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OCKHAMS
LONGLIST LADEN WITH LITERARY LUMINARIES
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Many of New Zealand’s literary heavyweights feature
in the 40-strong Ockham New Zealand Book Awards longlist announced
this morning.
The latest works of Lloyd Jones, Fiona Kidman, Maurice Gee and
Vincent O’Sullivan are among the rich and varied range nominated
for the country’s premier book awards, now in their 51st year. They
sit alongside debutants and rising stars whose books traverse
sweeping contemporary, cultural, historic, artistic and social
landscapes.
New Zealand Book Awards Trust chair Nicola Legat says the Awards
received a large number of entries again this year and the standard
was extremely high across all categories.
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“The judges would
have had a challenging task and it’s very gratifying and exciting
to see the mix of established writers and younger emerging talent
across all the longlist categories. This signals a very encouraging
situation for New Zealand literature.”
— Nicola
Legat, NZBAT chair
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You can find the full list of Ockham New Zealand
Book Awards longlisted titles here and you can download social
media visuals to promote the books from the resources page of our website
later this morning.
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STILL TIME
TO ENTER NZCYA AWARDS
Publishers are reminded that entries are still open for the 2019
New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults, and
submissions are currently being accepted for books published
between 1 December 2018 and 31 March 2019.
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Details on how to enter can be found here. The 2019 NZCYA shortlist
will be announced on 6 June.
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SAVE THE
DATE FOR NPD 2019
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We have a date for NPD 2019! The 22nd
Phantom Billstickers National Poetry Day will be held on 23 August
this year.
NPD 2018 blew previous records off the charts with our largest
national tally of events ever, at 150. Registrations for 2019
events will open in early March, so poets, publishers, booksellers
and poetry-loving organisers, put your creative caps on and let’s
make 2019 even bigger.
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As we start the new year, the New Zealand Book Awards Trust
welcomes a new trustee and congratulates another.
Jenna Todd, the manager of the award-winning Auckland bookstore
Time Out, joins the Trust as the Booksellers NZ representative,
succeeding Rachel Eadie. Jenna was the first recipient of the Kobo
Booksellers NZ Scholarship in 2014 and was named Young Bookseller
of the Year in 2015. She was a fiction judge for the 2018 Ockham
New Zealand Book Awards.
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And it’s a double round of champagne for independent
trustee Paula Morris. The award-winning novelist, short story
writer, essayist and academic has been busy since her return to New
Zealand in 2015, and she was delighted to not only receive the
Katherine Mansfield Menton fellowship late in 2018 but also to be
recognised with an MNZM in the 2019 New Year Honours List for
services to literature.
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“I’m really looking
forward to settling into the studio at the Villa Isola Bella and
making the space my own. I like the stimulation and discomfort of
working in new places. The award of the MNZM was much appreciated
as well, as it's recognition for my body of work so far. Writing
into the darkness is what I do, but sometimes it’s nice stepping
into the light.”
— Paula
Morris
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22 February: Final entry deadline for 2019 NZ
Book Awards for Children & Young Adults, for books published 1
December 2018 to 31 March 2018
4 March: HELL Reading Challenge 2019
begins
6 March: 2019 Ockham New Zealand Book
Awards shortlist announced
13 March: National Poetry Day event
registrations/seed funding applications open
14 May: Ockham NZ Book Awards ceremony at
Aotea Centre Auckland
22 May: Deadline for National Poetry Day
event registration/seeding funding applications
6 June: Shortlist announced for 2019 NZ
Book Awards for Children & Young Adults
7 August: NZ Book Awards for Children &
Young Adults ceremony in Wellington
23 August: Phantom Billstickers National
Poetry Day
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The Ockham New Zealand Book Awards, The New Zealand
Book Awards for Children & Young Adults, and Phantom
Billstickers National Poetry Day could not exist without the
generosity, commitment and vision of our sponsors and staging
partners. The New Zealand Book Awards Trust is hugely grateful to
Creative New Zealand, Ockham Residential, Acorn Foundation, Royal
Society Te Apārangi, Auckland Writers Festival, HELL Pizza, Wright
Family Foundation, LIANZA, Wellington City Council, Te Papa,
Nielsen Book, Phantom Billstickers, and our other wonderful
supporters. You can find out more about them here, here and here.
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You can find out more about the work of the Trust on
our website or
if you have a specific enquiry, contact our Trust Manager. And do follow us on
our various social media accounts to keep up with our busy calendar
of events and other news:
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New Zealand
Book Awards for Children
& Young
Adults
via Facebook or Twitter
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