Residential assumed sponsorship of the awards, and the New Zealand Book Awards Trust took over the governance and management. No prizes were presented in that year, and the awards were streamlined to discontinue the Book of the Year Award, the Booksellers' Choice Award and the People's Choice Award. Since the first Ockham New Zealand Book Awards in 2016, the ceremony has been held each year in May, as part of the Auckland Writers Festival. In 2020 the award winners were announced in a virtual presentation, after the Auckland Writers Festival was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. , there are five principal prizes: fiction (currently known as the Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize for Fiction), general non-fiction (sponsored by Royal Society Te Apārangi), illustrated non-fiction, poetry (currently known as the Mary and Peter Biggs Award for Poetry) and Te Mūrau o te Tuhi Māori Language Award for books written entirely in te reo Māori. "Best First Book" prizes are awarded to first time authors in the first four categories, currently sponsored by MitoQ. Each category is judged by a panel of three judges. Winners of the Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize for Fiction receive a minimum of 55,000, and is the largest cash book prize in New Zealand. The other principal prizewinners receive 10,000 each, and the winners of the four MitoQ Best First Book awards receive 2,500. Fiction Fiction award Since 2020, the top prize for fiction has been the Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize for Fiction. Between 2017 and 2019, the top prize for fiction was known as the Acorn Foundation Fiction Prize. In 2017, it was known as the Acorn Foundation Literary Award. From 1996 to 2016, it was known as the Fiction Prize. 2022 – Whiti Hereaka, Kurangaituku. Huia Publishers 2021 – Airini Beautrais, Bug Week & Other Stories. Victoria University Press 2020 – Becky Manawatu, Auē. Mākaro Press 2019 – Fiona Kidman, This Mortal Boy. Vintage, Penguin Random House 2018 – Pip Adam, The New Animals. Victoria University Press 2017 – Catherine Chidgey, The Wish Child. Victoria University Press 2016 – Stephen Daisley, Coming Rain. Text Publishing 2015 – no award due to change of sponsors 2014 – Eleanor Catton, The Luminaries. Victoria University Press 2013 – Kirsty Gunn, The Big Music. Faber and Faber 2012 – Paula Morris, Rangatira. Penguin Group (NZ) 2011 – Laurence Fearnley, The Hut Builder. Penguin Group (NZ) 2010 – Alison Wong, As