Randell Cottage alumni in Ockham longlistings

We are thrilled to see alumni of the Randell Cottage Writers Fellowship featuring in the longlisting for the 2025 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards announced on 30 January.

They are Kirsty Gunn for Pretty Ugly and Tina Makereti for The Mires, both in the Jann Medlicott Acorn category for Fiction, and Peter Walker for Hard by the Cloud House, in General Non-Fiction.

Excitingly, our 2025 fellow, Saraid de Silva, who is due to arrive at Randell Cottage in July, appears in the Jann Medlicott Acorn list for her novel Amma.

We are proud of contributing to the continued achievements of these literary stars and send them all our congratulations!
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