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'the most important and long-lasting journal in New Zealand's literature' – Oxford History of New Zealand Literature.
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, and cultural commentary.
Each issue brims with a mix of vital new work by this country's
best writers, such as Emma Neale, Vincent
O'Sullivan, Peter Wells, Sarah Knox, C.K. Stead, Albert
Wendt, Cilla McQueen, Gregory O'Brien. There are reviews of the
latest books, art, film, drama and dance. Landfall is a high quality production, with artist portfolios in
full colour. Artists have included Gavin Hipkins, Richard Killeen, Weegee,
Wayne Barrar and Kay Rosen.
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1/3/11: Celebrating NZ Book Month with launch of
Landfall Review Online
 The clear critical voice of Landfall magazine has commented on New Zealand's literature for more than 60 years. The magazine was shortlisted for the Book Pages of the Year Award in 2008 and 2009.
However, like other print media, Landfall has found it difficult to cover the full range of significant books being published, since the number of new books increases each year.
The solution? The Landfall Review is extending out of the magazine to become The Landfall Review Online. As well as the reviews included in the two print issues each year, from today Landfall is publishing review pages online, with each monthly issue featuring six to eight reviews. An archive of back reviews will be a feature of the site.
The review pages are edited by Landfall editor David Eggleton and published with the assistance of Creative New Zealand as a one-year pilot project in reviewing New Zealand books online. Eggleton has won the Reviewer of the Year award six times and brings special expertise to the site. Typically the reviews will be substantial and will be commissioned by Eggleton from a mix of leading and emerging writers.
It is hoped that Landfall Review Online will be a service to the literary community, making readers more aware of the books that are being published, giving a wide range of New Zealand books international exposure, and leading back to the magazine as a further showcase for New Zealand writing.
Contact: Wendy Harrex
Publisher, Otago University Press
Tel: 03 479 4194. Email: wendy.harrex@otago.ac.nz
21/11/10: Landfall announces new permanent editor and new NZ book review website
 21/11/2010 Critic, poet and non-fiction writer David Eggleton is to be the next permanent editor of Landfall, it was announced today. Six times winner of the Montana NZ Book Reviewer of the Year Award, Eggleton brings years of reviewing and assessment experience to the role of sifting creative writing and essays from both emerging and established writers.
‘At a time when New Zealand books are becoming less visible in other media, David will bring his special expertise as a reviewer to The Landfall Review and, early in 2011, with the assistance of funding from Creative New Zealand, he will expand this part of the magazine on to the internet in The Landfall Review Online,’ says Landfall publisher Wendy Harrex of Otago University Press.
Also announced in Landfall 220 are the winners of two competitions.
Winner of The Landfall Essay Competition, judged by Poet Laureate Cilla McQueen, is Wellington writer Ian Wedde's 'The Grass-Catcher': 'His search for and examination of the twin within is honest and tender,' she says. Runners-up are John Newton, writing about the impact of European refugees on our culture, and Tim Corballis, on our changing cities. An essay on nursing by Stephanie de Montalk is highly commended.
The Kathleen Grattan Award for Poetry is New Zealand's major poetry prize and in 2010 is judged by Vincent O'Sullivan. His choice from the many collections of work submitted? 'This City' by Jennifer Compton, long resident in Australia, who still writes as a New Zealander. Compton's volume 'sustains a questing, warmly sceptical mind's engagement with wherever it is, whatever it takes in, and carries the constant drive to say it right,' says O'Sullivan. Two other collections were runners-up: Ian Wedde's 'The Lifeguard' and Victoria Broome's 'The Big Red Engine'.
Landfall 220 is themed 'open house' and makes an exhilarating read. There's new voices, an eclectic range of poetry, a whole bunch of 'first-person' fictions, reviews of dozens of recent New Zealand books, and terrific artwork by Max Oettli and Andrew Ross.
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