Ockham NZ Book Awards longlist features authors with Whanganui links
29 Jan, 2021 04:00 PM
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After being longlisted three times in the past for her poetry, this year Airini Beautrais has made the fiction longlist. Photo / File
Whanganui Chronicle
By: Mike Tweed and Liz Wylie
Authors Airini Beautrais and Sara McIntyre have been named on the longlist for the 2021 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards. The works were selected from 179 entries and include 13 first-time authors, one of whom is McIntyre, whose book Observations of a Rural Nurse was nominated for the Booksellers Aotearoa New Zealand Award for Illustrated Non-Fiction.
The photographic book is a personal account of her connection with Kākahi, a settlement about 10km up the Whanganui River from Taumarunui.
Reading Crown Court: drug dealer celebrated freedom - by flouting court order
Defendant broke restraining order, judge told
John Garvey
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A DRUG dealer was so delighted to avoid an immediate prison term he went out to celebrate. and ended up back in the dock
That put Andrew James Pridham’s freedom at risk once more after he broke a restraining order imposed for offences against a woman.
On Monday, January 18, he turned up for sentencing at Reading Crown Court with an overnight bag packed, prepared for the worst.
The 42-year-old, who used to live in Thatcham High Street and now lives at The Slade, Bucklebury, had been convicted of possessing the Class B-controlled drug cannabis with intent to supply it in Thatcham in January last year.
Ockham New Zealand Book Awards 2021 longlist announced
27 Jan, 2021 04:00 PM
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NZ Herald
The longlist for New Zealand s most prestigious book awards has now been released - with more than a dozen first-time authors making the cut.
Books exploring issues of identity, domestic life, war, food, our natural world and our people are among the 40 works of poetry, prose and non-fiction longlisted for the 2021 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards, announced today.
The works were selected from 179 entries, and include 13 first-time authors - which book awards trustee Jenna Todd said was extraordinary .
It was a testament to the vibrancy of the country s literature, she said.
The People of NH Have Revealed Their All Time Favorite Cheese
I have been a cheese fanatic ever since I was a little girl. I remember sneaking slices of individually wrapped Kraft American cheese slices out of the fridge. I would usually get caught by my mom in the unwrapping process and she would confiscate the cheese. Not because she was cruel but because it was most likely my third slice that day. If I did quietly and successfully unwrap my treat I would eat it as quick as possible like a sneaky, cheese addicted mouse.
Now I m a big girl and can eat all the cheese I want! That s right, watch out world! Charcuterie boards aka meat and cheese boards are all the rage right now and I love crafting them up when we have company. Which, sadly, is not often lately. Thanks a lot, Covid!
For parents of school-aged children, it’s finally sinking in: This will be a long COVID winter. We’re already eleven months into isolation, which feels like the previous winter never really ended. We simply went from bundling up our kids before they played in the yard to slathering them with sunscreen (for the same yard) to bundling up again. And our hearts sink every time they wander back indoors. What to do
next?
In both our families, the answer is always books. Not only does an author reside in each household; in addition, Erin runs an elementary school library, and Sarah helps plan literary conferences. Plus, both of us are preliminary judges for the annual CT Book Awards: Erin in the Children and Youth category, Sarah for Fiction. We unabashedly consider writers to be essential workers.