Earlier this month, the Western Australian Minister for Culture and the Arts announced the shortlists for the 2019 WA Premier’s Book Awards, and I couldn’t have been more delighted, or surprised, to find myself shortlisted for the inaugural Western Australian Writer’s Fellowship.
It’s an honour to be in the company of this stellar group of writers. Thanks to the judges for making my year!
Shortlists for the three other awards being presented are as follows:
Emerging Writer
- Alicia Tuckerman, If I Tell You (novel, YA; Pantera Press)
- Dervla McTiernan, The Rúin (novel; HarperCollins Publishers)
- Renée Pettitt-Schipp, The Sky Runs Right Through Us (poetry; UWA Publishing)
- Gus Henderson, The Wounded Sinner (novel; Magabala Books)
- Laurie Steed, You Belong Here (novel; Margaret River Press)
Writing for Children
- Sally Morgan, illust. Craig Smith, Grandpa, Me and Poetry (Scholastic Australia)
- Mark Greenwood, illust. Andrew McLean, The Happiness Box (Walker Books Australia)
- Kelly Canby, The Hole Story (Fremantle Press)
- Barry Marshall & Lorna Hendry, illust. Bernard Caleo), How to Win a Nobel Prize (Piccolo Nero, Schwartz Publishing Pty Ltd)
- Kirsty Murray, illust. Karen Blair, Puddle Hunters (Allen & Unwin)
Daisy Utemorrah Award for Unpublished Indigenous Junior and YA Writing
- Paul Callaghan, ‘Coincidence’
- Kirli Saunders, ‘Mother Speaks’
- Karl Merrison & Hakea Hustler, ‘Tracks of the Missing’
Congratulations and good luck to all!
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