The Atom Room; Kip Chapman, Lucky; Angie Farrow, The Politician's Wife; Miria George, The Vultures; Ralph McCubbin Howell, The Devil's Half Acre; Emma Kinane, Anahera; Tom McCrory, Smiley; Joe Musaphia, A Love Like Ours; Olga Nikora, Tumanāko; Dean Parker, Ports of Auckland; Lorae Parry, Scarlet & Gold; Vivienne Plumb, The Property Developer; Elspeth Sandys, Rogues and Vagabonds; Cian Elyse White, Te Puhi. 2017: Geoff Allen, The Taiaha and the Sabre; Carl Bland, Spirit House; Nick Brown and the cast, Paratiho; Kathryn Burnett, The Caravan; Noa Campbell, Teka or Tika; Richard De Luca, Death of a Dream; Adam Goodall, The Go-Between; Alex Lodge, Sing to Me; Alex Lodge and Cherie Jacobson, Modern Girls in Bed; Miriama McDowell, Rob Mokaraka and Jason Te Kare, Cellfish; Greg McGee, Flame; Joe Musaphia, The Gearbox; Dean Parker, Before the Next Teardrop Falls; Julianne Parkinson, The Rookie; Finnius Teppett, Cannibal. 2018: Claire Ahuriri-Dunning, Dracula; Aroha Awarau, Provocation; Sam Brooks, Turn Off the Lights and Twenty Eight Millimetres; James Cain, Movers; Emily Duncan, In Our Shoes; Chye-Ling Huang, Orientation; Justin Lewis and Jacob Rajan, Welcome to the Murder House; Vela Manusaute, Tropical Lovebirds; Arthur Meek, Land of the Moa; Joe Musaphia, Chutzpah; Dean Parker, Tutankhamun; Bruce Clyde Thomson, Stuck Pigs; James van Dyk, The Lazarus Lottery and Roy Ward, The Bright Side of my Condition. 2019: Carl Bland, Mr Red Light; Kieran Craft, Four Nights in the Green Barrow Pub; Emily Duncan, Le Sujet Parle; Rose Kirkup, Unflattering Smock; Rene Le Bas, Lloyd Dobler is Dead; Rachel Lowe, You Didn't Die, Stanley Makuwe, Black Lover; Olga Nikora, In Search of Freedom; Jenny Pattrick, Hope; Frances Steinberg, Routine Magic; Craig Thaine, Martha Mee. 2020: George Arthur, A Relatively Uneventful Evening; Ralph McCubbin Howell, Lysander's Aunty; Chye-Ling Huang, Black Tree Bridge; Hone Kouka, On Springfield Road; Olga Nikora, a short guide to staying alive; Regan Taylor, Mate; Craig Thaine, Rupture. References New Zealand literary awards Awards established in 2008