Strong Words 3

Overview

Strong Words 3 showcases the best of the best of Aotearoa New Zealand’s contemporary essays from 2021 and 2022, selected from entries into the Landfall Essay Competition. Strong Words 3 is packed with Aotearoa New Zealand’s most compelling new writing on contemporary issues, tackling topics such as grief, lost language, poetic childhood recollections, gender, the long aftermath of colonisation, the nature of traumatic memory, and working as a comedian while solo parenting.

Author Biography

Emma Neale has published six novels and five poetry collections, and edited several anthologies. She was editor of Landfall 2018–2021 and judged of the Landfall Essay Competition during that period. She was selecting editor for Strong Words (2019) and Strong Words #2 (2021). Lynley Edmeades has published two poetry collections and a poetry and art picture book for adults. She teaches poetry and creative writing in the English programme at the University of Otago and is the current editor of Landfall.