“I have a fascination with seeing the wedding photographs of divorced people”: an essay on photography
Airini Beautrais
Whanganui writer Airini Beautrais won the Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize for fiction at the 2021 Ockhams for her short story collection Bug Week. She has also won the Jessie Mackay Award for first book of poetry in 2007 for her debut collection of poems Secret Heart, and in 2016 she was awarded the Landfall Essay Prize. Her latest book is the essay collection The Beautiful Afternoon published by Te Herenga Waka University Press in March 2024.
Short story: Psycho Ex, by Ockham national book award supreme winner Airini Beautrais
A story from the collection Bug Week by Airini Beautrais, named this week as the winner of the $57,000 prize for fiction at the Ockham New Zealand national book awards.
Short story: The turtle, by Airini Beautrais
Dionysus is hiding in the bushes. Althea can see the curl of his hair, the jut of his chin, between the leaves. Her feet, in their school shoes, feel heavy as she nears him. Her breathing changes. A flicker of nervousness swirls around her heart and in her gluteal muscles. She concentrates on looking straight […]