Pikihuia Awards
Huia publishers, in conjunction with the Māori Literature Trust, started New Zealand’s first Māori writers awards in 1995 under the name of the Māori Literature Awards, it was later changed to E Tuhi! and is now called the Pikihuia Māori Writers Awards. The awards are held held biennially and aims to encourage Māori writers to publish their work.
Finalists and winners of the awards have been published in the Māori Short Stories series and Ngā Pakiwaitara a Huia, the Māori language version of the series.
The Pikihuia Awards have helped raise the profile of authors such as James George who wrote Hummingbird, a finalist in the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for best book in the South Pacific region. Other authors that have won Pikihuia Awards are Kelly Ana Morey and Paul Morris.
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