Zoë Meager

Zoë Meager

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"Only an animal or a child will run after something that has just mown it down." — Things with faces

 
 

Represented by

Elise Dillsworth Agency

 

 

 

Zoë Meager is a writer and editor from Aotearoa New Zealand. Her short fiction and prose poems have been commended at home and abroad, including winning the Commonwealth Writers Short Story Prize, Pacific Region, 2013. 

Her work has appeared in Granta, Landfall, and Overland, among many others. She’s a 2024 Sargeson Fellow.

"Ava doesn’t say anything, because all the words have already been used by somebody else." — A mother’s touch

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news

 

 

November 2024

‘Dear Ocean’ is published in Gigantic Sequins.

October 2024

‘The graveyard shift’ is published in Mayhem.

September 2024

‘Great as anything’ is runner-up in the Seán Ó Faoláin International Short Story Competition and forthcoming in Southword.

"Death actually just climbed into the cannon himself, so that was pretty profound and everything." — Death confetti

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some publications

Because there is a war on – Cheap Pop

Come a gusta – Mascara Literary Review

Doing brewing – Splonk

The most novelist – Overland

Things with faces –  Granta

 

 

 



"Then I was born and at first I loved my mother." — THIS WAY UP

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the others

collaboration

Abstract Composition I – In Collusion
Abstract Composition II – In Collusion

FLASHPOINT

Heartworm (letterpress print by Makyla Curtis), in He Whakaritenga Hou – A New Setting exhibition at MOTAT.

How to build everything you hoped for, in Impossible Instructions: a collaboration between writers & artists (chapbook), Gigantic Sequins

Water Weight, with Helena Pantsis – The Offing

in translation

Punctum Magazine – Būtnes ar sejām translated by Anastasija Mežecka

editing/curating

takahē Fiction Editor and Comics Co-editor

General Editor, The Quick Brown Dog, Issue 4: The Home Issue and Issue 5: Identity/Tuakiri, and the takahē Fiction Readers’ Issue: Winter 2024.

Co-editor, Overland 240.5 and 234.5

Guest Curator, Action, Spectacle, Winter 2021, Issue 2, Vol. 1

poetry films

interviews

People in our Pages: Zoë Meager, with Sam Averis, in Flash Frontier, July 2018

Extras: Interview with Zoë Meager, by Allan Drew, in Headland, September 2016

In Conversation: Zoë Meager, in Granta, May 2013

audio 

Zoë reads Yolk Folk on Bookenz (reading starts at 22 mins 32 seconds)

Zoë reads The Situation on Bookenz (reading starts at 1 minute 30 seconds)

 

 

"She’s got a tea towel that wants a stubborn sigh removed, and a politician in the attic who wants listening to, for one hour, two. " — First dispatch from the front

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contact

 

zoe[dot]meager[at]gmail[dot]com