselves, albeit in different ways.

We thought it was about time we introduced you all to the brilliant people behind Headland! Up first is Vaughan Rapataha...
07/04/2024

We thought it was about time we introduced you all to the brilliant people behind Headland!

Up first is Vaughan Rapatahana, who's been a part of the Headland editorial team for several years.

A poet, anthologist and committed advocate for writing in te reo Māori, Vaughan brings a great perspective to every editorial meeting and plays an integral role in the shaping of each Headland issue.

Head to the blog page on our website to get to know Vaughan a little more.

Last up from Issue 20 - Christopher Muscato's 'Birds of a Feather' ✨
10/02/2024

Last up from Issue 20 - Christopher Muscato's 'Birds of a Feather' ✨

Next up from Issue 20 - Jacqueline Hammond's 'Eight Days in the Mirror' ✨
08/02/2024

Next up from Issue 20 - Jacqueline Hammond's 'Eight Days in the Mirror' ✨

Next up from Issue 20 - Petra Chamber's 'Otherworldly Diaspora' ✨
03/02/2024

Next up from Issue 20 - Petra Chamber's 'Otherworldly Diaspora' ✨

Next up from Issue 20 - Neil James Hudson's 'The People of the Sea' ✨
30/01/2024

Next up from Issue 20 - Neil James Hudson's 'The People of the Sea' ✨

Next up from Issue 20 - Suri Parmar's 'Hound of Hell' ✨
27/01/2024

Next up from Issue 20 - Suri Parmar's 'Hound of Hell' ✨

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