Stephenjohn Holgate
@mistaholgate.bsky.social
Writer type person. Professional immigrant. PEN/Dau Prize winner. MA from the IIML, Wellington. Contramestre of Capoeira Angola. #author 🇯🇲 ➡️ 🇳🇿 https://open.substack.com/pub/jackmandorastory
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In the Queue for Ice Cream - takahē
In the queue at the cafe, four people are in front of me. All enjoying the usual delights of the English seaside when the sun comes up at the beginning of June. They all look pickled somewhere from br...
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New story out in @takahemagazine.bsky.social www.takahe.org.nz/in-the-queue...
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Love love love Niamh and Will's incredible folios!!!!!
Niamh Vaughan is this year's winner of the Adam Foundation Prize in Creative Writing with her 'hilarious and terrifying' memoir The World Reversed, and the winner of the Biggs Family Prize for Poetry is Will Salmon, with his 'deeply humane' poetry collection, Worm 🧵
www.wgtn.ac.nz/modernletter...
www.wgtn.ac.nz/modernletter...
Creative writing prizes award 'Hilarious and terrifying' memoir plus 'Deeply humane” poetry work | Te Pūtahi Tuhi Auaha o Te Ao / International Institute of Modern Letters | Te Herenga Waka—Victoria ...
Niamh Vaughan is this year's winner of the prestigious Adam Foundation Prize in Creative Writing at Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington. The winner of the Biggs Family Prize for Poetry i...
www.wgtn.ac.nz
December 11, 2025 at 1:13 AM
Love love love Niamh and Will's incredible folios!!!!!
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I wrote this in a fugue state immediately after handing in my MFA and somehow it actually got published, so please enjoy this piece of flash fiction entitled: Bev Eats His Entire Wife
turbinekapohau.org.nz/2025-content...
turbinekapohau.org.nz/2025-content...
Alexandra Stronach 2025 - TURBINE | KAPOHAU
ALEXANDRA STRONACH Bev Eats His Entire Wife The grimoire had to construct the simulacra from meat, bone, gristle, but Bev knew Nora would’ve had no truck with that; she was a committed vegetarian, eve...
turbinekapohau.org.nz
December 10, 2025 at 10:26 PM
I wrote this in a fugue state immediately after handing in my MFA and somehow it actually got published, so please enjoy this piece of flash fiction entitled: Bev Eats His Entire Wife
turbinekapohau.org.nz/2025-content...
turbinekapohau.org.nz/2025-content...
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Chuffed to have a story on Turbine: turbinekapohau.org.nz/2025-content...
Also chuffed just to see Turbine. So much good work in there.
Also chuffed just to see Turbine. So much good work in there.
December 11, 2025 at 1:37 AM
Chuffed to have a story on Turbine: turbinekapohau.org.nz/2025-content...
Also chuffed just to see Turbine. So much good work in there.
Also chuffed just to see Turbine. So much good work in there.
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'One of the great things about the MA in general ... is it’s not some hierarchy up on the hill telling you what to do. The ethos is one of shared endeavour. Everyone’s grappling with the same questions.' Writer in Residence Anna Smaill remembers her MA year and talks about her career since then.
Interview Anna Smaill 2025 - TURBINE | KAPOHAU
AN INTERVIEW WITH ANNA SMAILL By Lucy Croft Anna Smaill is this year's Writer in Residence at the IIML. She completed an MA in Creative Writing there in 2001 and has a PhD in English Literature from U...
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December 11, 2025 at 2:12 AM
'One of the great things about the MA in general ... is it’s not some hierarchy up on the hill telling you what to do. The ethos is one of shared endeavour. Everyone’s grappling with the same questions.' Writer in Residence Anna Smaill remembers her MA year and talks about her career since then.
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Mauatua Fa'ara-Reynolds is the winner of the Letteri Family Prize for Creative Nonfiction with her hybrid and poetic work Our Bark-Skinned Bodies, and Stephenjohn Holgate is the winner of this year's Modernletters Fiction Prize with his rich, poignant novel about three generations of Jamaican men
December 11, 2025 at 12:59 AM
Mauatua Fa'ara-Reynolds is the winner of the Letteri Family Prize for Creative Nonfiction with her hybrid and poetic work Our Bark-Skinned Bodies, and Stephenjohn Holgate is the winner of this year's Modernletters Fiction Prize with his rich, poignant novel about three generations of Jamaican men
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Niamh Vaughan is this year's winner of the Adam Foundation Prize in Creative Writing with her 'hilarious and terrifying' memoir The World Reversed, and the winner of the Biggs Family Prize for Poetry is Will Salmon, with his 'deeply humane' poetry collection, Worm 🧵
www.wgtn.ac.nz/modernletter...
www.wgtn.ac.nz/modernletter...
Creative writing prizes award 'Hilarious and terrifying' memoir plus 'Deeply humane” poetry work | Te Pūtahi Tuhi Auaha o Te Ao / International Institute of Modern Letters | Te Herenga Waka—Victoria ...
Niamh Vaughan is this year's winner of the prestigious Adam Foundation Prize in Creative Writing at Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington. The winner of the Biggs Family Prize for Poetry i...
www.wgtn.ac.nz
December 11, 2025 at 12:59 AM
Niamh Vaughan is this year's winner of the Adam Foundation Prize in Creative Writing with her 'hilarious and terrifying' memoir The World Reversed, and the winner of the Biggs Family Prize for Poetry is Will Salmon, with his 'deeply humane' poetry collection, Worm 🧵
www.wgtn.ac.nz/modernletter...
www.wgtn.ac.nz/modernletter...
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Massive thanks and congratulations to the editors of this year's Turbine | Kapohau, which was launched last night during the Adam/Biggs awards ceremony. You can sample some of the work Stephenjohn Holgate, ada duffy and Isabella Smith have selected in this thread... Thanks also to Ash Davida Jane!💐
Turbine|Kapohau magazine, which I’ve been lucky to edit alongside ada duffy and Isabella Smith, is live! Have a click. I’ll be linking to some of the pieces here in between moments frenetic travelling turbinekapohau.org.nz
Current Issue - TURBINE | KAPOHAU
EDITORIAL Welcome POETRY ada duffyMauatua Fa’ara Reynolds🔈Miriama GemmellRebecca HawkesAnna Hoek-SimsJacksonHebe KearneyErik KennedyTrevor LandersMitch MarksHelena Leon MayerElliot McKenzieRuben MitaH...
turbinekapohau.org.nz
December 11, 2025 at 1:08 AM
Massive thanks and congratulations to the editors of this year's Turbine | Kapohau, which was launched last night during the Adam/Biggs awards ceremony. You can sample some of the work Stephenjohn Holgate, ada duffy and Isabella Smith have selected in this thread... Thanks also to Ash Davida Jane!💐
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So I did a writing course this year and here's an excerpt for folks who's interested. Thank you @mistaholgate.bsky.social for your kind words 🫰🫶
And when you’re done there, read @vicciho.com’s excerpt from her creative nonfiction folio. It’s so good! turbinekapohau.org.nz/2025-content...
Vicci Ho 2025 - TURBINE | KAPOHAU
VICCI HO Dad (Excerpt from A Most Privileged Life) For the first two decades of my life, I devoted a lot of energy and time to being angry at my father. He cheated on Mum, had a child with his mistres...
turbinekapohau.org.nz
December 10, 2025 at 11:20 PM
So I did a writing course this year and here's an excerpt for folks who's interested. Thank you @mistaholgate.bsky.social for your kind words 🫰🫶
Turbine|Kapohau magazine, which I’ve been lucky to edit alongside ada duffy and Isabella Smith, is live! Have a click. I’ll be linking to some of the pieces here in between moments frenetic travelling turbinekapohau.org.nz
Current Issue - TURBINE | KAPOHAU
EDITORIAL Welcome POETRY ada duffyMauatua Fa’ara Reynolds🔈Miriama GemmellRebecca HawkesAnna Hoek-SimsJacksonHebe KearneyErik KennedyTrevor LandersMitch MarksHelena Leon MayerElliot McKenzieRuben MitaH...
turbinekapohau.org.nz
December 10, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Turbine|Kapohau magazine, which I’ve been lucky to edit alongside ada duffy and Isabella Smith, is live! Have a click. I’ll be linking to some of the pieces here in between moments frenetic travelling turbinekapohau.org.nz
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*whispers* stop reposting AI images you guys
December 9, 2025 at 9:43 PM
*whispers* stop reposting AI images you guys
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*shouts* EVEN AS A JOKE
*whispers* stop reposting AI images you guys
December 9, 2025 at 9:44 PM
*shouts* EVEN AS A JOKE
Every day I come in Al Gore’s internet and see that, despite not being a woman, I should also choose the bear.
December 9, 2025 at 10:38 PM
Every day I come in Al Gore’s internet and see that, despite not being a woman, I should also choose the bear.
The poor dog
December 9, 2025 at 10:37 PM
The poor dog
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Fuck Keir Starmer's spokesman, and fuck the cowards running the Labour party.
Asked repeatedly about Donald Trump calling Sadiq Khan "disgusting" and suggesting that he was only elected because of immigrants, Keir Starmer's spokesman says only that the PM has a "strong relationship" with the President which has "yielded positive results for this country"
December 9, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Fuck Keir Starmer's spokesman, and fuck the cowards running the Labour party.
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“We are exiting the age of the public sphere and entering a time of magic, when signs and symbols have the power to reshape reality. “ www.artforum.com/features/yea...
Slopocalypse Now
Hari Kunzru surveys the AI slop that dominates our feeds and likens the way it drowns out information to a new form of censorship.
www.artforum.com
December 8, 2025 at 3:44 PM
“We are exiting the age of the public sphere and entering a time of magic, when signs and symbols have the power to reshape reality. “ www.artforum.com/features/yea...
Modern male influencers really watched the American Psycho movie and thought it was a piece of aspirational content.
December 9, 2025 at 7:52 AM
Modern male influencers really watched the American Psycho movie and thought it was a piece of aspirational content.
Go write a book or draw or something or go play music
“In the new age of magic, when reality is labile and can be recoded by the power of signs, by narrative and memes and vibes and compelling images, art becomes a truly political technology. “ I wrote about AI slop, truth, politics, art and magic www.artforum.com/features/yea...
Slopocalypse Now
Hari Kunzru surveys the AI slop that dominates our feeds and likens the way it drowns out information to a new form of censorship.
www.artforum.com
December 7, 2025 at 10:11 AM
Go write a book or draw or something or go play music
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"It’s no longer necessary to suppress information. You just have to make the cost of sorting fact from fiction, in terms of time and effort, too high to pay for the ordinary person, who can’t spend all day online weighing up competing claims about robots or pedophilia or Iran."
Slopocalypse Now
Hari Kunzru surveys the AI slop that dominates our feeds and likens the way it drowns out information to a new form of censorship.
www.artforum.com
December 7, 2025 at 2:58 AM
"It’s no longer necessary to suppress information. You just have to make the cost of sorting fact from fiction, in terms of time and effort, too high to pay for the ordinary person, who can’t spend all day online weighing up competing claims about robots or pedophilia or Iran."
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The Nobel Prize committee should announce the World Cup winner tomorrow
December 6, 2025 at 4:29 AM
The Nobel Prize committee should announce the World Cup winner tomorrow
Watched 50 cent’s Puffy documentary. Blasting Hit ‘em up on the way to yoga
December 6, 2025 at 1:50 AM
Watched 50 cent’s Puffy documentary. Blasting Hit ‘em up on the way to yoga
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this is stalin shit
Sen. Roger Marshall on Trump's health: "I'll work 110 hours a week. He outworks me. He's the first person I've ever known that works harder than I do. He runs around that golf course. He's in incredible shape right now. And you talk about sharp! He's playing 4 dimensional chess"
December 4, 2025 at 5:44 AM
this is stalin shit
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50 Cent is a world class, hall of fame hater. This is a compliment.
December 2, 2025 at 6:38 PM
50 Cent is a world class, hall of fame hater. This is a compliment.