Acorn Foundation Fiction Prize

The Wish Child by Catherine Chidgey (Victoria University Press, 2016)

Poetry Award

Fits & Starts by Andrew Johnston (Victoria University Press, 2016)

Illustrated Non-Fiction Award

A History of New Zealand Women by Barbara Brookes (Bridget Williams Books, 2016)

Royal Society Te Apārangi Award for General Non-Fiction

Can You Tolerate This? by Ashleigh Young (Victoria University Press, 2016)

The Hubert Church Best First Book Award for Fiction

Black Ice Matter by Gina Cole (Huia Publishers, 2016)

Jessie Mackay Best First Book Award for Poetry

Hera Lindsay Bird by Hera Lindsay Bird (Victoria University Press, 2016)

Judith Binney Best First Book Award for Illustrated Non-Fiction

A Whakapapa of Tradition: One Hundred Years of Ngāti Porou Carving, 1830-1930 by Ngarino Ellis (Auckland University Press, 2016)

E.H. McCormick Best First Book Award for General Non-Fiction

My Father’s Island by Adam Dudding (Victoria University Press, 2016)