Entropy and emoji, sestinas and shakshuka: Starling Issue 17 is here, with the best new poetry and prose from New Zealand writers under 25 at www.starlingmagazine.com!

Featuring new work from Ada Duffy, Amelia Kirkness, Hattie Salmon, Joshua Toumu’a, Nadezhda Macey, Ronia Ibrahim, Matthew Whiteman, Calvin Smith, Pippi Jean, Ruben Mita, Helena Leon Mayer, Ellie Hart, Xiaole Zhan, Maria Armistead, Zia Ravenscroft, Niamh Hollis-Locke, Giselle den Breems, Elise Sadlier and Molly Laurence.

With a new short story ‘Taonga’ from guest writer Tīhema Baker, author of Turncoat, the incredible New Zealand Book Awards longlisted novel!

And an interview with Olive Nuttall and romesh dissanayake, authors of the most exciting debut novels of 2024, ‘kitten’ and ‘When I open the shop.’