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1 month ago | 
sussexexpress.co.uk | Kelly Ana Morey |Philip Keeler
Watch more of our videos on ShotsTV.com and on Freeview 262 or Freely 565Visit Shots! nowThe cost of living crisis in Sussex has become a real problem for so many people. With prices going up for almost everything – from food to energy bills – it’s harder than ever for families to get by. Wages aren’t keeping up with the rising costs, which means that many people are struggling just to afford the basics like heating, food, and transport. Things like rent and bills are becoming more expensive.
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Sep 28, 2024 | 
nzherald.co.nz | Kelly Ana Morey
Let Them Eat Tripe: The Story of Antoine’s by Tony Astle with Geraldine Johns (Bateman, $45). Photo / supplied In December 2020, after 49 years, the Auckland culinary institution that was Antoine’s quietly closed the doors at 333 Parnell Rd after its final service.
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Sep 2, 2024 | 
nzherald.co.nz | Kelly Ana Morey
Timothy C Winegard's The Horse is a thoroughbred portrait of how human history and disaster rode for so long on the back of a horse. Photo / Getty Images Book review: Timothy C Winegard’s The Horse clocks in at an impressive 461 closely written pages that span the history of the horse from the dawn of time to the present day. Although the book is a social history, it’s no lightweight romp through the ages. The amount of research undertaken is nothing short of staggering.
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Jul 17, 2024 | 
newsroom.co.nz | Kelly Ana Morey
A row of two-bedroom units on the Kāpiti Coast, a few blocks back from the sea, is the setting for The Mires, the new novel by Tina Makereti (Ngāti Tūwharetoa, Te Āti Awa, Ngāti Rangatahi-Matakore). There’s something distinctly otherworldly about the setting and some of the inhabitants in spite of the banality of lives being lived in what appears to be very ordinary ways. In the unit in the start of the row is Janet Bloom, a basic old-school Pākehā racist.
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Jul 13, 2024 | 
nzherald.co.nz | Kelly Ana Morey
Shilo Kino's All That We Know is a joy to read as it rattles along at pace with frequent laugh-out-loud moments. Photo / supplied In All That We Know, her first adult novel, Shilo Kino (Ngāpuhi, Ngāti Maniapoto), the award-winning writer of young adult novel The Pōrangi Boy, casts a youthful eye over the fraught business of being a Māori activist in contemporary Aotearoa.
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Apr 2, 2024 | 
nzreviewofbooks.com | Kelly Ana Morey |Lauren Keenan
It is early 1860 in Ngāmotu/New Plymouth and the highly contentious purchase of the Waitara Block is being finalised. Pākehā are building stockades around the settlement and the militia are pouring in. Both Māori and Pākehā know that war between them is imminent. These weeks prior to the outbreak of the Taranaki Land Wars act as a historical back drop Lauren Keenan’s novel, The Space Between.
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Feb 25, 2024 | 
newsroom.co.nz | Kelly Ana Morey
Over the winter of 2023, as a lucky recipient of the part of the Grimshaw Sargeson Fellowship, I was given the use of a studio apartment above the George Fraser Gallery in the eastern end of Albert Park opposite the University of Auckland. It was the first time I’d spent any time in the city for close to 20 years.
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Jan 9, 2024 | 
nzherald.co.nz | Kelly Ana Morey
Honestly by Kelly Ana Morey. Photo / Getty ImagesEach summer, we commission some of Aotearoa’s finest writers to tell us a short tale. This year’s theme is “second acts”. Like almost every teenager, I shoplifted. And I was really good at it too. Utterly fearless. This was back in the early-90s when they didn’t have all the store security they do now. In the small provincial city where I grew up, the moral decency of people was all the policing you needed to keep your stock safe from sticky fingers.
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Aug 17, 2023 | 
nzreviewofbooks.com | Kelly Ana Morey |Airana Ngarewa
It wasn’t all that long ago that a year could go by without a single novel by a Māori writer; Māori literature felt as though it was in crisis. Now it seems as though a month doesn’t pass without a book – poetry, fiction or non-fiction – by a Māori writer arriving hot off the press. Some books are quality writing, and of course this is marvellous.
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Feb 4, 2023 | 
stuff.co.nz | Kelly Ana Morey
The Short Read is proudly brought to you byThe Milford Foundation. Listen to the full podcast in the player below. Kelly Anna Morey came third place in the Sunday Star-Times Short Story Awards. ‘F... me,’ I say. ‘It can’t be.’ ‘What,’ replies Emma who’s lying on the other sofa. It’s Saturday night and we’re a little bit toasted from the last of the weed that we scored from Emma’s cousin, and scrolling relentlessly on our phones. Tinder for me. Trade Me for Emma. Both are dangerous.
