Starling is an online literary journal showcasing the best new poetry and prose from young New Zealand writers.

As part of LitCrawl this Saturday (12 November 2016) Starling will be presenting Open Hearts: New Writing from Starling.

Image: RŪAUMOKO by Miriama Grace-Smith

To celebrate this we spoke with Founder/Editor and writer, Louise Wallace, and Co-Editor and writer Francis Cooke.

This episode also includes readings from:

Sophie van Waardenberg

Claudia Jardine

Nina Powles

Rebecca Hawkes

Sharon Lam

Lily Ng

This episode includes sounds released under Creative Commons licenses from Freesound.org

Thanks to Freesound users: spoonbender

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Episode 40: Starling