Xiaole Zhan (詹小乐)

Xiaole Zhan (詹小乐) is a Chinese-Aotearoa writer and composer based in Naarm. Their work features in Auckland University Press’s New Poets 11. They are a 2025 Creative New Zealand Fellowship recipient, a 2025 Red Room Poetry Varuna Fellowship recipient, the 2024 Kat Muscat Fellow, as well as the winner of the 2023 Kill Your Darlings Non-Fiction Prize and 2023 Landfall Young Writers' Essay Prize. Their name in Chinese means ‘Little Happy’, but can also be read as ‘Little Music’.

Xiaole Zhan (詹小乐) is appearing in the following events:

Acoustic Mirrors: An Afternoon of Poetry and Music

Words and sound weave together as local and international poets and musicians transform the written word into a collection of poetic performances and intimate soundscapes.

Sat 9 May 3:00pm @ Fringe Common Rooms, Trades Hall

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