Kelly Ana Morey: 1968–2025
‘I’ve always been the pain in the ass who wanted to row her own waka in her own way.’
04/09/2025
‘I’ve always been the pain in the ass who wanted to row her own waka in her own way.’
Features and Interviews
Still Waters Run Deep
John McCrystal on the imaginative life and legacy of Maurice Gee
19/06/2025
John McCrystal on the imaginative life and legacy of Maurice Gee
‘What did I miss?’ Ten years of the Ockhams
Paula Morris takes notes and makes disclosures.
15/05/2025
Paula Morris takes notes and makes disclosures.
The Ockham NZ Book Awards: Fiction Round Table 2025
‘Powerful and exciting and real’
02/05/2025
‘Powerful and exciting and real’
The 2025 Ockhams Finalists
Who's in - and how you can read extracts
05/03/2025
Who’s in – and how you can read extracts
‘I became obsessed’
Writers on the books that shaped their year.
13/12/2024
Writers on the books that shaped their year.
Fleur Adcock: 1934 – 2024
A tribute by Sarah Quigley
11/12/2024
A tribute by Sarah Quigley
From the edge of the sky
Philip Temple on the complex legacy of Maurice Shadbolt
05/11/2024
Philip Temple on the complex legacy of Maurice Shadbolt
The Best of Vincent O’Sullivan
Other writers talk about their favourite work by the late ANZL Fellow
12/07/2024
Other writers talk about their favourite work by the late ANZL Fellow
‘Across the Divide of Death’
Selina Tusitala Marsh farewells Caroline Sinavaiana-Gabbard
30/05/2024
Selina Tusitala Marsh farewells Caroline Sinavaiana-Gabbard
Ockham NZ Book Award Winners 2024
The winning books and writers
16/05/2024
The winning books and writers
Book Awards: a brief and personal history
by Paula Morris
15/05/2024
by Paula Morris
Ockham NZ Book Awards: Poetry Round Table 2024
‘I assumed no publisher would be interested’
14/05/2024
‘I assumed no publisher would be interested’
Ockham NZ Book Awards: Fiction Round Table 2024
‘I know the thrilling intimacy’
10/05/2024
‘I know the thrilling intimacy’
Sir Vincent O’Sullivan : 1937 – 2024
'He belonged here too'
03/05/2024
‘He belonged here too’
An Interview with Albert Wendt
‘I was compelled to write’
24/04/2024
‘I was compelled to write’
The 2024 Ockhams Finalists
Who's in - and how you can read extracts
07/03/2024
Who’s in – and how you can read extracts
‘What makes a winning essay?’
Emma Neale on Landfall’s Strong Words #3 and thinking aloud about New Zealand culture
08/08/2023
Emma Neale on Landfall’s Strong Words #3 and thinking aloud about New Zealand culture.
Takataka te kāhui o te rangi
A new anthology named for Hiwa, the ninth star of Matariki, celebrates Māori short fiction.
13/07/2023
A new anthology named for Hiwa, the ninth star of Matariki, celebrates Māori short fiction.
‘My work always comes from somewhere else’:
Pip Adam on not liking theatre, scrutinising comedy and questioning realism.
06/07/2023
Pip Adam on not liking theatre, scrutinising comedy and questioning realism.
Kevin Ireland, Gentleman Poet
A tribute by Johanna Emeney
09/06/2023
A tribute by Johanna Emeney
‘The spaceship of our ancestors’
Gina Cole on writing Pasifikafuturism and discovering a ‘galaxy of islands’
01/06/2023
Gina Cole on writing Pasifikafuturism and discovering a ‘galaxy of islands’
Second-Best Sellers
Catherine Robertson on commercial fiction.
25/05/2023
Catherine Robertson on commercial fiction.
Ockham NZ Book Awards 2023: Spreading the Wealth
Tom Moody on the winners, surprises and new waves.
19/05/2023
Tom Moody on the winners, surprises and new waves.
'I started to feel very guilty, as though I’d perpetrated a crime, a rort' - Stephanie Johnson