a tiny press with big ideas

Pav Deconstructed

A funny, tender and sometimes dark collection about what it means to be Kiwi.

Moon too Heavy

A fierce and unflinching poetry collection about the weight women carry.

Five Fat Sausages

A deeply human and funny memoir about survival, reinvention, and reclaiming joy.

Ngā Ripo Wai

Kerikeri – a place where people, memory and history meet.

Scoria

Two sisters. Two imaginations. A collection of stories that refuses to behave.

Pavlova Press is run by sisters Kathy Derrick and Jac Jenkins. We grew up on a dairy farm in Northland, New Zealand, and took fairly circuitous routes through engineering, veterinary science, libraries, teaching and writing, and eventually decided making books together seemed like a perfectly sensible thing to do. Since then, we’ve made books about pavlova, poetry, place, survival and the unruly nature of life.