Fogarty Literary Award shortlist announced
Fremantle Press has announced the shortlist for the $20,000 Fogarty Literary Award for an unpublished manuscript.
The shortlisted manuscripts are:
- Katherine Allum for ‘The Skeleton House’
- Prema Arasu for ‘The Anatomy of Witchcraft’
- Josh Kemp for ‘Jasper Cliff’
- Patrick Marlborough for ‘Nock Loose’
- Karleah Olson for ‘A Wreck of Seabirds’
- Emily Paull for ‘The Dreamers’.
Fremantle Press publisher and Fogarty Literary Award judge Georgia Richter said half of those shortlisted were published writers who had previously appeared on Fogarty Literary Award lists. ‘This has been a wonderful opportunity to revisit the writing of longlisted author Josh Kemp, highly commended writer Emily Paull and shortlisted writer Patrick Marlborough’, Richter said, adding that the judges were ‘equally excited by the three new names on the shortlist, Katherine Allum, Prema Arasu and Karleah Olson’.
‘You’ll note that the shortlist is double the size of previous shortlists,’ said Richter. ‘That’s because the calibre was very high this year and every manuscript deserved its place.’
The biennial prize, now in its third year, is awarded to an unpublished manuscript by a Western Australian author aged between 18 and 35 for a work of fiction, narrative nonfiction or young adult fiction. The winner receives a cash prize of $20,000 and a publishing contract with Fremantle Press.
The prize is a partnership between the publisher and social purpose organisation the Fogarty Foundation, which provides educational and leadership opportunities for young people in WA. The winner of the 2021 Fogarty Literary Prize was Brooke Dunnell for her novel The Glass House.
The 2023 winner of the Fogarty Literary Award will be announced as part of the next Fremantle Press Great Big Book Read at ECU’s Spiegeltent on 25 May 2023.
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