Notes

A Literary Milestone! Death in a Raincoat is the 20th collection in the acclaimed Re-Draft series bringing together contributions from 88 sparkling young Aotearoa New Zealand writers. Passionate, moving, lively and always engaged, Death in a Raincoat is testimony to one of the strangest years in recent history, the year of the pandemic, of lockdowns, floods, fires and a major change in the political landscape. The writers selected have negotiated this strange year with imagination, exuberance and resilience. Their stories, poems and graphic art will at times delight, and intrigue; they range from the deeply moving to the laugh-out-loud funny, from open-eyed honesty to absurdist whimsy. This is yet another bumper crop from the best young writers of today, many of whom will be our major writers of tomorrow.