Meet Erica Stretton, writer, reviewer and our Kete Editor (interim to September). Find out what’s on Erica’s reading list and what she might be doing in a universe with no books.

Kiran Dass joins Kete as Editor in Chief in September. Read our interview for a glimpse into what’s on Kiran’s towering TBR pile as well as some of the incredible book events she’s been involved in (including a few you can still get tickets to)!

For Auckland Pride Month and in her last year as samesame but different festival Chair, Simie Simpson celebrates the excellence of Aotearoa’s LGBTQIA writers with a must-read book list.

For Lunar New Year, Chris Tse has curated a selection of recent books by East and South East Asian writers from Aotearoa to help you to be well-read in a year of dragons!

Readers and the Aotearoa book sector are sharing memories of award-winning children’s author Sherryl Jordan who has died aged 74.

Renée (Ngāti Kahungunu) ONZM (1929 –2023) one of Aotearoa's notable writers has died peacefully in Wellington.

“Booksellers around the motu develop a wild look in their eye come December….”

Author and bookseller Olivia Spooner on reading for fun and the books she’s recommending this Christmas.

“People care. I re-learn this every year. Because every year they deliver. Already donated so far this year: beautiful large-format hard cover books like Rivers from Gecko Press, Mat Tait’s award-winning Te Wehenga, and YA wonders like Anne Kayes’ In Our Own Backyard….”

Sonya Wilson, writer and Kiwi Christmas Books founder on how books from Aotearoa can make a difference at Christmas.

‘…compiling and adding to this list has expanded the possibilities of my own reading, and I hope it can do the same for you.’ Saraid de Silva curates a selection of recent books by Aotearoa’s South Asian writers in this special guest editorial timed for the lead up to Diwali.

He’s a seasoned creator, writer, show runner and executive producer of many of our most successful TV shows but until now, Gavin Strawhan had never written a book. That’s about to change now he’s won the Allen & Unwin 2023 Fiction Prize.

Find out about Nicola’s own childhood favourites, as well as the books by authors from Aotearoa (outside this year’s awards) that convenor of judges Nicola Daly recommends to children time and time again.

The WORD Christchurch programme is out 18 July. While you wait, find out what WORD Programme Lead Kiran Dass has been reading.

Arlo Kelly was out walking and chatting with his sister on Makorori Beach when he noticed the echo of their voices in the surrounding cliffs. That night, he wrote the first pages of his book Echo.

Kete questionnaire: Kimberly Andrews on how she went from being a biologist and geologist to a writer and illustrator of children’s books

Kete questionnaire: Gary Venn on writing his debut novel The Singing Stone - and the vital role the Coromandel plays in it.

Pasifika Navigators is the world’s first Pasifika Student Poetry Collection. Kete hears from some of the young authors included in it.

March 2023 release

Kete questionnaire: Anne Kayes on writing the Tūī Street series - and advice for young writers.

Kete questionnaire: Bridget van der Zijpp on curating the 2023 Auckland Writers Festival.

Interview: Dame Fiona Kidman on the power of the book: “There is something special about opening the pages of a book and the young people I give books to always seem to look happy about it.”

Te wiki o te reo Māori i te ētita Ruth Smith.