HBRW 2023 - New Voices

Who are the new writers to watch? Josie Shapiro won the inaugural Allen and Unwin Commercial Fiction Prize for her debut novel Everything is Beautiful and Everything Hurts, Airana Ngarewa (Ngāti Ruanui) was the big winner in the 2022 Ronald Hugh Morrieson awards, and Nafanua Kersel (Faleālupo, Malaelā, Mosula, Satufia, Tuaefu) won the 2022 Biggs Family Prize in Poetry. All three are in conversation with Whiti Hereaka (Ngāti Tūwharetoa, Te Arawa, Tūhourangi, Ngāti Whakaue, Ngāti Tumatawera, Tainui and Pākehā) 2022 winner of the Jann Medlicott Acorn Award for Fiction at the Ockham NZ Book Awards.