KYD Unpublished Manuscript Award longlist announced

Monday, 1 July 2019 Books+Publishing

The longlist for the 2019 Kill Your Darlings (KYD) Unpublished Manuscript Award has been announced.

The longlisted authors and their works are:

Pamela Baker for ‘Dark Glass’ (fiction)
Shelley Burr for ‘Wake’ (fiction)
Lisa Emanuel for ‘The Covered Wife’ (fiction)
Matt Millikan for ‘This American Carnage’ (fiction)
Venita Muir for ‘Lonesome Haul’ (fiction)
Anne So for ‘Second Chance Luck’ (nonfiction)
Sam van Zweden for ‘Eating with My Mouth Open’ (nonfiction)
Kaya Wilson for ‘As Beautiful as Any Other’ (nonfiction).

The longlist was chosen from 143 entries by a judging panel comprising KYD publishing director Rebecca Starford, Allen & Unwin publisher Jane Palfreyman and the 2018 award winner Nicole McAlinden.

A shortlist will be announced on 22 July. For the first time this year, each shortlisted author will receive the week-long KYD/Varuna Copyright Agency Fellowship, while the winner will receive $4000.

For more information about the award, see the KYD website.

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