Bestselling and critically acclaimed works of fiction, illuminating poetry collections, absorbing memoirs, and books that explore our whenua, flora and fauna feature alongside those that celebrate our culinary and artistic heroes and heroines in the 2024 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards longlists announced today.

Tina Shaw has won for her manuscript A House Built on Sand. Find out more.

Kete Books and the Coalition for Books partner with Dorothy Butler Books at Pasifika 2023

Kete Books and the Coalition for Books partner with Dorothy Butler bookstore at Pasifika 2023

Kete Books and the Coalition for Books partner with Time Out Bookstore at Te Matatini 2023

It’s here - 2023 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards Longlist announced

02 June 2022: Finalists in the 2022 New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults announced.

11 May 2022: The winners of the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards 2022 are announced.

The long list for the 2022 Women’s Prize for Fiction includes two New Zealand writers, Catherine Chidgey and Meg Mason

2 March 2022: The shortlist for the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards is announced. Congratulations to all the finalists. The winners will be announced on 11 May 2022.

27 January 2022: The longlist for the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards is announced. Congratulations to all the longlistees! Next stop, the short list on 2 March.

The Storylines Notable Books 2021 Awards Announced

31 October 2021: The 2021 Ngaio Marsh Awards winners announced

28 September: The Animals in That Country by Laura Jean McKay wins 2021 Arthur C. Clarke Award!

16 September 2021: The Ngaio Marsh Awards announce the shortlists

16 September: The 2021 winner of the Michael Gifkins Prize for an Unpublished Manuscript will be announced online

NGĀ TINO PUKAPUKA REO MĀORI MĀ TE TAMAITI I TE TAU 2021 | THE BEST TE REO MĀORI BOOKS FOR YOUNG READERS FOR 2021

Tickets available now for The 2021 Pikihuia Awards which will celebrate the work of emerging Māori Writers on Saturday 30 October at Te Wharewaka o Pōneke, Wellington

25 August 2021: The 2022 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards - judges announced

20 August: Orville “wins” literary award