2025 Storylines Award Shortlists and Winners

 

Storylines Margaret Mahy Medal

Winner:

Paula Green

Link to the lecture: https://www.storylines.org.nz/award/storylines-margaret-mahy-medal-and-lecture-award/

 

Storylines Janice Marriott Mentoring Award

Winner:

The Goose Bay Gang and the Secret Treasure

Madeleine Roberts

 

Storylines Te Kahurangi Kāterina Te Heikōkō Mataira Award for a work originally written in te reo Māori, in association with Huia Publishers

Winner:

Te Taniwha Tōkenekene

Brianne Te Paa

 

Storylines Joy Cowley Award for an original picture book text in partnership with Scholastic NZ

Winner:

No award in 2025

Shortlist:

There’s a Troll in the Toilet!

Belinda O’Keefe

Dadda on a Ladder

Kim Hansen (unpublished)

Cat Flap Slap

Sharon Fergusson

 

Storylines Tom Fitzgibbon Award for an original junior novel manuscript sponsored by Scholastic NZ

Winner:

The Keepers of the Broken Coast

 

Shortlist:

The Keepers of the Broken Coast

Shaun Barnett, Wellington

 

Bug Boy

Leah Carter, Tauranga

 

The Cloudkeepers

Samantha Montgomerie, Dunedin

 

Storylines Prize for an Unpublished Writer from the Storylines Tom Fitzgibbon Award Shortlist

Bug Boy

Leah Carter, Tauranga

 

Storylines Gaelyn Gordon Award for a much-loved book

Winner:

Kuwi’s First Egg

Kat Merewether (Quin)

Illustrated Publishing

First published Dec 2015

 

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