Scorpio Books warmly welcomes you to a special author talk with Tina Makereti, chaired by Isla Huia. Tina Makereti is the author of three novels, most recently The Mires (Ultimo Press 2024), which will appear in the UK and US in September 2025, and was shortlisted for the Ockham NZ Book Awards Acorn Fiction Prize. Her 2025 essay collection, This Compulsion in Us (Te Herenga Waka Press), includes her prizewinning essay, ‘Lumpectomy’, from the 2022 Landfall Essay Competition.

Isla Huia is a te reo Māori teacher, writer and musician. Her most recent collection of poems Talia (2023) was shortlisted for the Ockham NZ Book Awards. Her work has been published in journals such as Catalyst and Awa Wāhine.

All welcome, refreshments provided. Free event. Please send in your RSVP.