SPN Book of the Year shortlist announced

The Small Press Network has announced the shortlist for the 2023 Book of the Year (BOTY) award.

The shortlisted titles are:

• Against Disappearance: Essays on memory (ed by Leah Jing Mcintosh & Adolfo Aranjuez, Liminal/Pantera)
• The Branded (Jo Riccioni, Pantera)
• Losing Face (George Haddad, UQP)
• Mabu Mabu (Nornie Bero, Hardie Grant)
• Our Members Be Unlimited (Sam Wallman, Scribe)
• Paradise (point of Transmission) (Andrew Sutherland, Fremantle Press).

Honourable mentions go to Lockdown (Chip Le Grand, Monash) and This All Come Back Now: An anthology of First Nations speculative fiction (ed by Mykaela Saunders, UQP).

The BOTY Award is an annual award that ‘highlights authorial and publishing excellence by small and independent publishers’. Open to any book released by an SPN member during the previous calendar year, the award provides ‘significant recognition and promotional opportunities to both publisher and author’.

The judges of the award are Penni Russon, Bec Kavanagh and Tierney Khan. Read the judges’ reports for each shortlisted title here.

The winner will be announced at an event as part of the SPN Independent Publishing Conference on 24 November. Last year’s winner was Eleanor Jackson’s poetry collection Gravidity and Parity (Vagabond).

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