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17-19 MARCH 2023

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Battle Of The Book Clubs

Good Books (2/16 Jessie Street) and Unity Books Wellington (57 Willis Street) have both started monthly in-store book clubs. You’ll get a discount on the monthly book at Good Books, while Unity sells tickets with the book included. Numbers are strictly limited at both series of events. If you’ve missed out (Good Books already has a waiting list), why not start your own club? We know a couple of great bookstores...

WELLINGTONIANS ON THE OCKHAM’S 2023 LONGLIST

This year the Ockham NZ Book Awards’ longlist has a fabulous line-up of Welly-based authors and poets. Notable names include New Zealand Poet Laureate Chris Tse, and debut authors Anthony Lapwood, Joanna Cho (pictured), and Khadro Mohamed. Roughly a third of the longlisted are debut authors. Nine of the 44 books are published by Te Herenga Waka University Press, while Khadro Mohamed’s poetry collection is published by Tender Press (formerly We Are Babies). The shortlist will be released on 8 March.

The Birdwoman Keeps Soaring

It was a busy year last year for Whiti Hereaka, whose novel Kurangaituku (published in 2021 by Huia Publishers) won the 2022 Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize for Fiction. Now, her retelling of the story of Hatapatu and the Birdwoman has also been longlisted for the 2023 Dublin Literary Award. The shortlist will be made public in March.

SHE’S A DOUBLE KILLER

Kirsten McDougall’s sharp and hilarious eco-thriller She’s a Killer, published in 2021 by THWUP and longlisted for the 2022 Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize for Fiction, has been picked up for publication by Gallic Books in the UK and will be published in October. And that’s not all — it has also been longlisted for the 2023 Dublin Literary Award. So far 2023 is looking good for this Wellington author!