Title: Sport 42: 2014

Editor: Fergus Barrowman

Publication details: Fergus Barrowman, 2014, Wellington

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Sport 42: 2014

Contributors

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Contributors

Pip Adam’s collection of short stories, Everything We Hoped For, won the Hubert Church Award for Best First Book in the 2011 New Zealand Post Book Awards. She received an Arts Foundation of New Zealand New Generation Award in 2012, and her novel I’m Working on a Building was published by VUP in October 2013. ‘Tragedy of the Commons’ is an extract from work in progress.

Morgan Bach completed an MA in Creative Writing at the IIML in 2013, and was the recipient of the Biggs Family Prize in Poetry. She lives (and was born and mostly raised) in Wellington.

Sarah Jane Barnett is a writer, tutor and book reviewer who lives in Wellington. Her first collection of poems, A Man Runs into a Woman, was published by Hue & Cry Press in 2012, and was a finalist in the 2013 New Zealand Post Book Awards. Her work has appeared in various publications including Sport, Landfall, Best New Zealand Poems and Southerly. Sarah is currently completing a creative PhD in the field of ecopoetics. She blogs at: theredroom.org.

Airini Beautrais lives in Whanganui and is the author of two books of poetry, Secret Heart (2006) and Western Line (2011). Her book-length sequence Dear Neil Roberts will be published by VUP in November 2014.

Tony Beyer’s most recent book is Great South Road and South Side, two longer poems (Puriri Press, Auckland, 2013).

Peter Bland’s many books include Collected Poems 1956–2011 (Steele Roberts, 2012) and Breath Dances (Steele Roberts, 2013).

Amy Brown teaches creative writing at the University of Melbourne. Her first collection, The Propaganda Poster Girl, was shortlisted for a New Zealand Book Award in 2009. Her second poetry book, a contemporary epic titled The Odour of Sanctity, was published by VUP in 2013. She is currently working on a new book-length poem, so far called Our Effects, which aims to present characters who have lost or left their homes via a focus on their belongings.

James Brown’s fifth book of poems, Warm Auditorium, was published by VUP in 2012. Victoria Cleal is a subeditor living in Wellington. She returned from living overseas for many years to find that the village where she was born had been dismantled.

Geoff Cochrane’s many books of poetry include The Bengal Engine’s Mango Afterglow (VUP, 2012). Astonished Dice: Collected Short Stories will be published by VUP in mid 2014, and a new collection of poems, Wonky Optics, in 2015.

Lynn Davidson has written four collections of poetry; the latest, Common Land, published in 2012 by Victoria University Press combines poetry and essays. A novella, The Desert Road, was published this year by Rosa Mira Books. In September 2013 Lynn was writing fellow at Hawthornden Castle in Scotland

Uther Dean makes his living creating theatre with his company My Accomplice (myaccomplice.co.nz) and writing about the arts for various publications around the country. He is the head writer and creator of the radio play podcast The Witching Hours (thewitchinghours.com). He has an MA in Scriptwriting from the IIML and tweets as @utherlives.

Breton Dukes lives with his wife in Kaikorai Valley, Dunedin. He is a telephonist for the government. His interests include rabbit shooting, tenting and cookery. He is the author of page 278 Bird North and other stories (VUP, 2011) and Empty Bone and other stories (VUP, 2014).

Pansy Duncan is an Auckland writer and academic.

Johanna Emeney is an Auckland teacher of English and Japanese. She is a PhD student, undertaking research on medically-themed NZ poetry. Jo is co-tutor/co-ordinator of the Young Writers Programme at the Michael King Writers Centre in Devonport with her colleague and friend Rosalind Ali. Her book of poetry Apple & Tree was published in 2011 by Cape Catley.

Emma Hislop is a Wellington writer. In 2013 she completed an MA in Creative Writing at the International Institute of Modern Letters. She writes short fiction.

Some of Brent Kininmont’s relatives live near Izumo, 70 minutes by plane from Tokyo. Every autumn the countless Shinto gods are supposed to gather in Izumo to decide the bonds people will make in the coming year.

Elizabeth Knox published two novels in 2013: Wake (VUP) for adults and Mortal Fire (Gecko and Frances Foster Books/Farrar, Straus & Giroux), which has been shortlisted for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Young Adult Literature.

Kirsten Le Harivel completed her MA at the IIML last year. Her work has been published in Turbine, The 4th Floor, Swamp, Penduline Press and Blackmail Press. She lives on the Kapiti Coast.

Mary Macpherson is a Wellington poet and photographer. Her latest work is Bent, a photographic study of how the lives of trees are affected by human needs. www. marymmac.weebly.com.

Tina Makereti’s first novel, Where the Rēkohu Bone Sings (Random House), has just been published and this year she will be the Randell Cottage Creative NZ Writer in Residence. ‘Frau Amsel’s Cupboard’ was inspired by the ethnographic collection at the Weltkulturen Museum, Frankfurt, where she was a resident writer for some weeks in 2012.

Bill Manhire’s Selected Poems was published by VUP in 2012 and Carcanet (UK) in 2014. His collaboration with the jazz composer Norman Meehan and singer Hannah Griffin has resulted in the CDs Buddhist Rain (Rattle, 2010) and Making Baby Float (Rattle, 2011), and, with the addition of photographer Anne Noble, These Rough Notes (VUP, 2012).

Jo McNeice lives in Wellington. In 2013 she completed an MA in Creative Writing at Victoria University.

Fiona Mitford is a Gisborne writer. She has an MA in Creative Writing from Victoria University and is currently working on a collection of short stories.

Stephanie de Montalk is the author of the memoir/biography Unquiet World, the historical novel The Fountain of Tears and four books of poetry. In 2013 she gained a PhD in Creative Writing; her dissertation, a memoir and study of chronic pain, How Does it Hurt?: Narrating Pain, in which ‘The Vendor of Happiness’ appears, will be published by VUP later this year.

Bill Nelson is a poet living in Wellington. His work has appeared in Sport, Hue and Cry, Shenandoah, Minarets, The 4th Floor, Swamp and Blackmail Press. He is also a writer and co-editor at Up Country. He is interested in very large concepts and very small words.

Claire Orchard completed her MA in Creative Writing at the IIML in 2013. She has been published in Landfall 226, JAAM 31, 4th Floor and Penduline Press.

Lawrence Patchett is the author of the short-story collection I Got His Blood On Me (VUP). ‘From Inland’ is an excerpt from a novel in progress, written with the support of the CNZ Todd Foundation New Writers Bursary.

Lee Posna lives in Paekakariki with his wife, poet Therese Lloyd. He works part-time at the Vic Library and is happy to be a part of the exciting Wellington writing community.

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Chris Price teaches at the International Institute of Modern Letters. Recent publications include an essay, ‘The Lobster’s Tail’, in in the Griffith Review’s free ebook, Pacific Highways Vol. 2, and poems and translations created as part of the Transit of Venus Poetry Exchange (forthcoming, 2014).

Melissa Day Reid takes staycations. Her stories have appeared in Turbine, Sport and Hue & Cry.

Frances Samuel’s debut collection of poems, Sleeping on Horseback, will be published by VUP later in 2014.

Kerrin P. Sharpe’s first book of poems, Three Coins in a Wishing Well, was published by VUP in 2012. Her second, There’s a Medical Name for This, will be published in August 2014.

Charlotte Simmonds is a Wellington writer of CVs and cover letters, thankfully now more of other people’s than her own. In her spare time she is a translator, author and theatre practitioner and is also heavily involved in competitive car versus bicycle events.

Elizabeth Smither’s most recent publication is a little suite of poems for her granddaughter, Ruby. Ruby Duby Du, with illustrations by Kathryn Madill, was published by Cold Hub Press in 2013.

Charmaine Thomson’s poems have appeared in The 4th Floor, a fine line, Blackmail Press, The Shot Glass Journal and The Fib Review. Her first collection of poems, Licorice, was published in 2012. She studied performance music in the past and is particularly interested in the tensions between Romantic music and human behaviour.

Jessica Todd completed an MA in Creative Writing at the IIML in 2013.

Tom Weston divides his time between Christchurch, Auckland and points further afield. He travels a lot. The sequence published here was written post-earthquake, now that everything has changed.

Virginia Were is a poet and the editor of the quarterly magazine Art News New Zealand. She has written two books of poetry and short fiction (Juliet Bravo Juliet and Jump Start, published by Victoria University Press). She is a graduate of Elam School of Fine Arts and was a member of the music group Marie and the Atom. She lives at Muriwai and in her spare time she is an amateur eventing rider.

Damien Wilkins’ most recent book is the novel Max Gate. His poems appear in the collection The Idles (VUP, 1993) and in back issues of Sport http://nzetc.victoria.ac.nz/tm/scholarly/tei-corpus-Sport.html. He is the Director of the International Institute of Modern Letters.

Mark Williams is Professor of English at Victoria University of Wellington, and delivered ‘When You’re Dead You Go on Television’ as his inaugural lecture on 5 November 2013. His many publications include The Auckland University Press Anthology of New Zealand Literature (co-editor with Jane Stafford, AUP 2013).

Sugar Magnolia Wilson is a writer from the Far North currently residing in Wellington in a little house on a windy hill with two magical danger-cats, Billy and Spirit, and one magical danger-flatmate, Kerry. Her first small book, Pen Pal, is coming out in 2014 with Cats and Spaghetti Press. Keep an eye out for launch information.