The longlists for the 2018 Kibble and Dobbie Literary Awards have been announced.

The Kibble and Dobbie Literary Awards are open to Australian female writers who have published a book of fiction or non-fiction classifiable as ‘life writing’. The awards moved to a biennial format in 2016, making the 2018 awards open to any work published in the last two years.

The eight longlisted titles for the $30,000 Nita B Kibble Literary Award for an established author are:

• Mirror Sydney by Vanessa Berry
• The Enigmatic Mr Deakin by Judith Brett
• The Hate Race by Maxine Beneba Clarke
• Everywhere I Look by Helen Garner
• The Life to Come by Michelle de Kretser
• The Choke by Sofie Laguna
• The High Places by Fiona McFarlane
• The Media and the Massacre by Sonya Voumard

The eight longlisted titles for the $5000 Dobbie Literary Award for a first-time published author are:

• Australia Day by Melanie Cheng
• Troppo by Madelaine Dickie
• Our Magic Hour by Jennifer Down
• Things That Helped by Jessica Friedmann
• The Permanent Resident by Roanna Gonsalves
• Driftwood by Eva De Jong-Duldig
• The Trauma Cleaner by Sarah Krasnostein
• The Healing Party by Micheline Lee

The shortlists will be announced in June. For more information about the Kibble and Dobbie Literary Awards, click here.