Author(s): Edited by Odessa Owens and Theresa Crewdson

Literature | Aotearoa New Zealand Non-Fiction

A wide range of publishers, illustrators, poets, publicists, designers and  award-winning authors such as Ashleigh Young, Anahera Gildea, Michael Bennett, Paula Morris, Selina Tusitala Marsh discuss their writing.

Covering a blend of genres, including advice, poems, listicles, creative insights, graphic pieces and personal reflections, making it a book readers can dip in and out of easily – something for everyone - telling the unique stories of publishing within the specific context of Aotearoa.

Featuring a foreword by Witi Ihimaera, this book celebrates thirty years of the Whitireia Publishing course in an insightful, informative and playful anthology for all book lovers.

Foreword - Witi Ihimaera; Introduction: Everything we know about teaching publishing - Odessa Owens & Theresa Crewdson; Te korihi a te huia: The space for Maori storytelling - Pania Tahau-Hodges; How to edit a poem - Chris Tse; Tomorrow will be the same as this, pretty much - Sarah Pepperle; Festival of dreams: Literary events as world-building - Claire Mabey; The American publishing industry and your Wi-Fi signal - Chloe Gong; How to publish less-heard voices - Ash Davida Jane & Stacey Teague; How to review a book - Charlotte Grimshaw; Why should anyone care? - Lana Lopesi; I learned it at the movies: What film and TV can teach us about publishing—and what they get wrong - Claire Murdoch; An industry of rejection - Angelique Tran Van Sang; Having your book edited is a bit like going through a breakup - Madison Hamill; From the Kiddie-Corner: Some insights into the world of children's book publishing - Lynette Evans; My audiobook epic - Clayton Carrick-Leslie; Story sovereignty in self-publishing - Qiane Matata-Sipu; An Edmonds story - Dom Visini & Alison Shucksmith; On editing your friends - Ashleigh Young; Wild card - Selina Tusitala Marsh; Pushing out the margins - Adrienne Jansen; Reflections from a small Pacific publisher + a manifesto of sorts - Faith Wilson; How to commission - Holly Hunter; Scenes on the screen inside my head - Michael Bennett; Publishing by the book: The Whitireia classroom and beyond - Lauren Donald; Why we need new typefaces: Thoughts from the frontline of type - Kris Sowersby; Sweet Mammalian: Messy, sexy, biased, dirty - Hannah Mettner; Lessons from the business end of the business - Becky Innes; Gunk (mereology) - Joanna Cho; How to avoid defamation - Steven Price; She had me at the cows: The making of a modern classic - Mary McCallum; Taking New Zealand books offshore - Peter Dowling; Waharoa: An (Indigenous) hero's journey into the world of publishing - Nadine Anne Hura; Synapses are how booksellers sell books - Tilly Lloyd; Collective disruption: The art of art book making - Clare McIntosh; Big pond: Experiences in UK publishing - Katie Haworth; On the power of festivals - Rachael King; Swipe card and a dream: Advice for publishing interns - Damien Levi; How to publish a non-fiction bestseller - Jenny Hellen; Valuing two hundred years of Maori books - Jacinta Ruru; From Colenso to Catton: A quick skim through two centuries of book publishing in Aotearoa - Elizabeth Caffin; Centred somewhere else - Marian Evans; Who owns the stories? Adventures in copyright - Sam Elworthy; Sextuplets: A case study - Trish Harris; I wrote The Porangi Boy for kids like me - Shilo Kino; writers festivals are fucking weird eh - Dominic Hoey; How to be literary philanthropists - Mary & Peter Biggs; Why publishing matters: Behind the scenes in a museum - Sean Mallon; Bringing stories to Aotearoa, curiously - Julia Marshall; How to bankroll a book: Paper may grow on trees-but money doesn't - Malcolm Burgess; Thoughts on correctness - Anna Jackson-Scott; Reps on the road - Marthie Markstein; Prediction: your life will come to this - Jane Arthur; The crooked path to a picture book - Gavin Bishop; From multinational to multitasking - Kevin Chapman; Kia puawai te aroha ki te reo - Mike Dreaver; How to rock self-publishing - Steff Green; More than a numbers game: A view from PANZ - Craig Gamble; The curious reader: Championing books - Kiran Dass; Publishing Nicky Hager - Robbie Burton; Paula Morris reads your emails - Paula Morris; Everything I know about publishing in other languages - Ya-Wen Ho; How to design a book: A focus on covers - Alan Deare; To publish or not to publish, is that the question? - Anahera Gildea; How to publish a blue whale - Susan Paris; Paper trail: The evolution of academic publishing - James L Savage; How to smash the system - Murdoch Stephens & Brannavan Gnanalingam; Joan picks Joan's Picks - Joan Mackenzie; Here's what happens when no one shows up to your writers event - Madeleine Chapman; The Changeover: From page to screen - Stuart McKenzie; And the winner is... - Nicola Legat.