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South Australian Literary Awards 2024 shortlists announced

Monday, 12 August 2024   Books+Publishing
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The 2024 South Australian Literary Awards shortlists have been announced.

The shortlisted works in each category are:

Fiction award ($15,000)

  • All That’s Left Unsaid (Tracey Lien, HQ)
  • Hydra (Adriane Howell, Transit Lounge)
  • The In-Between (Christos Tsiolkas, A&U)
  • Permafrost (S J Norman, UQP)
  • West Girls (Laura Elizabeth Woollett, Scribe)

Nonfiction award ($15,000)

  • The Ballad of Abdul Wade (Ryan Butta, Affirm)
  • Childhood (Shannon Burns, Text)
  • Fat Girl Dancing (Kris Kneen, Text)
  • I’d Rather Not (Robert Skinner, Black Inc.)
  • Personal Score: Sport, culture, identity (Ellen van Neerven, UQP)

Young adult fiction award ($15,000)

  • The Brink (Holden Sheppard, Text)
  • Completely Normal (and Other Lies) (Biffy James, Hardie Grant Children’s Publishing)
  • If You Could See the Sun (Ann Liang, HQ Young Adult)
  • Sugar (Carly Nugent, Text)
  • Sugar Town Queens (Malla Nunn, A&U)

Children’s literature award ($15,000)

  • Being Jimmy Baxter (Fiona Lloyd, Puffin)
  • Exit Through the Gift Shop (Maryam Master, Pan)
  • Runt (Craig Silvey, illus by Sara Acton, A&U)
  • Scar Town (Tristan Bancks, Puffin)
  • Stay for Dinner (Sandhya Parappukkaran, illus by Michelle Pereira, Hardie Grant Children’s Publishing)
  • The Way of Dog (Zana Fraillon, UQP)

John Bray Poetry Award ($15,000)

  • Acrobat Music: New and selected poems (Jill Jones, Puncher & Wattmann)
  • At the Altar of Touch (Gavin Yuan Gao, UQP)
  • Human Looking (Andy Jackson, Giramondo)
  • Hunger and Predation (Pooja Mittal Biswas, Cordite)
  • The Singer and Other Poems (Kim Cheng Boey, Cordite)

Jill Blewett Playwright’s Award ($12,500)

  • Hits of the 70s, 80s and 90s (Rebecca Meston)
  • Log Boy (Anthony Nocera)
  • Mallee Ward (Michael Hill)
  • Paradise Lost (Melissa-Kelly Franklin)
  • Safe (Nina Pearce)
  • Spare a Thought for Jana Wendt (Nicola Watson)
  • The Spoil (Piri Eddy)

Unpublished manuscript award ($10,000)

  • ‘Boy Swimmer’ (Gina Inverarity)
  • ‘Catastrophic’ (Alastair Sarre)
  • ‘Dear Vincent’ (Heather Taylor Johnson)
  • ‘Out of Place’ (Robin Boord)
  • ‘Salt Upon the Water’ (Lyn Dickens)
  • ‘The Tongue Is a Witch’ (Alicia Carter)

Tangkanungku Pintyanthi Fellowship ($15,000)

  • ‘Kali (Boomerang)’ (Ali Cobby Eckermann)
  • ‘A Life Half Lived’ (Karen Wyld)
  • ‘Monologues, poems and ramblings for you, them, us… and me…’ (Alexis West)

Barbara Hanrahan Fellowship ($15,000)

  • ‘A Life Half Lived’ (Karen Wyld)
  • ‘Queen Pawn’ (Katerina Bryant)
  • ‘Radiance: A State of Being’ (Molly Murn)

Max Fatchen Fellowship ($15,000)

  • ‘The Children of Elphinstone’ (James A Cooper)
  • ‘Maisy’ (working title) (Allayne Webster).

Formerly known as the Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature, and previously presented as part of Adelaide Writers’ Week, the South Australian Literary Awards are presented biennially by the South Australian government.

The works shortlisted in 2024 were chosen from 827 entries. The winners in each category, as well as the recipient of the $25,000 Premier’s Award for an overall winner, will be announced in October.

 

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