Ardern is up against journalist and natural history writer Naomi Arnold’s Northbound: Four Seasons of Solitude on Te Araroa; TV producer/director, documentary maker and writer Peta Carey’s The Hollows Boys: A Story of Three Brothers & the Fiordland Deer Recovery Era; and This Compulsion in Us by novelist, essayist, short story writer and creative writing teacher Tina Makereti (Te Ātiawa, Ngāti Tūwharetoa, Ngāti Rangatahi-Matakore, Pākehā).
