Our Book of the Week has just been awarded the Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize for Fiction at the 2022 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards. Kurangaituku by Whiti Hereaka (Ngāti Tūwharetoa, Te Arawa), published by Huia Publishing, is an absorbing, powerful, innovatively structured novel arising from Hereaka's mission to decolonise the legend of 'Hatupatu and the Bird-Woman' and reclaim the story from a maligned character's point of view. The judges said, "Kurangaituku is poetic, intense, clever and sexy as hell. It’s also an important novel. A game-changer.”
>>Read Stella's review. 
>>Story sovereignty —Stella interviews Whiti Hereaka. 
>>Power of the story.
>>Giving Kurangaituku a voice. 
>>Transformation: a takatāpui response.
>>Making a nest in the reader's head.
>>Pick up your pen and strike!
>>How to make a bird. 
>>One version of the Hatupatu legend. 
>>The annual Kurangaituku Netball Tournament. 
>>Hereaka is also the author of some excellent young adults' novels. 
>>Get your copy of Kurangaituku.