Fleur Adcock: ‘Blowflies’ was published in Glass Wings, Victoria University Press, 2013

Hinemoana Baker: ‘Rope’ was published in Shenandoah 62, no 2, 2013

Sarah Broom: ‘gleam’ was published in Gleam, Auckland University Press, 2013

Amy Brown: ‘She wanted the voice of birds (Christina Rossetti—1894)’ was published in The Odour of Sanctity, Victoria University Press, 2013

Kate Camp: ‘On reading Gray's Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard’ was published in Snow White's Coffin, Victoria University Press, 2013

Mary-Jane Duffy: ‘Here we give thanks’ was published in Fourth Floor Literary Journal, 2013

Murray Edmond: ‘Conversation with my uncle’ was published in Cordite Poetry Review: NZ 6-seater: A Chapbook Edited by Ian Wedde, 2013

Johanna Emeney: ‘Captions’ was published in Snorkel 17, Auckland University Press, 2013

Cliff Fell: ‘Chagall in Vitebsk’ was published in Shenandoah 62, no 2, 2013

Bernadette Hall: ‘In search of happiness’ was published in Life and Customs, Victoria University Press, 2013

Dinah Hawken: ‘Stone’ was published in page : stone : leaf, Holloway Press, 2013

Caoilinn Hughes: ‘Avalanche’ was published in Over the Edge: The First Ten Years: An Anthology of Fiction and Poetry, Salmon Poetry, Ireland, 2013

Anna Jackson: ‘Sabina, and the chain of friendship’ was published in Shenandoah 62, no 2, 2013

Anne Kennedy: ‘Flood Monologue’ was published in Cordite Poetry Review: NZ 6-seater: A Chapbook Edited by Ian Wedde, 2013

Michele Leggott: ‘experiments (our life together)’ was published in Cordite Poetry Review: NZ 6-seater: A Chapbook Edited by Ian Wedde, 2013

Therese Lloyd: ‘The Nail’ was published in Other Animals, Victoria University Press, 2013

Selina Tusitala Marsh: ‘Page 11’ was published in Dark Sparring, Auckland University Press, 2013

John Newton: ‘Great days in New Zealand painting’ was published in Family Songbook, Victoria University Press, 2013

Gregory O'Brien: ‘Sombrereria’ was published in Citizen of Santiago, Trapeze, 2013

Rachel O'Neill: ‘The children have grown’ was published in One Human in Height, Hue & Cry Press, 2013

Vincent O'Sullivan: ‘When, exactly?’ was published in Us, Then, Victoria University Press, 2013

Elizabeth Smither: ‘My mother visits me in hospital’ was published in Sport 41, 2013

Chris Tse: ‘Astronaut’ was published in Snorkel 18, 2013

Ian Wedde: ‘The Lifeguard’ was published in The Lifeguard, Auckland University Press, 2013

Ashleigh Young: ‘In the square’ was published in Hue & Cry 7, 2013

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