Michelle Duff
@michelleduff.bsky.social
Social issues journalist and fiction writer, Te-Whanganui-a-Tara.
Surplus Women out April 11!
www.michelleduff.com
Words in The Guardian, New Zealand Geographic, Landfall, among others.
Surplus Women out April 11!
www.michelleduff.com
Words in The Guardian, New Zealand Geographic, Landfall, among others.
Reposted by Michelle Duff
Winners will be announced Weds 18th June. Check out the rest of the finalists here: www.sciencemediacentre.co.nz/2025/05/15/e...
Eleven finalists emerge for 2025 Science Journalism Awards
From over 60 submissions that included television and audio pieces, interactives, online news stories, and long-form features, we have eleven finalists for the 2025 Science Journalism Awards.
Many tha...
www.sciencemediacentre.co.nz
June 12, 2025 at 2:23 AM
Winners will be announced Weds 18th June. Check out the rest of the finalists here: www.sciencemediacentre.co.nz/2025/05/15/e...
Looking forward to the New Zealand Science Journalism Awards tomorrow evening - a finalist for this story for The Guardian.
Seeing as RFK Jr is in the news–
From 6 months ago, this candidates for the #NZ science journalism awards (see my earlier repost).
‘We learned the hard way’: Samoa remembers a deadly measles outbreak and a visit from RFK Jr
by @michelleduff.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/world/2024/n... 1/2
From 6 months ago, this candidates for the #NZ science journalism awards (see my earlier repost).
‘We learned the hard way’: Samoa remembers a deadly measles outbreak and a visit from RFK Jr
by @michelleduff.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/world/2024/n... 1/2
‘We learned the hard way’: Samoa remembers a deadly measles outbreak and a visit from RFK Jr
A few months before the outbreak in 2019, Kennedy travelled to Samoa and met with anti-vaccine figures, contributing to what health experts claim was a ‘significant disinformation campaign’
www.theguardian.com
June 17, 2025 at 9:04 AM
Looking forward to the New Zealand Science Journalism Awards tomorrow evening - a finalist for this story for The Guardian.
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For an increasing number of NZ citizens, life in the country is not the dream they planned. We spoke to @michelleduff.bsky.social as she reports on why so many are fleeing the economic downturn for greener pastures. #FullStory @australia.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
‘Hollowing out’: why are so many people leaving New Zealand? - podcast
Michelle Duff speaks to Reged Ahmad about why the country is facing a mass exodus
www.theguardian.com
May 26, 2025 at 6:22 AM
For an increasing number of NZ citizens, life in the country is not the dream they planned. We spoke to @michelleduff.bsky.social as she reports on why so many are fleeing the economic downturn for greener pastures. #FullStory @australia.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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Stunning essay from @michelleduff.bsky.social about where the women in her short story collection came from. I knew yet somehow I was still surprised/delighted! thespinoff.co.nz/books/22-04-... @modernletters.bsky.social
April 22, 2025 at 7:25 AM
Stunning essay from @michelleduff.bsky.social about where the women in her short story collection came from. I knew yet somehow I was still surprised/delighted! thespinoff.co.nz/books/22-04-... @modernletters.bsky.social
I launched a book and it’s a short story collection called Surplus Women!! Pretty excited about the whole thing tbh. You can buy it now! Here is a great review from Nat Baker at Kete books: www.ketebooks.co.nz/en/reviews/r...
Review: Surplus Women
'There is a journalistic quality to the writing, a weight to the stories that is satisfying to read. There is artistry, something more playful, irreverent and dreamlike in many of them too, and it’s t...
www.ketebooks.co.nz
April 15, 2025 at 9:52 PM
I launched a book and it’s a short story collection called Surplus Women!! Pretty excited about the whole thing tbh. You can buy it now! Here is a great review from Nat Baker at Kete books: www.ketebooks.co.nz/en/reviews/r...
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Happy launch day to Surplus Women @michelleduff.bsky.social @thwupbooks.bsky.social Unity Books Wellington 6pm featuring @tinamakereti.bsky.social and Emily Writes. All welcome! teherengawakapress.co.nz/surplus-women/
Surplus Women
Te Herenga Waka University Press is New Zealand's leading publisher of new fiction and poetry, and a scholarly publisher specialising in NZ history, biography and essays.
teherengawakapress.co.nz
April 10, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Happy launch day to Surplus Women @michelleduff.bsky.social @thwupbooks.bsky.social Unity Books Wellington 6pm featuring @tinamakereti.bsky.social and Emily Writes. All welcome! teherengawakapress.co.nz/surplus-women/
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At Michelle Duff’s book launch at Unity. Can’t wait to read this! Plus it’s always nice to hang with badass women.
@michelleduff.bsky.social
@michelleduff.bsky.social
April 11, 2025 at 7:28 AM
At Michelle Duff’s book launch at Unity. Can’t wait to read this! Plus it’s always nice to hang with badass women.
@michelleduff.bsky.social
@michelleduff.bsky.social
Awesome to see so many books from my faves and so many on the to-read list! Thanks for the write up @clairemabey.bsky.social
Congratulations to our staff members Tina Makereti, James Brown and Damien Wilkins, plus alumni Carl Shuker, Laurence Feanley, Michelle Rahurahu, Louise Wallace, Una Cruikshank, … thespinoff.co.nz/books/30-01-...
It’s here! All the books longlisted for the 2025 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards
Four categories, 43 books, many thoughts and feelings.
thespinoff.co.nz
January 30, 2025 at 10:03 AM
Awesome to see so many books from my faves and so many on the to-read list! Thanks for the write up @clairemabey.bsky.social
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"Half of villages still have no drinking water...At least 4,000 children are set to start school this week in UNICEF-provided tents during the hottest time of the year, in cyclone season."
Thanks @michelleduff.bsky.social at @theguardian.com for writing this.
Thanks @michelleduff.bsky.social at @theguardian.com for writing this.
‘Never seems to end’: exhausted quake-hit Vanuatu rebuilds again
True cost and psychological toll of the December quake emerges as the Pacific country grapples with its third major disaster in two years
www.theguardian.com
January 25, 2025 at 12:50 PM
"Half of villages still have no drinking water...At least 4,000 children are set to start school this week in UNICEF-provided tents during the hottest time of the year, in cyclone season."
Thanks @michelleduff.bsky.social at @theguardian.com for writing this.
Thanks @michelleduff.bsky.social at @theguardian.com for writing this.
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‘momfluencers’ who spread white nationalist messaging under the guise of lifestyle content"
I and others @michelleduff.bsky.social have talked about women and their participation in extremist spaces - and it is still a ongoing element in NZ. 1/3
www.npr.org/2025/01/01/n...
I and others @michelleduff.bsky.social have talked about women and their participation in extremist spaces - and it is still a ongoing element in NZ. 1/3
www.npr.org/2025/01/01/n...
Extremism researchers: 'momfluencers' push hate messages alongside wholesome content
NPR's Leila Fadel speaks with extremism researcher Eviane Leidig about how some white nationalist housewives are using social media to normalize and amplify their beliefs.
www.npr.org
January 8, 2025 at 12:00 AM
‘momfluencers’ who spread white nationalist messaging under the guise of lifestyle content"
I and others @michelleduff.bsky.social have talked about women and their participation in extremist spaces - and it is still a ongoing element in NZ. 1/3
www.npr.org/2025/01/01/n...
I and others @michelleduff.bsky.social have talked about women and their participation in extremist spaces - and it is still a ongoing element in NZ. 1/3
www.npr.org/2025/01/01/n...
Eeek thanks Tina! ❤️
This book is just an excellent time. Sharp, funny, inventive, packed with riveting characters and lines that will make you choke on your morning toast or stop everything to contemplate how humans manage to be so bloody human. V proud of @michelleduff.bsky.social & excited for the world to read this!
✨ Coming April 2025: a collection of stories about women in past, present and future Aotearoa. Michelle Duff’s cast of hungry teenage girls, top detectives who forget to buy milk, duplicitous real estate agents, and ‘surplus women’ are all as vivid as wafts of Impulse from a backpack in the 90s ✨
December 28, 2024 at 2:25 AM
Eeek thanks Tina! ❤️
Reposted by Michelle Duff
Find out more and pre-order here:
teherengawakapress.co.nz/surplus-women/
teherengawakapress.co.nz/surplus-women/
Surplus Women
Te Herenga Waka University Press is New Zealand's leading publisher of new fiction and poetry, and a scholarly publisher specialising in NZ history, biography and essays.
teherengawakapress.co.nz
December 19, 2024 at 3:21 AM
Find out more and pre-order here:
teherengawakapress.co.nz/surplus-women/
teherengawakapress.co.nz/surplus-women/
Reposted by Michelle Duff
Cover photograph: Tia Ranginui
Cover design: Johnson Witehira
Book by @michelleduff.bsky.social
Here are some words from early readers:
Cover design: Johnson Witehira
Book by @michelleduff.bsky.social
Here are some words from early readers:
December 19, 2024 at 2:48 AM
Cover photograph: Tia Ranginui
Cover design: Johnson Witehira
Book by @michelleduff.bsky.social
Here are some words from early readers:
Cover design: Johnson Witehira
Book by @michelleduff.bsky.social
Here are some words from early readers:
Wrote some words and I couldn’t be more excited. Surplus Women is out April 2025. Thank you for having me @thwupbooks.bsky.social!
✨ Coming April 2025: a collection of stories about women in past, present and future Aotearoa. Michelle Duff’s cast of hungry teenage girls, top detectives who forget to buy milk, duplicitous real estate agents, and ‘surplus women’ are all as vivid as wafts of Impulse from a backpack in the 90s ✨
December 19, 2024 at 3:35 AM
Wrote some words and I couldn’t be more excited. Surplus Women is out April 2025. Thank you for having me @thwupbooks.bsky.social!
Reposted by Michelle Duff
I keep trying to write something eloquent and just being tired.
History matters. Philosophy matters. Languages and literature matter. Indigenous studies matter. Arts and humanities and social sciences matter. All of them.
Signed,
a physicist
History matters. Philosophy matters. Languages and literature matter. Indigenous studies matter. Arts and humanities and social sciences matter. All of them.
Signed,
a physicist
December 4, 2024 at 9:23 AM
I keep trying to write something eloquent and just being tired.
History matters. Philosophy matters. Languages and literature matter. Indigenous studies matter. Arts and humanities and social sciences matter. All of them.
Signed,
a physicist
History matters. Philosophy matters. Languages and literature matter. Indigenous studies matter. Arts and humanities and social sciences matter. All of them.
Signed,
a physicist
Started reading this and cannot put it down - how fun is it writing men tho?! Heartbreaking and funny af, one of the NYT best 10 books of 2024 too: www.nytimes.com/2024/12/03/b...
December 4, 2024 at 9:17 AM
Started reading this and cannot put it down - how fun is it writing men tho?! Heartbreaking and funny af, one of the NYT best 10 books of 2024 too: www.nytimes.com/2024/12/03/b...