Five Dunedin writers have been longlisted for next year’s Ockham New Zealand Book Awards, announced yesterday.
Emma Neale and Sue Wootton are longlisted for the fiction award for their respective novels, Billy Bird and Strip.
Historian Prof Barbara Brookes is longlisted for the illustrated non-fiction category for her work, A History of New Zealand Women.
Lynley Edmeades and Vincent O’Sullivan make the poetry longlist for their respective collections, As the Verb Tenses and And So It Is.
The shortlist will be announced in March and the winners in May.