The WCBA is delighted to announce the results of the 2013 Jack Lasenby Award.
Winner: 'A choice to make' by Ben Espiner
Highly commended:
'Bird flyers' by Emma-Kate Coleman
'The old man' by Eva Albiston
'In the garden' by Ella Underhill
'Luna' by Niamh Vaughan and 'Rocky' by Mia Yule
We thank judge Eirlys Hunter. Her judge's report is here.
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Wednesday, December 11, 2013
Tuesday, December 18, 2012
Jack Lasenby Award 2012 Winner
It was with great pleasure that we
announced the winner of the Jack Lasenby Writing Award at our annual Christmas
Quiz night.
Unfortunately our winner wasn’t there so we
had to wait until this week to catch up with her and hand over the plaque and
the winners cheque.
Congratulations Linda Bremford!
This year Judge David Hill had a runner up,
Liesbeth Visser.
Well done to all who entered.
David Hill was impressed with the standard of
entries and that augers well for the continuation of the competition.
Click on over to the Jack Lasenby page to
read David Hill’s Judges Report.
Next year it will be Junior Year for the Intermediate
age group.
The annual WCBA Christmas Quiz is turning
into quite an event for the Wellington Children’s Literature community. It is
our annual office Christmas party...with close to 50 people battling it out for
team honours.
This year John McIntyre was the quiz
master...and there was hot competition among all the teams. The craft challenge
interlude at half time was dress a figure from the Hobbit...courtesy of our
design dynamo Fifi Colston who worked on The Hobbit film.
In a first for the Quiz...we had to have a tiebreaker
to decide the winner!
If you get some Christmas money this year
and you are thinking of a writerly kind of gift...look around for a writing course or a writing retreat to go on.
or start saving towards going to the next
New Zealand Children’s Writers and Illustrators conference, which will be held
in Christchurch 2013 Queens Birthday Weekend.
Registrations will be open early next year
according to Gavin Bishop who is the leader of the conference team. (We'll let you know when.)
The Wellington Children’s Literature
Association wishes you a safe and Happy Christmas.
Best wishes for a writerly New Year in
2013.
Maureen Crisp
Convenor
Wednesday, September 26, 2012
Tuesday, July 17, 2012
Congratulations ...
This is a belated congratulations to the shortlisted writers and illustrators in the LIANZA Children's Book Awards announced last month!
The
WCBA is very well represented by members including: Jack Lasenby (also our patron), David Hair, Fleur Beale, Barbara Else, Johanna Knox & Sabrina Malcolm, Gay Hay &
Margaret Tolland, Moira Wairama, and Juliette MacIver.
The full list of
finalists - and more info - is here at the LIANZA site. The winners will be announced on Monday August 6 at Caffe L'affare.
Thursday, May 17, 2012
Congratulations Jack Lasenby, Barbara Else, and all!
Those of us who went along had a great time at the NZ Post Children's Book Awards last night. NZ Post and Booksellers NZ know how to throw a party!
We're thrilled that WCBA Patron Jack Lasenby won the Young Adult Fiction award for his book Calling The Gods (HarperCollins).
We are also delighted for WCBA member Barbara Else, who took home an honour award for The Travelling Restaurant (Gecko Press).
Other Wellingtonians who did the region proud last night include Chris Szekely who won the top award in the picture book category for Rahui (published by Huia, with illustrations by Malcolm Ross who passed away some years ago), and Ant Sang who won an honour award for Shaolin Burning (HarperCollins).
It's also wonderful to see the Wellington publishers doing well in the awards - Huia and Gecko.
Congratulations to all winners and finalists, here in Wellington and around the country!
See the Booksellers press release here.
We're thrilled that WCBA Patron Jack Lasenby won the Young Adult Fiction award for his book Calling The Gods (HarperCollins).
We are also delighted for WCBA member Barbara Else, who took home an honour award for The Travelling Restaurant (Gecko Press).
Other Wellingtonians who did the region proud last night include Chris Szekely who won the top award in the picture book category for Rahui (published by Huia, with illustrations by Malcolm Ross who passed away some years ago), and Ant Sang who won an honour award for Shaolin Burning (HarperCollins).
It's also wonderful to see the Wellington publishers doing well in the awards - Huia and Gecko.
Congratulations to all winners and finalists, here in Wellington and around the country!
See the Booksellers press release here.
Tuesday, February 28, 2012
2012 NZ Post Book Awards finalists announced
Congratulations to all finalists, including the strong Wellington contingent. See the Booksellers NZ website for the full list.
Friday, March 18, 2011
The Wellington Finalists of The New Zealand Post Children's Book Awards 2011
Wellington Children’s Writers Celebrate
The Wellington regional finalists for the 2011 New Zealand Post Children’s Book Awards got together this week to celebrate their achievement with Jack Lasenby. This week Jack, a frequent winner, turned 80 and his 30th novel for children The Haystack has been shortlisted in this year's awards.
Celebrating with Jack were first time finalists Juliette MacIver, writer of the picture book Marmaduke Duck and the Marmalade Jam, and James Crampton, one half of the GNS team that produced The Kiwi Fossil Hunter's Handbook.
Also present were frequent finalist Fleur Beale with her Young Adult novel Fierce September, and previous finalist Leon Davidson with Zero Hour: The ANZACS On The Western Front.
The Wellington region is well represented this year with both new and established authors covering a quarter of the total books shortlisted.
The winners of The New Zealand Post Children’s Book awards will be announced at a ceremony in Auckland on May 18, 2011.
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