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Thursday, 13 May 2021, 9:24 am The Ockham New Zealand Book Awards is a highly anticipated event on the annual arts calendar, and one category that continues to gain interest is the Best First Book Awards, sponsored by MitoQ. The Best First Book Awards recognise work of quality by an author for whom the entry is their first published book. For the third year running, MitoQ has sponsored the category, giving new writers a financial boost and recognition to help them focus on pursuing a writing career. The Best First Book Awards category has seen steady growth in submission numbers since its in...

News from Ockham Book Awards Whanganui writer Airini Beautrais has won the $57,000 Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize for Fiction at the 2021 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards for her book Bug Week – the first person to take out the category for a collection of short stories in more than a decade. Beautrais is well-known as a poet, but this is her first book of fiction, published by Victoria University Press. She received the prize ahead of acclaimed novelists Catherine Chidgey and Pip Adam, both previous winners, and Brannavan Gnanalingam, shortlisted for the fiction prize in 2018. The Fiction cate...

‘Knockout’ short story collection wins country’s richest writing prize Whanganui writer Airini Beautrais has won the $57,000 Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize for Fiction at the 2021 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards for her book Bug Week – the first person ...

Press Release – Ockham Book Awards The shortlist for the 2021 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards, released today, is a dazzling reflection of the robust, innovative literature scene of Aotearoa New Zealand, revealing a deeper engagement with our culturally diverse society. In the Fiction category, two past winners are vying for the same award. Catherine Chidgey and Pip Adam are both contenders for the $57,000 Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize for Fiction, alongside Brannavan Gnanalingam, a previous nominee, and the critically acclaimed story writer Airini Beautrais. The works on the Fiction shortlist ...

What I'm reading: Bookety Book Books' Mandy Myles 26 Feb, 2021 07:00 PM 2 minutes to read By: Eleanor Black Sorrow and Bliss by Meg Mason has left me with a hangover - and no, not the Sunday morning kind but the kind that only a truly magnificent story can leave you with. The kind where you become so utterly engrossed with the characters they become real people and you start to think of them as friends. (I'm not the only one who does this, right?) This novel starts with Martha, the narrator, having just left the 40th birthday party that she never wanted, organised by her hus...