Join us in welcoming guest Nicola Andrews to The Write Attention podcast Episode 10: Mentorship & Community.

Nicola Andrews (Māori, Pākehā) is a member of the Ngāti Paoa iwi, currently living on Ramaytush Ohlone territory. They are the winner of the 2023 AAALS Indigenous Writers Prize for Poetry, and their writing has been supported by communities including the Kearny Street Interdisciplinary Writers Lab, Kenyon Review Writers Workshop, Rooted & Written, and the Voices of Our Nations Arts Foundation. Their debut chapbook, Māori Maid Difficult, is forthcoming with Tram Editions. In their spare time, they watch dinosaur documentaries with their cat.

 

In Episode 10, the group discusses what does or does not make for a good mentor, trusting your intuition, managing the closing and building of writing communities, and what thoughts go into putting together a collection of poems or stories.

 

Nicola Andrews also reads an excerpt from their poem, "Self Portrait with the Queue" from their debut chapbook, Maori Maid Difficult.

 

You can also find Nicola here:

Website: bit.ly/NicolaAndrews
Social Media: @maraebrarian (twitter) @poi_division (Instagram, Bluesky)
 
 

Show Notes

• Māori Maid Difficult at Tram Editions: https://trameditions.com/catalogue/2023-authors/


• Tram Editions, https://trameditions.com/


• Paper and Stick by Priscilla Wathington, https://trameditions.com/paper-and-stick-by-priscilla-wathington/ 


• Weren’t We Natural Swimmers by Aliah Lavonne Tigh, https://trameditions.com/werent-we-natural-swimmers-by-aliah-lavonne-tigh/ 


• RAWI, https://www.arabamericanwriters.org/ 


• APAture 2023, https://www.kearnystreet.org/apature 


• APAture Literary Arts Showcase: https://www.kearnystreet.org/events-blog/2023/9/11/apature-2023-literary-arts


• VONA, https://www.vonavoices.org/ 


• Chelsea T. Hicks, https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/chelsea-t-hicks,  and Words of the People https://wtpgathering.org/ 


• Craig Santos Perez, http://craigsantosperez.com/ 


• Periplus mentorship collective, https://docs.google.com/document/d/1-0SRWxJqx4oNbWVmbq4j9JE5INhisz76--U63UbtncM/edit 


• Write or Die, https://www.chillsubs.com/writeordie/education