2017 Pikihuia Awards Winners Announced
2017 Pikihuia Awards Winners announced
This year the Pikihuia Awards received over 130 entries and judge Whiti Hereaka was appreciative of the large number of writers contributing their stories.
‘Storytelling in all its forms is an intimate exchange between the author and the audience – the author makes themselves vulnerable, exposing their humanity to make a connection between their words and the audience. Sharing your work is often a difficult thing to do, so I’d like to acknowledge all the writers that have chosen to do so’ said Whiti.
Fellow judge Robyn Bargh was pleased to see the tradition of Māori writers in families strengthening.
‘These awards have been held every two years since 1993 and I continue to be amazed at the numbers and range of Māori people who are writing. You may be interested to know that several of the students who are finalists are second or third generation writers, ie, they have a parent and/or grandparent who is a published writer. So, we are now seeing intergenerational Māori writers’ said Robyn.
Stories from selected finalists feature in the latest short story book HUIA Short Stories 12 which was also launched at the 2017 Pikihuia Awards.
The winners and runners-up for each of the six categories are as follows:
Best Short Story written in English,
judged by Whiti Hereaka
Winner:
A Portrait of Sandra Dee by Lauren Keenan,
(Te Ātiawa) Wellington
Runners-up:
The Manu, the
Coffin and the Old School by Pere Durie, (Ngāti
Kauwhata, Rangitāne, Ngāti Raukawa, Kāi Tahu,
Rongowhakaata, Ngāti Porou) Papamoa
In the Shadow of
Monte Cassino by Lauren Keenan, (Te Ātiawa)
Wellington
Best Short Story written in in te reo
Māori, judged by Poia Rewi
Winner:
Kaitiaki by Zeb Nicklin, (Pāhauwera,
Tāmanuhiri, Tūhoe, Rangitāne) Palmerston
North
Runners-up:
Rākei me te Taraute Nui by
Iraia Bailey, (Tūwharetoa) Tūrangi
Tūātea by
Genesis Te Kuru White (Ngāti Pūkeko, Ngāti Awa, Ngāi
Tūhoe) Whakatāne
Best Novel Extract, judged by
Paula Morris
Winner: The
Crystal Cave by Steph Matuku (Ngāti Tama, Ngāti
Mutunga, Te Ātiawa) New Plymouth
Runners-up:
Till
We Kissed by Olivia Aroha Giles (Ngāti Kahungunu, Te
Ātiawa, Ngāti Raukawa) Otaki
Obsidian Dream by
Kelly Joseph (Ngāti Maniapoto) Hokitika
Best Film
Script, judged by Julian
Arahanga
Winner:
Clenched by Aroha Awarau (Ngāti Maru,
Ngāti Porou) Auckland
Runners-up:
Hawaiki by
Nathaniel Hinde (Ngāti Raukawa ki te Tonga, Ngāti Porou,
Tūhoe) Wellington
Te Mura ō te Ahi by Pere Durie
(Ngāti Kauwhata, Rangitāne, Ngāti Raukawa, Kāi Tahu,
Rongowhakaata, Ngāti Porou) Papamoa
Best Short
Story Written by a School Student in te reo Māori, judged
by Kawata Teepa
Winner:
Haututu by Tahu Potiki Te Maro-Doran, Otaki
College (Ngāti Porou) Wellington
Runners-up:
Te
Mate ō te Pūreitanga by Anipātene Biddle, Te Kura o
te Koutu (Te Arawa, Ngāi Te Rangi, Ngāti Raukawa)
Rotorua
Pi... Pi... Pi... by Katarina Havekamp, Te
Kura ō te Koutu (Ngāti Porou, Ngāti Toa Rangatira, Ngāti
Tama) Rotorua
Best Short Story Written by a School
Student in English, judged by Robyn and Brian
Bargh
Winner: The Couple
by Nikau Wi Neera, Kapiti College (Ngāti Toa Rangatira)
Wellington
Runners-up:
The Final Cut by Lucy
Matehaere, Otago Girls’ College (Ngāti Raukawa ki
Waikato) Dunedin
Long Journey Home by Maia
Kirikiri, Queen Margaret College,
Wellington
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