News Teenager joins established names on shortlist for national children’s book awards A 16-year-old Kāpiti Coast student is among the writers and illustrators announced today as finalists…Katherine ShanksJune 1, 2023
News Novel that New Zealanders have ‘clasped to their hearts’ wins country’s richest writing prize Celebrated New Zealand writer Catherine Chidgey has won the $64,000 Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize for…Katherine ShanksMay 18, 2023
News HUIA Publishers at Bologna Children’s Book Fair From HUIA Publishers: Earlier this month, director of HUIA Pania Tahau-Hodges travelled to Italy to…Katherine ShanksApril 11, 2023
News Ockham New Zealand Book Awards shortlist showcases critical and commercial successes Bestselling books by both debut writers and established literary luminaries feature among the 16 finalists…Katherine ShanksMarch 27, 2023
News All systems go for Bologna Children’s Book Fair There are just a couple of weeks to go until publishers from around the globe…Katherine ShanksFebruary 21, 2023
News Ockham New Zealand Book Awards Longlist Breaks All Records Highly personal memoir, probing political treatise and gut-punching poetry collections sit alongside trailblazing fiction and…Katherine ShanksFebruary 2, 2023
News Frankfurt Book Fair wraps L-R: Dame Wendy Pye, Jenny Oliver, Chris Shaw, Catriona Ferguson, Kevin Chapman, Peter Dowling &…Katherine ShanksOctober 26, 2022
News Gavin Bishop’s taonga of a title crowned Book of the Year at children’s awards A book described as a taonga for this generation and the next, written and illustrated…Katherine ShanksAugust 10, 2022
News ‘Intense, Clever and Sexy as Hell’ Novel Wins Country’s Richest Writing Prize Wellington novelist and playwright Whiti Hereaka (Ngāti Tūwharetoa, Te Arawa, Ngāti Whakaue, Tūhourangi, Pākehā) has…Katherine ShanksMay 11, 2022
News Shortlist Announced for 2022 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards Congratulations to the 16 shortlisted authors for the 2022 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards.…EllieKSMarch 18, 2022