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February 2, 2023 in Media Releases, 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 books exploring our whenua, moana, artists and entertainers in the longlists for the 2023 Ockham…
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April 12, 2022 in Media Releases

HELL Launches New Reading Initiative to Boost NZ Reading Rates

New Zealand’s rich landscape, its people and the authors who write about it are taking centre stage in a new reading initiative being rolled out by HELL to help lift…
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February 1, 2022 in Media Releases

Longlists for New Zealand’s Premier Literary Awards Revealed

Books exploring politics, fashion, social change, war, contested histories and family relationships sit alongside works celebrating our natural world and the enduring legacies of our activists and artists in the…
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September 30, 2021 in Media Releases

Wellington independent wins Publisher of the Year

Last night, booksellers and publishers gathered online in anticipation of the 2021 Aotearoa Book Trade Industry Awards, hosted by PANZ Te Rau o Tākupu and Booksellers Aotearoa New Zealand. One…
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September 30, 2021 in Media Releases

Call for judges of the 2022 New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults

The organisers of the New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults are inviting expressions of interest from members and followers of the children’s literature community who would like…
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July 26, 2021 in Media Releases

Irish writer captures Kiwi readers’ hearts and minds

Celebrating 26 years of asking Kiwi readers to vote for their favourite books, Irish actor turned writer Lucinda Riley is newly crowned at number one with her series The Seven…
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March 4, 2021 in Media Releases

Storylines Margaret Mahy Medal and National Awards Day

The Storylines Margaret Mahy Medal and National Awards Day is being held on Sunday 28 March 1.30-5pm. Register at the Storylines website by 22 March for COVID tracing purposes.
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