Feby Idrus
@febyidrus.bsky.social
New post! Inside you will find: foxy monsters, rejection, pondering on payment, blue eyed soul.
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Décembre est arrivé!
And other adventures in the freelance artist's life
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December 1, 2025 at 8:42 PM
New post! Inside you will find: foxy monsters, rejection, pondering on payment, blue eyed soul.
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I won the Queenstown Writers Festival Open Competition!
qtwritersfestival.nz/2025-writing...
And you can read the other placegetters and comments from judge Owen Marshall if you click "The Competition" at the top left.
qtwritersfestival.nz/2025-writing...
And you can read the other placegetters and comments from judge Owen Marshall if you click "The Competition" at the top left.
Release: 2025 Programme | Queenstown Writers Festival
Packed with Aotearoa's most exciting writers and thinkers
qtwritersfestival.nz
November 7, 2025 at 2:26 AM
I won the Queenstown Writers Festival Open Competition!
qtwritersfestival.nz/2025-writing...
And you can read the other placegetters and comments from judge Owen Marshall if you click "The Competition" at the top left.
qtwritersfestival.nz/2025-writing...
And you can read the other placegetters and comments from judge Owen Marshall if you click "The Competition" at the top left.
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Finally, here's a starter pack of writers and people associated with the brilliant @takahemagazine.bsky.social Please follow and repost if you can
November 5, 2025 at 8:36 AM
Finally, here's a starter pack of writers and people associated with the brilliant @takahemagazine.bsky.social Please follow and repost if you can
Go me! Been a long time between drinks.
October 25, 2025 at 5:53 AM
Go me! Been a long time between drinks.
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Labour Weekend is a good time to be sending us your submissions for the 2025 edition of Turbine | Kapohau, writers! The deadline is coming up on 1 November - check submission guidelines first (we are flexible on the length of prose submissions)....
turbinekapohau.org.nz
turbinekapohau.org.nz
Current Issue - TURBINE | KAPOHAU
EDITORIAL Welcome POETRY Jessica ArcusFrancis AschoffRebecca BallNathaniel CalhounDavid EggletonRebecca HawkesJacksonLilly KelleherBrent KininmontRata Lee 🔈Winshen LiuMargo Montes de Oca 🔈Mikaela Nyma...
turbinekapohau.org.nz
October 23, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Labour Weekend is a good time to be sending us your submissions for the 2025 edition of Turbine | Kapohau, writers! The deadline is coming up on 1 November - check submission guidelines first (we are flexible on the length of prose submissions)....
turbinekapohau.org.nz
turbinekapohau.org.nz
A good Sunday spent at the Dunedin Writers and Readers Festival. Also, some money spent on books at the Festival! How could I resist Duncan's alpacas.
October 19, 2025 at 10:05 PM
A good Sunday spent at the Dunedin Writers and Readers Festival. Also, some money spent on books at the Festival! How could I resist Duncan's alpacas.
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Aotearoa's longest-running arts and literary journal, Landfall Tauraka, is celebrating its 250th edition in style, with a symposium, a Library exhibition, and a bumper issue marking the occasion 📝✨
Find out more about the celebrations 🎉⬇️
Find out more about the celebrations 🎉⬇️
Landfall Tauraka celebrates 250 issues
Landfall Tauraka is celebrating its 250th edition with a new name, a literary symposium, a special exhibition and a bumper issue.
www.otago.ac.nz
October 16, 2025 at 1:18 AM
Aotearoa's longest-running arts and literary journal, Landfall Tauraka, is celebrating its 250th edition in style, with a symposium, a Library exhibition, and a bumper issue marking the occasion 📝✨
Find out more about the celebrations 🎉⬇️
Find out more about the celebrations 🎉⬇️
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Gaza
The dead boy tries to open his eyes.
He wants to see the world he is leaving.
But there is nothing to see here,
nothing and nothing, and anyway he is gone.
His parents held him while he died
but they are both dead, too.
Or he held them, no one remembers.
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Gaza
The dead boy tries to open his eyes.
He wants to see the world he is leaving.
But there is nothing to see here,
nothing and nothing, and anyway he is gone.
His parents held him while he died
but they are both dead, too.
Or he held them, no one remembers.
.
November 8, 2024 at 10:55 PM
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Gaza
The dead boy tries to open his eyes.
He wants to see the world he is leaving.
But there is nothing to see here,
nothing and nothing, and anyway he is gone.
His parents held him while he died
but they are both dead, too.
Or he held them, no one remembers.
.
Gaza
The dead boy tries to open his eyes.
He wants to see the world he is leaving.
But there is nothing to see here,
nothing and nothing, and anyway he is gone.
His parents held him while he died
but they are both dead, too.
Or he held them, no one remembers.
.
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🚨NEW: Kerry Kennedy has announced Late Show Host Stephen Colbert is the recipient of the 2025 Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award for his advocacy for free speech and speaking truth to power.
REPOST to congratulate Colbert on this honor!
REPOST to congratulate Colbert on this honor!
September 24, 2025 at 6:38 PM
🚨NEW: Kerry Kennedy has announced Late Show Host Stephen Colbert is the recipient of the 2025 Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award for his advocacy for free speech and speaking truth to power.
REPOST to congratulate Colbert on this honor!
REPOST to congratulate Colbert on this honor!
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Writers of Aotearoa, his is your reminder that Turbine | Kapohau 2025 is open for submissions of poetry, fiction and creative nonfiction until 1 November - check out the submission guidelines and send us your work!
Current Issue - TURBINE | KAPOHAU
EDITORIAL Welcome POETRY Jessica ArcusKate AschoffRebecca BallNathaniel CalhounDavid EggletonRebecca HawkesJacksonLilly KelleherBrent KininmontRata Lee 🔈Winshen LiuMargo Montes de Oca 🔈Mikaela Nyman a...
turbinekapohau.org.nz
September 19, 2025 at 2:44 AM
Writers of Aotearoa, his is your reminder that Turbine | Kapohau 2025 is open for submissions of poetry, fiction and creative nonfiction until 1 November - check out the submission guidelines and send us your work!
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🧵 Gentleman in DC on the suspension of @jimmykimmel.com:
“But you know who the real villains in this whole thing are?
The 60-some percent of American voters who didn’t [vote].”
LOUDER FOR THE PEOPLE IN THE BACK. 1/
“But you know who the real villains in this whole thing are?
The 60-some percent of American voters who didn’t [vote].”
LOUDER FOR THE PEOPLE IN THE BACK. 1/
September 19, 2025 at 3:59 AM
🧵 Gentleman in DC on the suspension of @jimmykimmel.com:
“But you know who the real villains in this whole thing are?
The 60-some percent of American voters who didn’t [vote].”
LOUDER FOR THE PEOPLE IN THE BACK. 1/
“But you know who the real villains in this whole thing are?
The 60-some percent of American voters who didn’t [vote].”
LOUDER FOR THE PEOPLE IN THE BACK. 1/
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Horray for the long list!! 🥳
Famed cook & fungus lady among Surrey finalists newsroom.co.nz/2025/09/17/f...
Famed cook & fungus lady among Surrey finalists newsroom.co.nz/2025/09/17/f...
Famed cook & fungus lady among Surrey finalists
Announcing the shortlist of the Surrey Hotel writers residency award
newsroom.co.nz
September 16, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Horray for the long list!! 🥳
Famed cook & fungus lady among Surrey finalists newsroom.co.nz/2025/09/17/f...
Famed cook & fungus lady among Surrey finalists newsroom.co.nz/2025/09/17/f...
I'm new here. Got any recs?
September 7, 2025 at 12:00 AM
I'm new here. Got any recs?
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The top NZ writers are known as the All Writes, whereas the top Australian writers are The Writeroos.
September 6, 2025 at 8:32 AM
The top NZ writers are known as the All Writes, whereas the top Australian writers are The Writeroos.