Woo Hoo - The Ockham NZ Book Awards shortlist is out! Here is the 2024 shortlist of 16 titles (four in each category). The winners, including the four Mātātuhi Foundation Best First Book Awards recipients, will be announced at a public ceremony on 15 May during the 2024 Auckland Writers Festival. 

These annual awards offer four principal prizes: the Mary and Peter Biggs Award for Poetry, the Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize for Fiction, the Illustrated Non-Fiction Award and the Royal Society Te Apārangi Award for General Non-Fiction. There are also four Best First Book awards.

The New Zealand Book Awards Trust website has more information about these awards.