Linda Collins

Poetry, essays, memoir (Loss Adjustment), fiction, journalism, suicide prevention. MAs at UEA, IIML. 2nd Mslexia, SL Bridport, Joy Harjo finalist.

[Linda Collins @lindacwrite]

@NewsroomNZ has this creative nonfiction
piece by me up in ReadingRoom about #lossadjustment, my late daughter Victoria, & also poet #CyrilWong. @AwaPress @maryvarnham @modernletters @jongresham

[Linda Collins @lindacwrite]

@AppleTV God i miss them so much already.

[Linda Collins @lindacwrite]

@LadyUrsulaSmile @pagan_hoetry who knew? Kim Katdashian

[Linda Collins @lindacwrite]

@owl_posting I was furious when two NZ universities rejected me for a PhD 3 years ago. So though I only have an MA, I now have an academic essay published in a peer-reviewed US journal, a chapter in a Routledge research book, and a 7,000-word essay in an overseas university monograph.

[Linda Collins @lindacwrite]

@geonet Felt it in Kakanui, south of Oamaru on the east coast.

[Mandira Pattnaik @MandiraPattnaik]

#Throwback to moderating a panel about transcending geographies through writing--June 2025

[Linda Collins @lindacwrite]

@MandiraPattnaik Great to see you in this blog!

[Linda Collins @lindacwrite]

Read my comment in this @HeadlandJournal blog.

[Headland @HeadlandJournal]

"We asked our submitters to send us statements about what Headland means to them—and then we worried. What would our readers have to say?"

https://t.co/RHMOV9cgkO

[Linda Collins @lindacwrite]

RIP Peter. You were so kind to me when I did the Poetry MA in Norwich.

[ACNI Writing @ACNIWriting]

The late poet Peter Pegnall (1949-2026) reading in the @thelinenhall Belfast in September 2019 at a celebration of Lapwing Publications @ArtsCouncilNI @somaticon

[Linda Collins @lindacwrite]

@JoyLanzendorfer I got this reply from a publisher: 'Thanks for your patience ... To be honest, this kind of memoir by someone without a public profile doesn’t really work for us. They just don’t sell that well, no matter how well written they are...Consider switching to fiction?

[Linda Collins @lindacwrite]

Thanks so much for this @HeadlandJournal

[Headland @HeadlandJournal]

Meet Linda Collins! Linda is the author of 'Galloping at the Estuary' in Issue 25.

https://t.co/olhuE2gTc6

🖼 Author photo: Malcolm McLeod

#literaryjournal #nzwriters

[Härkönen @yokaihainen]

If there's one thing I learned from Dr Nazir it's this: metaphors don't have to make sense. In fact they shouldn't make sense. For far too long they've been subjugated to the secondary status of having to stand for something other than themselves.

The genius of Dr Nazir is that he made metaphors self-sufficient and if there's any justice in this world, one day they'll reward him with the Nobel Prize for this. This prize was a good and well-earned start on this path, no matter what the hoards of the envious say

[Headland @HeadlandJournal]

Headland's Issue 25 is out now!

Have a read on our website https://t.co/TasKXpnvln

We are so excited to share this incredible writing!

📷: Cover image: Sophie Gwynne-Robson

[Linda Collins @lindacwrite]

My essay, Galloping at the Estuary, is in the latest issue of Headland journal. So happy to be in this. And such a pleasure to work with the editorial team. Thank you. https://t.co/mUCYxCaD35

[Linda Collins @lindacwrite]

@Ardy346 @Suitandtie9999 Stunning line break in that opening couplet. love the quatrains, the caesura effect there, the iambic resistance. Then the sestet at the ending, the last line a sign-off, the deceptive prosaic nature of that, the lack of latinate, the implied fricative.

[Linda Collins @lindacwrite]

@ABC I bought a thermos in a secondhand shop recently and two random older women customers told me to be careful when undoing the lid as they can pop off and hit you in the face. Seems to be essential knowledge passed down through the generations.

[Zach Schonfeld @zzzzaaaacccchhh]

A sitcom about Thomas Pynchon winning a $600,000 literary prize and then gradually losing his mind as the prize committee forces him to create a series of short-form Instagram videos promoting the award and showing off his morning routine.

[Linda Collins @lindacwrite]

@JaneVsw @TheRSC I was lucky enough to see that in the early 90s and they were both wonderful. A deeply moving experience.

[Linda Collins @lindacwrite]

I've got a review of Jac Jenkins' collection, Moon too Heavy, in the NZ Poetry Society's latest magazine, a fine line. Jenkins was a poet at the same IIML workshops when I was memoirist. The review draws on that experience, and mutual domesticity😆. @nzpoetrysociety

[Linda Collins @lindacwrite]

Sad to read this.

[Times Higher Education @timeshighered]

UCL will close its Institute of Advanced Studies this summer, stating the interdisciplinary research centre is no longer financially sustainable, reports @jgro_the
https://t.co/q9wZcMUzJs

[Linda Collins @lindacwrite]

@channnnnyyyyy My daughter died tragically in 2014 and we have been unable to unlock her Android phone. we keep it charged up in hope.