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N Family Club grows to 10 settings Katy Morton Tuesday, March 9, 2021 Expanding nursery group N Family Club has acquired three settings in Surrey, taking its total number of nurseries to 10. Red Balloon nursery in Ockham, Surrey - one of three new settings for N Family Club Register now to continue reading Thank you for visiting Nursery World and making use of our archive of more than 35,000 expert features, subject guides, case studies and policy updates. Why not register today and enjoy the following great benefits: Free access to...

Five "undervalued" women architects Part W is creating Wikipedia pages for Women's architecture collective Part W is one of several organisations working to increase the number of female architects listed on Wikipedia. On International Women's Day, Sarah Ackland has picked five significant women that she believes should have pages on the site. The current and historic gender imbalance of those working in architecture is well documented and is reflected on Wikipedia, where many significant women architects do not have listings. "It's important that Wikipedia include significant women" Accordi...

Paula Morris on the Ockhams most diverse shortlist ever 5 Mar, 2021 07:00 PM 5 minutes to read Hinemoana Baker. Photo / Ashley Clark The shortlists for the Ockham NZ Book Awards, announced this week, revealed one big and long-awaited surprise. Just last year, Kiri Piahana-Wong — convenor of judges for the Mary and Peter Biggs Award for Poetry — said she was dismayed "to see that only a tiny number of writers of colour" were in contention for the prize. Now, for the first time in the 50-plus years of book awards, the four poets shortlisted are Māori, Pasifika, Asian and ...

Friday, 5 March 2021, 4:41 pm Magnolia , the new poetry collection by Wellington writer Nina Mingya Powles (27), has now been shortlisted for the Mary and Peter Biggs Award for Poetry as part of the Ockham NZ Book Awards. Last year it was shortlisted for the UK’s prestigious Forward Prize for Best First Collection. The UK edition was published by Nine Arches Press in 2020, with the New Zealand edition due to be formally launched on 13 March 2021 by Powles’s local publisher Seraph Press. “It’s been fabulous to see the excitement for Nina’s work in the UK, where she has been living ...

Whanganui writer Airini Beautrais a finalist in Ockham New Zealand Book Awards 3 Mar, 2021 12:00 AM 2 minutes to read Airini Beautrais reading her poem at Pakaitore in a video from 2018. Whanganui writer Airini Beautrais is a finalist in New Zealand's most prestigious book awards. Beautrais' first short story collection Bug Week and Other Stories was published in 2020 and made the longlist for the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards last month. Her book is now shortlisted to win the $57,000 Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize for Fiction. She is up against two past winners of the fiction award, Catherine C...