Wendy Parkins

Wendy Parkins is the author of Every Morning, So Far, I’m Alive: A Memoir (Otago University Press, 2019). She was longlisted for the Michael Gifkins Prize in 2021 and is currently completing a historical novel. She divides her time between Ōtepoti/Dunedin and the Tomarata Valley.

Nonfiction

Bells for Tiaki

Wendy Parkins

An icy southerly funnels along Princes Street into the Octagon, where the sun gives an illusion of warmth just as the sparse daffodils give an illusion of spring.