Editing New Zealand literature (section)

==Literary journals and periodicals==
[[File:New Zealand Illustrated Magazine, May 1900 cover.jpg|thumb|Cover of ''The New Zealand Illustrated Magazine'' in May 1900, a short-lived periodical (1899–1905).]]
{{See also|List of print media in New Zealand}}
Early New Zealand literary journals included ''The Triad'' (founded by [[Charles Nalder Baeyertz]] in 1893 and closed in 1926), ''The New Zealand Illustrated Magazine'' (founded in Auckland in 1899 and closed in 1905) and ''Art in New Zealand'' (founded by [[Charles Allan Marris]] in 1928 and closed in 1946).<ref name="Schrader 1890">{{cite web |last1=Schrader |first1=Ben |title=Literary magazines, 1890 to 1930 – Story: Magazines and periodicals |url=https://teara.govt.nz/en/magazines-and-periodicals/page-2 |website=Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand |access-date=9 March 2021 |archive-date=26 October 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201026033509/https://teara.govt.nz/en/magazines-and-periodicals/page-2 |url-status=live }}</ref> The short-lived magazine ''Phoenix'', published in 1932 by students at the [[University of Auckland]] and edited by [[James Munro Bertram]] and [[R. A. K. Mason]], was an early outlet for New Zealand nationalist writers such as Brasch and Curnow.<ref name="Schrader 1930">{{cite web |last1=Schrader |first1=Ben |title=Art and literary magazines, 1930 to 1950 – Story: Magazines and periodicals |url=https://teara.govt.nz/en/magazines-and-periodicals/page-4 |website=Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand |access-date=9 March 2021 |archive-date=25 October 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201025164014/https://teara.govt.nz/en/magazines-and-periodicals/page-4 |url-status=live }}</ref> Left-wing artist [[Kennaway Henderson]] founded the fortnightly magazine [[Tomorrow (New Zealand magazine)|''Tomorrow'']] in 1934, which was influential in shaping New Zealand nationalist literature and literary criticisms, but was shut down by the government as subversive in 1940.<ref name="Schrader 1930"/> Other early journals and magazines included ''New Zealand Mercury'' (a poetry magazine established by [[Helen Langford]], 1933 to 1936), ''Oriflamme'' and ''Sirocco'' (published in 1933 by students of [[University of Canterbury|Canterbury University College]], including [[Denis Glover]]), ''Book'' (featuring [[Caxton Press (New Zealand)|Caxton Press]] writers and edited by [[Anton Vogt]], 1942 to 1947)<ref name="Schrader 1930"/> and the ''New Zealand Railways Magazine'' (published by the Railway Department from 1926 to 1940).<ref name="Popular">{{cite web |last1=Schrader |first1=Ben |title=Popular magazines, 1920 to 1939 – Story: Magazines and periodicals |url=https://teara.govt.nz/en/magazines-and-periodicals/page-3 |website=Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand |access-date=9 March 2021 |archive-date=1 March 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210301124315/https://teara.govt.nz/en/magazines-and-periodicals/page-3 |url-status=live }}</ref>

In 1947, Caxton Press began publishing the quarterly journal ''[[Landfall (journal)|Landfall]]'', edited by [[Charles Brasch]]; it is still published today on a twice-yearly basis.<ref name="Schrader 1930"/> The journal has been described by [[Peter Simpson (writer)|Peter Simpson]] as "the most important and long-lasting journal in New Zealand's literature".<ref name="OCNZL Landfall">{{cite encyclopedia |last=Simpson |first=Peter |editor1-last=Robinson |editor1-first=Roger |editor2-last=Wattie |editor2-first=Nelson |encyclopedia=The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature |title=Landfall |url=https://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780195583489.001.0001/acref-9780195583489-e-671 |access-date=16 November 2020 |date=2006 |publisher=[[Oxford University Press]] |isbn=978-0-1917-3519-6 |oclc=865265749 |doi=10.1093/acref/9780195583489.001.0001 |archive-date=16 August 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210816195421/https://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780195583489.001.0001/acref-9780195583489-e-671 |url-status=live }}</ref> Brasch's successor as editor, [[Robin Dudding]], left ''Landfall'' in 1972 to set up a competing journal called ''[[Islands (journal)|Islands]]'', and some of ''Landfall'''s key contributors switched their allegiance to this new journal; ''Landfall'' did not recover its status as the leading literary journal of New Zealand until the editorship of [[David Dowling]] in the early 1980s.<ref name="OCNZL Landfall" /> Other important literary journals in New Zealand include ''[[Sport (New Zealand magazine)|Sport]]'', founded by [[Fergus Barrowman]] in 1988, ''takahē'', a Christchurch journal founded in 1989 focussing on short stories, poetry, and art, and ''Poetry New Zealand,'' which has published local and overseas work since 1993.<ref name="internet">{{cite web |last1=Schrader |first1=Ben |title=Literary magazines, internet publishing, 1960s to 2010s – Story: Magazines and periodicals |url=https://teara.govt.nz/en/magazines-and-periodicals/page-6 |website=Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand |access-date=9 March 2021 |archive-date=31 October 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201031110418/https://teara.govt.nz/en/magazines-and-periodicals/page-6 |url-status=live }}</ref>

The magazine ''[[New Zealand Listener]]'' was founded by the government in 1939 to publish radio listings, but extended its brief to cover current affairs, opinion, and literary works. Among the writers featured in the magazine over the years were [[Maurice Duggan]], [[Noel Hilliard]], [[Keith Sinclair]], Maurice Shadbolt, Fiona Kidman, and Joy Cowley, and poets James K. Baxter, Allen Curnow, [[Ruth Gilbert (poet)|Ruth Gilbert]], and [[Ruth France]]. In 1990, the magazine was privatised and subsequently became more of a lifestyle magazine, although it continues to have a focus on literary works.<ref name="Popular"/> Another important government-founded magazine was ''[[Te Ao Hou / The New World]]'', a quarterly magazine published in both English and Māori from 1952 to 1975 by the [[Te Puni Kōkiri|Māori Affairs Department]]; it was the first national magazine for Māori.<ref name="OCNZL Te Ao Hou">{{cite encyclopedia |last=Wattie |first=Nelson |editor1-last=Robinson |editor1-first=Roger |editor2-last=Wattie |editor2-first=Nelson |encyclopedia=The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature |title=Ao Hou, Te / The New World |url=https://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780195583489.001.0001/acref-9780195583489-e-42 |access-date=19 November 2020 |date=2006 |publisher=[[Oxford University Press]] |isbn=978-0-1917-3519-6 |oclc=865265749 |doi=10.1093/acref/9780195583489.001.0001 |archive-date=30 October 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201030013250/https://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780195583489.001.0001/acref-9780195583489-e-42 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=McRae |first1=Jane |title=Māori magazines – Story: Māori newspapers and magazines – ngā niupepa me ngā moheni |url=https://teara.govt.nz/en/maori-newspapers-and-magazines-nga-niupepa-me-nga-moheni/page-5 |website=Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand |access-date=26 September 2021}}</ref> The ''[[New Zealand School Journal]]'' was founded by the New Zealand [[Ministry of Education (New Zealand)|Department of Education]] in 1907 and has been published by a private firm since 2013; since the 1940s it been known for the high quality of its children's literature.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Pollock |first1=Kerryn |title=Story: Children's and young adult literature — Page 2. Fairies, families and adventures, 1900s–1960s |url=https://teara.govt.nz/en/childrens-and-young-adult-literature/page-2 |website=Te Ara: The New Zealand Encyclopedia |date=1 August 2016 |access-date=2 April 2022}}</ref>