Inaugural Woollahra Digital Literary Awards shortlists announced

The shortlists for the inaugural Woollahra Digital Literary Awards, for writing first published online or electronically, has been announced.

Nonfiction

• Michael Mohammed Ahmad for ‘Bad Writer’ (Sydney Review of Books)
• Vanessa Berry for ‘Excavating St Peters’ (Sydney Review of Books)
• Sam George-Allen for ‘I Put A Spell On You’ (Spineless Wonders)
• Rory Kennett-Lister for ‘Terrain: An Exploration in Two Parts’ (Tincture journal)
• Suneeta Peres da Costa for ‘A Home in Ananda and the World’ (Sydney Review of Books)
• Matthew Thompson for ‘Night Swimming in Dungog’ (Sydney Review of Books)

Fiction Shortlist

• Tanya Bird for The Royal Companion (self-published)
• Melissa Bruce for Picnic at Mount Disappointment (Ginninderra Press)
• Nick Earls for Gotham (Inkerman & Blunt)
• Richard Tardif for The Washing Away of Blood (self-published)
• Ariella Van Luyn for Bulldozer (Spineless Wonders)
• Danielle de Valera for Dropping Out: A Tree Change Novel-in-Stories (Old Tiger Books)
• Sharon Willdin for Legacy of the Female Factory (Anamesa journal)

As previously reported by Books+Publishing, a $3000 prize will be awarded to the winning entry in each category. The fiction prize is awarded to best novel, novella or short story collection ‘of a literary nature’; and the nonfiction prize will be awarded to the best monograph, essay collection or long essay. Entries in both categories could range from 3000 to 100,000 words, and must have been published online or electronically in the first instance.

Entries are judged on literary merit but ‘bravery in publishing in emerging media is acknowledged as part of what makes these works special’.

The winners will be presented at an awards presentation at Woollahra Library at Double Bay on 27 June. For more information, click here.

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