Celebrating Landfall's 250th issue

By Academy of New Zealand Literature | Posted: Thursday Nov 13, 2025

‘I wrote partly because Landfall was there’Writers on their first publications in New Zealand’s oldest literary journal.

Landfall, New Zealand’s longest-running literary journal, was founded in 1947. This week it publishes its 250th issue and a new name, Landfall Tauraka. Many New Zealand writers – from Janet Frame to Keri Hulme to Robert Sullivan – found a first home for their work in Landfall.

To celebrate its impact on our local literary scene and the way it has nurtured and showcased so many emerging writers, we asked some of our ANZL Fellows and Members about their first-ever Landfall publication.

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