2023 Pikihuia Awards
2023 Pikihuia Awards
The 2023 Pikihuia Awards was another season of celebrating gifted storytellers from across the motu, moving closer to our ambition – e tuhi taki mai i te ao Māori ki te ao whanui – taking Māori voices to the world.
Finalists
essa may ranapiri (Ngaati Raukawa, Highgate, Na Guinnich) – WINNER
Rachel Buchanan (Taranaki, Te Ātiawa)
Monty Soutar (Ngāti Porou, Ngāti Awa, Ngāi Tai Ki Tāmaki, Ngāti Kahungunu)
Zeb Tamihana Nicklin (Pāhauwera, Tāmanuhiri, Ngā Tokorima a Hinemanuhiri, Ruapani, Tūhoe, Rangitāne) – Tin Canning – WINNER
Airana Ueroa Ngarewa (Ngāti Ruanui, Ngārauru, Ngāruahine) – Nō Pātea Ahau – HIGHLY COMMENDED
Nadine Anne Hura (Ngāti Hine, Ngāpuhi) – A Dangerous Country – WINNER
Eru Jeremy Hart (Ngāti Kahungunu) – Zion and the Three Cancers – HIGHLY COMMENDED
Jordan Tricklebank (Ngāti Maniapoto) – What Do We Do about David Ballantyne? – HIGHLY COMMENDED
Hana Pera Aoake (Ngaati Hinerangi me Ngaati Raukawa, Ngaati Mahuta, Waikato/Tainui) – And we didn’t disappear, we’re still here: On Ana Iti, Moa, Museums, Peppa Pig and stories
Tōrea Scott-Fyfe (Kai Tahu, Kāti Mamoe, Waitaha) – She who dreams of Rua-o-te-moko
Danielle Tia Faye Riwai (Ngāti Tūwharetoa) – A trip to Marsics
Jacob McGregor (No Ngāti Raukawa te Au ki te Tonga, Ngā Rauru Kītahi me Te Whānau-a-Apanui) – Te Koha Tūmatarau – WINNER
Pine Tamahori Campbell (Ngati Porou, Kahungunu ki Te Wairoa) – Ko Pare te Pūkeko nanakia – HIGHLY COMMENDED
Atakohu Middleton (Ngāti Māhanga) – Ko te pō whakanui huritau – HIGHLY COMMENDED
Rea Aane (Ngāti Whitikaupeka, Ngāti Pahauwera, Ngāti Porou, Ngāti Kahungunu) – E Niwa, kaua e turituri
Te Ataakura Swannell-kaa (Ngati Porou, Te whānau a kai, Te Aitanga a Hauiti) – Te haerenga o Hinauri ki te rapu i te kāhui o Matariki
Christie Wallace (Te Atihaunui-a-Pāpārangi, Ngāti Apa) – Te Wehenga
Anthony Pita (Ngāti Wai, Ngāti Ranginui) – kintsugi with the colour pink – WINNER
Sarah McOnie (Ngāti Maniapoto/Kāi Tahu – iwi; Ngāti Te Kanawa – hapū) – Awa – HIGHLY COMMENDED
Nadine Anne Hura (Ngāti Hine, Ngāpuhi) – Affidavit in the Family Court: Ranginui vs Papatūānuku (Letter to the Climate) – HIGHLY COMMENDED
Steph Julian (Ngati Porou ki Harataunga ) – Jonas Was Not A Brave boy
Toni Wi (Ngāti Maniapoto) – The Island
Marama Salsano (Ngāi Tūhoe – Hamua; Te Aitanga-a-Māhaki – Te Whānau-a-Taupara; Ngāti Porou – Ngāti Kahukuranui; Ngāti Wairere – Ngāti Huakatoa) – Stars of Hood Street
Aperahama Hurihanganui (Te Arawa, Te Tai Rāwhiti, Wairarapa) – Hei Hoa Mauroa – WINNER
Winara Levi (Ngāti Hauā, Waikato, Ngāpuhi, Raukawa) – Mā te roa ka aha – HIGHLY COMMENDED
Rauhina Scott-Fyfe (Kāi Tahu – Kāi Te Ruahikihiki, Kāti Kurī, Kāi Tuna – Kāti Māmoe) – nāwai, nāwai – HIGHLY COMMENDED
Zeb Tamihana Nicklin (Pāhauwera, Tāmanuhiri, Ngā Tokorima a Hinemanuhiri, Ruapani, Tūhoe, Rangitāne) – Kura kōkako Māori kua rere hea ngā tau
Zeb Tamihana Nicklin (Pāhauwera, Tāmanuhiri, Ngā Tokorima a Hinemanuhiri, Ruapani, Tūhoe, Rangitāne) – Koi kirihaunga te hoki mai
Airana Ueroa Ngarewa (Ngāti Ruanui, Ngārauru, Ngāruahine) – Ko taua āhua tonu
Shelley Burne-Field (Ngāti Mutunga, Ngāti Rārua) – Another Brown Face – WINNER
Ana Maria King (Ngāti Maniapoto, Waikato) – te karu o te whenua / amphibian – HIGHLY COMMENDED
Miriama Gemmell (Ngāti Pāhauwera, Ngāti Kahungunu ki te Wairoa, Ngāti Rakaipaaka) – you begin to see – HIGHLY COMMENDED
Abby Hauraki (Ngati Kaharau, Ngāpuhi; Te Whānau a Tūwhakairiora, Ngāti Porou) – When the rains came
Ana Maria King (Ngāti Maniapoto, Waikato) – Sister
Hannah Urupikia Rapata (Kāi Tahu, Te Atawhiua) – Scarred native tongues