👀🫵CALLING PUBLISHERS OF NZ BOOKS🫵👀
📖TWO WEEKS TO GO! Tranche #2 submissions to The Ockhams 2027 close at 5pm, Thursday 15 October.
👉Here's how to enter: nzbookawards.nz/new-zealand-… #theockhams
📖ONE WEEK TO GO! Tranche #1 submissions to The Ockhams 2027 close at 5pm, Wednesday 2 September.
👉Here's how to enter: nzbookawards.nz/new-zealand-… #theockhams
📷TRANCHE #1 ENTRIES NOW OPEN to the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards 2027 for New Zealand books published between 1 January 2026 and 31 December 2026.
📷 Here's how to enter: nzbookawards.nz/new-zealand.…
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'You’re like a soldier for change, but using words instead of bullets.' Such an insightful talanoa with Ockhams Poetry category 2026 winner Nafanua Purcell Kersel in @etangata @thwupbooks #theockhams
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🫵CALL FOR 2027 OCKHAM NZ BOOK AWARDS JUDGES!🫵Do you have a deep appreciation and knowledge of NZ literature? You might be a bookseller, librarian, critic, writer, former publisher, editor, academic or curator.
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Great interview with Poetry winner Nafanua Purcell Kersel on @531pi with Inangaro Vakaafi #theockhams
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The Ockhams effect!
'All Her Lives, by Ingrid Horrocks, freshly crowned winner of the Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize for Fiction, was the biggest-selling New Zealand title, closely followed by Jacinda Ardern and Witi Ihimaera Smiler.'
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And Ingrid immediately fielded a first invitation to an international festival. It's the Ockhams effect. @ingridhorrocks @thwupbooks @Publishers_NZ @BooksellersNZ @NZSAuthorsWgtn @NZSocAuthors #theockhams
Go buy it Aussie book lovers. #theockhams
So delighted: this award is NZ’s top literary award! Ingrid’s debut was also published in OZ just a couple of months ago, by @UQPbooks
Next year @PaulaJoyGreen !
GRATEFUL: Missing AWF but tuned into @theockhams, loved the writers reading. WOW Tina Makereti & Ingrid Horrocks, getting yr books. Already loved the poets. Also want flower book& debut novel. Sad I missed Bill @pacificraft tribute so paragphs 4blog welcome. &4these or yr faves
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My @theockhams awards report for the Guardian. So pleased my amazing creative nonfiction tutor Ingrid Horrocks has won the Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize for Fiction for her short story collection 'All Her Lives’.
@thwupbooks @thebooksdesk
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This book really fires me up about writing! Well done, Philip and team, in a category that is monstrously epic and tricky!
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With both Tina & Ingrid, there is so much love for them because they are both exquisite, extraordinarily talented writers who also do so much labour by the very nature of their work to nurture, champion and encourage other writers. So it’s lovely to see their work celebrated too.
Nicola Legat's interview with Emile on RNZ Nights really captures the wairua, the excitement, the importance of authors to society, and the why of the ceremony so well. Please do listen to it, if you have a moment. #theockhams rnz.co.nz/national/programme…
Terrific summary of the glitz, glamour and goings-ons at the 2026 Ockhams ceremony held at the Aotea Centre earlier this week #theockhams @pjkmorris @ANZLiterature
Shocks, Speeches, Sequins: Paula Morris on the 2026 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards - with fashion accolades.
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Great gesture. @tepoumuramura #theockhams
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Thank you, @secondzeit and fellow judges for reading, considering, debating, re-reading, selecting a longlist, shortlist and winner from 56 books #theockhams
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"If there's anything I've learned from writing a few books, is just that I need to dwell in that actually terrifying space of just not knowing what it is, but working with the feeling." Fiction winner @ingridhorrocks on @ninetonoon #theockhams rnz.co.nz/life/books/award-w…
Listen to Awards spokesperson Nicola Legat speaking to @radionz Emile Donovan immediately after the ceremony #theockhams rnz.co.nz/national/programme…