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Claire Mabey is the founder of Verb Wellington, LitCrawl Wellington and L?emis. She is also books editor at The Spinoff, book critic at RNZ and co-curator of the writers' programme at the Aotearoa NZ Festival of the Arts.

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Bren MacDibble was raised on farms all over New Zealand, backpacked the world in her twenties, stopped off in Australia on the way home and stayed. She lived in Melbourne for twenty years, then travelled Australia living and working in a bus, and now runs holiday villas on the stunning coral coast of Western Australia. In 2018, How to Bee - her first novel for younger readers - won the Children's Book Council Book of the Year Award for Younger Readers, the New South Wales Premier's Literary Award Patricia Wrightson Prize for Children's Literature, and the New Zealand Book Awards Wright Family Foundation Esther Glen Award for Junior Fiction. In 2019 The Dog Runner won the New Zealand Book Awards Wright Family Foundation Esther Glen Award for Junior Fiction. Across the Risen Sea (2020) was shortlisted for multiple awards and nominated for a CILIP Carnegie medal. The Raven's Song (2022), co-written with Zana Fraillon, was an Honour Book for the CBCA Award for Younger Readers. Bren also writes for young adults under the name Cally Black.

Sitting in class late morning in 1974, on hearing a poem by the German poet & novelist Herman Hesse Peter Le Baige felt himself, in his own words, 'infused with a fermented light', and knew his future life would take him crashingly through foreign tongues and language forms and along the madly overgrown paths of poetry, wherever else it led him. Writing and performing poetry since the first session of the legendary 'Poetry Live' weekly poetry readings at the Globe Tavern in Auckland in 1980, his first two collections of poems, 'Breakers', 1979, and 'Street hung with daylit moon', 1986, are now succeeded by his 2023 collection, 'Blackbird in paradise', drawn from pieces written over the past 37 years. He remains lost in the garden still.

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