Courtney Johnston

@HaydenDonnell @BenFagan Rage against the machine Hayden. Always fuels your creativity.

@auchmill @BenFagan It's total bullshit I'm so mad

@BenFagan 1, @HaydenDonnell O thespinoff.co.nz/pop-culture/12…

My first Sunday cover story is a profile of Tayi Tibble, in the wake of international success and ahead of her guest curator role at WORD Christchurch. thepress.co.nz/culture/350371…

@CillaWehi @thwupbooks Not wanting to diss the bookstores (love bookstores) but I finished this today and yes — people should DEFINITELY be stocking it

Not cool #Dunedin #CityOfLiterature. Looking for Bad Archive from @thwupbooks. Bookstores: 3 Books: 0 We need to support our authors.

'Feltham’s writing is both poetic and precise, evoking the quality of grainy family photographs.' Sara Bucher reviews BAD ARCHIVE for @ANZRevBooks nzreviewofbooks.com/bad-archive-by…

We're very sad to say that our publicist Todd Atticus is leaving us soon (for a dream job in the UK, so trying not to be TOO sad). We're now looking for a new publicist to join our team. Here's the ad: seek.co.nz/job/77793482

Wanna do something free and sciencey in #Welington tomorrow evening? Come to our free talk at @Te_Papa. Along with our @niwa_nz friends, we'll be talking about the @oceancensus expedition to the #BountyTrough. #DeepSea, #NewSpeces and adventure at sea. tepapa.govt.nz/visit/events/t…

“I've been successful in broadcasting because I am fair, and while people who are non-Māori have been wary of me, and some women have said that I'm scary and I'm hard to talk to, I have been acceptable to mainstream broadcasting because I look like I do.” e-tangata.co.nz/korero/mihinga…

Who cares about the red-billed gull? Not most of us. The red & white squawking flurries are such a part of our coastal landscape that they’re basically beach wallpaper. But red-bills are in trouble: my latest for @NZGeographic, astounding pics by @depthnz nzgeo.com/stories/the-en…

Forty years on from Rob Muldoon’s brandy-fuelled snap election call, the reverberations of the fourth Labour government continue to be felt. Juggernaut was made with the support of NZ On Air. thespinoff.co.nz/politics/13-06…

“‘We’re writing history’: Spanish women tackle Wikipedia’s gender gap.” Great write up of Wikimedia Spain’s efforts to improve the coverage of women in Wikipedia. theguardian.com/technology/art…

We have things in the @Te_Papa collection that no longer exist. The poor #NewZealand #greyling has not been seen since the 1920s and was declared extinct in 2018. These specimens are quite literally irreplaceable. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Zeala…

Emma Donoghue's reading life possibly explains why I love her writing so much - so much overlap theguardian.com/books/article/…

@ClaireMabey You're not! It's going to be magnificent and tearsoaked and jubilant.

So excited to be on the count-down to the launch of Claire's book. Claire's given so much to readers and writers in Aotearoa; I feel like this is an opportunity for us all to support her back 💕

Free evening event, Thursday 18 July — loads of scientists, tonnes of stories 🐠🦀🐚🚢🦑🪸

@ClaireMabey @legroff @verbwellington SO GOOD CLAIRE, SOOOOOOO GOOD

“Ritual and celebration are absolutely a form of resistance. Matariki, for example, is a very loud statement saying that we don't need to follow someone else's idea of ceremony or celebration.” — Dr Rangi Mātāmua e-tangata.co.nz/reflections/fa…

'I am not a solo artist with a vocation, who was always going to make work against the odds. I'm a former goofy, sometimes lonely kid whose feelings were met and imagination stimulated by the stories in books.' rnz.co.nz/news/national/…