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New Zealand arts and literary journal marks its 250th issue

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Head and shoulders shot of women in glasses with  bookshelves behind and artwork of Tui for journal cover

Photo: Supplied / Landfall

New Zealand's longest-running arts and literary journal is celebrating its milestone 250th issue. Landfall was founded in 1947 as a periodical dedicated to New Zealand poetry, fiction, essays, art, criticism and reviews and has been in continuous publication ever since.

More than 2500 contributors have appeared in its pages, together producing almost 9000 pieces of work.To mark the occasion the journal also has a New name Landfall Tauraka. Kathryn speaks to the editor, Lynley Edmeades.