Ting. J. Yiu is a Stockholm based writer with an MA in Transnational Creative Writing. She writes poetry, fiction and creative non-fiction. Her short story Gutting is the final Epigraph Project piece for 2020. In this interview with the editor, she talks about her fascination with true crime and diaspora narratives, and why she writes about ugly and unorthodox women…
Yoshiko Teraoka is a London-based writer. Her research project on anarchist bookshops and libraries has previously appeared in the online visual platform UNDERSCAN. Her essay A Boxing Match with Jerry, or Death in Three Parts is available to read now as part of Epigraph Project, supporting new and emerging Asian New Zealand writers…
Feby Idrus is a writer, musician and arts administrator from Dunedin. In 2018 was one of four playwrights selected to take part in the Fortune Theatre’s Emerging Playwrights mentoring programme. She also writes programme notes for the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra – rather a different proposition to writing short stories…
Grace Yee writes poetry, essays and short fiction. Grace’s PhD research at the University of Melbourne focused on settler Chinese women’s storytelling in Aotearoa New Zealand. In this interview, she talks about her recent research and her magpie approach to writing poetry…
kī anthony is an autistic lesbian of Indian and Chinese descent. They are the fourth writer whose work has been selected for Epigraph Project. In this interview, they talk about representation for sex workers, their early experiences with tech and open source, and how the internet is both our oppressor and the means for radical change…
Nicole Tan’s speculative fiction, Fission, features as the third Epigraph Project of 2020. In this latest interview, Tan talks to editor Amy Weng about what drew them to this genre of fiction, what being a diaspora writer means, and their longstanding interest in fanfiction…
In the second Epigraph interview of the year, poet Joanna Cho talks to Hainamana about her recent work and influences, and what she’d like to see change in the New Zealand publishing industry…
In this first interview for Epigraph, a project introducing readers to new and emerging Asian New Zealand writers, Hainamana editor Amy Weng speaks to Nithya Narayanan about Inheritance, the grotesque body, and the role that fiction can play in conceptualising precarity and trauma…
Gemishka Chetty and Aiwa Pooamorn are poets and playwrights back for 2020 Auckland Fringe with their brand new show Have You Ever Been With An Asian Womxn? The show presents a bold and satirical investigation into porn fetishes centred around the hyper-sexualisation of pan-Asian women. Hainamana speaks to Chetty and Pooamorn about internalised racism, creating…
ROBBIE HANDCOCK | WOULD YOU LOOK AT THAT. was an exhibition by Wellington artist Elisabeth Pointon held at play_station gallery in January 2019. The project consisted of a plane towed banner reading “SPECTACULAR.” flown over One Tree Hill, Auckland. The following is the result of an artist talk between Elisabeth and Robbie Handcock held in association with the show…
AUSTIN TSENG | Tian Tan is one of those Kiwi legends that, like those crunchy bits in a serve of hot chips, pop up here and there but always leave a memorable impression. An actor, Tan has appeared in such productions as The New Legends of Monkey on Netflix, and the hit web series Baby Mama’s Club. Many will also know him as Main Man Tian Tan from his videos on Facebook and Youtube, where he posts comedy sketches and life advice…
JESS HONG | Tu-Bryant is a musician, actor, writer, visual artist, puppeteer and director who identifies as a storyteller of Taiwanese and New Zealand European descent. She had just driven back to Wellington with a car full of set pieces, having rehearsed for several weeks in Auckland for her upcoming devised show Tide Waits for No Man: Episode Grace…