Collective publishing, bookmaking & zines

Cass’s Repo Press zines at Zinefest Tauranga 2024.

At Zinefest Tauranga 2024.

Cass’s zines in the media 2024.

At Kirikiriroa ZineFest 2024.







‘Definitely maybe’ (for Taraheke)

‘New world jam’ (for Nizhooni)

Tanka collection (for Whakaruruhau)

‘The hood of sleep’ (for Izuba)

‘Lewanna goanna’ (for my sis on her wedding)

Collected waiata & karakia (for Izuba)

‘Hoses’ (for my dad)

‘Doongtsh’ (for my dad)

‘Rooted to the earth’ (for Zealandia)










Art & literature: selected talks, readings, podcasts, panels & other events
Workshops & facilitation

‘Orientations’, a writing workshop at Pūtaringamotu and The Physics Rm, Ōtautahi Christchurch, 2024.
Awards & residencies

Auckland Regional Parks Artist in Residence 2022 (at Craw Homestead, Anawhata, Waitākere for two months, October-December 2022).
See below under ‘Spoken out loud’ for Hei Konei | Being Here, a short film (by Kirsty MacDonald, 2023) about Cass’s residency at Anawhata and her rāhui/constraint-based poetics.

Runner up, Pikihuia Māori Literature Awards 2019 (Emerging Fiction Writer in English).
Spoken out loud: videos & podcasts
Selected poetry events / readings

Chairing conversation with Anahera Gildea and Michaela Keeble, at the launch of their respective Taraheke Press poetry books, Sedition and Surrender. Unity Books, Wellington 2022.

Intersections: A poetry reading of BIPOC solidarity for International Poetry Day, 2020.

Night of Untold Stories: 100% offline, invite-only community poetry event, sharing the stories that can’t be published (co-curated with Whakaruruhau at Pātaka, Porirua 2019).

Invasion Day: Poetry reading in honour of special guest Melissa Lucashenko (Pātaka, Porirua, 2019)

Graduates of the IIML (class of 2018) read at Te Papa (Wellington, 2018).
Selected art events / panels / talks

Keynote panel discussion about AI’s implications for toi Māori (Māori art), with Eugene Hansen and Rangituhia Hollis, ADA (Aotearoa Digital Arts) Symposium, Wellington 2024.

Opening talk for Ayesha Green, Nova Paul and George Watson at City Gallery Wellington, 2023.

Conversation about Te Manu Huna a Tāne, Verb Literary Festival, Wellington 2020.

Convenor of In situ - writers’ responding to the exhibition The earth looks upon Us | Ko Papatūānuku te matua o te tangata (Adam Art Gallery, Wellington 2018).

Floor talk, Dark Matter: Ann Shelton (Auckland Art Gallery 2016).

Talk about ‘Pitter patter, Papatūānuku’ for Enjoy Book Fair, Wellington 2016.

Talk about John Akomfrah and Bridget Reweti at COCA, Christchurch 2016.


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