Awards Ceremony October 24
Canterbury Branch Annual Heritage Book & Writing Awards 2019
The NZ Heritage Book Awards Ceremony will be held on Thursday 24 October 2019 7 – 9pm at St Michael and All Angels 99 Oxford Tce.
The standard this year is exceptionally high. NZSA Canterbury have received 72 Heritage Book entries and 30 Writing – short prose and poetry – entries.
The judges this year are Stevan Eldred-Grigg, Paddy Richardson, Paul Maunder and Te Awhina Arahanga.
The short lists for the nonfiction and fiction NZ Heritage Books, short prose and poetry NZ Heritage Writing awards are attached.
Come and listen to the winning writers read their work and hear the reports of the judges. All welcome.
Non-Fiction Short List
Rising from the Rubble: a health system’s extraordinary response to the Canterbury earthquakes, Michael Ardagh and Joanne Deely, Canterbury University Press
Colonial Businesswomen in New Zealand, Catherine Bishop, Otago University Press
Galleries of Maoriland: Artists, Collectors and the Maori Woirld, 1880-1910, Roger Blackley, Auckland University Press
Past Caring? Women, Work and Emotion, Barbara Brookes, Jane McCabe and Angela Wanhalla (eds), Otago University Press
Filming the Colonial Past: The New Zealand Wars on Screen, Annabel Cooper, Otago University Press
Pathway of the Birds, Andrew Crowe, University of Hawai’i Press
Dead Letters: Censorship and Subversion in New Zealand 1914-1920, Jared Davidson, Otago University Press
Beyond Manapouri: 50 years of environmental politics in New Zealand, Catherine Knight, Canterbury University Press
Te Tiriti o Waitangi, Toby Morris, Ross Calman, Mark Derby and Piripi Walker, Lift Education e Tu
The New Zealand Wars; Nga Pakanga o Aotearoa, Vincent O’Malley, Bridget Williams Books
Sport and the New Zealanders: A History, Greg Ryan and Geoff Watson, Auckland University Press
New Zealand and the Sea, Frances Steel (ed), Bridget Williams Books
Fiction Short List
The Ash, The Well and The Bluebell– Sandra Arnold-Makaro Press
Inangahua Gold-Kathleen Gallagher-Kingfisher Publishing
Province of Danger-Ray Grover-Quentin Wilson Publishing
Purakau- Maori Myths Retold-edited Witi Ihimaera, Whiti Hereaka-Vintage
The Imaginary Lives of James Poneke- Tina Makereti-Vintage
Loving Sylvie-Elisabeth Smither-Allen and Unwin
Fiction Special Mention
Kindred-Tony Chapelle-Rangitawa Publishing
The Telegram– Phillippa Werry-Pipi Press
Poetry Collections- Special Award
Selected Poems– Brian Turner-Victoria University Press
View from the South- Owen Marshall/ photographs by Grahame Sydney-Vintage
Short Prose Short List
Her Artful Memory Sugu Pilay
Hundertwasser in New Zealand Jenny Haworth
Nga Whakawehe Vaughan Rapatajan
Titiro Whakamuri, Kokiri Whakamua-
Look Back and Reflect, Then You Can Move Forward Sue Kingham
The Missing Janet Wainscott
Ali Comes to New Zealand Ky Buckingham
Poetry Short list
Tearing the Jive Centre by Tremolo
Rapaki by Eve Barlowe
Tremelo by Tremolo
Ngati Moki by Kathleen Gallagher
Huts by Jillian Sullivan
Hiraeth by Wendy Cheyne
