Edited by Lynley Edmeades
Landfall is New Zealand’s foremost and longest-running arts and literary journal. Published twice a year, each volume showcases two full-colour art portfolios and brims with vital new fiction, poetry, cultural commentary, reviews, and biographical and critical essays. Bringing together a range of voices and perspectives, from established practitioners to emerging talents, Landfall is an exciting anthology that has its finger on the pulse of innovation and creativity in Aotearoa today.
Landfall 248: Spring 2024 announces the winner of the 2024 Landfall Essay Competition, an annual essay competition that celebrates the art of essay writing in Aotearoa New Zealand. This year’s winning essay will feature in Landfall 248, alongside the judge’s report from Landfall editor, Lynley Edmeades.
Landfall 248 also includes essays from the 2024 collaboration with RMIT University’s nonfiction/Lab. These trans-Tasman essays focus on the theme of ‘making space,’ and what it means to use writing as a tool to create space for different voices, perspectives and ideas.
Landfall 248 also announces the winner of the 2024 Caselberg International Poetry Prize, judged by poet and writer, Alan Roddick, and includes the winning poems.
Editor
Lynley Edmeades is the author of two poetry collections, As the Verb Tenses (Otago University Press, 2016) and Listening In (Otago University Press, 2019), and a poetry and art picture book for adults, Bordering on Miraculous (Massey University Press, 2022), in collaboration with Saskia Leek. She has an MA in creative writing from the Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry at Queen’s University of Belfast and holds a PhD in avant-garde poetics from the University of Otago. In 2018, she was the Ursula Bethell Writer in Residence at the University of Canterbury, and she currently teaches poetry and creative writing on the English programme at the University of Otago
Publication details
Fiction, Poetry, Literature, Essays
Cover art by Simon Richardson
230 x 150mm, 208pp
ISBN 9781990048869
RRP $35
Release date: November 2024
Reviews
Review: ‘Landfall 248 achieves a delicate balance between reflecting on the past and engaging with pressing contemporary issues. It demonstrates that literature and art are not just mirrors of society but active participants in shaping its trajectory. For those passionate about the intersections of creativity, culture, and critique, this issue is an essential read. Landfall continues to lead the way in amplifying the diverse voices that define Aotearoa’s artistic and literary landscape.’ – Chris Reed for NZ Booklovers Read