The winning entries have been announced. The two winners will each be awarded $2500 and their entries will be printed in the New Zealand Listener.
Fiction
Winning entry:
- Waimate
Dave Armstrong, Wellington
Other Shortlisted Entries:
- Five
Emily Adlam, Auckland - A Report on the New Zealand White
Philip Armstrong, Lyttleton - Nuclear Garden of Eden
J. Edward Brown, Auckland - Project EH-3/5
Gareth Griffiths, Wellington - The Things Which Remain
Aaron Martin, Wellington - Dinner of the Triple Helix
Brin Murray, Wellington - Out of the Rubble
Catherine Palmer, Auckland - The Terminator
Stephanie Parkyn, Christchurch - The Tight Schedule of Mr Malthouse
Eden Carter Wood, Wellington
Non Fiction
Winning Entry:
- Progress, Laughter, Sex – But not in that order
Will Catton, Dunedin
Other Shortlisted Entries:
- Children of Changing Circumstance
Margaret Denton, Upper Hutt - Evolution and Antimicrobial Resistance
Rod Ellis-Pegler, Auckland - The Fertility Clinic: a birds-eye view of our future
John Flux, Lower Hutt - The Human Condition
Terence Green, Wellington - Eomaia’s Children
Barbara Heslop, Dunedin - Of Monkeys and Bananas
“Elizabeth Little” (pen name), Wellington - How great are our expectations?
“Abel Magwitch” (pen name), Tawa - Manufacturing Nature
Ally Palmer, Auckland - The New Dam; Story of an Intervention
Pat White, Masterton