Gutting is a short story by Stockholm-based writer Ting J. Yiu that explores the pathology of trauma and migration set within the sweeping landscape of Aotearoa’s West Coast. Gutting is the eighth and final publication for Epigraph Project, whose mahi would not be possible without the generous support of Mātātuhi Foundation…
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Epigraph Interview with Ting J. Yiu
Ting. J. Yiu is a Stockholm based writer with an MA in Transnational Creative Writing. She writes poetry, fiction and creative non-fiction. Her short story Gutting is the final Epigraph Project piece for 2020. In this interview with the editor, she talks about her fascination with true crime and diaspora narratives, and why she writes about ugly and unorthodox women…
Epigraph Interview with Yoshiko Teraoka
Yoshiko Teraoka is a London-based writer. Her research project on anarchist bookshops and libraries has previously appeared in the online visual platform UNDERSCAN. Her essay A Boxing Match with Jerry, or Death in Three Parts is available to read now as part of Epigraph Project, supporting new and emerging Asian New Zealand writers…
A Boxing Match with Jerry, or Death in Three Parts
This is a personal essay by Yoshiko Teraoka on grief and mining memory. It is a brief account of death in three parts. This is the seventh publication for Epigraph Project, supporting Asian New Zealand writers. With support from Mātātuhi Foundation…
Epigraph Interview with Febriani Idrus
Feby Idrus is a writer, musician and arts administrator from Dunedin. In 2018 was one of four playwrights selected to take part in the Fortune Theatre’s Emerging Playwrights mentoring programme. She also writes programme notes for the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra – rather a different proposition to writing short stories…
Monster
Monster is a short story by Dunedin-based writer, musician and arts administrator Feby Idrus and is our sixth publication for Epigraph Project. With support from Mātātuhi Foundation…
Epigraph Interview with Grace Yee
Grace Yee writes poetry, essays and short fiction. Grace’s PhD research at the University of Melbourne focused on settler Chinese women’s storytelling in Aotearoa New Zealand. In this interview, she talks about her recent research and her magpie approach to writing poetry…
when we elevated a section of the great wall
The fifth installment of Epigraph is a short collection of poems by Grace Yee. Epigraph is made possible with the support of Mātātuhi Foundation…
Epigraph Interview with kī anthony
kī anthony is an autistic lesbian of Indian and Chinese descent. They are the fourth writer whose work has been selected for Epigraph Project. In this interview, they talk about representation for sex workers, their early experiences with tech and open source, and how the internet is both our oppressor and the means for radical change…
sync, line & hooker
sync, line & hooker by kī anthony is a long-form essay exploring the intersection between sex work and tech culture, and our fourth Epigraph publication for 2020. This project was made possible with the support of Mātātuhi Foundation…
Fission
Fission by Nicole Tan is our third Epigraph publication for 2020. Epigraph is made possible with the generous support of Mātātuhi Foundation…
Epigraph Interview with Nicole Tan
Nicole Tan’s speculative fiction, Fission, features as the third Epigraph Project of 2020. In this latest interview, Tan talks to editor Amy Weng about what drew them to this genre of fiction, what being a diaspora writer means, and their longstanding interest in fanfiction…
The Mother of Publishing
Our second Epigraph selection of 2020 is a short collection of poetry by Wellington-based writer Joanna Cho. Epigraph is made possible with support from Mātātuhi Foundation…