The longlist for the 2019 Australian Literature Society (ALS) Gold Medal has been announced.

The longlisted titles are:

• Aqua Spinach by Luke Beesley
• Beautiful Revolutionary by Laura Elizabeth Woollett
• Blakwork by Alison Whittaker
• click here for what we do by Pam Brown
• False Claims of Colonial Thieves by Charmaine Papertalk Green & John Kinsella
• Flames by Robbie Arnott
• Newcastle Sonnets by Keri Glastonbury
• Pink Mountain on Locust Island by Jamie Marina Lau
• The Children’s House by Alice Nelson
• The Death of Noah Glass by Gail Jones
• The Everlasting Sunday by Robert Lukins
• Zanzibar Light by Philip Mead

The ALS Gold Medal is presented annually by the Association for the Study of Australian Literature (ASAL) for a ‘work of outstanding literary merit’ published in the previous calendar year.

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