Winners of the 2025 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards were announced at a ceremony held in Auckland on 14 May 2025, in collaboration with the Auckland Writers Festival.

Submissions for the 2026 awards, for New Zealand books published between 1 January 2025 and 31 December 2025, will open in early August 2025.

If you would like to find out more about how to enter books in future awards, or to see if a book publishing in 2025 will be eligible for the 2026 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards, you can view the 2025 Call for Entries pack here.

Any further queries should be directed to the Awards Administrator: awards@nzbookawards.org.nz