Tasmanian Literary Awards longlists announced

The longlists for the 2022 Tasmanian Literary Awards have been announced.

The longlisted titles in each category, worth $25,000 each, are:

Young readers and children

• Aster’s Good, Right Things (Kate Gordon, Yellow Brick Books)
• Aussie Kids: Meet Dooley on the farm (Sally Odgers & Christina Booth, Puffin)
• Child of Galaxies (Blake Nuto & Charlotte Ager, Flying Eye Books)
• Ella and the Ocean (Lian Tanner & Jonathan Bentley, A&U)
• Invisibly Grace (Avery McDougall, Forty South Publishing)
• Now and Then (Fiona Levings, Forty South Publishing)
• One Careless Night (Christina Booth, Walker Books)
• Sea Country (Aunty Patsy Cameron & Lisa Kennedy, Magabala)
• Shoestring: The boy who walks on air (Julie Hunt & Dale Newman, A&U)
• The Carbon-Neutral Adventures of the Indefatigable EnviroTeens (First Dog on the Moon, A&U)

Poetry

• Chasing Marie Antoinette all over Paris (Adrienne Eberhard, Black Pepper)
• Earth Dwellers (Kristen Lang, Giramondo)
• Field of Stars (Lyn Reeves, Walleah Press)
• Infernal Topographies (Graeme Miles, UWAP)
• Intimate, low-voiced, delicate things (Esther Ottoway, Puncher & Wattmann)
• Points of Recognition (Jane Williams, Ginninderra Press)
• Slow Walk Home (Young Dawkins, Red Squirrel Press)
• The Jewelled Shillelagh (Duncan Hose, Puncher & Wattmann)
• The Voice of Water (Adrienne Eberhardt & Sue Lovegrove, self-published)
• The Walnut Tree (Tim Slade, Bright South)

Nonfiction

• A Salute to Max Angus (Alison Alexander, Forty South Publishing)
• Colour and Movement (Stephenie Cahalan, Forty South Publishing)
• Flight Lines (Andrew Darby, A&U)
• Forgotten Corners (Pete Hay, Walleah Press)
• Imperial Mud (James Boyce, Icon Books)
• I Shed My Skin (Jane Giblin, Forty South Publishing)
• On Getting Off (Damon Young, Scribe)
• Soil (Matthew Evans, Murdoch Books)
• Toxic (Richard Flanagan, Penguin)
• Truth-Telling (Henry Reynolds, NewSouth)

Fiction

• A History of Dreams (Jane Rawson, Brio Books)
• Born Into This (Adam Thompson, UQP)
• Cold Coast (Robyn Mundy, Ultimo Press)
• Fortune (Lenny Bartulin, A&U)
• Paris Savages (Katherine Johnson, Ventura Press)
• The Labyrinth (Amanda Lohrey, Text)
• The Octopus and I (Erin Hortle, A&U)
• The Rain Heron (Robbie Arnott, Text)
• Two sets of books (Ruairi Murphy, self-published)
• Waypoints (Adam Ouston, Puncher & Wattmann).

The shortlists in these and four other categories—the Tasmanian Aboriginal Writer’s Fellowship, Margaret Scott Tasmanian Young Writer’s Fellowship, University of Tasmania Prize and People’s Choice Award—will be announced on 9 November. The winners will be announced in December.

Formerly known as the Premiers’ Literary Prizes, the Tasmanian Literary Awards ‘recognise and promote excellence in Tasmania’s literary sector’ and are open to books written by Tasmanian residents published between 1 April 2019 and 30 April 2022.

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