How to Live by Helen Rickerby (Auckland University Press, 2019)
ILLUSTRATED NON-FICTION AWARD
Protest Tautohetohe: Objects of Resistance, Persistence and Defiance edited by Stephanie Gibson and Matariki Williams and Puawai Cairns (Te Papa Press, 2019)
GENERAL NON-FICTION AWARD
Dead People I Have Known by Shayne Carter (Victoria University Press, 2019)
MITOQ BEST FIRST BOOK AWARD – HUBERT CHURCH PRIZE FOR FICTION
Auē by Becky Manawatu (Mākaro Press, 2019)
MITOQ BEST FIRST BOOK AWARD – JESSIE MACKAY PRIZE FOR POETRY
Craven by Jane Arthur (Victoria University Press, 2019)
MITOQ BEST FIRST BOOK AWARD – JUDITH BINNEY PRIZE FOR ILLUSTRATED NON-FICTION
We Are Here: An Atlas of Aotearoa by Chris McDowall and Tim Denee (Massey University Press, 2019)
MITOQ BEST FIRST BOOK AWARD – E H MCCORMICK PRIZE FOR GENERAL NON-FICTION
Dead People I Have Known by Shayne Carter (Victoria University Press, 2019)