Tagata Atamai

18/08/2026

https://www.thebigidea.co.nz/stories/linda-vaaelua-the-artist-who-puts-her-kids-first

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05/08/2026

🧚🏼‍♀️ My first Auckland Zine Fest 🌺🌀🧜🏽‍♀️🇼🇸 10/10 would recommend. 📚 Fa’afetai tele lava to everyone who came to awhi our makers & storytellers ~ YOU Keep the Fires Burning ! 🔥🔥🔥 LONG LIVE Print. 🫆🫆🫆 Dani Kionasina

05/08/2026

Fa’afetai tele lava for having me Four Shells Kava Lounge ma Eric Soakai 🌀🌺🔥 Y’all really know how to bring the nu’u together for talanoa that is grounded, loving, & real. ♥️ Speaking life in your space brought me home to myself in a way that I didn’t know I needed at the time. 🌺 arohaNUI for holding me. Your warmth is sacred & felt. 🔥 Whenever we are together, I am truly seen. I am KNOWN deeply. 🌀 Alofa atu x Special fa’afetai to my fellow Samoan storytelling baddie ~ Talia Stanley ~ for taking this mean photo of me doin’ OUR thang!! 🎙️✍🏽💋💋 Everything about this night was tika. 🧚🏼‍♀️ Dani Kionasina

18/07/2026

02/07/2026

Ok, whānau. 💜✍🏽 We heard that some of y’all need a couple more weeks to finesse your submissions. So, we have extended the deadline one last time. ~ Please submit your writing by midnight on the 14th of July 2026 to be considered for inclusion in FANUA: Voices of Our Islands, our next print collection of Moana & Māori poetry. 📗 Indigenous Voices to the world!!! 🌀🌀🌀

Fa’afetai tele lava to everyone who has already emailed their poetry to Dani Kionasina 🥰💌 (our founder, director, editor, & publisher). Your words are sacred measina. Dani is endlessly grateful to receive them. ♥️

Alofa atu 🌺🌺🌺🌊🌊

Submissions are open: [email protected]

25/06/2026

https://events.humanitix.com/writing-rituals

24/06/2026