Huia Short Stories 11 (16 page)

Aroha Bentson, of Ngāpuhi and Swedish descent, recently discovered her passion has been right under her fingertips all these years. Completing the Diploma in Creative Writing with MIT opened up a whole new world combined with a journey of healing and lightheartedness. She believes that stories have enormous power. Aroha is an active member of Te Hā ki Tamaki where she continues to receive guidance and motivation to write every day.

Ann French (Ngāpuhi) lives in Tauranga with her husband and best friend of forty-nine years, Chris. Her home is by the sea, where she has lived for most of her life. With five grandchildren who keep her young, she considers the small pleasures in life bring the greatest rewards. Over the past year, Ann has helped various people and groups with editing their memoirs and histories and some creative writing booklets that various groups within the community have published. She paints silk as a hobby, but writing is the great passion in her life.

K-T reads and writes, and she reads and writes some more. As Thomas King says, stories are all we are.

André Hetariki, son of Amish Hetariki (Muaūpoko, Ngāti Raukawa and Ngāti Kahungunu) and Glenys Anderson (Swedish, Norwegian and English), is the eldest of four children. He was born in Dannevirke and raised on farms there and in the Waikato before moving to Palmerston North on the banks of the Manawatu River. He considers himself a typical New Zealander – enjoying the important things in life: hanging out with family and friends, rugby, one-day cricket, eating fish and chips on the beach, watching the sunset, jumping off bridges and sailing. André has a love of the natural world and is currently building climbing parks in Germany and doing his best to reduce his impact on the environment. For the past eight years André has been living in Europe but will soon return to ‘God's Own' with his partner in life, Kerstin.

Based in sun-drenched Palmerston North, Darryn Joseph (Ngāti Maniapoto) has been writing short stories for HUIA since 1999. He has written books in Māori mainly for children, but this is his first short story intended for the adults-only Māori lingual market. Darryn hopes this story acts as a lightning rod to discuss identity issues surrounding machismo, misogyny, and Māoritanga, after readers have stopped laughing or being offended, depending on which side of the river bend they are camped.

Lauren Keenan hails from Te āti Awa ki Taranaki, and she lives in Wellington with her husband, Tane, and two children, Amotai and Lily. She works in government and enjoys reading, writing and travelling.

Shilo Kino is taking a hiatus from her job as a journalist and is currently serving a mission in Hong Kong for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The 26-year-old credits Patricia Grace and Witi Ihimaera for carving the pathway for her and other young Māori writers to share their unique Māori stories with the world. Shilo hopes to finish her novel when she returns from her mission.

Robert Mac Donald (Rangitāne ki Wairau, Ng āti Kahungunu) operates a tourism venture from Waimarama, where he was born and raised and lives. Robert is a part-time writer; ‘Old T ōtara' is his second entry into a Pikihuia competition, and he was a participant in the 2014 Te Papa Tupu programme.

Anya Ngawhare recently relocated from Auckland's North Shore to Omokoroa in the Bay of Plenty with her parents, two-year-old niece and collection of oddball animals. The slow, seaside lifestyle doesn't agree with her yet, but she does enjoy watching her neurotic felines admire the ocean waves from the safety of the living room. After her wilful parents forced her to pursue her writing dream, she was selected for the 2012 Te Papa Tupu programme.

Tipu ake au ki roto i te tāone o Te Papaiōea mō te roanga o taku whakatipuranga engari he paku wāhanga anō hoki ka noho ki Te Pūtere ki roto i ngā kōtā kuti hipi. Ko te reo Pākehā te reo kawe i te kāinga, ka mutu, koira anahe te reo o ōku mātua. He mea āta whai atu, āta ako e au te reo Māori nōku i te kura waenga me te kura tuarua ki roto i ngā akomanga reo rua i ngā tau o te iwi tekau. Ka mutu ana au i te kura tuarua ka haere ai au ki Te Waipounamu ki te kimi oranga mōku ki runga i ngā poti mau ika o Sealord. Kāore i noho tau ki roto i tēnei tū mahi, ka hoki mai ai ki Te Papaiōea ka whāia atu anō e au taku reo hai oranga anō mōku. Ka whakapōtaengia au ki Te Kupenga Marae ki te whare wānanga o Massey ki roto i te tohu o te kaiako. Mai i te tau 2005 ki te tau 2013 ka tū kaiako ahau mō te reo Māori me te reo rangatira ki Hato Pāora Kāreti, ā, kei te mahi tonu au mō te reo ki Te Kāreti o Awatapu i Te Papaiōea. He kura te reo, ka mutu, koira e pai ana ki a au tēnei mea te tuhituhi paki i roto i te reo Māori.

Vincent Ieni Olsen-Reeder (Ngā Pōtiki a Tamapahore, Ngāi Te Rangi, Ngāti Pūkenga, Te Arawa)

He kaiako reo Māori a Vini ki Te Whare Wānanga o Te ūpoko o Te Ika a Māui. He tauira tohu kairangi ia, e rangahau ana i te reo ruatanga o te iwi kōrero Māori. I tua atu i ēnei mahi āna, he kaupapa anō āna hei hāpai i te reo, ko Te Hōhaieti o te Reo Māori ki Wikitōria tēnā, ko Hei Reo Whānau hoki tēnā.

I pakeke mai ia i te reo Pākehā me āna tikanga katoa, ā, ko te reo Māori te kaitō i a ia ki te hau kāinga o Tauranga Moana. Ko tana kōrero nei, ko  
Te Reo o te Kuia
, ehara i te whakahāwea i tētahi. He tirotiro noa iho ki te āhua o te kuia, ki te reo o te kuia, taua reo ngāwari noa e whāia ana e tātou, me te pātai anō, mēnā rānei e taea ana e te tauira reo o nāianei tērā taumata te eke?

Toni Pivac (Ngāti Whātua, Te Rarawa, Ngāpuhi) is a twenty-eight- year-old writer who believes in the power of storytelling and is convinced that diverse and inclusive stories can change the world. She holds a Bachelor of Communication Studies from AUT University yet prefers to make things up when writing. She lives in her home town of Whangārei, where she leads a busy and happy life with her partner, Wiremu, and two children, Mila and Matija. Toni has always loved the wonderful and strange world of storytelling and is grateful for the opportunity to be a part of it.

Aimee Tapping is a teacher, mother, wife, writer and herbalist-in-training. Children and the connection humans have with their environment are what really inspire her. Previously published under her maiden name, Stephens, Aimee dreams of publishing an anthology or novel in her lifetime.

Aaron Ure, of Taranaki iwi descent and raised across New Zealand, is the husband of one and father of four. He is a late bloomer when it comes to reading and story writing. Starting his training at the Waiariki Institute of Technology at forty-nine, Aaron found he had a unique voice and diverse stories to tell. Aaron finds that writing brings harmony and expression to both his Māori and his European heritage.

Helen Waaka, (Ngāti Whātua, Ngāpuhi, Ngāti Torehina) completed a Graduate Diploma in Creative Writing at Whitireia in 2011. In the same year, she won the Short Story in English at the Pikihuia awards. In 2012 she was awarded a New Zealand Society of Authors mentorship, and in 2013 she received a highly commended award in the Novel Extract category of the Pikihuia Awards. Helen has a Bachelor of Nursing and a Post-Graduate Certificate in Women's Health and currently works part-time as a nurse in Hawke's Bay. Her first short story collection,
Waitapu
, will be launched in October 2015.

First published in 2015 by Huia Publishers

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