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'Instense, close-up look at human behaviour is what drives me in my fiction,' Damien Wilkins #theockhams Te Herenga Waka University Press rnz.co.nz/national/progr…

With less than zero seconds to spare, Damien Wilkins, winner of the 2025 Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize for Fiction winner races onto the stage! #theockhams #flightdelays Te Herenga Waka University Press

‘Ask him to play it for laughs with a strong line in pathos’. So that was just my simple instruction,” - Damien Wilkins. A very good blow-by-blow account of how Damien did, and nearly didn't make it to the 2025 Ockhams ceremony. #theockhams Te Herenga Waka University Press nzherald.co.nz/lifestyle/ockh…

The 2025 Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize for Fiction winner Damien Wilkins flanked by Acorn Foundation representatives administering and honouring Jann's incredible legacy Campbell Higgins (L) and Jo Wilson (R). AcornFoundation Te Herenga Waka University Press #theockhams

'One of the prime goals of Toi te Mana was to reinforce the cyclic nature of Māori art,' say BookHub Award for Illustrated Non-Fiction winners Deidre Brown and Ngarino Ellis #theockhams Auckland University Press thepress.co.nz/culture/360674…

Ranging interview in te reo Māori with this year's General Non-Fiction Award winner Ngāhuia te Awekōtuku on Te Karere #theockhams HarperCollins Aotearoa NZ facebook.com/watch/?mibexti…

Such an insightful interview with Acorn winner Damien Wilkins by Claire Mabey in The Spinoff '...what you did steal to make the novel? DW: The details of people’s lives. My sister’s last months...' #theockhams Te Herenga Waka University Press thespinoff.co.nz/books/15-05-20…

..'.she didn’t expect to publish a book, let alone receive an award for it, but thanked her ancestors in her speech — saying she is proud to carry their name,' Whakaata Maori interviews Best First Book Fiction winner Michelle Rahurahu at the ceremony teaonews.co.nz/2025/05/15/mao…

'Her poems were personal — one took about 30 years to write — and it was a joy for her to see so many people connect with her work.' nice interview with Mary and Peter Biggs Award for Poetry winner Emma Neale in the ODT - Otago Daily Times #theockhams Otago University Press odt.co.nz/news/dunedin/r…

Did you catch Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize for Fiction winner Damien Wilkins on RNZ Bookmarks with Jesse yesterday? Some good reckons in the mix! #theockhams Te Herenga Waka University Press rnz.co.nz/national/progr…

Fantastic interview! Te Herenga Waka University Press #theockhams

News of Damien Wilkins Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize for Fiction win made headlines in India! #theockhams Te Herenga Waka University Press indiaeducationdiary.in/director-of-th…

Lovely piece about Mary and Peter Biggs Award for Poetry 2025 winner Emma Neale and what she's reading Otago University Press #theockhams thepress.co.nz/culture/360674…

If you haven't yet read Ngāhuia te Awekōtuku's powerful General Non-Fiction Award-winning memoir Hine Toa, this extract featured in the Sunday Star-Times will get you heading to a bookstore. thepost.co.nz/culture/360674… HarperCollins Aotearoa NZ #theockhams

Simie Read NZ Te Pou Muramura bought Ockhams Illustrated Non-Fiction winner Toi Te Mana for a friend, then got it out of the library for herself, and now wants to own it, too! #theockhams Auckland University Press

Congratulations to Ockhams 2025 Best First Book Fiction winner Michelle Rahurahu and Best First Book General Non-Fiction winner Una Cruickshank for making the inaugural New Voices of Aotearoa list! ketebooks.co.nz/en/news/fresh-…

OCKHAMS 2026 CALL FOR JUDGES! We're looking for expressions of interest from the NZ literature community and from members of the public with relevant experience for one of the most challenging and rewarding roles in the industry. #theockhams Apply here: tinyurl.com/mr3xr97b

Haere rā to a mighty totara of Aotearoa NZ literature, seven-time National Fiction Award winner Maurice Gee. Your books brought wonder and joy to thousands of people and cemented a lifelong love of reading to so many more. Ngā mihi nui ki a koe, e te rangatira, mo tō takoha.

Insightful longform interview with Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize for Fiction 2025 winner Damien Wilkins and international judge, Monocle Radio presenter Georgina Godwin Te Herenga Waka University Press #theockhams

👉Tranche #1 submissions for the 2026 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards are open! 📚Send in your books published between 1 January 2025 and 31 August 2025 now. 👉Entry form and conditions are here: nzbookawards.nz/new-zealand-bo… GO! #theockhams