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 CLL Educational Publishing Awards 2010 Winners

Writing and designing textbooks is an important skill, and it is one at which New Zealand publishers excel, not only providing for the local market but exporting learning resources worldwide. This important area of publishing has been recognized with the inaugural CLL (Copyright Licensing Ltd) Educational Publishing Awards 2010.

Publishing and education consultant Gillian Candler, former educational publisher Rosemary Stagg and University of Auckland Professor of Education John Hattie were the judges for the CLL Educational Publishing Awards 2010, presented at the Art Lounge, Auckland, on Thursday November 18.

Lively design integrating text, photographs and graphics was notable in the Best Book or Series in Primary Publishing, won by Figure it Out: Statistics in the Media Levels 3+-4 and Levels 4-4+ by Lisa Darragh and Jasmine Hardy, published by Learning Media. The publications teach critical thinking alongside maths.

“An engaging and inviting read with superb illustrations,” is how awards judges rated the Best Book or Series Winner for Secondary Publishing, The Nature of Science seriesby Gary Hunt, published by Pearson. “These texts can go a long way to engaging learners in this subject area,” says convenor of judges, Gillian Candler.

A new generation of texts also transforms tertiary publishing. The Best Book in Higher Education Publishing, Principles of Law for New Zealand Business Students (fourth edition) has easy to navigate text, helpful sidebars, chapter objectives, summaries and revision exercises. The authors are Jeremy Hubbard, Cordelia Thomas and Sally Varnham. “A host of design and text features make this difficult subject highly accessible,” commented the judging panel.

The prize for each category is $5,000, and this will be shared by the winning publisher and authors. The Publishers Association of New Zealand (PANZ) administers the awards.                                  

CLL Educational Publishing Awards 2010 Winners

Finalists for Best Book or Series in Primary Publishing

Figure it Out: Statistics in the Media Levels 3+-4 and Levels 4-4+by Lisa Darragh and Jasmine Hardy, Learning Media

Nitty Gritty Novels: Series Oneby Dr Susan Sandretto, Sue Ledington et al, Pearson

Spelling Under Scrutiny seriesby Joy Allcock, MJA Publishing

Teaching Reading Comprehension Strategiesby Sheena Cameron, Pearson

WINNER

Figure it Out: Statistics in the Media Levels 3+-4 and Levels 4-4+ by Lisa Darragh and Jasmine Hardy, Learning Media

Finalists for Best Book or Series in Secondary Publishing

Alpha Mathematics (second edition)by David Barton, Pearson

Geography on the Edge: Geography for NCEA Level Oneby Justin Peat and John Lockyer, Cengage Learning

Level 7 and Level 8 Biologyby Tracey Greenwood, Kent Pryor, Richard Allan and Lissa Bainbridge-Smith, Biozone International

The Nature of Science seriesby Gary Hunt, Pearson

WINNER

The Nature of Science seriesby Gary Hunt, Pearson

Finalists for Best Book in Higher Education Publishing

Employment Relations in New Zealand (second edition)by Erling Rasmussen, Pearson

Exploring Society: Sociology for New Zealand Students (third edition)by Gregor McLennan, Ruth McManus and Paul Spoonley, Pearson

Principles of Law for New Zealand Business Students (fourth edition)by Jeremy Hubbard, Cordelia Thomas and Sally Varnham, Pearson

WINNER

Principles of Law for New Zealand Business Students (fourth edition)by Jeremy Hubbard, Cordelia Thomas and Sally Varnham, Pearson

The number of publisher applications for the Intern Programme 2011 demonstrates the overall success of the programme and also made it harder to decide who would be chosen. We are delighted that the programme is attracting such a high calibre of positions available to the Whitireia Publishing Programme graduates.

We thank all applicants and the selection panel too. PANZ works closely with Rachel Lawson, the Publishing Programme Leader at Whitireia to match the successful publishers and graduates to ensure the internship is productive and happy for both parties.

PANZ is delighted to announce the following placements for the internships next year:

Canterbury University Press – Frith Hughes

HarperCollins Publishers – Anna Bowbyes

New Holland Publishers – Olivia Park

We congratulate you all and thank Creative NZ once again for the funding of this programme.

The Publishing Intern Programme offers a marvellous opportunity for publishers to engage talented and qualified publishing graduates and support the long-term development of the publishing industry in New Zealand.

The Whitireia class of 2010 will be graduating in two weeks so when considering your staff requirements for 2011 remember that there are eager, talented and qualified graduates available for full/part time, contract or temporary positions. Contact Rachel Lawson to discuss further rachel.lawson@whitireia.ac.nz Ph: 04 237 3103 x 3975

The number of publisher applications for the Intern Programme 2011 demonstrates the overall success of the programme and also made it harder to decide who would be chosen. We are delighted that the programme is attracting such a high calibre of positions available to the Whitireia Publishing Programme graduates.

We thank all applicants and the selection panel too. PANZ works closely with Rachel Lawson, the Publishing Programme Leader at Whitireia to match the successful publishers and graduates to ensure the internship is productive and happy for both parties.

PANZ is delighted to announce the following placements for the internships next year:

Canterbury University Press – Frith Hughes

HarperCollins Publishers – Anna Bowbyes

New Holland Publishers – Olivia Park

We congratulate you all and thank Creative NZ once again for the funding of this programme.

The Publishing Intern Programme offers a marvellous opportunity for publishers to engage talented and qualified publishing graduates and support the long-term development of the publishing industry in New Zealand.

The Whitireia class of 2010 will be graduating in two weeks so when considering your staff requirements for 2011 remember that there are eager, talented and qualified graduates available for full/part time, contract or temporary positions. Contact Rachel Lawson to discuss further rachel.lawson@whitireia.ac.nz Ph: 04 237 3103 x 3975

 

We are pleased to announce the shortlisted titles for the inaugural CLL Educational Publishing Awards 2010 and congratulate all authors and publishers.

Winners will be announced at the awards event on Thursday 18 November at 6pm at the Auckland Art Lounge, CNR Wellesley & Lorne St., Auckland. Email Nikki at publishersnz@gmail.com for tickets.

Finalists for Best Book or Series in Primary Publishing

Figure it Out: Statistics in the Media Levels 3+-4 and Levels 4-4+ by Lisa Darragh and Jasmine Hardy, Learning Media

Nitty Gritty Novels: Series One by various authors, Pearson

Spelling Under Scrutiny: Practice Activities one and two by Joy Allcock, MJA Publishing

Teaching Reading Comprehension Strategies by Sheena Cameron, Pearson

Finalists for Best Book or Series in Secondary Publishing

Alpha Mathematics (second edition) by David Barton, Pearson

Geography on the Edge: Geography for NCEA Level One by Justin Peat and John Lockyer, Cengage Learning

Level 7 and Level 8 Biology Student Workbooks by Tracey Greenwood, Kent Pryor, Richard Allan and Lissa Bainbridge-Smith, Biozone International

The Nature of Science 1 and 2 by Gary Hunt, Pearson

Finalists for Best Book in Higher Education Publishing

Employment Relations in New Zealand (second edition) by Erling Rasmussen, Pearson

Exploring Society: Sociology for New Zealand Students (third edition) by Gregor McLennan, Ruth McManus and Paul Spoonley, Pearson

Principles of Law for New Zealand Business Students (fourth edition) by Jeremy Hubbard, Cordelia Thomas and Sally Varnham, Pearson

 

Pearson, New Zealand’s leading educational publishing company is seeking to appoint an experienced and talented publishing professional to the role of Editorial & Production Manager.

Reporting to the Managing Director, you will provide strategic direction for Editorial and Production to ensure the successful creation of products and services across our Primary, Secondary and Higher Education publishing teams.

Critical to your success will be your ability to provide leadership and direction to this dedicated team as well as the ongoing review of processes and policies to ensure continuous improvement opportunities are identified and implemented that enable best practice and leading edge performance.

The role also demands an eye for the future and will be central to ensuring Pearson’s products and services are continually developed to meet the needs of an ever-changing educational environment.

We await someone who understands the challenges and opportunities that come with market leadership.

Along with a competitive salary package, including a bonus plan, medical insurance and superannuation scheme, this position provides a stimulating, friendly atmosphere in our stunning offices based on Auckland’s North Shore.

If you are keen to apply, please send your confidential letter of application and resume before 5pm, Friday 5 November 2010:

Yvette Mackay  Human Resources Manager  Pearson New Zealand

yvette.mackay@pearsonnz.co.nz

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HarperCollins Publishers, a division of the global media organisation News Corporation, is one of the world’s leading English-language publishers.

Due to expansion we are currently recruiting for a talented Associate Publisher Non-Fiction to join us full time.

Strong ideas, good contacts, an entrepreneurial mind, high level of creativity, superior presentation skills and a passion for books is essential for this role. The preferred candidate must thrive in working in a collaborative environment and have an eye for detail as well as a strategic and visionary approach to both individual publishing projects and author careers. 

Your key responsibility will be to develop a list of high quality, commercial non-fiction titles for HarperCollins with a focus on key selling periods.

The position reports to the Head of New Zealand Publishing and is based in Glenfield, Auckland.

For more details or to apply for this role please contact info@harpercollins.co.nz. This vacancy closes on 1 October 2010.

Pioneering journalist and publisher, Dame Christine Cole Catley and journalist and author Steve Braunias were each presented with a CLL Writers’ Award – one of New Zealand’s richest non-fiction writing prizes –at a ceremony held in Auckland on 16 September.

Dame Christine – who trained and mentored many of today’s writers and journalists – was awarded the $35,000 prize to write her autobiography, Getting Ready.

As an octogenarian who has always agitated for social change, Dame Christine was at the forefront of many of the country’s pivotal cultural turning points: as tutor in charge of New Zealand’s first journalism training course she won the battle for a 50:50 male/female student ratio, as co-founder of the Parent’s Centre she established courses for expectant parents and fought for the right of parents to visit sick children in hospital.

CLL Writers’ Awards judges’ convenor Jenny Robin Jones says Dame Christine Cole Catley’s proposed autobiography will look back at a life-time’s changes in New Zealand society.

‘Chris has worked with many outstanding people in literature, the arts, teaching, publishing, politics, health reform, parent education and mental health. She has the knowledge and talent to write from the heart about her relationships with seminal New Zealand writers such as Janet Frame, Frank Sargeson and those, like her great friend Michael King, who took New Zealand writing into the modern period.

‘Her project promises to be both highly personal and scrupulously candid.’

Satirist, columnist and author, Steve Braunias received the second $35,000 CLL Award for his work, New Zealand: The Biography.

Braunias’s work will examine New Zealanders’ spirit and psyche in a series of observational essays about 22 specific locations around the country. ‘The book aims to show’, says Braunias ‘that New Zealanders are a passionate people with a sense of profound – and sometimes profoundly troubled – sense of belonging to where they live.’

Jones says Steve Braunias’s particular skill is to manoeuvre oblique subjects until they yield surprising insights into the life and times of mainstream New Zealand society.

‘Steve’s writing is original, intuitive, and incisive. He exercises a shrewd judgement of well-known political figures, but in books and columns he has also explored the margins of this country: the natural margins populated by mud and mangroves, also the social margins with its oddball and sometimes tragic inhabitants.

‘If Dame Christine’s proposed work is decades deep and reflective, the book proposed by Steve Braunias, will be utterly contemporary.’

Earlier this year CLL Writers’ Award recipient Paul Millar’s biography No Fretful Sleeper: A Life of Bill Pearson was published to critical acclaim as were Award recipient Hazel Riseborough’s  Shear Hard Work: A History of Shearing in New Zealand and Jeffrey Paparoa Holman’s Best of Both World’s.

Established in 2002, the CLL Writers’ Awards are financed from copyright licensing revenue received by Copyright Licensing Limited (CLL) on behalf of authors and publishers. 

CLL/NZSA Research Grants – winners

For the third year, CLL in association with the New Zealand Society of Authors (NZSA) presented two research grants for fiction or non-fiction.

Award-winning Wellington writer Rebecca Priestley won the Stout Centre Research Grant. The prize will support research for her next anthology, The Awa Book of Antarctic Science.

The Open Grant went to Bradford Haami (Ngati Awa, Ngati Kahungunu, Tuwharetoa, Ngai Tahu) for a book he is currently co-writing with Māori Naturalist, Ramari Stewart on Whale Traditions of the Māori. The book will explore the story of whales in the New Zealand environment from a Māori perspective. It will highlight the long association Māori have had with whales in the pre-whaling era and bring to light the special place whales have in Māori culture and tradition.

Both winners received $3,500.

Hachette New Zealand Limited, a leading New Zealand publishing company specialising in the publishing, wholesaling and distribution of a wide range of exciting books, is seeking a Product Manager for their Headline Division.

This role is a pivotal part of the Sales & Marketing team.  Key responsibilities include management of stock information, sales kits and order forms, point-of-sale and marketing plans, and information flows for our key customers.  Communication with many parts of the company and wider group is an essential part of the job.

As our new Product Manager, you will have had experience in a similar role in a busy sales and marketing department, with high levels of detail and deadline focus.  You will have a thorough knowledge and proficiency in Microsoft applications.  You’ll be an excellent communicator and have been involved with the production of advertising or point-of-sale materials.  We expect you to be the personification of self-motivation and efficiency and be genuinely interested in supporting your team to make things run smoothly.  Industry knowledge will also be taken into account.

To ensure that you understand the role and responsibilities, we encourage you to read a full copy of the job description available by request. This role reports to the Sales & Marketing Manager, Headline Division.

If you feel this is you, please apply in writing with current C.V. to:

Brenda Ferguson

Hachette New Zealand Ltd P O Box 100-749 North Shore Mail Centre Auckland 0745

Or by email to brendaf@hachette.co.nz

AUCKLAND 23 July 2010. The Life & Love of Trees has scooped the supreme Gerard Reid Award for Best Book sponsored by Nielsen Book Services at the Publishers Association of New Zealand Book Design Awards.

Designer Cameron Gibb was applauded at last night’s ceremony for a design that judge Peter Gilderdale said is of ‘the highest quality, and the judges ultimately had no hesitation in choosing this as the best book … The Life & Love of Trees had an x‐factor that was hard to deny’.

The judging team of Peter Gilderdale, Sharon Grace and Graham Beattie went on to praise Gibb’s work by saying, ‘The book has a huge impact, and what we liked was the way the design was able to enhance the photography in such a way that the whole became greater than the sum of the parts. There are lots of coffee table books with wonderful photos, but few of them achieve this impact – and we think the designer has to take much of the credit.’

The winner of another major award of the night, the Harper Collins Award for Best Cover, went to Magpie Hall, designed by Sarah Laing and described by the judges as ‘an outstanding example of a well designed and executed cover, back and front, that reflects the story in an appealing way.’

Another standout this year was Old Hu‐Hu, designed by Michael Greenfield and illustrated by Rachel Driscoll, winner of the Scholastic New Zealand Award for Best Children’s Book. Earlier this year awarded the New Zealand Post children’s book of the year, the title was described by the judges as a ‘superb integration of text and illustration’.

Also announced last night was the winner of the Awa Press Young Designer of the Year which went to Keely O’Shannessy, along with awards for Best Cover, Typography, Illustrated, Non‐Illustrated, Children’s and Educational Books. The full list of winners is attached. The judging team said, ‘The quality of the design shown proves that the standard of New Zealand book design is very high and would compare with the world’s best.’

The awards are run by the Publishers Association of New Zealand (PANZ) to promote excellence in, and provide recognition for, the best book design in New Zealand. The competition is judged in six categories, with a winner for the highly coveted Best Book chosen from the shortlist.

The awards are sponsored by a range of publishers, along with North & South magazine and Kalamazoo Wyatt & Wilson printers.

See the full list of Awards winners.

Award Winners

Gerard Reid Award for Best Book sponsored by Nielsen Book Services

Cameron Gibb for The Life & Love of Trees by Lewis Blackwell, PQ Blackwell/Hachette (NZ)

HarperCollins Award for Best Cover

Sarah Laing for Magpie Hall by Rachael King, Random House (NZ)

Awa Press Young Designer of the Year

Keely O’Shannessy

Pindar Award for Best Typography

Grant Sutherland, Mission Hall (interior), Robyn Sivewright, Afineline (typesetting), Neil Pardington (cover) for Art at Te Papa edited by William McAloon, Te Papa Press

Random House New Zealand Award for Best Illustrated Book

Cameron Gibb for The Life & Love of Trees by Lewis Blackwell, PQ Blackwell/Hachette NZ

Hachette New Zealand Award for Best Non‐Illustrated Book

Keely O’Shannessy (cover), Katrina Duncan (interior) for Mirabile Dictu by Michele Leggott, Auckland University Press

Pearson Award for Best Educational Book

Book Design Ltd for Year 9 Graphics by Paul Bourdōt, Cengage Learning

Scholastic New Zealand Award for Best Children’s Book

Michael Greenfield for Old Hu-Hu by Kyle Mewburn, illustrated by Rachel Driscoll, Scholastic New Zealand

2010 Judges’ Biographies

Peter Gilderdale is the Head of Graphic Design at AUT University.

Graham Beattie is the creator of Beattie’s Book Blog, and works as a full-time book reviewer and book blogger.

Sharon Grace is a freelance magazine and book designer. Her work has been nominated for many awards,including a PANZ Best Typography award in 1999