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Ockham New Zealand Book Awards 2021 longlist announced 27 Jan, 2021 04:00 PM 5 minutes to read NZ Herald The longlist for New Zealand's most prestigious book awards has now been released - with more than a dozen first-time authors making the cut. Books exploring issues of identity, domestic life, war, food, our natural world and our people are among the 40 works of poetry, prose and non-fiction longlisted for the 2021 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards, announced today. The works were selected from 179 entries, and include 13 first-time authors - which book awards trustee Jenna Todd said was "ext...

Kirsten McDougall is the winner of the Sunday Star-Times short story competition, open category. Kirsten McDougall’s love of reading and writing has come a long way since her interest in Enid Blyton and Trixie Belden books as a child. The accomplished Wellington author, who works as a publicist and literary manager for Victoria University Press, lives a life surrounded by words. ”That’s just my world.” And now McDougall can add Sunday Star-Times short story competition open category winner to her CV for her piece, Walking Day. She takes home the $5000 prize after almost 700 entri...

123RF Writer and essayist Talia Marshall. This Summer my reading is not really for pleasure. Although, I recently stayed in an amazing bach in Aotea where Te Rauparaha had fought against Northern invaders before making his way south from Kawhia on his Musket War heke. Alexander Turnbull Library Te Rauparaha. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand. The caretaker of the bach said Te Rauparaha is known as a terrorist in these parts as he eyed the old pā to my left. I am meant to be reviewing Te Rauparaha’s son Tamihana’s slickly produced version of his life, A Record Of The...