IIML graduates on Book Awards long list
Six graduates of our MA and PhD Creative Writing programmes have been longlisted for the 2016 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards.
The 2016 Ockham New Zealand Book Award's inaugural longlist has been announced and IIML graduates have a strong presence.
Longlisted titles in the Fiction category include The Chimes by Anna Smaill (MA in Creative Writing), The Invisible Mile by David Coventry (MA in Creative Writing), and Reach by Laurence Fearnley (PhD Creative Writing). Lost and Gone Away by Lynn Jenner (PhD Creative Writing) is longlisted in the General Non Fiction category, and the Poetry category includes How to be Dead in a Year of Snakes by Chris Tse (MA in Creative Writing) and Dear Neil Roberts by Airini Beautrais (MA in Creative Writing and current PhD candidate). Read more about our students and graduates.
Jennifer Compton's Mr Clean & The Junkie, published by MA in Creative Writing graduate Mary McCallum's Mākaro Press, is also longlisted in the Poetry category, and Victoria University Press has six books in the longlist, including The Invisible Mile and Dear Neil Roberts. Read the full longlist.
Following a 12-month hiatus, the Book Awards has returned with a new major sponsor, Auckland developers Ockham Residential, and an expanded judging panel of 12 academics, writers, journalists, commentators, former publishers and booksellers from around New Zealand. In recognition of the fact that no Award was held in 2015, the longlist features New Zealand books published in the past two years. The shortlist will be announced on 8 March 2016.