Entries sought for New Zealand Post Book Awards

Entries open today for the nation’s most prestigious book awards: the 2014 New Zealand Post Book Awards and the 2014 New Zealand Post Children’s Book Awards.

Publishers are invited to submit books written by New Zealand authors and published in New Zealand in the last year.  E-book entries are welcome as are books submitted by self-publishers.  Awards Manager Amie Lightbourne says all entries must meet the awards’ eligibility rules.

“Books entered into the awards need to be widely available to New Zealanders, either on sale in bookstores throughout New Zealand, or available online from two or more leading online retailers”.

Download entry forms and further information from www.nzpostbookawards.co.nz.

The awards are an exciting and high profile event on the literary calendar, celebrating New Zealand’s finest writers, illustrators and their books. Each year finalists and winners are chosen from over a hundred entrants to celebrate and promote excellence in writing and illustration in New Zealand.  Books entered into the awards are judged on the quality of writing, research, illustration, audience appeal, design and production values.