Tasmanian Literary Awards 2022 shortlists announced

The shortlists for the 2022 Tasmanian Literary Awards have been announced.

The shortlisted titles in each category are:

Young readers and children ($25,000)

• Aster’s Good, Right Things (Kate Gordon, Yellow Brick Books)
• Ella and the Ocean (Lian Tanner & Jonathan Bentley, A&U)
• Sea Country (Aunty Patsy Cameron & Lisa Kennedy, Magabala)
• Shoestring: The boy who walks on air (Julie Hunt & Dale Newman, A&U)

Poetry ($25,000)

• Earth Dwellers (Kristen Lang, Giramondo)
• Field of Stars (Lyn Reeves, Walleah Press)
• Infernal Topographies (Graeme Miles, UWAP)
• Intimate, low-voiced, delicate things (Esther Ottoway, Puncher & Wattmann)

Nonfiction ($25,000)

• Colour and Movement (Stephenie Cahalan, Forty South Publishing)
• Flight Lines (Andrew Darby, A&U)
• Imperial Mud (James Boyce, Icon Books)
• Truth-Telling (Henry Reynolds, NewSouth)

Fiction ($25,000)

• Cold Coast (Robyn Mundy, Ultimo Press)
• The Labyrinth (Amanda Lohrey, Text)
• The Rain Heron (Robbie Arnott, Text)
• Waypoints (Adam Ouston, Puncher & Wattmann)

Tasmanian Aboriginal Writer’s Fellowship ($10,000)

• Jennifer Evans
• Jim Everett – puralia meenamatta
• Adam Thompson

University of Tasmania Prize (for the best new unpublished literary work by a Tasmanian writer) ($10,000)

• Cameron Hindrum for ‘The Sand’
• Kathryn Lomer for ‘The Big Blue’
• Zane Pinner for ‘Last Saturday in Invermay’

Tasmanian Young Writer’s Fellowship ($5000)

• Bridie Graham
• Stephanie Jack
• Arianne James.

The winners will be announced in December.

Formerly known as the Premiers’ Literary Prizes, the Tasmanian Literary Awards ‘recognise and promote excellence in Tasmania’s literary sector’ and are open to books written by Tasmanian residents published between 1 April 2019 and 30 April 2022.

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