Margo Lanagan, Leanne Hall and John Flanagan make the longlist for the 2012 Inky Awards.

The longlist for the 2012 Inky Awards for the best teen literature has been announced, with Margo Lanagan, Leanne Hall and John Flanagan all nominated for the Gold Inky award for Australian releases, and Patrick Ness, Marie Lu and Maggie Stiefvater making the cut for the Silver Inky, which goes to an international novel.

Four teen judges, along with writers James Moloney and Danielle Binks, will whittle the books down to a shortlist of five in both categories. The winner will be voted in by readers under 20 on Inside A Dog from August 27, and announced on October 24.

The full longlist is as follows - congrats one and all!

Gold Inky Longlist

• Shift by Em Bailey

• Night Beach by Kirsty Eagar

• Brotherband 1: The Outcasts by John Flanagan

• Act of Faith by Kelly Gardiner

• Queen of the Night by Leanne Hall

• Blood Song by Rhiannon Hart

• Sea Hearts by Margo Lanagan

• The Coming of the Whirlpool: Ship Kings 1 by Andrew McGahan

• The Deep: Here Be Dragons, Volume 1 by Tom Taylor (illustrated by James Brouwer)

• The Reluctant Hallelujah by Gabrielle Williams

Silver Inky Longlist

• Bitterblue by Kirstin Cashore

• BZRK by Michael Grant

• Fault in Our Stars by John Green

• Why We Broke Up by Daniel Handler

• Storm: Elementals 1 by Brigid Kemmerer

• Legend by Marie Lu

• A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness

• Lola and the Boy Next Door by Stephanie Perkins

• The Scorpio Races by Maggie Stiefvater

• Daughter of Smoke and Bone by Laini Taylor