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Meet the Readings Prize for New Australian Fiction shortlist 2015
We’ve announced the shortlist for the Readings Prize for New Australian Fiction 2015. Here, we introduce the six shortlisted authors.
Find more information about this year’s shortlist (including the judges’ report) here.
Stephanie Bishop, author of The Other Side of the World
Stephanie Bishop holds a PhD from Cambridge and is currently a lecturer in creative writing at the University of New South Wales. Her first novel was The Singing, for which she was named one of the…
Read an extract from Last Day in the Dynamite Factory by Annah Faulkner
by Annah FaulknerWe’re delighted that Last Day in the Dynamite Factory by Annah Faulkner is one of the six books shortlisted for this year’s Readings Prize for New Australian Fiction. Here is a short extract from the novel.
Find more information about this year’s shortlist (including the judges’ report) here.
1997
Jo’s end was brutal, too, but slow. Not felled by a single blow, but eaten away, from the inside.
Chris sat with her during those last few days, giving her…
Read an extract from The Other Side of the World by Stephanie Bishop
by Stephanie BishopWe’re delighted that The Other Side of the World by Stephanie Bishop is one of the six books shortlisted for this year’s Readings Prize for New Australian Fiction. Here is a short extract from the novel.
Find more information about this year’s shortlist (including the judges’ report) here.
Prologue
Cambridge, 1966
She would have walked, only Henry said no. The footpaths are treacherous, he told her, and I don’t want you slipping and injuring yourself when I’ve just found…
Read an extract from Heat and Light by Ellen van Neerven
by Ellen van NeervenWe’re delighted that Heat and Light by Ellen van Neerven is one of the six books shortlisted for this year’s Readings Prize for New Australian Fiction. Here is a short extract from ‘Pearl’, one of the stories in the collection.
Find more information about this year’s shortlist (including the judges’ report) here.
It was a slight, old woman in a pie shop off the highway that told me who my grandmother was. I barely saw her over the counter…
Read an extract from Arms Race by Nic Low
by Nic LowWe’re delighted that Arms Race by Nic Low is one of the six books shortlisted for this year’s Readings Prize for New Australian Fiction. Here is a short extract from ‘Octopus’, one of the stories in the collection.
Find more information about this year’s shortlist (including the judges’ report) here.
At ten the sun finally sets and the pub fills up and the news comes on. It’s my round. A couple of aunties up the back give me a…
Read an extract from In the Quiet by Eliza Henry-Jones
by Eliza Henry-JonesWe’re delighted that In the Quiet by Eliza Henry-Jones is one of the six books shortlisted for this year’s Readings Prize for New Australian Fiction. Here is a short extract from the novel.
Find more information about this year’s shortlist (including the judges’ report) here.
I don’t know how I died. That’s strange, isn’t it? To be dead and know that but to not know how it happened. To not know my last memory.
It’s not something that I…
Read an extract from Hot Little Hands by Abigail Ulman
by Abigail UlmanWe’re delighted that Hot Little Hands by Abigail Ulman is one of the six books shortlisted for this year’s Readings Prize for New Australian Fiction. Here is a short extract from ‘Chagall’s Wife’, one of the stories in the collection.
Find more information about this year’s shortlist (including the judges’ report) here.
I had never before bumped into a teacher on the weekend. But there he was, sitting at the counter in the window, and I slowed down to…
The Inky Awards 2015 shortlists
The Centre for Youth Literature has just announced the shortlists for the Inky Awards!
The Inky Awards recognise high-quality young adult literature, with the shortlist selected by young adults, and the winners voted for online by teens. There are two awards: the Gold Inky Award for an Australian book, and the Silver Inky Award for an international book.
The Gold Shortlist (Australian books)
The Incredible Adventures of Cinnamon Girl by Melissa Keil
Razorhurst by Justine Larbalestier
Laurinda by Alice Pung
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The winners of the Ned Kelly Awards 2015
On Saturday night, the 2015 Ned Kelly Awards were celebrated at the Bella Union as part of the Melbourne Writers Festival. This is the twentieth year of the awards, and there was a superb turnout of writers, readers, reviewers, and general literati for a night of awards, debates, good humour and an absolute love of the genre.
Previous winner Michael Robotham awarded the Best First Crime statue to Jock Serong for the excellent Quota, the story of a lawyer…
The winners of the CBCA Book of the Year Awards 2015
The winners of the Children’s Book Council of Australia (CBCA) Book of the Year Awards 2015 have been announced. The winners and honour books in each of the categories are listed below.
Older Readers
Winner: The Protected by Claire Zorn
Honour books: Nona & Me by Clare Atkins and The Minnow by Diana Sweeney
Younger Readers
Winner: The Cleo Stories: The Necklace and the Present by Libby Gleeson with illustrations by Freya Blackwood
Honour books: Two Wolves by Tristan Bancks…
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