Mascara announces winners of Avant-garde Literary Awards

Mascara Literary Review has announced the winners of the Avant-garde Literary Awards for literature, criticism and theory.

The awards recognise ‘books which are stretching the boundaries of genres radically, philosophically, theoretically, sociopolitically’, and also recognise ‘emerging authors in a given genre’.

Winners receive a $300 prize.

The winning and shortlisted titles in each category are:

Poetry

• Blakwork (Alison Whittaker, Magabala)

Shortlisted

• The Alarming Conservatory (Corey Wakeling, Giramondo)
• A Trillion Tiny Awakenings (Candy Royalle, UWAP)
• Subtraction (Fiona Hile, Vagabond)

Fiction

• The Bed-Making Competition (Anna Jackson, Seizure)

Shortlisted

• Melodrome (Marcelo Cohen, trans by Chris Andrews, Giramondo)
• horse (Ania Walwicz, UWAP)
• All My Goodbyes (Mariana Dimopolus, trans by Alice Whitmore, Giramondo)

Nonfiction

• No Friend But the Mountains (Behrouz Boochani, trans by Omid Tofighian, Picador)

Shortlisted

• The Tastes and Politics of Inter-cultural Food in Australia (Sukhmani Khorana, Rowman & Littlefield)
• Visualising Human Rights (Jane Lydon, UWAP)
• The World Was Whole (Fiona Wright, Giramondo)

Best anthology 

• Of Indian Origin (ed by Paul Sharrad & Meeta Chatterjee, Orient Black Swan)

Shortlisted

• The Big Black Thing: Chapter 2 (ed by Michael Mohammed Ahmad, Winnie Dunn, Ellen van Neerven, Sweatshop)
• Going Postal: More than ‘Yes’ or ‘No’ (ed by Quinn Eades & Son Vivienne, Brow Books)
• Light Borrowers, UTS Anthology Intro (Isabelle Li, Seizure).

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