Resources | New Zealand Book Awards Trust

For your reading pleasure

We will be presenting a series of digital samplers featuring extracts from our 2025 finalist books for your reading enjoyment, and hopefully to entice you to go out and buy the books or loan them from your local library. The Ockhams Samplers will be loaded here from 5 March, so keep an eye out for them.

Ockhams Fiction Sampler

Ockhams Illustrated Non-Fiction Sampler

Ockhams Poetry Sampler

Ockhams General Non-Fiction Sampler

Shortlist resources - for social media/web

You are welcome to use the downloadable resources below to create online content about the 2025 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards shortlisted titles.

We’d love to see your post, blog or article — tag us or send us a link to awards@nzbookawards.org.nz so that we can share it on Instagram, X and Facebook. Please use hashtag #theockhams.

Shortlist resources - for printing

You are welcome to download the print-resolution resources below to promote the 2025 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards shortlisted titles in your community.

Bookshops and libraries, we’d love to see your displays and other promotional work — send us an image or a link to awards@nzbookawards.org.nz so that we can share your efforts on Instagram, X and Facebook . If you would like to purchase ready-printed A3 posters, bookmarks or booklets, email manager@nzbookawards.org.nz for details.

Contacts for 2025 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards

Awards media enquiries

Penny Hartill

M: 021 721 424

E: penny@hartillpr.co.nz

Bookstore and library enquiries

Belinda Cooke

M: 021 481 044

E: manager@nzbookawards.org.nz