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Author Jackson Nieuwland with their I Am A Human Being book of poetry which won the MitoQ Best First Book AWard for Poetry.
Jackson Nieuwland is a genderqueer writer from Te Whanganui-a-Tara. Their first book,
I Am A Human Being, was published by Compound Press in 2020 and recently won the MitoQ Best First Book Award for Poetry. They run Food Court Books with Carolyn DeCarlo. Each poem in I Am A Human Being begins with the phrase “I am a” and continues from the perspective of a different object, animal, or occupation, they say. “This array of voices accumulates into an expression of queer identity and experience. The poems shift in tone and style, at one moment humorous, the next surreal, the next deeply personal.”
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Members of the Te Herenga Waka Victoria University of Wellington community won six of the eight annual awards at the 2021 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards last night.
Five of the winners are alumni of the University’s renowned International Institute of Modern Letters (IIML) Creative Writing Master’s programme, while the sixth is an emeritus professor in the University’s English programme.
Three of the winning books were published by Victoria University Press (VUP).
“To have five winning graduates from the International Institute of Modern Letters indicates that our reputation as the best place to learn creative writing in Aotearoa New Zealand is well earned. It is truly outstanding to see our alumni leading in their chosen field,” says Professor Sarah Leggott, Dean of the University’s Wellington Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences.