Bren MacDibble
@macdibble.bsky.social
MG & YA NZ writer now living in WA and loving it! She/her
Books:
How to Bee
In the Dark Spaces
The Dog Runner
Across the Risen Sea
The Raven's Song
The Apprentice Witnesser
www.macdibble.com
Books:
How to Bee
In the Dark Spaces
The Dog Runner
Across the Risen Sea
The Raven's Song
The Apprentice Witnesser
www.macdibble.com
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Bren MacDibble
@macdibble.bsky.social
· Jun 5
So many amazing books in the NZ CYA Awards this year including five by my publisher @allenandunwinnz.bsky.social #booksky #nzcya #booksalive
Have no doubt, the US wants to install puppet governments in all of South America to exploit their resources. By destabilisation or force starting with Venezuela, Nicaragua and Cuba. He’s already meddled with elections in Argentina and Honduras. The US corruption is on full show.
January 4, 2026 at 1:15 AM
Have no doubt, the US wants to install puppet governments in all of South America to exploit their resources. By destabilisation or force starting with Venezuela, Nicaragua and Cuba. He’s already meddled with elections in Argentina and Honduras. The US corruption is on full show.
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Delighted my article on Australia’s shameful education system (stealing resources from children of the poor to further advantage children of the better off) features in The Saturday Paper’s list of its best in 2025. Hope it also helps drives change. www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/comment/topi...
The segregation crisis in schools funding
In the Albanese government’s first term, Education Minister Jason Clare observed that Australia has one of the most segregated education systems in the OECD. What is deeply shocking – though not surpr...
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January 2, 2026 at 9:38 PM
Delighted my article on Australia’s shameful education system (stealing resources from children of the poor to further advantage children of the better off) features in The Saturday Paper’s list of its best in 2025. Hope it also helps drives change. www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/comment/topi...
TFW you’re watching something and it feels so cringe and you realise someone just used AI to animate a photo they stole from someone else and watching it means you’re contributing to a world where models and actors lose the jobs that keep them from starving between gigs and the whole thing is FAKE!
January 3, 2026 at 12:37 AM
TFW you’re watching something and it feels so cringe and you realise someone just used AI to animate a photo they stole from someone else and watching it means you’re contributing to a world where models and actors lose the jobs that keep them from starving between gigs and the whole thing is FAKE!
Reposted by Bren MacDibble
The best books of 2025: The people’s choice
The best books of 2025: The people’s choice
Political memoirs, nature writing and sinister fiction – the books readers loved this year....
thespinoff.co.nz
December 17, 2025 at 12:30 AM
The best books of 2025: The people’s choice
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Can confirm Dame Jacinda Ardern's and (as yet un-damed) Catherine Chidgey's books both appear in our own public submissions of best reads my.christchurchcitylibraries.com/best-of-2025 ^MT
The best books of 2025: The people’s choice
The best books of 2025: The people’s choice
Political memoirs, nature writing and sinister fiction – the books readers loved this year....
thespinoff.co.nz
December 17, 2025 at 1:49 AM
Can confirm Dame Jacinda Ardern's and (as yet un-damed) Catherine Chidgey's books both appear in our own public submissions of best reads my.christchurchcitylibraries.com/best-of-2025 ^MT
Dogs are hardcore, aren't they? My dog was munching on a carrot, then performed some possessed acrobatics and spat out a molar (he's had $1000 of dentistry incl 15 teeth out - small dog mouths are shite - but they won't put him under since the raven fed him a scrap of 1080 - true story).
December 16, 2025 at 2:58 AM
Dogs are hardcore, aren't they? My dog was munching on a carrot, then performed some possessed acrobatics and spat out a molar (he's had $1000 of dentistry incl 15 teeth out - small dog mouths are shite - but they won't put him under since the raven fed him a scrap of 1080 - true story).
It’s interesting that in every community there’s people who are ready to turn on others in their community if given some zealous noise. MORE interesting is that they are so prepared to out themselves right now or join ICE … how handy if someone is taking names.
December 14, 2025 at 4:56 AM
It’s interesting that in every community there’s people who are ready to turn on others in their community if given some zealous noise. MORE interesting is that they are so prepared to out themselves right now or join ICE … how handy if someone is taking names.
Am I brave enough to go get my ear re-pierced? I've spent a whole year just being a one-earring pirate hag.
a man with a watch on his wrist screams with his mouth open
ALT: a man with a watch on his wrist screams with his mouth open
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December 10, 2025 at 8:07 AM
Am I brave enough to go get my ear re-pierced? I've spent a whole year just being a one-earring pirate hag.
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1. New Zealand doctors are officially suing to reverse the country's ban on puberty blockers for gender affirming care.
“These regulations are being enacted based on politics, not on clinical evidence."
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“These regulations are being enacted based on politics, not on clinical evidence."
Subscribe to support our journalism.
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“We’re taking this to court”: Doctors Are Fighting New Zealand’s Puberty Blocker Ban
“Only a small number of young people in Aotearoa are prescribed reversible pubertal suppression, but for those who need it, the negative impacts of this regulation will be huge.”
www.erininthemorning.com
December 2, 2025 at 5:56 PM
1. New Zealand doctors are officially suing to reverse the country's ban on puberty blockers for gender affirming care.
“These regulations are being enacted based on politics, not on clinical evidence."
Subscribe to support our journalism.
www.erininthemorning.com/p/were-takin...
“These regulations are being enacted based on politics, not on clinical evidence."
Subscribe to support our journalism.
www.erininthemorning.com/p/were-takin...
Hippos Yawn and Wave Rock WA.
November 22, 2025 at 3:19 AM
Hippos Yawn and Wave Rock WA.
Alien fungi has landed in outback WA. We’ve seen the Day of the Triffids. We know what comes next!
November 22, 2025 at 3:12 AM
Alien fungi has landed in outback WA. We’ve seen the Day of the Triffids. We know what comes next!
Loved The Granite Skywalk north of Albany in WA. Steep climb but worth it!
November 20, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Loved The Granite Skywalk north of Albany in WA. Steep climb but worth it!
New contract signed for a contemporary YA novel with Freemantle Press! So pleased! 💕
November 19, 2025 at 5:11 AM
New contract signed for a contemporary YA novel with Freemantle Press! So pleased! 💕
As a Kiwi it is hard for me to say this… I never in my life, seen so many trees as on WA’s southern coast! Been driving through them for days!
November 17, 2025 at 1:10 AM
As a Kiwi it is hard for me to say this… I never in my life, seen so many trees as on WA’s southern coast! Been driving through them for days!
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Chuffed to have my work listed alongside Margaret Atwood, Octavia Butler, Nnedi Okorafor and Richard Powers in this article by @clairemabey.bsky.social on recommended climate fiction (cli-fi) from NZ and the world!!
thespinoff.co.nz/books/15-11-...
#ClimateFiction #clifi #books #nzbooks #Aotearoa
thespinoff.co.nz/books/15-11-...
#ClimateFiction #clifi #books #nzbooks #Aotearoa
What is ‘cli-fi’ and why is it so hot right now?
A literary genre that's really heating up.
thespinoff.co.nz
November 16, 2025 at 12:01 AM
Chuffed to have my work listed alongside Margaret Atwood, Octavia Butler, Nnedi Okorafor and Richard Powers in this article by @clairemabey.bsky.social on recommended climate fiction (cli-fi) from NZ and the world!!
thespinoff.co.nz/books/15-11-...
#ClimateFiction #clifi #books #nzbooks #Aotearoa
thespinoff.co.nz/books/15-11-...
#ClimateFiction #clifi #books #nzbooks #Aotearoa
In grasslands shaped by fire one tree reigns supreme. The grass tree, Xanthorrhoea. Impervious to fire, it needs heat and soot to germinate seeds. Slow growing, many of these are 100 years old. The flower spikes contain resin used by the local peoples.
Wanagarra Reserve, Wedge Island, WA. So pretty!
Wanagarra Reserve, Wedge Island, WA. So pretty!
November 12, 2025 at 9:30 AM
In grasslands shaped by fire one tree reigns supreme. The grass tree, Xanthorrhoea. Impervious to fire, it needs heat and soot to germinate seeds. Slow growing, many of these are 100 years old. The flower spikes contain resin used by the local peoples.
Wanagarra Reserve, Wedge Island, WA. So pretty!
Wanagarra Reserve, Wedge Island, WA. So pretty!
I think if 2025 has shown us ANYTHING it's that we need people with impeccable morals in charge.
November 6, 2025 at 12:48 AM
I think if 2025 has shown us ANYTHING it's that we need people with impeccable morals in charge.
The last people who rented my house managed to turn the beep off the microwave! If only they’d done the oven, the dishwasher, the stovetop, the washing machine, the tvs…. Hate beeping appliances!
October 31, 2025 at 12:47 AM
The last people who rented my house managed to turn the beep off the microwave! If only they’d done the oven, the dishwasher, the stovetop, the washing machine, the tvs…. Hate beeping appliances!
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October 21, 2025 at 12:40 AM
When I was at high school there was a thing called the Bursary and it strikes me now that a scheme where highschool graduates can win money for uni with grades is brilliant! Was that how it worked? Kids from Huntly college weren’t told about uni so 🤷♀️ but if that’s how the boomers afforded uni. Wow!
October 14, 2025 at 8:34 AM
When I was at high school there was a thing called the Bursary and it strikes me now that a scheme where highschool graduates can win money for uni with grades is brilliant! Was that how it worked? Kids from Huntly college weren’t told about uni so 🤷♀️ but if that’s how the boomers afforded uni. Wow!
I feel like social media is in self-throttling phase. I'm old, so I remember forums where you'd say something and intelligent people would say something back. Now you say something and 100 accounts, half of which are bots, pile in with idiotic replies. Life's too short.
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October 11, 2025 at 6:06 AM
I feel like social media is in self-throttling phase. I'm old, so I remember forums where you'd say something and intelligent people would say something back. Now you say something and 100 accounts, half of which are bots, pile in with idiotic replies. Life's too short.
WA we have all your homing pigeons. They are grumpy, shitty and ill-equipped for desert life. Half-dead, they are drawn to us like an apocalypse movie opening. Racing pigeons is not a sport. After seeing poop-spattered cities and Trafalgar Square, I realise they're not actually good at 'Homing'.
October 11, 2025 at 5:55 AM
WA we have all your homing pigeons. They are grumpy, shitty and ill-equipped for desert life. Half-dead, they are drawn to us like an apocalypse movie opening. Racing pigeons is not a sport. After seeing poop-spattered cities and Trafalgar Square, I realise they're not actually good at 'Homing'.
NZ Parliament and Brownlee need to take a good long look at whose land they’re standing on before they go shutting down parliament over a waiata! Fragile old white men’s egos deserve a good slap.
October 9, 2025 at 6:35 AM
NZ Parliament and Brownlee need to take a good long look at whose land they’re standing on before they go shutting down parliament over a waiata! Fragile old white men’s egos deserve a good slap.
A lovely evening down at the river.
October 1, 2025 at 12:11 PM
A lovely evening down at the river.