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Maori writers explore new ways to tell stories 13 May 2021 08:30 AM Photo: Auckland Writers Festival Facebook. More Related Stories Ruby Solly - Maori writers explore new ways to tell stories. The curator Maori for the Auckland Writers Festival Waituhi o Tamaki says she wants to encourage other Maori to turn their natural storytelling abilities into writing. The curator Māori for the Auckland Writers Festival Waituhi o Tamaki says she wants to encourage other Māori to turn their natural storytelling abilities into writing. Poet and musician Ruby Solly says there is worldwide interest for indigenous writing, which raises questions about how stories are told and who they are for. ....
Sam Tattersfield/Stuff Wellington Zinefest organiser Milly Hampton will feature in a history of the event that will be screened at the Hamilton Zinefest on Saturday. Dozens of poets, comic creators, fringe politicos, illustrators, writers and artists will bring their self-made wares to the Meteor Theatre on Saturday for the seventh Hamilton Zinefest. It marks a long-awaited return for the event, which had to be cancelled last year due to the Covid-19 lockdown. Zinefests are held in cities around New Zealand and while such events are a relatively recent phenomena, zines themselves are not. A zine (pronounced “zeen”) is any labour-of-love act of short-run publishing, so any amateur poetry journal, fringe political pamphlet, or photocopied comic book qualifies as an example of zine-making. The word zine is a shortening of fanzine, a term invented in the 1940s to describe the amateur science fiction fan magazines that began appearing at that time. ....