Landfall 240

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title Landfall 240
Authors and Contributors      Edited by Emma Neale
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:208
Dimensions(mm): Height 215,Width 165
Category/GenreThe arts -miscellaneous
Anthologies
ISBN/Barcode 9781988592633
ClassificationsDewey:820.993
Audience
General

Publishing Details

Publisher Otago University Press
Imprint Otago University Press
Publication Date 22 November 2020
Publication Country New Zealand

Description

Landfall is New Zealand's foremost and longest-running arts and literary journal. It showcases new fiction and poetry, as well as biographical and critical essays, reviews and cultural commentary. Landfall 240 also features the winner of the 2020 Landfall Essay Competition as well as judges comments.

Author Biography

Emma Neale has published six novels and five poetry collections, and edited several anthologies. She is a former Robert Burns fellow (2012) and has received numerous awards and grants for her writing including the Janet Frame/NZSA Memorial Prize for Literature (2008), the University of Otago/Sir James Wallace Pah Residency (2014), and she was Philip and Diane Beatson/NZSA Writing Fellow in 2015. Neale was awarded the Kathleen Grattan Award for 2011 for her poetry collection The Truth Garden, and was a finalist for the Acorn Foundation Fiction Prize at the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards 2017 for her novel Billy Bird. Since 2018 she has been editor of Landfall journal, and she holds a PhD in New Zealand Literature from University College London (UK).

Reviews

'The most important and long-lasting journal in New Zealand's literature' - Oxford History of New Zealand Literature