Here are the best short stories and novel extracts from the Pikihuia Awards for Māori writers 2015 as judged by Witi Ihimaera, Sir Wira Gardiner and Poia Rewi.

Hiwa is a vibrant, essential collection of contemporary Maori short stories, featuring twenty-seven writers working in English or te reo Maori. The writers rang

This book examines the global/local intersections and tensions at play in the literary production from Aotearoa New Zealand through its engagement in the global

A stunning collection of Oceanic stories for the 21st century. Stones move, whale bones rise out of the ground like cities, a man figures out how to raise seven

Striding Both Worlds illuminates European influences in the fiction of Witi Ihimaera, Aotearoa New Zealand’s foremost Māori writer, in order to question the