Notes

Contents: The Report / Elliot Faulkner -- A 2 metre2 world / Genesta Hamm -- A borrowed interest / Leo Reid -- Under the Baobab Tree / Achim Hanne -- The Tiger is Born / Rumi Silvestro -- Leave in the dust / Mina Garay -- Library window / Alex Baguley -- Warmth of decay / Ella Sage -- Caretaker of the Sun / Freya Davidson -- The Odyssey to the Lettuce / Shin-Lynn Lee -- Pet / Chris White -- Is this yours? / Brianna Searle -- The Night it Shifted / Theresa Johnston -- Walking Home with My Older Sister / Sonya Li-McHenry -- The Words We Leave Behind Aaliyah Raja -- Lycanthropy / Sarah-Kate Simons -- Revelations / Theo Nogher -- Hine-nui-te-po / Reiyana Pullen -- These 2 pages in my book belong to my mother / Kalen Xuan -- Deus Ruptura / Achim Hanne -- The Apple Tree Song / Sophie Harris -- Trinkets / Ella Jordan -- Eyes like mine / Sophie Lin -- Sundays will change the world / Eva Herlihy -- Boring Conversation / Leela Williams -- The unknown world of ghosts / Elliot Faulkner -- A Response to the Audience / Shelby Allan -- Femininity and Old Bracelets / Emily Roy -- Secret Keepers / Elodie Gordon -- Making the Cast / Milo Harrison -- Amateur Taxidermist / Alex Baguley -- Holy Blades / Tessa Smith -- Writers are Monsters / Brianna Searle -- Take to the Sky and Learn to Fly / Nikki Li -- Why I Am Not a Poet / Angus Stanbrook-Mason -- Backstage / Ruby Appleby -- Unrest / Theresa Johnston -- Black Bird Singing in the Dead of Night / Tryphine Nota -- The Artist / Angus Stanbrook-Mason -- Hygge / Lucy Worthington -- In Perpetuity In Transience / Renee Huang -- Lifespan / Casey Ferguson -- Late Bloomer / Tunmise Adebowale -- The Meek and the Invalid / Angus Stanbrook-Mason -- Stay Silent / Jasmine Sok -- We See You / Charlotte McArthur -- A lack of cutlery / Minna Zhu -- Chalked up / Ella Sage -- Different Within / Charlie Kho Not Black. Not White / Anushka Dissanayake -- Meeting at the Daroli Khera River / Sukhman Waraich -- Kai Story / Max Woodward -- The Twisted Timeline / Nicky Wellwood -- What are you? / Charlotte Funnell -- My Greengage Summers / Elsie Mahy -- Running / Yaxin Zhang -- Coconut Oil / Esther Mathew -- Midnight Mint Chocolate Chip / Claudia Mincham -- Chainlinkfence / Ella Sage -- In the kitchen / Molly Laurence -- Coping / Tryphine Nota -- Bright pink dream of mine (forgotten) / Hana Barton -- Notes / Rose Leighton -- The Ones that Carry Me / Abbie Mackay -- To Float / Ishrit Khangura -- Stingray Summer / Sarah-Kate Simons -- The Secret of the Moon / Mina Garay -- Skipping Stones / Chloe Morrison-Clarke -- Fairy-tale Ending / Molly Laurence -- All of the Things Left Unsaid Micaela David -- The bus stop on Courtenay Place knows your secrets / Penelope Scarborough -- Farewell, Fellow Stranger / Mila Laurie -- Telegram / Molly Laurence -- Limbs / Mikayla Preston -- Till Death do us Part / Georgia Haupt -- I am a red blood cell inside the blood vessels of a dromedary camel / Jonathon Sun -- He is Tapping Back / Ruth Chen -- Insomniac's Sleep Walk / Penelope Scarborough -- Curtain Call / Sarah-Kate Simons -- Coconut Milk / Tethika Kanapeddala Gamage -- Cooler when you don't know the end / Yiyang Cao -- "The Juice Poem" / James Lee-Guard -- The Moeraki Rabbit / Abby Sangwine -- The Piano Tuner / Eve Cowperthwaite -- Attempted Conspiracy / Minna Zhu -- The Owls / Ella Jordan -- Salt and Sunlight / Hilarie Reid 99 57 A New Week, A New Trend, A New Fashion Craze / Sayumdee Weerasinghe -- The Rude Duckling / Elsa Buckley -- How a Hairdresser Works / Jacinta Pattison 103 -- Take it / Nikki Li -- Tea Party Jacinta Pattison -- A Rock and a Hard Place / Brianna Searle -- The Miss Virtue Beauty Pageant / Hilarie Reid -- What are words / Chloe Wallace -- Eight weeks / Hannah Wilson -- In the box / Isabelle Nash -- A Guide On How to Daydream / Carissime Alfante -- Mikhail Lermontov / Finn Kerby -- Salt / Varunnan Tantichantavong -- The End of War / Carissime Alfante -- The Deal Jacinta / Pattison -- Life in a Train Station / Achim Hanne -- The Colour of Darkness / Mila Laurie -- Five to twelve / Olivia Lincoln -- Simulacrum / Kyan Batuwantudawe -- Computer Girls / Hilarie Reid -- 5 Stars / Thalia Peterson -- System Error / Paige Young -- Letter to Milena / Ruby Apple -- Connection / Liliana Abate -- The Café of Time / Charlie Kho -- Neuromod Pitch / Chris White -- Cataclysm / Amy Cordwell -- A music-box grey / Eve Cowperthwaite -- April (again) / Yiyang Cao -- Family feud / Valerie Deligero -- Last day of autumn / Chloe Wallace Index 142.
Summary: 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. (Publisher)

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