Varuna announces shortlisted manuscripts for Publisher Introduction Program

Varuna, the Writers’ House, has announced the shortlisted manuscripts for its 2019 Publisher Introduction Program (PIP).

Twenty-four manuscripts by emerging Australian writers will be sent to publishers Allen & Unwin, Black Inc., Hardie Grant, HarperCollins, Pan Macmillan, Penguin Random House, UQP and UWA Publishing.

The shortlisted writers and their manuscripts are:

• Kim Aikman for ‘Heartwood’
• Gary Bryson for ‘Thin Air’
• Cassy Cochrane for ‘The Little Fakes’
• Adrienne Eberhard for ‘Theo’s Mermaid’
• Rebecca Edwards for ‘All Things Return’
• Samuel Elliott for ‘Schooled’
• Sally Hall for ‘The House at Clearwater Cove’
• John Higgins for ‘The Nice Lady and Other Stories’
• Julie Jedda Janson for ‘Wilga’
• Diana Jarman for ‘The Philatelist’s Album: Illustrated’
• Luke Johnson for ‘Ferocious Animals’
• Ian McArthur for ‘The Poison Pin’
• Caroline Miley for ‘Artist at Large’
• Mary-Ellen Mullane for ‘Short Fall’
• Angela O’Keeffe for ‘Night Blue’
• John Pitt for ‘First Boy on the Moon’
• Sue Robertson for ‘Letting Go’
• Toni Mia Simmonds for ‘Stone Feather Skin’
• Annabel Smith for ‘Monkey See’
• Suzanne Spunner for ‘All About Rover Thomas’
• Emily Tsokos Purtill for ‘Matia’
• Jessica Wallace for ‘In Bloom’
• Angella Whitton for ‘The Night River’
• Linda Woodrow for ‘470’.

Five writers will receive a full PIP fellowship, including a one-week residency, a literary mentor and the opportunity to resubmit their manuscript to their selecting publisher. Selected shortlisted writers will also receive partial PIP fellowships.

For more information, see the Varuna website.

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