Landing Press

01/06/2026

Congratulations Adrienne!
https://www.dpmc.govt.nz/honours/lists/kb2026-onzm

We're so thrilled that Adrienne Jansen has been recognised for her mahi in writing and publishing with an ONZM in the King's Birthday Honours.

Adrienne has been a long-time supporter of Whitireia Publishing. She visits each year to lead discussions about the process of editing creative work. Over the years, our ākonga have been lucky enough to collaborate with Adrienne on many projects, including some with Landing Press, and we're so thankful for her generosity and tireless advocacy.

Ngā mihi maioha and congratulations, Adrienne!

24/05/2026

Check out this Nz Booklovers interview where Adrienne talks about Potluck, poems about food

Adrienne Jansen is a writer, editor, ESOL teacher and creative writing tutor. Founder of the Porirua Language Project and the Whitireia Creative Writing Programme, she has also written and published extensively, often working alongside migrants to tell their stories. For ten years she has led Landin...

24/05/2026

We'd love to see your poems. Send them through before 30th June.
landingpressnz.com

17/05/2026

Check out this piece on Paula Green's website of the Potluck authors reading their poems!

Pot Luck: Poems about Food was published by Landing Press in 2025. Ninety-three food-related poems to get our taste buds salivating. Yes, the poems celebrate the sweet sour savoury delights of food…

08/05/2026

Congratulations to Landing Press contributors, Lynn Jenner and Siobhan Harvey, on their new releases!
What We Remember What We Forget, Siobhan Harvey
The Gum Trees of Kerikeri, Lynn Jenner

04/05/2026

Landing Press is looking for poems about water.
Beautiful, gentle streams; terrifying, destructive cascades; and calm porcelain mirrors. Landing Press wants to hear your beautiful poetry.
Head to our website to read submission guidelines and check out our other poetry books.

https://landingpressnz.com/2026/04/13/landing-press-wants-poems-about-water/

15/04/2026

Congratulations to Philippa Werry on winning the Tom Fitzgibbon Award for a fiction manuscript for children. We've been the lucky recipients of her turning her wonderful writing talents to poetry (see her poem 'A writer's lineage' in Now and then.)

30/03/2026

On Sunday we celebrated some of the Christchurch writers in Potluck with readings at the Linwood Community Arts Centre, Christchurch. Here Hafsa Ahmed reads her poem 'Shahr Ramadan: The month of Ramadan'.

26/03/2026

On this Sunday!

19/03/2026

On Race Relations Day, 21 March 2019, we launched More of Us, poems by migrants and refugees. It was a week after the mosque shootings in Christchurch. The launch was attended by 200 people, in a locked-down National Library. It was the most poignant launch that we have ever had, celebrating a book that felt like it portrayed who we wanted to be, and thought we were, but weren't. We sold out of the book that night.

On Race Relations Day, we remember those tragic times, and our continuing commitment to publish anthologies of poetry that celebrate the diversity of Aotearoa New Zealand.