Internationally acclaimed New Zealand writer Emily Perkins MNZM has won the $65,000 Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize for Fiction at the 2024 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards for Lioness – a smart, multi-layered, laugh-out-loud novel exploring wealth, class and female mid-life reckoning.
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Friends of Women’s Refuges Trust has announced a record breaking $350,000 donation to NZ Women’s Refuge from the proceeds of the NZ Sculpture OnShore 2023 exhibition.
The large-scale exhibition of 130 outdoor sculptures created by more than 100 artists across the motu took place at Operetu Fort Takapuna, Auckland 4 – 19 November 2023. It attracted 21,000 visitors – the biggest turnout in the exhibition’s 27-year history.
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Ockham New Zealand Book Awards 2023 Winners’ Announcement
Celebrated New Zealand writer Catherine Chidgey has won the $64,000 Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize for Fiction at the 2023 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards for The Axeman’s Carnival – a page-turning novel of depth, pathos and humanity that skilfully infuses comedy with a building sense of menace, narrated by a precocious magpie called Tama.
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Ockham New Zealand Book Awards 2022 Winners’ Announcement
Wellington novelist and playwright Whiti Hereaka (Ngāti Tūwharetoa, Te Arawa, Ngāti Whakaue, Tūhourangi, Pākehā) has won the $60,000 Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize for Fiction at the 2022 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards for her book Kurangaituku – a richly imagined contemporary retelling of the traditional Te Arawa story Hatupatu and the Bird-Woman, told from the perspective of the ‘monster’ Kurangaituku.
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‘Knockout’ short story collection wins country’s richest writing prize
Whanganui writer Airini Beautrais has won the $57,000 Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize for Fiction at the 2021 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards for her book Bug Week – the first person to take out the category for a collection of short stories in more than a decade.
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Nineteen projects, located at sites from Great Barrier Island in the north to Dunedin in the south, won New Zealand Architecture Awards at a ceremony in Queenstown on Saturday 9 November.
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People of all ages flocked to the 2019 Auckland Writers Festival this week, which broke its previous attendance record with more than 83,000 seats filled across seven days of tremendous conversations, inspiring performances and theatres filled with laughter at venues throughout the city’s centre.
Sydney, Australia: Sydney’s pre-eminent summer event, Sydney Festival, today announces its full festival program; including 12 world premieres, 14 Australian exclusives across an epic line-up of dance, theatre, installations, music, VR, talks, classes and free events collectively presenting a bold, eclectic and innovative program set to transform Sydney into a world cultural hub from 6-28 January.
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Six of New Zealand’s top teachers spanning early childhood, primary and secondary education received ASG National Excellence in Teaching Awards (NEiTA) from the Minister of Education, Hon. Chris Hipkins today.
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New Zealand architecture takes its place on the world stage at the 2016 Venice Architecture Biennale, which launches on 28 May. Official exhibitions from 62 countries will compete for attention at the six-month event, which attracts a quarter of a million visitors and is regarded as the ‘Olympics of architecture’.
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Alan Duff, Elizabeth Knox and Don McGlashan Headline 24th Going West Writers Festival
New Zealand’s leading authors, poets, playwrights and musicians take to West Auckland’s theatres, halls and beaches at the 24th Going West Writers Festival 6-15 September, offering audiences ten days of inspiring words and ideas that cut through the clutter.
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Dame Fiona Kidman has won this year’s $53,000 Acorn Foundation Fiction Prize at the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards for her novel, This Mortal Boy, a work described by the judges as ‘moving, memorable, authentic and urgently relevant to our times.’
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