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Unlock the secrets in junior and YA fiction — NZCYA 2021 July 20th, 2021 By Anne Dickson Secrets are at the heart of the junior and young adult (YA) fiction finalists for the 2021 New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults (NZCYA), enticing curious and imaginative young minds to unravel their mysteries. This post — one of a series of reviews This blog post is one of a series reviewing books on the New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults (NZCYA) shortlist in the run-...

Author, translator and Sinologist Linda Jaivin takes the Taoist advice “to flow with nature” – whether writing history, movie subtitles or comic erotica.

Hound the Detective, Kimberly Andrews (Penguin Random House NZ) Kōwhai and the Giants, Kate Parker (Mary Egan Publishing) The Hug Blanket, Chris Gurney, illustrated by Lael Chisholm (Scholastic New Zealand) This Is Where I Stand, Philippa Werry, illustrated by Kieran Rynhart (Scholastic New Zealand) The books vying for the Wright Family Foundation Esther Glen Junior Fiction Award presented the judges with eclectic plot lines and endearing characters and they struggled to narrow down to a short...

Press Release – NZ Book Awards for Children and Young Adults From a field of 166 entries, the 28 finalists in the 2021 New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults are announced today. Across six main categories, these books offer the nations young readers a tasty smorgasbord of titles, packed with … From a field of 166 entries, the 28 finalists in the 2021 New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults are announced today. Across six main categories, these books offer the ...

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From a field of 166 entries, the 28 finalists in the 2021 New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults are announced today. Across six main categories, these books offer the nation’s young readers a tasty smorgasbord of titles, packed with ...

Event description An illustrious family. A beautiful home. A shipwrecked young woman left on its doorstep. Dont think theyre going to save her … About this event Kavita Bedford joins Nikki Gemmell to discuss her new book The Ripping Tree, an intense, sharp tale of survival written in Gemmell’s signature lyrical prose, but with audacious overtones. This is a thrilling examination of Australia’s dark colonial history. Conceptualised by Gemmell on her return to Australia after 15 ye...

Dylan Van Den Berg… won the $30,000 Nick Enright Prize for Playwriting. CANBERRA’S Dylan Van Den Berg took out the $30,000 Nick Enright Prize for Playwriting for “Milk” at the NSW Premier’s Literary Awards yesterday (April 26). Van Den Berg accepted the award at the State Library of NSW, where a total of $305,000 was awarded across 13 prizes. Van Den Berg’s win was announced alongside people such as Ellen van Neerven, who won the Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry, Multicult...

‘My secret felt like a splinter’: My childhood desperation to hide my deafness We’re sorry, this service is currently unavailable. Please try again later. Dismiss By Fiona Murphy Save Normal text size Advertisement We talk about secrets as if they are physical things. They are a burden we carry. They sit heavily on our consciousness. These metaphors, it turns out, have real-world properties: secrets literally weigh bodies down. Researchers have found that individuals with secrets...

Advertisement Novelist S.L. Lim has become the first non-binary writer to be in contention for one of Australia’s most important literary awards since changes were made to the eligibility requirements of the $50,000 Stella Prize for women’s writing. But Lim, who made the longlist with second novel Revenge: Murder in Three Parts, played down the significance of the inclusion which comes after the award changed entry guidelines to include women-identifying and non-binary writers in 2019. Lim...