2024
Anthony is a fiction judge for the 2024 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards, alongside Kiran Dass and Juliet Blyth (convenor). An international judge will join them in deciding the Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize for Fiction.
News release from New Zealand Book Awards Trust
2023
July: Recipient of the Louis Johnson New Writers’ Bursary.
News release from Creative New Zealand
May: Winner of the Hubert Church Prize for Fiction at the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards, for Home Theatre (Te Herenga Waka University Press, 2022).
Winners of the 2023 NZ Book Awards
April: Finalist in the Sir Julius Vogel Awards for Best Collected Work, for Home Theatre (Te Herenga Waka University Press, 2022); and Best Novelette, for “The Source of Lightning”, “Provided with Eyes, Thou Departest”, and “The Ether of 1939” (collected in Home Theatre).
Anthony Lapwood 