2 March 2022: The Ockham New Zealand Book Award finalists are announced …

9 December 2021: Judges announced for New Zealand Book Awards for Children & Young Adults

1 December 2021: NZHA Prize winners announced

1 December 2021: Winners of 2021 Signals Young Writers Awards announced

18 November 2021: New sponsor for First Book Awards

18 November 2021: 2021 PANZ Book Design Awards announced

17 November 2021: New Zealand Book Awards for Children & Young Adults submissions close 14 December 2021

4 November 2021: New Zealand Prime Minister’s Awards for Literary Achievement 2021 announced

5 October 2021: Shortlists announced for NZSA Heritage Literary Awards.

4 October 2021: Wellington’s Sarah Forster has been announced as the recipient of the 2021 Storylines Betty Gilderdale Award for outstanding service to children’s and young adults’ literature and reading.

Congratulations to all of the 2021 Book Industry Award winners

28 September 2021: Laura Jean McKay wins Arthur C. Clarke Award

16 September 2021: Tom Baragwanath has been awarded the 2021 Michael Gifkins Prize for his crime novel Paper Cage. Baragwanath wins a publishing contract with Text and a NZ$10,000 advance against royalties.

Amy McDaid awarded Todd New Writer’s Bursary in 2021.

4 August 2021. The New Zealand Book Awards Trust is now inviting submissions for the 2022 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards.

Independent Kiwi publisher garners international award at the world’s largest children’s book fair

$25,000 Writers’ Award - Applications are open now for the Copyright Licensing New Zealand (CLNZ) and New Zealand Society of Authors (NZSA) Writers' Award

Nominate a New Zealand author for the Prime Minister’s Awards for Literary Achievement - deadline 12 July 2021

Want your chance to be the judge? The Ockham New Zealand Book Awards are calling for judges for 2022.

Lee Murray wins two prestigious Bram Stoker Awards® at an event hosted by the Horror Writers Association