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Michelle Elvy is a writer, editor, writing tutor and mentor. She is founding editor of the literary journal Flash Frontier: An adventure in short fiction and Aotearoa New Zealand’s National Flash Fiction Day, and managing editor of the international Best Small Fictions series. Her anthologies include, most recently, Ko Aotearoa Tātou | We Are New Zealand, A Kind of Shelter Whakaruru-taha and Te Moana o Reo | Ocean of Languages. She is the author of the everrumble and the other side of better, both with Ad Hoc Fiction. Kiri Piahana-Wong (Ngāti Ranginui) is a poet and editor, and she is the publisher at Anahera Press. Anahera has worked to uplift and promote toikupu by kaituhi Māori since 2011, and the press has also published Pasifika/Moana poets. Kiri is the author of two full-length poetry collections of her own, Night Swimming (2013) and Tidelines (2024), both published by Anahera Press. She is co-editor of the Māori literature anthology Te Awa o Kupu (Penguin Random House, 2023). Kiri lives in Whanganui.
‘Some books change how we read. Others change how we think about language itself. Short | Poto: The Big Book of Small Stories, accomplishes both, presenting 100 flash fiction pieces in English and te reo Māori to create one of New Zealand's first truly bilingual literary anthologies’ — Savannah Patterson, Kete Books ‘Reading Short | Poto is an exercise in precision and perspective. These stories demand careful attention and reward slow, deliberate engagement. The form allows readers to pause, reflect, and return - finding something new each time. The dual-language structure encourages a richer, more inclusive reading experience, where te ao Māori and te ao Pākehā sit alongside one another in harmony and tension’ — Chris Reed, NZ Booklovers ‘A celebration of spare, condensed focus’ — Tom McKinlay, Otago Daily Times ‘A world first’ — Victoria Meakin, The Press ‘A taonga for learners of language’ — Mary-Anne Stone, Bookenz
Te Tamaiti me te Aihe
The Boy and the Dolphin Maori
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