Robyn Bargh founded Huia Publishers in 1991 with a vision of increasing the Māori voice in New Zealand literature. HUIA has since published Māori writers of novels (Ocean Roads by James George, Bugs by Whiti Hereaka, The Scent of Apples by Jacqui McRae and Zhu Mao by Mark Sweet), short story collections by Alice Tawhai and Tina Makereti, non-fiction (Hīkoi: Forty Years of Māori Protest by Aroha Harris), and books in Māori language (Ngā Waituhi o Rēhua by Katerina Mataira).
The biennial Pikihuia Awards has helped identify emerging Māori writers and collections of their stories are published as HUIA Short Stories: Contemporary Māori Fiction. The HUIA vision has recently been broadened to include Pacific writers, including Albert Wendt and Karlo Mila.
Session: Optioning Source Material – Publishers Present their Picks
