Woollahra Digital Literary Awards 2021 shortlists announced
5 November 2021 Books+Publishing @booksandpublishing
The shortlists for the Woollahra Digital Literary Awards have been announced.
The shortlisted works in each category are:
Fiction ($2500)
- Understanding Almost Nothing of the World (James Hughes, Spineless Wonders)
- Good Long Time (Jon Tjhia, Going Down Swinging)
- Zorba the Buddha (Katerina Cosgrove, Spineless Wonders)
- Apologia (Michalia Arathimos, Spineless Wonders)
- Female(s and) Dogs (Brooke Dunnell, Spineless Wonders)
- Mudbricks Don’t Burn (Felicia Henderson, Overland)
Nonfiction ($2500)
- Fucking old white men: on Raven Leilani’s Luster (Madeleine Gray, Overland)
- Let the Yolk Drip Down (Alison Whitaker, Sydney Review of Books)
- Coming of Age in Cabramatta (Sheila Pham, Sydney Review of Books)
- ‘If You’re Different Are You the Same?’: The Nazi Genocide of Disabled People and Les Murray’s Fredy Neptune (Amanda Tink, from Genocide Perspectives VI: The Process and the Personal Cost of Genocide, UTS ePress)
- True to Form: A.E. Stallings, Jenny Xie, Ada Límon (Felicity Plunkett, Sydney Review of Books)
- In the Penal Colony (Yen Pham, n+1 Magazine)
Poetry ($1000)
- Twenty Two One Lines Poems (Amanda Anastasi, Rochford Street Review)
- We’re Processing Your Direct Debit (Dan Hogan, Red Room Poetry)
- FW: FW: “IM FALLING OUT OF THE SKY PLEASE RESPOND (Carly Stone, Running Dog)
- The Horizon (Hannah Jenkins, Taper)
- Cheat Codes (Jason Nelson, Dispersed Digital Poetry Project)
- Meditation on the Body (Zenobia Frost, Cordite Poetry Review)
Digital innovation ($1500)
- The Collapse (David Henley, self-published)
- A Flag is a Mirror (Stacy Gougoulis, Going Down Swinging)
- Soak, Reprise (Zhi Cham, Liminal)
- How to Haunt (Rae White, Going Down Swinging)
- Eidolon (Xanthe Dobbie, Sydney Opera House for Shortwave)
- I am Water (Heidi Sfiligoi, self-published)
This year’s shortlists were chosen by judges Bri Lee, Margaret Morgan, Brett Osmond and Ali Whitelock. The winners in each category will be announced 27 November 2021. For more information see the awards website here.
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