Woollahra Digital Literary Award shortlists announced
6 November 2023 Books+Publishing @booksandpublishing
The shortlists for the 2023 Woollahra Digital Literary Award have been announced.
The shortlisted works in each category are:
Fiction
- ‘The Life of a Folk Devil‘ (Michael Mohammed Ahmad, Meanjin)
- ‘Fell Our Selves’ (Aline-Mwezi Niyonsenga, GigaNotoSaurus)
- Lake Malibu and Other Stories (Su-May Tan, Spineless Wonders)
- The Carpetbaggers of Mbantua (Suzanne Visser [Shan], Clear Mind Press)
Nonfiction
- ‘A Stone in the River‘ (Rachel Ang, Folio Comics)
- ‘On Art as Love (and everything in between)‘ (Jessie Cole, Sydney Review of Books)
- ‘Pedestrian‘ (Eda Gunaydin, Sydney Review of Books)
- ‘House Style Lifestyle, or Same. Same. Same. Same. Same. Same.‘ (Cher Tan, Cordite Poetry Review)
- ‘_____________ complete ____ replacement‘ (Jon Tjhia, un Magazine)
- ‘Everything I Don’t Know How to Say / sve što ne znam kako da kažem‘ (Dženana Vucic, Cordite Poetry Review)
- ‘Australia Searches for National Identity in the Trenches of WWI‘ (Alexander Wells, Coda)
Poetry
- ‘Soil Horizon (O)‘ (Magdalena Ball, TK)
- ‘What We’re Not Going to Talk About‘ (Gayelene Carbis, Cordite Poetry Review)
- ‘The Myth of Good Posture‘ (Yael Grunseit, Voiceworks)
- ‘Beets‘ (Elaine Helou, Cordite Poetry Review)
- ‘Island Layer‘ (Hannah Jenkins, the Suburban Review)
- ‘Limits of Vision‘ (Michael Leach, Otoliths)
- ‘Security Questions (True Vulnerability)‘ (Dominic Symes, Cordite Poetry Review)
Digital innovation
- Yurlu the Kingfisher Man (Adnyamathanha Community, SharingStories Foundation)
- ‘Hello Informant‘ (Emma Hartley, Voiceworks)
- ‘Titleist Pro V1‘ (Jenny Hedley, Crawlspace)
- ‘Pleasure of the Text‘ (Holly Isemonger, Crawlspace).
The Woollahra Digital Literary Award is open to Australian writers producing work in a digital medium, ‘supporting innovation in Australian literature and publishing’.
Judges for this year’s award are Claudine Tinellis, Tiffany Tsao, Ali Whitelock and Brett Osmond.
The winners of each category, as well as the recipient of the Readers’ Choice Award, will be announced in a ceremony at Woollahra Library at Double Bay on Wednesday, 22 November.
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