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Light! Darkness! Magic! Terminal Velocity, Fireworks! Dancing Trees!
Re-Draft’s Silver Anniversary edition once again showcases the very best teenage writing from Aotearoa New Zealand.
The Last Square Foot demonstrates that our young people are intrigued by the past, in tune with today, and open-eyed about the future.
From laugh-out-loud funny to hair-raising horror… From rug-pull surprise to tender celebration… Re-Draft’s young writers pull out all their imaginative stops to produce an exhilarating collection to read, savour, and read again.
Lost Cowboys! Killer Cinderellas! Green Machines! Glass Ballerinas!
Stealing a car, screaming in static, spitting up, skydiving on Jupiter.
Re-Draft 24, We Scream in Static, unleashes the imaginations of Aotearoa New Zealand’s finest young writers.
Be prepared to marvel, to shed tears, or to laugh out loud at this brilliant addition to the illustrious Re-Draft Series of writing by teenagers from all across the motu.
The rebirth of a Christchurch theatre – New Edition 2024
A Triumph Over Seemingly Impossible Odds
This is the story of the restoration and reconstruction of the Isaac Theatre Royal, a heritage building on the brink of collapse after the 2011 earthquakes.
As dramatic as any production that has taken place on the theatre’s stage, this story shows that, in reality, earthquake damage is only as great as we allow it to be.
As rich and imaginative as its twenty-one predecessors, this latest addition to the brilliant Re-Draft series will not disappoint.
How could it, when it brings together 100 or so of the very best young writers from the length and breadth of Aotearoa/New Zealand?
Each year, Re-Draft offers our young writers the opportunity to showcase their skills and unleash their imaginations.
The Afterlife of an Ice Cream Wrapper brings the results together in this sparkling cornucopia of stories, poems, flash and graphic art.
Come into the shop.
The wares are irresistible.
REPORT: To check in
REPORT: A summary account
REPORT: The latest news
REPORT: A loud bang!
In 2023’s Re-Draft, Aotearoa New Zealand’s finest young writers check in with stories, poems and graphic art giving a snapshot of things as they are today.
As ever the range is wide, the imagination is rife,and the magic is everywhere!
Young writing with zest!
Young writing at its best!
Young writing with a reverberating BANG!
Bravo, Neu Zeeland presents one of the earliest and most significant overseas travel accounts written in Māori – the diary of a visit to Vienna made by its author, Hemara Te Rerehau, and his Tainui kinsman, Wiremu Toetoe.
In part the diary is a report on the young men’s ‘OE’, recording visits to cathedrals, palaces, museums and the world’s first public zoo. It also shows that the two Māori were seen as ambassadors for their country. They worked in the imperial printery of the Habsburgs, met several European rulers including Queen Victoria, and were the showpiece of three important civic occasions. As the Māori passed in one street procession the excited Austrians shouted ‘Bravo, Neu Zeeland’.
Te Rerehau and Toetoe returned home to a divided country and Emperor Franz Joseph’s gift of a printing press was used to print Kingite propaganda during the bitter land wars of the 1860s. This shocked Pākehā in New Zealand and Austria but Helen Hogan shows, by placing Te Rerehau’s diary in its historical context, the logic of the Māori men’s loyalty to their own people.
Wiremu Toetoe and Hemara Te Rerehau were not the first to travel to a dream world and return to something well short of Utopia. But the account of their travels remains a testament to their intelligence, sense of adventure and perceptiveness that a harmonious bringing together of two cultures demands. It provides a glimpse of what might have been and what yet might be.