awards

Spectrum Print Book Design Awards
Best Non-Illustrated Book: Afternoon of an Evening Train written by Gregory O'Brien, designed by Gregory O'Brien and Victoria University Press, cover by Sarah Maxey

2005

Adam Award Michele Amas

Creative New Zealand Berlin Writers' Residency Tim Corballis

Victoria University Writers' Fellow Stephanie de Montalk

Elsie Locke Award Gregory O'Brien

Te Mata Estate New Zealand Poet Laureate 2005/2006: Jenny Bornholdt

Montana New Zealand Book Awards
Fiction – Runner Up: Tarzan Presley by Nigel Cox
Poetry Category Winner: Nice morning for it, Adam by Vincent O’Sullivan

Arts Foundation of New Zealand Laureate Award Bill Manhire

Meridan Energy Katherine Mansfield Memorial Fellowship Ian Wedde

Spectrum Print Book Design Awards
Best Book and Best Cover: Shane Cotton written by Lara Strongman, designed by Neil Pardington and published by City Gallery Wellington and Victoria University Press.

2004

Montana New Zealand Book Awards Deutz Medal for Fiction - Slow Water by Annamarie Jagose.

Winner Biography - Mason: The Life of R A K Mason by Rachel Barrowman

The New Zealand Society of Authors Jessie Mackay Best First Book Award for Poetry went to Cliff Fell for his collection, The Adulterer's Bible. Fell was described by the judges as a writer with a big career ahead of him. They said this was an outstanding first book that demanded to be considered as one of the best poetry books of the year.

Adam Award
Emily Dobson

2004 Victoria University of Wellington Writer in Residence - James Brown

Artists to Antarctica
Bernadette Hall

Creative New Zealand Michael King Writers' Fellowship
Vincent O'Sullivan

Meridan Energy Katherine Mansfield Memorial Fellowship
Bill Manhire

The Robert Burns Fellowship
Kate Duignan

2003

Te Mata Estate Poet Laureate - Brian Turner

Shortlisted for the 2003 Tasmania Pacific Poetry Prize
Settler Dreaming - Bernadette Hall

Arts Foundation of New Zealand Laureate Award
Jenny Bornholdt

Randall Cottage Writers' Residedency
Tim Corballis

2002

2002 Victoria University of Wellington Writer in Residence - Chris Orsman

nominated for the 2003 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award
The Swing Around - Barbara Anderson

Spectrum Print Book Design Awards
winner Best Book and Best Typography
Parihaka: The Art of Passive Resistance - Te Miringa Hohaia, Gregory O'Brien & Lara Strongman
design by Eyework Design and Production

joint winner Best Cover
Taking Off - Brian Turner
design by Sarah Maxey

highly commended Best Typography
Anne Noble: States of Grace - Justin Paton
design by Karina McLeod

nominated Best Use of Illustration
Settler Dreaming - Bernadette Hall
illustration and design by Kathyrn Madill

The Montana NZ Book Awards
winner - Reference and Anthology
Nga Pepeha a nga Tipuna - Hirini Moko Mead and Neil Grove

runner -up Deutz Medal for Fiction
Billie's Kiss - Elizabeth Knox

shortlisted for Poetry
Taking Off - Brian Turner

Prize in Modern Letters
winner - Catherine Chidgey
shortlisted - James Brown

Meridian Energy Katherine Mansfield Fellowship
Jenny Bornholdt

Waikato University Writer in Residence
Kate Camp

Macmillan Brown Prize for Writers
Anna Livesey

2001
The Montana NZ Book Awards
runner -up Deutz Medal for Fiction
Nineteen Widows Under Ash - Damien Wilkins

joint winner History & Biography
Parihaka: The Art of Passive Resistance - Te Miringa Hohaia, Gregory O'Brien & Lara Strongman

winner Jessie Mackay Award for Best First Book of Poetry
Animals Indoors - Stephanie de Montalk

Meridian Energy Katherine Mansfield Fellowship
Catherine Chidgey

Tasmania Pacific Region Prize
Elizabeth Knox

Ursula Bethell Residency in Creative Writing - University of Canterbury Writer in Residence
James Brown

The Robert Burns Fellowship
Jo Randerson

2000
The Montana NZ Book Awards
runner -up Deutz Medal for Fiction
Golden Deeds - Catherine Chidgey

winner Hubert Church Award for Best First Book of Fiction
Stray Thoughts and Nosebleeds - Duncan Sarkies

Arts Foundation of New Zealand Laureate Award Elizabeth Knox

Adam Foundation Prize in Creative Writing
Tim Corballis

Robert Burns Fellowship
James Norcliffe

Buddle Findlay Sargeson Fellowship
James Brown

Writing Fellow Victoria University Of Wellington
Damien Wilkins

1999
The Montana NZ Book Awards
winner Deutz Medal for Fiction
winner Reader's Choice Award
winner Booksellers' Choice Award
The Vintner's Luck - Elizabeth Knox

winner Poetry
Seeing You Asked - Vincent O'Sullivan

winner Hubert Church Award for Best First Book of Fiction
Alpha Male - William Brandt

winner Jessie Mackay Award for Best First Book of Poetry
Unfamiliar Legends of the Stars - Kate Camp

Commonwealth Writers Prize
Winner Best First Book award in the South-East Asia and Pacific Region
In a fishbone church - Catherine Chidgey

Betty Trask prize for a first book (UK)
In a fishbone church - Catherine Chidgey

Orange Prize for fiction (UK)
Selected for the Long List of 20 books
In a fishbone church - Catherine Chidgey
The Vintner's Luck - Elizabeth Knox

Meridian Energy Katherine Mansfield Fellowship
Elizabeth Knox

1998
The Montana NZ Book Awards
winner Hubert Church Award for Best First Book of Fiction
in a fishbone church - Catherine Chidgey

Adam Foundation Prize
William Brandt

1997
The Montana NZ Book Awards
winner Natural Heritage
New Zealand Coast and Mountain Plants - John Dawson & Rob Lucas

shortlisted Poetry
South An Antarctic Journey - Chris Orsman

Artists to Antarctica Programme - inaugural recipients
Chris Orsman 1997/8
Bill Manhire 1997/8

Te Mata Poet Laureate
Bill Manhire

Adam Foundation Prize
Catherine Chidgey

NZ Listener short story competition
‘The Sundial of Human Involvement’ - Catherine Chidgey

The Sunday Star Times Bruce Mason Award
Jo Randerson

Buddle Findlay Sargeson Fellowship
Catherine Chidgey

Writing Fellow Victoria University Of Wellington
Elizabeth Knox

1996
The Montana NZ Book Awards
winner Poetry
My Sunshine - Bill Manhire

winner Hubert Church Award for Best First Book of Fiction
Not Her Real Name - Emily Perkins

winner Jessie Mackay Award for Best First Book of Poetry
Go Round Power Please - James Brown

winner E. H. McCormick Award for Best First Book of Non-Fiction
Salmond: Southern Jurist - Alex Frame

The Robert Burns Fellowship
Bernadette Hall

1996 Commonwealth Best First Book Prize regional finalist
Tin Nimbus by Geoff Cochrane

1995
Writing Fellow Victoria University Of Wellington
Greg O'Brien

winner NZSA (PEN) Best First Book of Poetry
Ornamental Gorse - Chris Orsman

1994
New Zealand Book Awards
winner Poetry
How To Talk - Andrew Johnston
winner Fiction
The Miserables - Damien Wilkins

Meridian Energy Katherine Mansfield Fellowship
Vincent O'Sullivan

The Sunday Star Times Bruce Mason Award
Duncan Sarkies

1993
The Robert Burns Fellowship
Stuart Hoar

1992
winner - Goodman Fielder Wattie Book Award
Portrait of the Artist's Wife - Barbara Anderson

New Zealand Book Awards
winner Poetry
Milky Way Bar - Bill Manhire

The Sunday Star Times Bruce Mason Award
Hone Kouka

1991
Writing Fellow Victoria University Of Wellington
Barbara Anderson

1988
The Sunday Star Times Bruce Mason Award
Stuart Hoar

1986
3rd equal - Goodman Fielder Wattie Book Award
Te Kaihau / The Windeater - Keri Hulme

1984
The Robert Burns Fellowship
Brian Turner

Writing Fellow Victoria University Of Wellington
Ian Wedde

1981
Writing Fellow Victoria University Of Wellington
Vincent O'Sullivan

1981
Writing Fellow Victoria University Of Wellington
Louis Johnson

Victoria University Press

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