Lizzi’s Writing Awards to Date
From Top Left: Trophy for Pacific Hearts Award 2014; trophy for Best Practitioner Publication by an Equine Practitioner 2010; trophy for Koru Award, Best First Book. From Bottom left: rosettes for Finalist in Great Beginnings 2013, Winner of Pacific Hearts 2014, Winner Koru Best First Book 2015 and Third Place Koru Best Long Book 2015. (not yet pictured: a second trophy for the Best Practitioner Publication of 2023)
Non-Fiction Awards
Best Practitioner Publication by an Equine Practitioner of the Equine Veterinary Association of the NZVA 2010 and 2023!
This coveted bronze, also affectionately called the Jonathan Hope Award for the best Equine Practitioner Publication for the veterinarian who started and administers it, was won with Equine Dentistry, a series of three articles published in Vetscript NZVA veterinary journal, New Zealand.
Koru Award
The Romance Writers of New Zealand (RWNZ) recognises the talents of all published authors with their readers choice contest called The Koru Award. This prize is for the best novel of the year in four categories.The koru symbol, as used in New Zealand, is a Māori term, based upon the shape of a new unfurling frong of ponga, (or punga), also known as the silver fern. It symbolises new life, growth, strength and peace, and creation (not to mention being the name of our national netball team).
A Long Trail Rolling was: 
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Accepting the Koru Awards! Another lovely trophy to go with the Pacific Hearts one! Thank you, RWNZ!
New Zealand Book Awards
And longlisted in the New Zealand Book Awards as a YA 15+, though it was never written as a YA!
RWNZ Pacific Hearts Award
The previous year, A Long Trail Rolling won the Pacific Hearts Award, New Zealand’s answer to the RITA and RUBY. This award of the Romance Writers of New Zealand is for the best manuscript of a full-length novel of the year by an unpublished author.
Accepting first place for A Long Trail Rolling in the Pacific Hearts Award 2014.
Best Indie Book Awards
And Finalist in the 2015 Best Indie Book Awards!
