The longlists for this year’s Kibble and Dobbie Literary Awards have been announced. The Kibble and Dobbie Literary Awards are open to Australian women writers who have published a book of fiction or nonfiction classifiable as ‘life writing’. The Kibble Literary Award recognises the work of an established Australian woman writer and the Dobbie Literary Award recognises the work of a first-time published Australian woman writer.

The longlisted titles for the $30,000 Kibble Literary Award are:

• Warning: The Story of Cyclone Tracy by Sophie Cunningham
• This House of Grief by Helen Garner
• In Certain Circles by Elizabeth Harrower
• The Golden Age by Joan London
• When the Night Comes by Favel Parrett
• Hunger Town by Wendy Scarfe

The longlisted titles for the $5,000 Dobbie Literary Award are:

• Foreign Soil by Maxine Beneba Clarke
• The Strays by Emily Bitto
• After Darkness by Christine Piper
• Sideshow Nicole Smith
• Game Day by Miriam Sved
• Heat and Light by Ellen van Neerven

The shortlists will be announced on 3 June 2015, and the winners will be announced on 15 July 2015. To find out more about the awards, click here.