2019 Landfall essay competition joint winners profound and persuasive
Tuesday, 1 October 2019 11:34am
Wellington writer Tobias Buck and London based New Zealand writer Nina Mingya Powles are the joint winners of the 2019 Landfall Essay Prize. Each receive $1500 and a year’s subscription to Landfall. The winning entries will be published in Landfall 238, available in November 2019. Some 64 anonymous entries were received in this year’s competition, down on last year’s 91.
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.
