Readings Young Adult Prize 2023 shortlist announced
Readings has announced the shortlist for the 2023 Readings Young Adult Book Prize.
This year’s six shortlisted books are:
- Dancing Barefoot (Alice Boyle, Text)
- Spice Road (Maiya Ibrahim, Hodderscape)
- Completely Normal (And Other Lies) (Biffy James, Hardie Grant)
- If You Could See the Sun (Ann Liang, Harlequin Teen)
- The Upwelling (Lystra Rose, Lothian)
- Where You Left Us (Rhiannon Wilde, UQP).
This year, Readings will also award an additional young adult book prize: the Gab Williams Prize will ‘honour previous prize manager and young adult author Gab Williams, who passed away suddenly in January 2023’, said Readings. The winner of the new prize will be chosen by the Readings Teen Advisory Board, who are readers aged between 14 and 19 years, from the Readings YA Book Prize shortlist.
Created ‘to financially reward and promote debut and second-time authors of children’s, young adult, and new Australian fiction’, the Readings Prizes were created ‘to support new and outstanding Australian voices’. The shortlist for the Readings Children’s Book Prize was announced earlier this week, and the shortlist for the Readings New Australian Fiction Prize will be announced next Tuesday, 29 August.
The three Readings Prize winners will be announced in an event at Readings Emporium, Melbourne CBD, on Wednesday 25 October, with each to receive $3000. The Gab Williams Prize winner will be announced on Wednesday 1 November, and will receive $1000.
Last year’s Readings Young Adult Book Prize winner was Mirranda Burton, for Underground (A&U).
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