Submissions Now Open for 2025 New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults

By Ōtepoti He Puna Auaha | Dunedin UNESCO City Of Literature | Posted: Thursday Nov 21, 2024

Books released between 1 April 2024 and 31 March 2025 can be entered. There are two submission deadlines!

The New Zealand Book Awards Trust is calling for entries for the 2025 New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults, for New Zealand books published between 1 April 2024 and 31 March 2025.

Please note that there are two submission deadlines. You are asked to send your entries in these two tranches for ease of sending to the judges.

• For books published between 1 April 2024 and 30 November 2024, submissions open on Wednesday 20 November, and will close at 5pm on Thursday 12 December 2024.

• For books published between 1 December 2024 and 31 March 2025, submissions open on Friday 13 December and will close at 5pm on Monday 10 February 2025.

For books in the second tranche, page proofs will be accepted where books are not yet printed; finished books must arrive with the Awards Administrator by 5pm on Friday 7 March 2025.

Find out more and enter here: How to enter | New Zealand Book Awards Trust