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Queensland Literary Awards 2013 shortlists announced

Tuesday, 20 August 2013   Books+Publishing
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The titles shortlisted for the 2013 Queensland Literary Awards (QLA) have been announced.

The shortlisted titles in the book-related categories are:

Fiction book award

  • The Voyage (Murray Bail, Text)
  • My Hundred Lovers (Susan Johnson, A&U)
  • Lost Voices (Christopher Koch, HarperCollins)
  • Mullumbimby (Melissa Lucashenko, UQP)

 

Nonfiction book award

  • Give Me Excess of It (Richard Gill, Pan)
  • Sandakan (Paul Ham, William Heinemann)
  • Gough Whitlam: His Time (Jenny Hocking, Miegunyah)
  • Boy, Lost (Kristina Olsson, UQP)
  • Madness: A Memoir (Kate Richards, Viking)

 

History book award

  • The Ambitions of Jane Franklin (Alison Alexander, A&U)
  • Antarctica: A Biography (David Day, Random House)
  • Children of the Occupation (Walter Hamilton, NewSouth)
  • Our Stories are Our Survival (Lawrence Bamblett, Aboriginal Studies Press)
  • The Flash of Recognition (Jane Lydon, NewSouth)

 

Judith Wright Calanthe Award for a poetry collection

  • Eldershaw (Stephen Edgar, Black Pepper)
  • Haunted Rooms (Paul Hetherington, Giramondo)
  • Jam Tree Gully (John Kinsella, W W Norton)
  • Liquid Nitrogen (Jennifer Maiden, Giramondo)
  • Prepare the Cabin for Landing (Alan Wearne, Giramondo)

 

Steele Rudd Award for an Australian short story collection

  • Like a House on Fire (Cate Kennedy, Scribe)
  • An Unknown Sky (Susan Midalia, UWA Publishing)
  • The Rest is Weight (Jennifer Mills, UQP)
  • Las Vegas for Vegans (A S Patric, Transit Lounge)
  • We Are Not the Same Anymore (Chris Somerville, UQP)

 

Young adult book award

  • A Corner of White (Jaclyn Moriarty, Macmillan)
  • Ship Kings: The Voyage of the Unquiet Ice (Andrew McGahan, A&U)
  • The Convent (Maureen McCarthy, A&U)
  • Friday Brown (Vikki Wakefield, Text)
  • Wildlife (Fiona Wood, Pan)

 

Children’s book award

  • Pennies for Hitler (Jackie French, HarperCollins)
  • Today We Have No Plans (Jane Godwin, illus by Anna Walker, Viking)
  • Pookie Aleera is Not My Boyfriend (Steven Herrick, UQP)
  • Don’t Let a Spoonbill in the Kitchen! (Narelle Oliver, Scholastic)
  • The Treasure Box (Margaret Wild, illus by Freya Blackwood, Viking)

 

Emerging Queensland author manuscript award

  • Gap (Rebecca Jessen)
  • Cockscrew Section (Jarryd Luke)
  • The Promise Seed (Cass Moriarty)

 

David Unaipon Award for an unpublished Indigenous writer

  • Sugar Shed Road (Martin Doyle)
  • Could Be Worse (Adrian Stanley)
  • Hard (Ellen Van Neerven)
  • Heat and Light (Ellen Van Neervan)
  • My Journey that May Never End (Dorothy Williams-Kemp).

 

The titles shortlisted for the Courier-Mail Queensland Book of the Year People’s Choice Award have previously been announced. The shortlisted titles are:

Fiction

  • My Hundred Lovers (Susan Johnson, A&U)
  • Mullumbimby (Melissa Lucashenko, UQP)
  • The Secret Keeper (Kate Morton (A&U)

 

Nonfiction

  • The Man Who Invented Vegemite (Jamie Callister, Murdoch Books)
  • Three Crooked Kings (Matthew Condon, UQP)
  • Boy, Lost (Kristina Olsson, UQP).

 

Voting for the People’s Choice Award is open until 30 August. The winners in all of the categories will be announced on 4 September during the Brisbane Writers Festival. Each category winner will receive a cash prize of $5000, up from $1000 in 2012.

The organisers of the awards have launched a crowdfunding campaign to raise money for this year’s awards and to ‘sustain the awards for the future’. The campaign, which is being conducted through Pozible, aims to raise $20,000 by 3 September. So far, around $10,000 has been pledged since the campaign launched on 8 August.

For more information about the awards, click here.

 

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