The 2009 issue of online literary journal Turbine (www.vuw.ac.nz/turbine) is now live, featuring the best and freshest in New Zealand writing.

Emily Perkins has won the 2009 Montana Medal for Fiction or Poetry for her taut and chilling book, Novel About My Wife.

Jenny Bornholdt has won the 2009 Montana New Zealand Book Awards Poetry prize for her collection The Rocky Shore; a book that judges say has achieved something significantly new in poetic practice in this country.

Eleven poems written by New Zealand secondary school students have been shortlisted as finalists in this year's New Zealand Post National Schools Poetry Awards. The winners will be announced on 28 August 2009 at a ceremony in Wellington.

More students get the chance to showcase their writing talents in an expanded New Zealand Post National Schools Poetry Awards this year.