Qld Literary Awards 2022 shortlists

The shortlists for the 2022 Queensland Literary Awards have been announced.

The shortlisted titles in each category are:

Queensland Premier’s Award for a Work of State Significance ($25,000)

• Wounded Country (Quentin Beresford, NewSouth)
• Muddy People (Sara El Sayed, Black Inc.)
• The Burnished Sun (Mirandi Riwoe, UQP)
• Operation Jungle (John Shobbrook, UQP)
• Another Day in the Colony (Chelsea Watego, UQP)

Fiction Book Award ($15,000)

• The Other Half of You (Michael Mohammed Ahmad, Hachette)
• Cold Enough for Snow (Jessica Au, Giramondo)
• The Furies (Mandy Beaumont, Hachette)
• The Keepers (Al Campbell, UQP)
• Australiana (Yumna Kassab, Ultimo)

Nonfiction Book Award ($15,000)

• Lies, Damned Lies (Claire G Coleman, Ultimo)
• Muddy People (Sara El Sayed, Black Inc.)
• The Mother Wound (Amani Haydar, Macmillan)
• The Three Burials of Lotty Kneen (Krissy Kneen, Text)
• Another Day in the Colony (Chelsea Watego, UQP)

Children’s Book Award ($15,000)

• My Brother Ben (Peter Carnavas, UQP)
• A Glasshouse of Stars (Shirley Marr, Puffin)
• Kunyi (Kunyi June Anne McInerney, Magabala)
• The Boy Who Tried to Shrink His Name (Sandhya Parappukkaran, illus by Michelle Pereira, HGCP)
• The First Scientists (Corey Tutt, illus by Blak Douglas, Hardie Grant Explore)

Young Adult Book Award ($15,000)

• Girls in Boys’ Cars (Felicity Castagna, Pan)
• Katipo Joe: Wolf’s lair (Brian Falkner, Scholastic)
• Morrison and Mr Moore (Michael Hyde, In Case of Emergency Press)
• Social Queue (Kay Kerr, Text)
• Sugar (Carly Nugent, Text)

Steele Rudd Award for a Short Story Collection ($15,000)

• Dark as Last Night (Tony Birch, UQP)
• The Kindness of Birds (Merlinda Bobis, Spinifex Press)
• The Burnished Sun (Mirandi Riwoe, UQP)
• If You’re Happy (Fiona Robertson, UQP)
• Lake Malibu and Other Stories (Su-May Tan, Spineless Wonders)

Judith Wright Calanthe Award for a Poetry Collection ($15,000)

• TAKE CARE (Eunice Andrada, Giramondo)
• Statis Shuffle (Pam Brown, Hunter Publishers)
• accelerations & inertias (Dan Disney, Vagabond)
• At the Altar of Touch (Gavin Yuan Gao, UQP)
• Bees Do Both: An antagonist’s carepack (Ann Vickery, Vagabond)

The Courier-Mail People’s Choice Queensland Book of the Year Award ($15,000)

• Whole Notes (Ed Ayres, ABC Books)
• The Keepers (Al Campbell, UQP)
• Muddy People (Sara El Sayed, Black Inc.)
• Bila Yarrudhanggalangdhuray (Anita Heiss, S&S)
• The Three Burials of Lotty Kneen (Krissy Kneen, Text)
• Red Heaven (Nicolas Rothwell, Text)
• Crime Writer (Dime Sheppard, Ruby Books)
• Another Day in the Colony (Chelsea Watego, UQP)

David Unaipon Award for an Emerging Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander Writer ($15,000)

• ‘Finding Billy Brown’ by Edoardo Crismani
• ‘Wawun, Judulu and The Big Storm’ by Julie-Ann ‘Garrimaa’ Moore
• ‘Always Will Be–stories of Goori sovereignty, from the future(s) of the Tweed’ by Mykaela Saunders
• Untitled by Rick Slager
• ‘Unplanned Journey: A personal account of one Indigenous woman’s life’ by Aunty Joan Tranter

Glendower Award for an Emerging Queensland Writer ($15,000)

• ‘Do you like the artist Georgia O’Keeffe?’ by A E Macleod
• ‘The Interventions’ by John Richards
• ‘Sunshowers’ by Emily Winter
• ‘Things Left Unsaid’ by Yen-Ron Wong 

Queensland Premier’s Young Publishers and Writers Award ($12,500)

• Rebecca Cheers
• Marilena Hewitt
• Miranda Hine
• Sean West.

The winners will be announced via livestream on Thursday, 8 September on the State Library of Queensland’s (SLQ) website and Facebook Live. Voting for the Courier-Mail People’s Choice Queensland Book of the Year Award closes 15 August.

For more information, see the SLQ website.

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