Creative Writing graduates on Ockham New Zealand Book Awards shortlist

David Coventry Lynn Jenner and Chris Tse are among this year's finalists.

21 March 2016

The Ockham New Zealand Book Awards finalists have been announced and Victoria's Creative Writing graduates feature in the Fiction, Poetry and Non-Fiction categories.

David Coventry (MA in Creative Writing 2010)'s first novel, The Invisible Mile (Victoria University Press) has been shortlisted in the Fiction category and is in the running for the new $50,000 Acorn Foundation Literary Award. How to be Dead in a Year of Snakes (Auckland University Press), the debut poetry collection from Chris Tse (MA in Creative Writing 2005) is shortlisted in the Poetry category, and Lynn Jenner is a finalist in the Non-Fiction category for her genre defying Lost and Gone Away (AUP), written during her PhD Creative Writing (awarded 2013).

Four Victoria University Press authors are shortlisted. Read more about the finalists.

The winners will be announced on 10 May.