Entries for the 2024 PANZ Book Design Awards are now open!
Posted: Thursday May 02, 2024
Entries close Friday 31 May 2024
The PANZ Book Design Awards were established to promote excellence in, and provide recognition for, the best book design in Aotearoa New Zealand.
Entries are judged in nine categories:
- Penguin Random House New Zealand Award for Best Illustrated Book
- Upstart Press Award for Best Non-illustrated Book
- Allen & Unwin Award for Best Commercial Book for Adults
- Lift Education Award for Best Educational Book or Series – Primary
- Lift Education Award for Best Educational Book or Series – Secondary or Tertiary
- Scholastic New Zealand Award for Best Children’s Book
- Te Herenga Waka University Press Award for Best Typography
- HarperCollins Publishers Award for Best Cover
- 1010 Printing Award for Best Cookbook
The winner of the coveted Gerard Reid Award for Best Book sponsored by Nielsen BookData is chosen from the shortlist.
A further award goes to the Hachette Aotearoa NZ Emerging Designer. But it’s not just the judges who make the decisions, those attending the ceremony have the chance to vote for the winner of the Booksellers Aotearoa New Zealand People’s Choice Award on the awards night.
You can enter the awards here.
The Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand Emerging Designer Award is free to enter and comes with a $1000 prize for the winner.
The online entry option for the Emerging Designer award can be found here or you can download a hardcopy here.
The awards will close on Friday 31 May 2024.
The shortlist will be announced on Tuesday 23 July 2024 and the winners revealed at a spring ceremony in Auckland on Thursday 19 September 2024.