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2026 Margaret Mahy Illustration Prize entries open
Bewitching classic Aunt Nasty announced as 2026 Margaret Mahy Illustration Prize title. Entries now open to emerging artists. Register here.
The Margaret Mahy Illustration Prize is one of New Zealand’s pre-eminent illustration prizes, offering a unique opportunity for an unpublished New Zealand-based illustrator to illustrate Margaret Mahy’s classic stories. It was launched in 2019 to celebrate and honour the 50th Anniversary of Mahy’s A Lion in the Meadow.
Past Winners
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2025 Winner
Emma Collicott for her cleverly plotted submission of The Man Whose Mother Was A Pirate.
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2024 Winner
Herb MacDonald for his witty and inventive submission of The Great White Man-Eating Shark.
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2023 Winner
Alba Gil Celdran for her mesmerising submission of Seventeen Kings and Forty-Two Elephants.
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2022 Winner
Jessica Twohill for her humorous and thoughtful submission of The Witch in the Cherry Tree, which was published in August 2023.
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2021 Winner
Minrui Yang for her curiosity-filled submission of There's a King in the Cupboard, which was published in 2022.
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2020 Winner
Lily Emo for her breathtaking submission of The Boy Who Made Things Up, which was published in 2021.
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2019 Winner
Sarah Greig for her fun-filled submission of The Boy With Two Shadows, which was published in late 2020.
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