VOLUME OCKHAMETER 2020 Survey

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

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

A Mistake by Carl Shuker (Victoria University Press)

Halibut on the Moon by David Vann (Text Publishing)

Auē by Becky Manawatu (Mākaro Press)

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

Lay Studies by Steven Toussaint (Victoria University Press)

Moth Hour by Anne Kennedy (Auckland University Press)

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

How to Live by Helen Rickerby (Auckland University Press)

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

McCahon Country by Justin Paton (Penguin Random House)

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

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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

Comment:

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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