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Readings Young Adult Prize 2024 shortlist announced

Thursday, 15 August 2024   Books+Publishing
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Readings has announced the shortlist for the 2024 Readings Young Adult Book Prize.

This year’s six shortlisted books are:

  • A Way Home (Emily Brewin, MidnightSun)
  • Blind Spot (Robyn Dennison, Text)
  • Birdy (Sharon Kernot, Text)
  • The Spider and Her Demons (sydney khoo, Penguin)
  • We Didn’t Think It Through (Gary Lonesborough, A&U)
  • A Curse of Salt (Sarah Street, Hodder).

First established in 2014, the Readings Prize aims to ‘support and champion new and outstanding Australian voices’. The winners in each of the children’s, YA and new Australian fiction categories will be announced at an event on 22 October, with each winner to receive $5000. The Gab Williams Prize, judged by the Readings Teen Advisory Board from the YA shortlist, will be announced on 29 October, with the winner to receive $1000.

Last year’s winner of the Readings Young Adult Book Prize was Ann Liang for If You Could See the Sun (Harlequin Teen).

As previously reported, the shortlist for the Readings Children’s Book Prize was announced on 13 August. The shortlist for the Readings New Australian Fiction Prize will be announced on 20 August.

 

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