Top prize for Hudson & Halls book
Wednesday, 15 May 2019 12:28pm
Hudson & Halls: The food of love by Joanne Drayton won the Royal Society Te Apārangi Award for General Non-fiction at the 2019 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards.
Winner of 2019 Young Writers' Essay Competition announced
Monday, 6 May 2019 4:55pm
Landfall, New Zealand’s leading journal of arts and literature, is delighted to announce that the winner of the 2019 Charles Brasch Young Writers’ Essay Competition is seventeen-year-old Jack McConnell, whose essay is titled ‘The Taniwha, Moderation of Our Human Pursuits’.
Hudson and Halls biography shortlisted for 2019 Ockham NZ book awards
Wednesday, 6 March 2019 12:03pm
Otago University Press is proud to have Hudson and Halls: The food of love by Joanne Drayton as a finalist for the 2019 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards, say OUP co-publishers Rachel Scott and Vanessa Manhire.
Jenny Bornholdt to judge 2019 Kathleen Grattan Poetry Award
Tuesday, 5 March 2019 11:12am
This prestigious biennial poetry award from Landfall and the Kathleen Grattan Trust is for an original collection of poems, or one long poem, by a New Zealand or Pacific permanent resident or citizen.
Five Otago University Press authors in 2019 Ockham Book Awards longlist
Thursday, 31 January 2019 11:01am
Otago University Press congratulates all the authors in the longlist announced today for the 2019 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards.
Otago University Press publisher Rachel Scott says OUP is proud to have five publications longlisted.
Understated comedy and stark horror in winning Landfall essay
Tuesday, 13 November 2018 3:34pm
Alice Miller, a New Zealand writer based in Germany, is the winner of the Landfall Essay Competition 2018.
Her winning entry ‘The Great Ending’ impressed with “its teeming yet elegantly controlled catalogue of international and national, Pākehā and Māori historical events”, says competition judge and Landfall editor Emma Neale.
Otago University Press celebrates PM's award for poet Michael Harlow
Tuesday, 9 October 2018 2:35pm
Otago University Press has congratulated Otago poet Michael Harlow who has been honoured as one of three winners in this year’s Prime Minister’s Awards for Literary Achievement.
Burns Fellowship 60th: Cilla McQueen 'Poeta' book launch
Friday, 7 September 2018 10:54am
On 6 September 2018 the University Book Shop hosted the launch of Cilla McQueen's collection Poeta: Selected and new poetry as part of the 60th anniversary of the Robert Burns Fellowship at Otago University. The event was attended by many former Burns Fellows.
