Woollahra Digital Literary Awards 2022 shortlists announced
Monday, 7 November 2022 Books+Publishing @booksandpublishing
The shortlists for the Woollahra Digital Literary Awards have been announced.
The shortlisted works in each category are:
Fiction ($2500)
- ‘The Golden Bracelet’ (Deniz Agraz, Meniscus Literary Journal)
- ‘Smoking Gym’ (Elizabeth Walton, the London Reader)
Nonfiction ($2500)
- ‘A Silhouette in Gray: Life in the Aftermath of Suicide’ (Kerry Greer, Westerly)
- ‘Tell All’ (Eda Gunaydin, Sydney Review of Books)
- ‘Acts of Avoidance’ (Fiona Kelly McGregor, Sydney Review of Books)
- ‘Lives on the Line’ (May Ngo, Kill Your Darlings)
- ‘Not Your Miss or Madame: A Three-Act Meditation on Love, Opera and Friendship’ (Lucia Tường Vy Nguyễn & Reina Brigette Takeuchi, Going Down Swinging)
- ‘Plath Traps’ (Felicity Plunkett, Sydney Review of Books)
- ‘By Signalling Nothing I Remain Opaque’ (Cher Tan, disorganising)
Poetry ($1000)
- ‘Variations on the Word Ghost’ (Shastra Deo, Liminal)
- ‘Do You Find It Hard to Write?’ (Kylie Hough, OyeDrum Magazine)
- ‘Memory Curls’ (Anna Jacobson, Cordite Poetry Review)
- ‘Enderman’s Lament’ (Hannah Jenkins, Cordite Poetry Review)
- ‘A Poem To My Mother That She Will Never Read’ (Caroline Reid, Mslexia)
- ‘The Portable Home’ (Saba Vasefi, Red Room Poetry)
Digital innovation ($1500)
- ‘A Compendium of Failed Relationships’ (Jenny Hedley, Cordite Poetry Review)
- ‘Creepy Pasta’ (Dan Hogan, Running Dog)
- ‘How to Knit a Human’ (Anna Jacobson, Australian Literary Studies Journal)
- ‘Stand Up’ (Rae White, Backslash Lit)
This year’s shortlists were chosen by judges Julie Janson, Vanessa Berry, Ali Whitelock and Brett Osmond. The winners in each category will be announced 22 November. For more information see the awards website here.
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