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:

• The Women’s Pages by Debra Adelaide
• Six Bedrooms by Tegan Bennett Daylight
• A Few Days in the Country: And Other Stories by Elizabeth Harrower
• A Guide to Berlin by Gail Jones
• Second Half First by Drusilla Modjeska
• The Natural Way of Things by Charlotte Wood
• Small Acts of Disappearance by Fiona Wright

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

• Rush Oh! by Shirley Barrett
• The Director is the Commander by Anna Broinowski
• An Astronaut’s Life by Sonja Dechian
• An Ordinary Epidemic by Amanda Hickie
• Reckoning: A Memoir by Magda Szubanski
• Salt Creek by Lucy Treloar
• Not Just Black and White by Lesley and Tammy Williams

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