Middle Distance
Long Stories of Aotearoa New Zealand
2021
First Published
4.75
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478
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The stories in Middle Distance travel from the empty expanses of the southern ocean to the fall of a once great house, from the wharekai of a marae to the wasteland of Middle America. Longer than a traditional short story and shorter than a novella, the long story is a form that both compresses and sprawls, expands and contracts, and which allows us to inhabit a world in one sitting. The emerging and established writers in this anthology break new territory in character, setting and storytelling. Each of their stories reveals to us something – intimate, electrifying, funny, beautiful – that we won’t soon forget.
Avg Rating
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Authors
Rem Wigmore
Author · 5 books
Rem Wigmore is a speculative fiction writer based in Wellington, New Zealand, and author of the upcoming queer solarpunk novel Foxhunt. Their previous works include the 2020 novella Riverwitch and their first novel The Wind City (2013). Their short fiction appears in several places including the Capricious Gender Diverse Pronouns Issue, Baffling Magazine, and the second Year’s Best Aotearoa New Zealand Science Fiction & Fantasy anthology. Rem’s probably a changeling, but you’re stuck with them now. The coffee here is just too good.
Joy Holley
Author · 2 books
Joy Holley lives in Pōneke. Her debut collection of short fiction Dream Girl was recently published by Te Herenga Waka University Press. She completed her MA in Creative Writing at the International Institute of Modern Letters in 2020. Her writing can be found in journals and anthologies in Aotearoa and overseas, including Starling, The Pantograph Punch and Sweet Mammalian.
Vincent O'Sullivan
Author · 11 books
Vincent Gerard O’Sullivan, DCNZM is a New Zealand poet, short story writer, novelist, playwright, critic and editor. He was the New Zealand Poet Laureate for the term 2013–2015. He attended St Joseph's Primary, Grey Lynn, and Sacred Heart College. He graduated from the University of Auckland and Oxford University; he lectured at Victoria University of Wellington (1963–66) and the University of Waikato (1968–78). He served as literary editor of the NZ Listener (1979–80). Librarian note: There is more than one author in the Goodreads database with this name. Vincent^O'Sullivan
Anthony Lapwood
Author · 2 books
Anthony Lapwood's debut story collection Home Theatre won the Hubert Church Prize for Fiction in the 2023 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards. His fiction has featured in numerous publications and been anthologised in Middle Distance: Long Stories of Aotearoa New Zealand, Year’s Best Aotearoa New Zealand Science Fiction and Fantasy, and Hiwa: Contemporary Māori Short Stories. Anthony is of Ngāti Ranginui, Ngāi Te Rangi, Ngāti Whakaue and Pākehā descent. He lives in Te Whanganui-a-Tara Wellington, in Aotearoa New Zealand.
