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
And read this vignette by Te Ariki Wi Neera - it helps that he knows a thing or two about being a firefighter turbinekapohau.org.nz/2025-content...
Te Ariki Wi Neera 2025 - TURBINE | KAPOHAU
TE ARIKI WI NEERA A Vignette I have a story I never tell. It might bewilder or scare people or just impress them with my stupidity. Most shake their heads in wonderment at either my bravado or my fool...
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December 11, 2025 at 7:46 AM
And read this vignette by Te Ariki Wi Neera - it helps that he knows a thing or two about being a firefighter turbinekapohau.org.nz/2025-content...
Soon to be Michael King writer-in-residence Trina Elkington-Ball has an excerpt from her fantastic memoir/essay collection/creative nonfiction folio here turbinekapohau.org.nz/2025-content...
Trina Elkington-Ball 2025 - TURBINE | KAPOHAU
TRINA ELKINGTON-BALL Higher Education The Institute Building is a Church owned and operated facility, run by the Church Educational System or CES. This is where the Mormon university students congrega...
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December 11, 2025 at 7:42 AM
Soon to be Michael King writer-in-residence Trina Elkington-Ball has an excerpt from her fantastic memoir/essay collection/creative nonfiction folio here turbinekapohau.org.nz/2025-content...
Poet at large and pun maker extraordinaire @seasonofthemitch.bsky.social has her poetry here. Read it now!! turbinekapohau.org.nz/2025-content...
Mitch Marks 2025 - TURBINE | KAPOHAU
MITCH MARKS CAMPING ON THE FAULTLINE We have moved to a house from which I can see two harbours And if my enemy approaches I will fire A warning shot across her mothered bows I am in limbo until the b...
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December 11, 2025 at 7:39 AM
Poet at large and pun maker extraordinaire @seasonofthemitch.bsky.social has her poetry here. Read it now!! turbinekapohau.org.nz/2025-content...
I’m still here and still have amazing writing to share!
December 11, 2025 at 7:39 AM
I’m still here and still have amazing writing to share!
I love how mad this story is. So glad you submitted it!
December 11, 2025 at 3:32 AM
I love how mad this story is. So glad you submitted it!
Reposted by Stephenjohn Holgate
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
And our other amazing editor, Isabella Smith, and her subtly controlled fiction turbinekapohau.org.nz/2025-content...
Isabella Smith 2025 - TURBINE | KAPOHAU
ISABELLA SMITH Across the Charcuterie Board You said something prosaic from across the charcuterie board. I poked at the quince with the cheese cleaver and curled my toes. You stroked my temple with t...
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December 11, 2025 at 2:01 AM
And our other amazing editor, Isabella Smith, and her subtly controlled fiction turbinekapohau.org.nz/2025-content...
First, ada duffy and their gorgeous poetry turbinekapohau.org.nz/2025-content...
ada duffy 2025 - TURBINE | KAPOHAU
ADA DUFFY let the hills fall and reroute the roads around them with all hands balance the cliffs of kaikōura coast. trudge their ascent in mutter before immersion. whistle sea mist tongue a lover deep...
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December 11, 2025 at 2:01 AM
First, ada duffy and their gorgeous poetry turbinekapohau.org.nz/2025-content...
And now the amazing editors I was so lucky to work with on the issue…
December 11, 2025 at 2:01 AM
And now the amazing editors I was so lucky to work with on the issue…
And Niamh Vaughan won the Adam Prize for her startlingly good creative nonfiction folio. Read an excerpt here! turbinekapohau.org.nz/2025-content...
Niamh Vaughan 2025 - TURBINE | KAPOHAU
NIAMH VAUGHAN The Hierophant(Extract from The World Reversed) Dad was standing in the kitchen, hovering over a plastic bottle of thick brownish liquid. On the counter was a little cup. He lifted it to...
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December 11, 2025 at 1:24 AM
And Niamh Vaughan won the Adam Prize for her startlingly good creative nonfiction folio. Read an excerpt here! turbinekapohau.org.nz/2025-content...
Will Salmon won the Biggs Family Poetry Prize. Read his excellent poem here turbinekapohau.org.nz/2025-content...
Will Salmon 2025 - TURBINE | KAPOHAU
WILL SALMON WERTHER The way the word outsideimplies an inside—or just some Ion either side of thiswindow—and Ihave wasted my life,letting the book fall so allthe pages disconnectfrom the spine, a bird...
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December 11, 2025 at 1:24 AM
Will Salmon won the Biggs Family Poetry Prize. Read his excellent poem here turbinekapohau.org.nz/2025-content...
I won the fiction prize! Here’s a short story not written this year, but it’s still good, honest turbinekapohau.org.nz/2025-content...
Stephenjohn Holgate 2025 - TURBINE | KAPOHAU
STEPHENJOHN HOLGATE One Piece of Bangarang Between Beers You want another beer? Me never reach London, you know. Me get to Norway and all them place there because me used to work on the cruise ship. T...
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December 11, 2025 at 1:24 AM
I won the fiction prize! Here’s a short story not written this year, but it’s still good, honest turbinekapohau.org.nz/2025-content...
Mauatua Fa’ara Reynolds folio won the nonfiction prize. Read her reading journal here turbinekapohau.org.nz/2025-content...
Mauatua Fa’ara-Reynolds 2025 - TURBINE | KAPOHAU
MAUATUA FA'ARA-REYNOLDS Excerpt from a reading journal completed as part of the MA in creative writing at the IIML Reading Journal Tender by Toi Derricotte Nearly all the poems I’ve written in the pas...
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December 11, 2025 at 1:24 AM
Mauatua Fa’ara Reynolds folio won the nonfiction prize. Read her reading journal here turbinekapohau.org.nz/2025-content...
And now for some prize winners………………….
December 11, 2025 at 1:24 AM
And now for some prize winners………………….
And she still managed to find time to do this great interview with Anna Smaill turbinekapohau.org.nz/contents-202...
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 12:30 AM
And she still managed to find time to do this great interview with Anna Smaill turbinekapohau.org.nz/contents-202...
Then she also writes about disability visibility and Alice Wong for the reading room turbinekapohau.org.nz/2025-content...
Lucy Croft 2025 - TURBINE | KAPOHAU
LUCY CROFT Excerpt from a reading journal completed as part of the MA in creative writing at the IIML Disability Visibility edited by Alice Wong It’s hard to fully explain the feelings encompassed in ...
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December 11, 2025 at 12:30 AM
Then she also writes about disability visibility and Alice Wong for the reading room turbinekapohau.org.nz/2025-content...
Now, Lucy Croft - part of the @modernletters.bsky.social 2025 cohort - managed to get three pieces in the magazine. Because she’s great.
First, is her excruciatingly funny excerpt from her novel: turbinekapohau.org.nz/2025-content...
First, is her excruciatingly funny excerpt from her novel: turbinekapohau.org.nz/2025-content...
Lucy Croft 2025 - TURBINE | KAPOHAU
LUCY CROFT from Containing Multiples Gretchen has a new idea. She says she talked about it with Katie. Katie is the other teacher aide. She also says she talked about it with the Ministry of Education...
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December 11, 2025 at 12:30 AM
Now, Lucy Croft - part of the @modernletters.bsky.social 2025 cohort - managed to get three pieces in the magazine. Because she’s great.
First, is her excruciatingly funny excerpt from her novel: turbinekapohau.org.nz/2025-content...
First, is her excruciatingly funny excerpt from her novel: turbinekapohau.org.nz/2025-content...
And also from Jackson: turbinekapohau.org.nz/2025-content...
Jackson 2025 - TURBINE | KAPOHAU
JACKSON That terrible voice The animal lies in my lap, chin laid out along my leg, throat pressed warm to my skin. I pleasure my fingers in the density of the short fur between the ears, the silky fib...
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December 10, 2025 at 11:44 PM
And also from Jackson: turbinekapohau.org.nz/2025-content...