Reviewed by Mark Broatch

Reviewed by Angelique Kasmara

Reviewed by Alison Wong

Reviewed by Angelique Kasmara

A story by Alice Tawhai: ‘She shook her head in the darkness, banishing the thought like a candle flame.’

‘It was impossible to avoid the conspiracy theories’ – Mark Broatch on judging this year’s Ockhams.

Lockdown Ockhams Shockers: Tom Moody investigates.

An excerpt from the novel shortlisted for this year’s Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize for Fiction at the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards. 

A poem from the collection shortlisted for this year’s Mary and Peter Biggs Award for Poetry at the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards. 

A poem from the collection shortlisted for this year’s Mary and Peter Biggs Award for Poetry at the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards. 

An excerpt from the winner of this year’s Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize for Fiction at the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards. 

Rough guides, truest voices: the Ockhams 2020 Fiction Round Table.

An excerpt from the novel shortlisted for this year’s Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize for Fiction at the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards. 

A poem from the collection shortlisted for this year’s Mary and Peter Biggs Award for Poetry at the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards. 

A poem and ceremony acceptance speech from the winner of this year’s Mary and Peter Biggs Award for Poetry at the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards. 

An excerpt from the novel which is shortlisted for this year’s Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize for Fiction at the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards.

‘I’m sceptical about any group who want others to regard them as special.’

David Howard learns how to appear in Ulyanovsk, City of Literature.

Go dark or go home: Tracey Slaughter and Sarah Strickley dive deep.

Thom Conroy asks: is historical fiction New Zealand’s defining genre?

‘If Oceania is a continent, then it is a continent as complex as Europe’. David Eggleton in London for the Royal Academy of Art’s ‘blockbuster’ show.

What makes a work of the imagination ‘political’?

David Taylor assesses the 20/20 Poetry Collection, and what we’re exploring – and avoiding – in our literature of unease.

Stephanie Johnson on definitions and disguises, and the risks of writing under a pseudonym.

Not enough diversity in your reading diet? Here are 21 reasons to buy/borrow/read books by Maori and Pasifika writers right away.

What kind of house does our literature inhabit?