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About.

“Writing saves my life. I write every day. It gives shape to my dreams and responses, it is a voice that is and isn’t me. Like the Cheshire Cat. Now you see me. Now you don't.” 

Gail Ingram writes and lives on the tussock-clad Heathcote hills of ÅŒtautahi Christchurch, Aotearoa New Zealand. She is the author of three poetry collections anthology (n.) a collection of flowers (PÅ«keko Publications 2024), Some Bird (Sudden Valley Press 2023) and Contents Under Pressure (PÅ«keko Publications 2019), and the editor of two anthologies, The Unnecessary Invention of Punctuation (2018) and After the Cyclone (2017), both published by the New Zealand Poetry Society. She holds a First Class Masters of Creative Writing from Massey University, and graduated cum laude from Hagley Writers Institute in 2006. 

Her poetry and fiction is widely published in New Zealand and internationally. She is an experienced editor and teacher of writing.

Awards

  • 2022 Finalist Literary Taxidermy International Poetry Competition

  • 2022 Shortlist Given Words NPD Competition

  • 2021 Shortlist Given Words NPD Competition

  • 2021 Australia-NZ poet feature Live Encounters

  • 2021 Longlist Micro Madness International 

  • 2020 Featured Writer Dribble Drabble Review

  • 2020 Commended NZPS International Poetry Competition

  • 2020 Longlist 2 stories National Flash Fiction Competition 

  • 2019 Winner Caselberg International Poetry Competition

  • 2019 Winner NZPS Instagram Summer Poetry Competition

  • 2018 Shortlist NZSA Heritage Poetry Award

  • 2018 Shortlist Given Words Poetry Competition

  • 2018 Highly Commended, NZPS International Poetry Competition

  • 2018 Third Prize, Poets Meet Politics International Poetry Competition

  • 2018 Highly Recommended, Poets In The Waiting Room Competition

  • 2017 Runner Up, National Flash Fiction Day Micro Madness Competition

  • 2016 Winner Open Section, New Zealand Poetry Society International Poetry 

  • 2016 Special Mention Hagley Writers Institute National Poetry Day Competition

  • 2016 Commended National Flash Fiction Day Competition (NZ)

  • 2016 Winner150th Fairlie Anniversary Poetry Competition

  • 2016 Finalist International Best Short Fictions 2016

  • 2015 Nominated for PUSHCART PRIZE in short fiction

  • 2015 Shortlist International Fish Short Story Award

  • 2015 Runner-up takahe International Poetry Competition

  • 2015 Commended NZPS International Poetry Competition

  • 2014 Commended NZPS International Poetry Competition

  • 2014 Commended Hagley Writers Institute National Poetry Day Competition

  • 2014 Longlist National Flash Fiction Day Competition (NZ)

  • 2013 Highly Commended BNZ Katherine Mansfield Short Story Award

  • 2013 Highly Commended takahe International Short Story Competition

  • 2012 Second place NZAC Short Story Competition

  • 2012 Special Mention NCSU Science Museum International Haiku Comp

  • 2011 3x Commended 2011 SIWA National Short Story Competition

  • 2010 Second Place NZSA One Day Short Story Competition

Published Works

Poetry

Published or pending in the following journals and anthologies from New Zealand, Australia, U.K. and United States:

  • Koe: An Aotearoa anthology of ecopoetry (2024)

  • The Poetry Shelf (2024)

  • The Quick Brown Dog (2024)

  • Forest and Bird magazine (2024)

  • The Poetry Shelf (2023)

  • Live Encounters (2023)

  • Continental Thought and Theory (2023)

  • Poetry Aotearoa Handbook (2023)

  • Turbine/Kapohau (2022)

  • The Poetry Shelf (2022)

  • The Friday Poem, The Spinoff (2022)

  • Tarot 4 (2022)

  • Hua/Manu, takahÄ“ at WORD festival (2022)

  • Live Encounters (US 2022, 2021)

  • More Than a Roof (2021)

  • Landfall 237, 238

  • Poems for the Planet (Au 2021)

  • Love in the Time of Covid (2020)

  • Blue Nib (Au 2020)

  • Barren Magazine (US 2020)

  • Rewilding Eco Poetry (UK 2020)

  • Milly Magazine (2020)

  • Covid 19 World Anthology (2020)

  • Tiny Seed (UK 2020)

  • Oscen (2020)

  • Mayhem (2020)

  • The Poetry Class Anthology (2020)

  • Sweet Mammalian (2019)

  • Catalyst (2019)

  • Wellington Street Review 1

  • Fib Review 32

  • XR Global Creative 

  • Dribble Drabble Review 1

  • Jotters United 30

  • Poetry New Zealand (Yearbook 4, 3, 2 & Issue 47)

  • Atlanta Review (2017)

  • Manifesto (OUP 2017)

  • Hamster (The Physics Room 2017)

  • Blue Five Notebook (2016)

  • NZPS Anthologies 2018, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011

  • Poems In The Waiting Room (2018)

  • takahe (92, 87, 84, 82)

  • Leaving the Red Zone Poems from the Canterbury Earthquakes (Clerestory 2016)

  • Fineline (NZPS 2019, 2018, 2015, 2014)

  • Blackmail Press 41

  • Quick Brown Dog (2020, 2014, 2013)

  • Cordite Poetry Review (91, 44)

  • BNZ Katherine Mansfield Short, Short Fiction (2013)

  • The Christchurch Press.

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Short Stories and Flash Fiction

Published in the following journals from New Zealand, Australia and USA:

Non-Fiction and Other

  • 2024 Forest & Bird Centennial Project “Calder Green Reserve”

  • 2024 WORD festival Poetry Presenter and Workshop

  • 2023 Cityscape: “How to Poet”

  • 2023 Flash Frontier New Book Feature

  • 2023 Canterbury Poets' Collective Guest Reader

  • 2023 Te Wai Pounamu Poetry Show Tour "Naming the Sirens"

  • 2023 WORD festival Poetry Show "Naming the Sirens"

  • 2022 Octogon Collective Guest Reader

  • 2020 NZLA Literacy Forum 2020 Vol 35:

               “Ekphrasis: Writing Poetry in Response to Art”

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Memberships

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