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2022 Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature shortlists announced

Wednesday, 19 January 2022   Books+Publishing
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The shortlists for the 2022 Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature have been announced. Presented by the South Australian government, the biennial awards offer a total prize pool of $167,500.

The shortlisted titles are:

Children’s literature award ($15,000)

  • Bindi (Kirli Saunders, Magabala)
  • How to Write the Soundtrack to Your Life (Fiona Hardy, Affirm)
  • Iceberg (Claire Saxby, A&U)
  • The Republic of Birds (Jessica Miller, Text)
  • Summer Time (Hilary Bell, UNSW Press)
  • We Are Wolves (Katrina Nannestad, HarperCollins)

Young adult fiction award ($15,000)

  • The Boy from the Mish (Gary Lonesborough, A&U)
  • The Gaps (Leanne Hall, Text)
  • Metal Fish, Falling Snow (Cath Moore, Text)
  • Off the Map (Scot Gardner, A&U)
  • This is How We Change the Ending (Vikki Wakefield, Text)
  • When We Are Invisible (Claire Zorn, UQP)

Fiction award ($15,000)

  • Cherry Beach (Laura McPhee-Browne, Text)
  • Murmurations (Carol Lefevre, Spinifex Press)
  • The Rain Heron (Robbie Arnott, Text)
  • Rise and Shine (Patrick Allington, Scribe)
  • Song of the Crocodile (Nardi Simpson, Hachette)
  • The Yield (Tara June Winch, Penguin)

John Bray Poetry Award ($15,000)

  • Errant Night (Jerzy Beaumont, Recent Work Press)
  • Fifteeners (Jordie Albiston, Puncher & Wattmann)
  • A History of What I’ll Become (Jill Jones, UWAP)
  • Homecoming (Elfie Shiosaki, Magabala)
  • Notes Towards the Dreambook of Endings (Peter Boyle, Vagabond Press)
  • Salute (Ken Bolton, Puncher & Wattmann)
  • Throat (Ellen van Neerven, UQP)

Nonfiction award ($15,000)

  • Fathoms: The world in the whale (Rebecca Giggs, Scribe)
  • Fury (Kathryn Heyman, A&U)
  • Olive Cotton: A life in photography (Helen Ennis, HarperCollins)
  • In Search of the Woman Who Sailed the World (Danielle Clode, Pan Macmillan)
  • White Tears/Brown Scars (Ruby Hamad, MUP)
  • Yornadaiyn Woolagoodja (Yornadaiyn Woolagoodja, Magabala).

The following awards were open to South Australian writers:

Jill Blewett Playwright’s Award ($12,500)

  • ‘Calendar Days’ by Peter Beaglehole
  • ‘Recalibrate’ by Lucy Combe

Wakefield Press Unpublished Manuscript Award ($10,000)

  • ‘Chlorophyll and Casein’ by Rachael Mead
  • ‘Clutch feathers. Draw breath’ by Corrie Hosking
  • ‘The Comforting Weight of Water’ by Roanna McClelland
  • ‘The Guggenheim’ by Heather Taylor-Johnson.

The winners, including the recipients of the Barbara Hanrahan, Max Fatchen and Tangkanungku Pintyanthi fellowships, each worth $15,000, will be announced in a special ceremony at Adelaide Writers’ Week on Saturday, 5 March 2022 as part of the Adelaide Festival. For more information, visit the State Library of South Australia website.

 

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