VOLUME OCKHAMETER 2020 Survey

1.THE ACORNOMETER. Select your favourite finalist for the JANN MEDLICOTT ACORN PRIZE FOR FICTION:

Halibut on the Moon by David Vann (Text Publishing)

Pearly Gates by Owen Marshall (Vintage, Penguin Random House)

Auē by Becky Manawatu (Mākaro Press)

A Mistake by Carl Shuker (Victoria University Press)

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2.Select your favourite finalist for the MARY AND PETER BIGGS AWARD FOR POETRY:

Moth Hour by Anne Kennedy (Auckland University Press)

How to Live by Helen Rickerby (Auckland University Press)

Lay Studies by Steven Toussaint (Victoria University Press)

How I Get Ready by Ashleigh Young (Victoria University Press)

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3.Select your favourite finalist for the ILLUSTRATED NON-FICTION AWARD:

Protest Tautohetohe: Objects of Resistance, Persistence and Defiance edited by Stephanie Gibson, Matariki Williams and Puawai Cairns (Te Papa Press)

McCahon Country by Justin Paton (Penguin Random House)

Crafting Aotearoa: A Cultural History of Making in New Zealand and the Wider Moana Oceania edited by Karl Chitham, Kolokesa U Māhina-Tuai and Damian Skinner (Te Papa Press)

We Are Here: An Atlas of Aotearoa by Chris McDowall and Tim Denee (Massey University Press)

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4.Select your favourite finalist for the GENERAL NON-FICTION AWARD:

Wild Honey: Reading New Zealand Women’s Poetry by Paula Green (Massey University Press)

Shirley Smith: An Examined Life by Sarah Gaitanos (Victoria University Press)

Towards the Mountain: A Story of Grief and Hope Forty Years on from Erebus by Sarah Myles (Allen & Unwin)

Dead People I Have Known by Shayne Carter (Victoria University Press)

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To go in the draw for a Winners Prize Pack enter your contact details below.
The Winners Prize Pack, courtesy of our excellent New Zealand publishers, will include one copy of each category winner in the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards 2020.

Conditions of entry:
1. One entry per person
2. Prize will be sent only to a NZ address.
3. Entries close Friday 8th May at 5pm.

Watch out for the Ockhameter & Acornometer results in the VOLUME NEWSLETTER in the weekend prior to the 'real' Ockham announcements!

(The winners of the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards will be announced in Auckland on May 12th.)

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