2026 Awards
Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize for Fiction
Mary and Peter Biggs Award for Poetry
Black Sugarcane
Nafanua Purcell Kersel (Satupa‘itea, Faleālupo, Aleipata, Tuaefu)
BookHub Award for Illustrated Non-Fiction
Atlas of the New Zealand Wars: Volume One 1834-1864, Early Engagements to the Second Taranaki War
Derek Leask
Books of Mana: 180 Māori-Authored Books of Significance
Jacinta Ruru (Raukawa, Ngāti Ranginui), Angela Wanhalla (Kāi Tahu) and Jeanette Wikaira (Ngāti Pukenga, Ngāti Tamaterā, Ngāpuhi)
Garrison World: Redcoat Soldiers in New Zealand and Across the British Empire
Charlotte Macdonald
Groundwork: The Art and Writing of Emily Cumming Harris
Michele Leggott and Catherine Field-Dodgson (Rongowhakaata, Ngāi Tāmanuhiri, Te Aitanga a Mahaki)
Mark Adams: A Survey – He Kohinga Whakaahua
Sarah Farrar
Massey University Press and Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki
Takoto ai te Marino: Selected Works 2018-2025
Raukura Turei (Ngā Rauru Kītahi, Taranaki, Ngāti Pāoa, Ngāi Tai ki Tāmaki), Greta van der Star, Vanessa Green and Katie Kerr
The Collector: Thomas Cheeseman and the Making of the Auckland Museum
Andrew McKay and Richard Wolfe
Whenua
Felicity Milburn, Chloe Cull (Ngāi Tahu, Ngāi te Ruahikihiki) and Melanie Oliver
