The $65,000 Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize for Fiction in the 2025 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards will be contested by three former winners of the award – Laurence Fearnley, Kirsty Gunn and Damien Wilkins ...

The shortlist for this year’s Ockham New Zealand Book Awards has been released today, with 16 titles competing for ...

Independent local publisher Āporo Press is thrilled to announce it will publish three new titles by March 2026. The press, ...

Auckland Writers Festival Waituhi o Tāmaki will return to Aotea Centre for six days this May, and the official programme for ...

The Gilded Acorn (London), the shop aspiring to be the world’s most sustainable bookshop with its environmentally friendly bookselling; and House of Books & Friends (North England), the purpose ...

John Muir “… and then, I have nature and art and poetry, and if that is not enough ... Bob Dylan “The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson “Not ...

"The melody came very fast to me, as if she passed it to me herself." Wildfires, her new album, features a blend of folk instrumentation, spoken-word poetry, and sounds from nature. It is produced by ...

T he aspiring naturalist begins her or his craft in the warmer seasons, when it is easy to name and to know the trees and grasses and shrubs by their ...