Livestream and live updates from the 2025 New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults

Lyric Waiwiri-Smith
13 Aug 2025
Culture
A collage of book covers.

All the finalist’s covers from the 2025 New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults. Image: Tina Tiller.

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Live updates from this year’s awards by Lyric Waiwiri-Smith.

You can follow the award’s livestream on Youtube as well as Lyric’s liveblog, underneath.

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Lyric Waiwiri-Smith

Lyric is an award-nominated politics reporter at The Spinoff. She covers parliament from the press gallery, pens the weekly column One MP, One Pint and is endlessly curious about what makes our decision-makers tick. Off the clock, Lyric loves a live gig, a cold brew, and being a Wellingtonian (on a good day).

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