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An old photograph of a woman and three children standing outside a wooden hut in Milford.

The Spinoff Essay: A 1950s childhood among eels and lupins at The Hut

a skinny palm tree is blown sideways by the wind on a rocky coast

The Spinoff Essay: Skinny

Gemma Bowker-Wright

three family photos laid over a palestine flag background

Indifference is consent: An essay about Palestine and New Zealand

‘It shouldn’t be this hard’: What it takes to have a Sensitive Claim accepted by ACC

Tania Roxborogh

Two female rugby league players in action, one running with the ball and the other approaching on defense, set against a blue and yellow abstract background with a white grass texture.

New Zealand women’s rugby league has never been stronger

Red, white and blue stripes with a polaroid photo and a book cover.

Life as a Māori librarian in America

The Spinoff Essay: The lie of the land

A collection of objects on a bench: a map, a fragment of a letter, sunglasses, rubbish bag, receipt, and lolly wrappers with three earth worms

Read the winning essay in the 2025 Landfall Young Writers’ Essay Competition

watercolour painting of large, impressive concrete steps stretching in the distance with trees on either side

The Spinoff essay: The Odessa Steps

A person (Lorde) with duct tape covering their chest is shown above a row of Dolly and Cosmo covers, arranged at the bottom against a pastel, cloud-like background.

The Spinoff Essay: Becoming my own man of the year

Anna Rawhiti-Connell