I write novels, short stories, flash fiction and poetry
Fair Winds and Following Seas (2025)
art and text by Neil Johnstone and poetry by Janis Freegard
Wild, Wild Women, short stories (At The Bay | I Te Kokoru, 2024)
Reading the Signs, poetry collection (The Cuba Press, 2020)
The Year of Falling, novel (Makaro Press, 2015)
The Glass Rooster, poetry collection, Auckland University Press, 2015
Kingdom Animalia: the Escapades of Linnaeus poetry, Auckland University Press, 2011
The Continuing Adventures of Alice Spider, poetry chapbook, Anomalous Press, 2013
AUP New Poets 3 poetry, Auckland University Press, 2008
Year Publication Title
FICTION
2024 Kete Books Fish Over Makara (extract)
2024 Reading Room, Newsroom Visit from the English Cousins
2024 Reading Room, Newsroom Skiver
2023 Headland Mercury and Back
2023 Ghost Parachute Estelle
2023 A Kind of Shelter Whakaruru-taha
(Massey university Press, eds Witi
Ihimaera, Michelle Elvy) You’ll Never See Unless You Look (reprint from
'Love in the Time of Covid')
2023 Flash Frontier Parietal Eye
2023 Flash Frontier The Rocky Shore
2023 Takahē Shoes
2023 Flash Frontier Salamander
2021 Reflex Fiction The Story of Lil Fish Pie
2021 Love in the Time of Covid:
Chronicle of a Pandemic You’ll Never See Unless You Look
2018 Bonsai: Best Small Stories from
Aotearoa New Zealand Doors, Elephant
2017 Takahē Silas & Luke
2017 Reflex Fiction The Visit
2017 Flash Frontier Spindrift
2016 52 Men: the Podcast I Meet a Man in a Bar
2014 Sweet As': Contemporary
Short Stories by New Zealanders What Anton Learns in the Queue
2014 Flash Frontier The Wall
2013 Flash Frontier Ngaire
2013 Flash Frontier Elephant
2012 Goethe Society website The Kind Fisherwoman & the King
of the Fish
2011 Tales for Canterbury The Magician (reprint)
(Random Static)
2011 Slightly Peculiar Love Stories Mill (reprint)
2011 Anomalous Press Tattooed Ladies
2009 Momaya Press Annual Review Lorelei
2009 Bravado 16 Visit from the English Cousins
2009 Takahē 67 Liking It
2009 Viola Beadleton's Compendium 3 Narcissa
2008 Viola Beadleton's Compendium 2 Eggman
2008 Harlem River Blues, Fish Publishing The Hen Party
2007 Viola Beadleton's Compendium 1 The Boy in the Garage
2007 Cadenza The Magician
2007 espresso fiction The Jacket
2006 brittle star Expecting
2005 Takahe 56 Written on the Bus Shelter
2005 Landfall 210 Animal Tales
2005 Bravado Maggots
2005 Home: New Short Short Stories
by New Zealand Writers (Random
House New Zealand, 2005). Studio Apartment
2004 Readers' Choice booklet Jasper & the Angel
2004 Eastern Bay News Jasper & the Angel
2004 fictionland One Friday Night Drinking
2004 Dexter Hannon's Guide to Auto
Maintenance (smiling politely) True Confessions
2003 Best Efforts (WDSSC Booklet) Evelina and the Wolf
2003 smiling politely True Confessions
2003 Radio NZ Snow Leopards
2003 Radio NZ The Wraith
2003 Radio NZ Fish Over Makara
2003 Radio NZ Uncle Fish
2003 Absinthe Literary Review Love and Lust
2002 Best Efforts (WDSSC Booklet) Tempting Erin Clarkson
2001 Radio NZ Mill
2001 BNZ website Mill
2001 Commonwealth Short Story CD Missing
2000 Havenport Humour Two Hours in the life of Jemima Wigglesworth
2000 100 New Zealand Short Short
Stories 4 (Tandem Press) Mickey
1996 Takahē 28 Gorse
1994 Lesbian Newsletter The Meeting
1993 Lesbian Newsletter Names
1992 Lesbian Newsletter Socks
POETRY
2025 Fair Winds & Following Seas Occupation
2025 Fair Winds & Following Seas Split
2025 Fair Winds & Following Seas Selkie
2025 Fair Winds & Following Seas Colonisation
2025 Fair Winds & Following Seas a grey mist on the sea's face
2025 Fair Winds & Following Seas A drop in the ocean
2025 Fair Winds & Following Seas Electrochemical
2025 Fair Winds & Following Seas Sea Fret
2024 Poetry Shelf Sometimes a tree grows inside you
2024 Poetry Aotearoa Yearbook 2024 Samhain
(Revelations)
2023 A Liminal Gathering (Elixir & Star A Little Boat
Press, ed Iona Winter)
2023 Famdamily: Meowing Part 2 Family Life Pūriri Drive
2023 Famdamily: Meowing Part 2 Les Frères (reprint)
2023 Famdamily: Meowing Part 2 Family Day at the Seaside (reprint)
2023 Sisterly: A Poetic Response (Dowse) Sisterly
2023 Te Kohu (Kohukohu anthology, The Farmer Wants a Wife
ed Ann-Marie Houng Lee)
2022 The Lancet lines from 'The Lift'
2022 Landfall Too Late for the Manatees
2022 Miglior acque 'Rock' and translation of 'Rock' (reprint from 'More Favourable Waters')
2022 Invitation to Love, the 6press Again the Gemini
2021 Turbine/Kapohau ocean beach road
2021 Out There (queer NZ poetry) Trinity
2021 Out There (queer NZ poetry) Mikey
2021 Out There (queer NZ poetry) Exhibition
2021 Poetry Shelf - Eighteen Poems
About Love Honey (reprint)
2021 Poetry Shelf - Twelve Poems
About Kindness The Lift (reprint)
2021 Poetry NZ Yearbook 2021 Fire-starter
2021 Poetry Shelf - Fourteen Poems Crunch (reprint)
About Walking
2021 More Favourable Waters: Aotearoa
Poets Respond to Dante’s Purgatory Rock
2021 Poetry Shelf (Paula Green)
- Eleven Poems About the Moon The Woman in the Moon (reprint)
2021 Love in the Time of Covid:
Chronicle of a Pandemic The New Students
2020 Meowing Part 1 Honey
2020 Meowing Part 1 Mistress
2020 Meowing Part 1 Kintsugi
2019 Mark Pirie's scifi booklet Beside the Laughing Kitchen
2019 Open Book website Mikey
2019 Food Court AUP Poets Zine Lament of an old punk
2019 Food Court AUP Poets Zine Glass Rooster
2019 Food Court AUP Poets Zine Albatross
2018 Short Poems of NZ Forest Song (reprint)
2018 Wellington City Libraries blog Honey
2017 Atlanta Review Requiem
2017 Manifesto 101 Arohata
2016 Plate in the Mirror (Printable
Reality) Instructions for enjoying an orange
2015 Sunset at the Estuary
(Beatson anthology) To The Sea
2015 Of Paekakariki (anthology) Paekakariki (garden of cats)
2015 Poetry Bug (Parthian Press) cockroach (reprint)
2015 Pukeahu online anthology Alice Spider (reprint)
2015 The Listener Flotsam (reprint)
2015 North & South Flotsam (reprint)
2015 Hallelujah for 50ft women Trichotillomania (reprint)
2015 Hallelujah for 50ft women Trinity
2014 150 Essential NZ poems Sapphire
2014 Best American Poetry blog A Life Blighted by Pythons
2013 The North 51 Various Annunciations
2013 JAAM Flotsam
2013 JAAM Exhibition
2013 JAAM Sand Puppy
2013 Metro The Sound of Dropped Silverware
2012 Shenandoah Avalanche
2012 Landfall Cactus
2012 Landfall Lichen Quartet
2012 Rhysling anthology Yayoi Kusama Goes to Iceland (reprint)
2012 a fine line (NZPS magazine -
featured poet) South Shields Town Hall, Jumping Ship, Signs, Genii cucullati, Prefabricated
2012 Best NZ Poems Gator
2011 Enamel Manners St
2011 Enamel The Ones You've Got to Watch
2011 Poetry NZ Three Skulls
2011 Poetry NZ Arohata
2011 Eye to the Telescope Yayoi Kusama Goes to Iceland
2011 Anomalous Press Alice Spider for Anomalous
2011 Magma 49 Prefabricated
2011 International Literary Quarterly My Year of the Ant Gardens
2011 International Literary Quarterly sea change
2011 etchings Sunrise
2011 NZSA chapbook Tinakori Shimmer
2011 Kingdom Animalia The Escapades of Linnaeus: Parts I-VI
2011 Kingdom Animalia Descent
2011 Kingdom Animalia On Reflection (reprint)
2011 Kingdom Animalia Lessons in Zoology
2011 Kingdom Animalia Study (reprint)
2011 Kingdom Animalia Les Frères
2011 Kingdom Animalia Sapphire
2011 Kingdom Animalia Order: Rodentia (reprint)
2011 Kingdom Animalia Ode to a Kuri (reprint)
2011 Kingdom Animalia Dear Evelyne
2011 Kingdom Animalia The Icon Dies
2011 Kingdom Animalia Electric Ice Cream
2011 Kingdom Animalia Because I love you
2011 Kingdom Animalia The Skeleton Ending (reprint)
2011 Kingdom Animalia Sanctuary (reprint)
2011 Kingdom Animalia Magpie (reprint)
2011 Kingdom Animalia Three Hummingbirds (reprint)
2011 Kingdom Animalia Hens
2011 Kingdom Animalia Sheathbill
2011 Kingdom Animalia Huia
2011 Kingdom Animalia The Glass Rooster (reprint)
2011 Kingdom Animalia he has your eyes (reprint)
2011 Kingdom Animalia Reading the Entrails with Magritte
2011 Kingdom Animalia Zot and the Axolotls (reprint)
2011 Kingdom Animalia Tags: Tone, Poem, Purpose
2011 Kingdom Animalia Monitor
2011 Kingdom Animalia You don’t see many of those around here
2011 Kingdom Animalia Global warning
2011 Kingdom Animalia The Minister speaks
2011 Kingdom Animalia What am I?
2011 Kingdom Animalia Strike
2011 Kingdom Animalia Gator
2011 Kingdom Animalia Anglerfish
2011 Kingdom Animalia Shaft
2011 Kingdom Animalia Harvest
2011 Kingdom Animalia A Life Blighted by Pythons
2011 Kingdom Animalia The Adulteress, The Cuckold & The Fish
2011 Kingdom Animalia Fishing for Gold
2011 Kingdom Animalia How to catch carp by moonlight
2011 Kingdom Animalia Snapper
2011 Kingdom Animalia East London
2011 Kingdom Animalia On Old Olympus’ Towering Top A Finn And German Viewed A Hop
2011 Kingdom Animalia Hermit (reprint)
2011 Kingdom Animalia her all-consuming presence
2011 Kingdom Animalia My Year of the Ant Gardens (reprint)
2011 Kingdom Animalia Berlin
2011 Kingdom Animalia Arachnocampa luminosa
2011 Kingdom Animalia Queen
2011 Kingdom Animalia None on You
2011 Kingdom Animalia Cake Shop
2011 Kingdom Animalia Coleoptera (reprint)
2011 Kingdom Animalia The Wind and the Caterpillar (reprint)
2011 Kingdom Animalia The Woman in the Moon
2011 Kingdom Animalia Anemone (reprint)
2011 Kingdom Animalia we do not live alone
2011 Kingdom Animalia Worm
2011 Kingdom Animalia The Enlightenment
2011 Kingdom Animalia Crunch (reprint)
2011 Kingdom Animalia The Woman Who Swims with the Jellyfish
2011 Kingdom Animalia Redemption
2011 Kingdom Animalia Museum Piece (reprint)
2011 Kingdom Animalia the leech lurks . . .
2011 Kingdom Animalia Giant
2011 Kingdom Animalia Pectinidae (reprint)
2010 Trout The Tide Rises
2010 Trout Hermit
2010 Trout Museum Piece
2010 Trout Zot & the Axolotls
2010 JAAM Alice Dances
2010 Iron Anthology of New Humorous Poetry
(Iron Press, UK) Please Rush Me
2010 Viola Proceed to Gate 17 (reprint)
2010 Viola The Dog-headed girl (reprint)
2010 Viola Slattern
2010 Poetry NZ 40 Pectinidae
2010 brief 39 Speaking of the Balloonist
2009 Moments in the Whirlwind
(NZPS anthology) The Wind & the caterpillar
2009 blackmail press 25 (Rebel Issue) Easter Rising
2009 blackmail press 25 (Rebel Issue) Sea-Mare
2009 Big Weather: Poems of Wellington Little Blue (reprint)
2009 Voyagers - Science Fiction Poetry
from NZ Beside the Laughing Kitchen
2009 brief 37 Coleoptera
2009 Poetry NZ 38 Magpie
2009 six little things glass rooster
2008 DomPost Little Blue (reprint as Wednesday Poem)
2008 JAAM 26 La Fee Verte
2008 JAAM 26 Antirealismos
2008 JAAM 26 He has your eyes
2008 AUP New Poets 3 The Continuing Adventures of Alice Spider (a selection)
2008 AUP New Poets 3 Trichotillomania (reprint)
2008 AUP New Poets 3 The Liking
2008 AUP New Poets 3 Beehive
2008 AUP New Poets 3 Coping with Terracotta
2008 AUP New Poets 3 Mr Li's Spectacles
2008 AUP New Poets 3 City Living
2008 AUP New Poets 3 Animal Tales
2008 AUP New Poets 3 Lament of an old punk
2008 AUP New Poets 3 Anemone
2008 AUP New Poets 3 Coping with terracotta
2008 AUP New Poets 3 Family Day at the Seaside
2008 AUP New Poets 3 Task
2008 AUP New Poets 3 Little Blue
2008 DomPost City Living (reprint as the Wednesday Poem)
2007 ESAW Poetry Wall Not Getting Any Younger
2007 JAAM 24 A Little Learnin'
2007 JAAM 24 America Dearest
2006 Bravado 8 Mr Li's spectacles
2005 Turbine 5 The Last Great Beehive in Willis Street
2005 Turbine 5 The Astronauts
2005 NZPS anthology Proceed To Gate 17
2005 The North Lament of an Old Punk
2005 Poetry NZ 31 The Liking
2005 Poetry NZ 31 On Reflection
2005 Poetry NZ 31 The Skeleton Ending
2005 surface online Genii Cucullati
2005 blackmail press Trichotillomania
2005 blackmail press spiderhouse
2005 blackmail press Turtles
2005 blackmail press The Slattern
2004 Poetry Aotearoa Lipstick Kisses (reprint)
2003 Poetry NZ (27, website) Three Hummingbirds
2003 Poetry Aotearoa Café Tales (reprint)
2003 Poetry NZ (Issue 27) Three Hummingbirds
2003 Poetry NZ (Issue 27) Lipstick Kisses
2003 Glottis My Life as a Pigeon
2003 Glottis Order:Rodentia
2002 JAAM 17 Barbie
2002 JAAM 17 Study
2002 JAAM 17 Dog-headed girl
2002 Poetry NZ 24 Café Tales
2001 Chaff Tell me when it's over (reprint)
2001 NZ Poetry Soc (An Exchange of Gifts) City Living
2001 UniQ Tell me when it's over (reprint)
2001 Turbine 2 Alice Spider
2001 Rain Dog Thirteen Thoughts about Toasters
2001 Capital Times Fair Wellington
2001 Artscape Newsletter Fair Wellington
2001 The Collection of NZ Poetry and
Prose 2001 (Media Publishing) Ode to a Kuri
1999 Eat These Sweet Words When You're Not Here
1999 Eat These Sweet Words Tell Me When It's Over
NON-FICTION
2024 A Fine Line (NZ Poetry Society) Trying to Make Sense of the World (poetry essay)
2016 A Fine Line (NZ Poetry Society) The Formal Rooster (poetry essay)
2011 A Fine Line (NZ Poetry Society) On the Benefits of Constraints (poetry essay)
1988 Water in Society: Policy and Wetland management and conservation. (J Freegard & Owen, J.)
Practices Proceedings of the
Water Conference
1986 Wellington Harbour Maritime Vegetation of coast and islands (Janis Freegard and Yvonne B. Weeber)
Planning Authority/ Lincoln College
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