New Zealand arts and literary journal marks its 250th issue

By Radio NZ - Nine to Noon | Posted: Thursday Oct 16, 2025

LFT editor Lynley Edmeades spoke to Kathryn Ryan on Nine to Noon, RNZ, this morning about our 250th issue and how Landfall Tauraka continues to build conversations between generations

New Zealand's longest-running arts and literary journal is celebrating its milestone 250th issue. Landfall was founded in 1947 as a periodical dedicated to New Zealand poetry, fiction, essays, art, criticism and reviews and has been in continuous publication ever since.

More than 2500 contributors have appeared in its pages, together producing almost 9000 pieces of work. To mark the occasion the journal also has a New name Landfall Tauraka. Kathryn speaks to the editor, Lynley Edmeades. 

‘Landfall was started by Charles Brasch in 1947, and he began it with the idea of creating a centre for New Zealand literature. It’s taken on many shapes and forms over the years, almost 80 years, which is largely the strength of it. He was at the helm for a long time. He deeply believed in the place that the arts have in society and New Zealand culture. And since then, it’s evolved and there’s been a number of different editors, which is why I think it’s created such a diverse standing in the literary community. I can’t stay here forever, for example, and I think that’s a good thing. I’ll hand it over soon enough and then someone else will take the helm and that will help create the longevity that I think the journal continues to have.’

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