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The Lifted Brow & RMIT non/fictionLab Prize for Experimental Nonfiction shortlist announced

Melbourne-based literary magazine The Lifted Brow and RMIT’s non/fictionLab have announced the shortlist for their Prize for Experimental Nonfiction.

The shortlisted writers and their works are:

  • Katerina Bryant, for ‘Where is my Mind?’
  • Catie Gorman, for ‘The Boy’
  • Sarah Vincent, for ‘What Should I Call This?’
  • Sophia Small, for ‘How Long Can She Hold Her Breath’
  • Tess Pearson, for ‘What Sprouts at the Fissures’
  • Jean Bachoura, for ‘TRETINOIN’
  • Oliver Reeson, for ‘Body Language’
  • Carly Stone, for ‘Big Think’.

The winner will receive $5000 and publication in issue #43 of The Lifted Brow. Two runners-up will each receive $500.

The shortlisted authors were chosen from a longlist announced in June.

The Experimental Nonfiction Prize seeks to ‘unearth new, audacious, authentic and/or inauthentic voices’ from Australia and around the world’. This year’s judges are Timmah Ball, Chris Kraus and Quinn Eades.

For more information about the prize, click here.

 

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