Poetry Chapbook
AUP New Poets 8 (Auckland University Press)
Find reviews for AUP New Poets 8 here
Poetry Shelf celebrates new books: AUP New Poets 8
Selected Poems (Online)
Turbine | Kapohau
2022
I am my mother’s double. I am my mother’s fetch.
HAD
2022
PRAYER IN WHICH I DO NOT SAY MANIC PIXIE DREAM GIRL
Overcommunicate: Celebration
2022
I am born, my gender two swans
Peach Mag
2022
I want our story like
The Spinoff
2023
Ali dies of cancer and I am not allowed to visit
2020
Sentries
Sweet Mammalian
2022
In your imaginary garden, I am peach thrown at wall
sine spe recuperandi
my love, a braided river
Cordite
2021
Imagined heterosexuality with you, my ex who won’t stop calling
Ōrongohau | Best New Zealand Poems
2022
All the girls who used to read Dolly have trauma now
as discussed in The Superpower of New Zealand Poetry: A Q&A With Kate Camp
& originally published in…
Stasis
2021
All the girls who used to read Dolly have trauma now
reviewed by Elizabeth Heritage here
Scum Mag
2020
stocktaking during venlafaxine discontinuation
Starling
2023
Environmental Speedrun with Little Brother (Any%)
Gift-body
TONIGHT MY HEART IS MISS PIGGY CURLY-HAIRED BRANDISHING A KNIFE
2022
We all know what the bruised fruit means
A girl, a post-holiday fruit bowl
Built like she was
2021
Sand
I won’t pretend to be a person anymore
u r the runescape gf & i am the neopets gf & we r both hotties
Pegasus Gateway Motel (Before Ali’s Funeral I Make My Mum Cry)
Methods of burial
blackmail
2021
Shells
Midway Journal
2020
a girl’s name a headline
Poetry Lab Shanghai
2020
rimu road
Poetry Shelf
2021
Tidewrack
Selected Poems (Print)
Forthcoming Auckland University Press Project
you are my night terror i hope i am yours
no time to lollygag (forthcoming)
letter I will never post
Out Here: An Anthology of Takatāpui and LGBTQIA+ New Zealand Writers
i think i can feel reverberations of something further downstream
The Thing
Commuting
Landfall
2021
and so I shape myself
Under the falling chestnuts
periphery
Poetry New Zealand Yearbook
2023
Part-lament for the girl who dreamt she was a hermit crab
2022
your ex texts you every august from a new number
2021
bed against the wall
The road to the hill is closed
Aniko Press
2021
you are my night terror i hope i am yours
2020
Getting Colder
Compound Press Poetry Calendar
2021
fragment 96
Hills Hoist
2021
Contents
Fresh Ink Anthology
2021
hopscotch
Mayhem
2021
on the way to the bus-stop
what you’ve left me:
2020
Buffet
2019
24
Overcommunicate
2020
Blue
takahē
2021
as the tide
Listen
2021
Poetry Shelf celebrates Phantom National Poetry Day with eight poets reading a poem
Ten poets read from Poetry New Zealand Yearbook 2021
2020
Poetry Shelf Video Lounge: Lily Holloway reads some poems
Non-Fiction
2022
One more for the bloodbath: Lily Holloway reviews Meat Lovers by Rebecca Hawkes (The Spinoff)
2021
The (re)Trauma of Filing a Police Report (Salty Mag)
The Ghost in My Social Media (Newsroom)
2020
Waiting for Metamorphosis (The Pantograph Punch)
2019
I wander, she holds my hand (Mayhem)
Happily Ever After: Life After the Ring (Interesting Journal)
Short Fiction
2020
Auckland in 100 Words (Interesting Journal)
‘Dirt’, ‘My Street’, ‘Magic’ & ‘University’ (Starling)
2019
Flying (Mindfood Magazine)
Other Writing
2022
a note from the editors (eel mag)
Interviewed for The future of New Zealand poetry (Newsroom)
2021
Poetry Shelf celebrates 2021: Fifteen authors make some picks (Poetry Shelf)
Q&A with Lily Holloway (round 2!) (Aniko Press)
2020
Q&A with Lily Holloway (Aniko Press)
Awards
2022
YWCA Aotearoa Y25 Award (25 Under 25 Listing)
2021
University of Auckland Blues Award for Creative Writing
2020
Long-listed for the Monica Taylor Poetry Prize
Highly Commended in the Caselberg Trust International Poetry Prize
Shimon Weinroth Prize in Poetry
Second Place in Charles Brasch Young Writers’ Essay Competition
Kendrick Smithyman Scholarship in Poetry
2019
Best Poem in Given Words National Poetry Day Competition (Translated into Spanish here)
Highly Commended in Divine Muses New Voices - Emerging Poets Competition
Shortlisted in the Monash Undergraduate Prize for Creative Writing
Editorial Work
Founding Editor for eel mag
Poetry Assistant for Salt Hill
Assistant Editor for a fine line 2021–22
Sub-editor for Salient 2022 (until July)
Executive Editor for Interesting Journal 2021
Participant in The Suburban Review’s Emerging Editors Workshop 2021
Editorial board member for Interesting Journal 2020 (Issues 10 & 11)
Selected Performances & Events
2021
Featured Poet for the Porirua Libraries Campaign for National Poetry Day
Featured Poet for the JAFA September Qualifier
Performed at From Opposite Ends of the Earth (A New Zealand & Irish Poetry Exchange)
Producer & Host of A Night of Poetry, Auckland Pride
Other
Poetry reader for Salt Hill
Board Member of Same Same But Different Literary Festival 2021–22
Board Member of the New Zealand Poetry Society 2021–22
Aotearoa New Zealand Lamplight Residency recipient 2021
NZSA Mentorship recipient 2021
Recipient of the Blackbird Foundation Protostar Grant 2021
Tutor for the University of Auckland English Literature department 2020–21
Guest judge for The University of Auckland Poetry Slam 2021
Database Manager for takahē literary magazine 2021
Participant in Auckland Theatre Company’s Young Writers’ Table 2019