I continued to illustrate the covers for the Viva la Novella prizewinners in 2018, in this particular year producing one cover that was right in my wheelhouse and one that challenged me with a different approach. Both winners this year were writers from New Zealand, and for Swim by Avi Duckor-Jones we went with a gentle naïve image of the central swimmer, while Ana Jackson’s The Bed-Making Competition received a detailed patterned drawing of the staircase where the book’s characters gather.