Ockham Shortlist 2019: All This by Chance by Vincent O’Sullivan
Ockham 2019
An excerpt from the novel shortlisted for this year’s Acorn Foundation Fiction Prize at the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards.
Creative Work
Ockham Shortlist 2019: Memory Pieces by Maurice Gee
Ockham 2019
An excerpt from the memoir shortlisted for this year’s Royal Society Te Apārangi Award for General Non Fiction at the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards.
Ockham Winner 2019: This Mortal Boy by Fiona Kidman
Ockham 2019
An excerpt from the novel shortlisted for this year’s Acorn Foundation Fiction Prize at the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards.
Ockham Shortlist 2019: The New Ships by Kate Duignan
Ockham 2019
An excerpt from the novel shortlisted for this year’s Acorn Foundation Fiction Prize at the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards.
Ockham Winner 2019: Are Friends Electric? by Helen Heath
Ockham 2019
A poem from the winner of this year’s Mary and Peter Biggs Award for Poetry at the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards.
Ockham Shortlist 2019: The Facts by Therese Lloyd
Ockham 2019
A poem from the collection shortlisted for this year’s Mary and Peter Biggs Award for Poetry at the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards.
Ockham Shortlist 2019: The Cage by Lloyd Jones
Ockham 2019
An excerpt from the novel shortlisted for this year’s Acorn Foundation Fiction Prize at the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards.
50 Years of NZ Book Awards: Patricia Grace
50 years of Book Awards
Winning words: Patricia Grace’s ‘Potiki’
50 Years of NZ Book Awards: Paula Morris
50 years of Book Awards
Winning words: Paula Morris’s ‘Rangatira’
'I felt energised by the freedom of 'making things up’' - Maxine Alterio