2025 Storylines Awards announced
The Storylines Trust has announced the 2025 winners of the Storyline Awards in Aotearoa New Zealand.
The 2025 winners are:
Storylines Margaret Mahy Medal and Lecture Award (NZ$2000)
Storylines Te Kahurangi Kāterina Te Heikōkō Mataira Award (NZ$1,500, publication with Huia)
- ‘Te Taniwha Tōnekeneke’ by Brianne Te Paa
Storylines Tom Fitzgibbon Award (NZ$1,500, publication with Scholastic NZ)
- ‘The Keepers of the Broken Coast’ by Shaun Barnett
Storylines Prize for an Unpublished Writer (NZ$500) (from the Storylines Tom Fitzgibbon Award shortlist, sponsored by the Friends of Storylines)
- ‘Bug Boy’ by Leah Carter
Storylines Janice Marriott Mentoring Award (six months’ mentoring)
- ‘The Goose Bay Gang and the Secret Treasure’ by Madeleine Roberts
Storylines Gaelyn Gordon Award
- Kuwi’s First Egg by Kat Merewether, illustrated by Kat Quin (Illustrated Publishing).
The awards contribute to Storylines’ ‘advocacy for the development of New Zealand children’s literature’ and offer prizes ‘to writers, illustrators, publishers and those working in the field of children’s literature and literacy’.
More information about the awards is available on the Storylines website.
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