Congratulations to all the authors shortlisted for this year’s Kibble and Dobbie Literary Awards. These Awards are open to Australian women writers who have published a book of fiction or nonfiction classifiable as ‘life writing’.

The shortlisted titles for the $30,000 Kibble Literary Award (recognising the work of an established Australian woman writer) are:

• A Few Days in the Country: And Other Stories by Elizabeth Harrower
• Second Half First by Drusilla Modjeska
• Small Acts of Disappearance by Fiona Wright

The shortlisted titles for the $5,000 Dobbie Literary Award (recognising the work of a first-time published Australian woman writer) are:

• Rush Oh! by Shirley Barrett
• Reckoning: A Memoir by Magda Szubanski
• Salt Creek by Lucy Treloar

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