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Published 24 August 2017Ockham award nominations
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The New Zealand Book Awards Trust is now calling for entries for the 2018 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards for New Zealand books published between 1 January 2017 and 31 December 2017.
About the awards
These annual awards offer four principal prizes: the Poetry Award, the Acorn Foundation Fiction Prize, the Illustrated Non-Fiction Award and the Royal Society Te Apārangi Award for General Non-Fiction.
There are also four Best First Book awards, and a Māori language award for books written entirely in te reo Māori, awarded at the judges’ discretion.
Winners of the Acorn Foundation Fiction Prize win $50,000. Winners of the other three principal category awards each receive $10,000, the Māori language award $10,000, and each of the winners of the four Best First Book awards, $2,500.
Panels of three judges each are selected to judge each of the categories.
Deadlines for 2018 Ockham award nominations
- Titles published between 1 January 2017 and 31 August 2017 must be submitted no later than 5pm on Monday 4 September 2017.
- Entries for titles published between 1 September 2017 and 31 December 2017 open on 5 September and close at 5pm on Thursday 5 October 2017.