Ockham Book Awards
Read all about it: A beginner’s guide to the 2023 Ockham Book Awards
17 May 2023
Not yet read the contenders for Aotearoa’s big-deal book awards? Here’s a cheat sheet to help you sound like you have.
Bookmarks with Khardro Mohamed
19 Apr 2023
Our bookmarks guest today is Wellington based poet Khadro Mohamed. She's also made the 2023 Ockham Book Awards short list with her debut poetry book 'We're All Made of Lightning'. The winners will be… Audio
Call for a creative non-fiction category for book awards
30 Jan 2020
The Spinoff Books Editor, Catherine Woulfe, is calling for a creative non-fiction category in book awards so that literary brilliance in the genre can be recognised. Audio
Catherine Chidgey: Ockham Award and rising early
21 May 2017
Ngaruawahia novelist Catherine Chidgey's fourth novel "The Wish Child" was 13 years in the writing but has now earned her the coveted $50,000 Acorn Foundation Fiction award. The judges says the… Audio