Philip Temple on Return to Harikoa Bay by Owen Marshall
Short Stories, Big Pictures
Iona Winter on Beats of the Pa’u by Maria Samuela; Peninsula by Sharron Came
Six of the Best
Charlotte Grimshaw on Six by Six: Short stories by New Zealand’s best writers, ed. Bill Manhire
If These Walls Could Talk
Sally Blundell on Home Theatre by Anthony Lapwood
Standing Strong
Tina Shaw on Sista, Stanap Strong! edited by Mikaela Nyman and Rebecca Tobo Olul-Hossen
The Outrageous and the Everyday
Kerry Lane on The Pink Jumpsuit: Short fictions, tall truths by Emma Neale
Between the Long and the Short of It
Sally Blundell on Middle Distance: Long Stories of Aotearoa New Zealand ed. Craig Gamble
At the Edge of Storytelling
Vaughan Rapatahana on I Wish, I Wish by Zirk van den Berg; Ten Acceptable Acts of Arson by Jack Remiel Cottrell
Variations on a Theme
Wendy Parkins on The Piano Girls by Elizabeth Smither
Voices of Aotearoa
Rachel Smith on Strong Words #2 selected by Emma Neale; Te Kinakina, ed Vaughan Rapatahana
Finding Our Light
Renee Liang on A Clear Dawnedited by Paula Morris and Alison Wong
The Treachery of Words (and Images)
Robyn Maree Pickens on This Is Not a Pipe by Tara Black and Timelights by Martin Edmond