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SPIRAL COLLECTIVES

ko mana wahine te pūtake

women's strength is our reason for being

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'taking care of what's precious,
together'

we awhi the practice & legacy
of women’s creative work
in Aotearoa New Zealand

AWHI OUR MAHI >

Painting Heather McPherson’s ‘Have you heard of Artemisia?’ poem, 'Matariki mural', Women & the Environment, 1981. L-R from top Anna Keir, Marian Evans, Marg Leniston, Fiona Lovatt, Susie Jungersen, Bridie Lonie. Photographer unknown.

SPIRAL IMPRINT

Best known as publisher of Keri Hulme’s 1985 Booker Prize-winning the bone people, Spiral is a ‘floating imprint’ for artist-led collectives.

Spiral Collectives
is a small
artist-led registered charity.

WE EDUCATE AWHI
& SUPPORT

SCREENS

Spiral has always loved screen stuff: watch this space.

What we do

EXHIBITIONS & EVENTS

We create and hold space for women's work.

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ARCHIVES

Spiral was founded 50 years ago by poet and activist Heather McPherson (1942-2017) and has supported women's creative legacies ever since.

What We're Up To

our news

&

current

events

Page 24 of Matters Arising: Jane Zusters: Looking at You: Desire and the Female Gaze, Aotearoa New Zealand in the 1970s & Early 1980s, a co-production with Mokopōpaki.

* COMING SOON *

Matters Arising: Jane Zusters: Looking at You: Desire and the Female Gaze, Aotearoa New Zealand in the 1970s & Early 1980s, a co-production with Mokopōpaki.

Marian Evans & Cusha Parekowhai

Spiral Collectives presents schoolgirl Keri Hulme's Moeraki Hillside at the Featherston BookTown Karukatea Festival 2024 Young Readers Programme.

KARUKATEA FESTIVAL PANEL

The Pictures In Our Heads: New Life For Auē & the bone people: Mary McCallum talks with Becky Manawatu, Franchesca Benocci & Marian Evans of Spiral.

Cover of The Beautiful Dead by author Kim Hunt

While aiming for damn good page-turning yarns, Kim’s Cal Nyx series foregrounds those who rarely get to see their uncompromised selves written on the page.

The Pictures In Our Heads: New Life For Auē & the bone people panel session at Featherston BookTown Karukatea Festival 2024

ARCHIVAL PRESENTATION

Keri Hulme’s whānau had the brilliant idea of gifting her school bag, books and prizes to her old school.

SPIRAL IMPRINT AUTHOR RECOGNIZED

Kim Hunt acknowledged as Emerging LGBTQIA+ Crime Fiction Writer by Sisters in Crime USA & Runner Up in their 2023 Pride Awards

essa may ranapiri winning 2023 Keri Hulme Award

KERI HULME AWARD

essa may ranapiri wins inaugural award sponsored by the Keri Hulme whānau at Pikihuia 2023.

If you consider the history of New Zealand writing, it is both frightening and inspiring how influential the Spiral collective has been.

Emma Wehipeihana's review of Patricia Grace's

From the Centre: A Writer's Life (2021)

OUR MAHI

WE EDUCATE

we share the challenges & delights of creative women's lives in hard copy publications, and public events & exhibitions.

Corporate bodies whose support we deeply appreciate — we love them!

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