President’s report
By Deborah Shaw AE
Kia ora everyone
For Waitangi Day, The Conversation and The Spinoff posted reading guides for te Tiriti o Waitangi, its history, and its place in today’s society:
Books of mana: 10 essential reads for Waitangi Day, from The Conversation.
A te Tiriti reading (and watching and listening) guide, from The Spinoff.
Imagining decolonisation, by Bianca Elkington, Moana Jackson and others, is on one of these lists. It’s a great introduction to decolonisation in general, and there’s a chapter with everyday suggestions for how we can all help the process.
For me and my work, honouring the Treaty includes respecting te reo Māori by checking spellings and pronouncing words accurately, deferring to writers’ iwi-specific spellings, and using more te reo in my everyday conversations. There’s a lot more I can do, too.
Congratulations to Auckland University Press, one of our organisational members, for so many nominations in the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards longlist! I counted five – I hope I caught them all.
In the poetry longlist:
- Hopurangi—Songcatcher: poems from the Maramataka, by Robert Sullivan (Ngāpuhi, Kāi Tahu)
- In the half light of a dying day, by C.K. Stead
In illustrated nonfiction:
- A different light: first photographs of Aotearoa, by Catherine Hammond and Shaun Higgins
- Toi te mana: an Indigenous history of Māori art, by Deidre Brown (Ngāpuhi, Ngāti Kahu) and Ngarino Ellis (Ngāpuhi, Ngāti Porou) with Jonathan Mane-Wheoki (Ngāpuhi, Te Aupōuri, Ngāti Kurī)
- Sight lines: women and art in Aotearoa, by Kirsty Baker
By the time Gatherings comes out, the shortlist will be announced – good luck, AUP!
Check out the full longlist on the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards website.
At the end of February, Dunedin editors met for a long-overdue lunch at the Good Earth Cafe. Three of us – Mark, Kate and Deborah – got to meet for the first time, and we had a great afternoon chatting about all things editing. You know you’re in good company when you have an in-depth conversation about the joys of creating style guides!
If you’re keen to host an in-person catch-up in your town, get in touch with us (edanz.president@iped-editors.org). We’re happy to send invitations to local members.
Ngā mihi nui
Deborah
Canterbury NZ EdANZ editors catch-up
Wednesday 19 March at 5 pm at Strawberry Fare, 15 Bealey Avenue, Merivale, Christchurch 8013.
RSVP to Joan Gladwyn at edanz.website@iped-editors.org