Shamelessly lifted from the QLA website, here are the 2016 shortlists for the Queensland Literary Awards. Links go to the QLA book info pages and to my reviews.
Queensland Premier’s Award for a work of State Significance
- Nadia Buick & Madeleine King Remotely Fashionable: A Story of Subtropical Style (The Fashion Archives)
- Matthew Condon All Fall Down (UQP)
- Elspeth Muir Wasted (Text Publishing)
- P. J. Parker The Long Goodbye (Hardie Grant Books)
- Lesley and Tammy Williams Not Just Black and White (UQP) See my review.
The University of Queensland Fiction Book Award
- Tony Birch Ghost River (UQP) See my review
- Georgia Blain Between a Wolf and a Dog (Scribe Publications), see my review
- David Dyer The Midnight Watch (Penguin Random House)
- Patrick Holland One (Transit Lounge Publishing) See my review
- Charlotte Wood The Natural Way of Things (Allen & Unwin) See combined reviews.
The University of Queensland Non-fiction Book Award
- Madeline Gleeson Offshore: Behind the Wire on Manus and Nauru (NewSouth Publishing)
- Stan Grant Talking to My Country (HarperCollins Australia) See my review.
- Drusilla Modjeska Second Half First (Penguin Random House Australia)
- Tim Winton Island Home (Penguin Random House)
- Fiona Wright Small Acts of Disappearance: Essays on Hunger (Giramondo Publishing)
Griffith University Young Adult Book Award
- Will Kostakis The Sidekicks (Penguin Random House)
- David Metzenthen Dreaming the Enemy (Allen & Unwin)
- Glenda Millard The Stars at Oktober Bend (Allen & Unwin)
- James Roy and Noël Zihabamwe One Thousand Hills (Scholastic Australia)
- Claire Zorn One Would Think the Deep (UQP)
Griffith University Children’s Book Award
- Lucy Estrela, illustrator: Matt Ottley Suri’s Wall (Penguin/Viking)
- Bob Graham How the Sun Got to Coco’s House (Walker Books)
- Libby Hathorn; illustrator: Gaye Chapman Incredibilia (Little Hare)
- Julie Hunt; illustrator:Dale Newman KidGlovz (Allen & Unwin)
- Chris McKimmie Me, Teddy (Allen & Unwin)
University of Southern Queensland History Book Award
- Vicken Babkenian and Peter Stanley Armenia, Australia and the Great War (NewSouth Publishing)
- Stuart Macintyre Australia’s Boldest Experiment: War and reconstruction in the 1940s (NewSouth Publishing)
- Julia Martinez and Adrian Vickers The Pearl Frontier: Indonesian Labor and Indigenous Encounters in Australia’s Northern Trading Network (University of Hawaii Press)
- Jeff Maynard The Unseen Anzac (Scribe Publications)
- John Newton The Oldest Foods on Earth: A history of Australian native foods with recipes (NewSouth Publishing)
- Garry Wotherspoon Gay Sydney: A History (NewSouth Publishing)
University of Southern Queensland Australian Short Story Collection – Steele Rudd Award
- Tegan Bennett Daylight Six Bedrooms (Penguin Random House)
- Sonja Dechian An Astronaut’s Life (Text Publishing)
- Elizabeth Harrower A Few Days in the Country and Other Stories (Text Publishing)
- Julie Koh Portable Curiosities (UQP)
- Fiona McFarlane The High Places (Penguin Random House)
State Library of Queensland Poetry Collection – Judith Wright Calanthe Award
- Joel Deane Year of the Wasp (Hunter Publishers)
- Liam Ferney Content (Hunter Publishers)
- Sarah Holland-Batt The Hazards (UQP), see Tony’s review at Messenger’s Booker
- David Musgrave Anatomy of Voice (GloriaSMH Press)
- Chloe Wilson Not Fox Nor Axe (Hunter Publishers)
Queensland Premier’s Young Publishers and Writers Awards
Unpublished Indigenous Writer – David Unaipon Award
- Paul Collis Dancing Home
- B.A. Quakawoot The Song of Jessica Perkins
- Yvonne Weldon 67 Days
Emerging Queensland Writer – Manuscript Award
- H.E. Crampton for The Boatman
- Laura Elvery for The Elements
The Courier-Mail 2016 People’s Choice Queensland Book of the Year
- Nadia Buick and Madeleine King – Remotely fashionable: A Story of Subtropical Style
Matt Condon – All Fall Down
Trent Jamieson – Day Boy
Susan Johnson – The Landing See my review
Mary-Rose MacColl – Swimming Home
Cass Moriarty – The Promise Seed
Elspeth Muir – Wasted: A Story of Alcohol, Grief and Death
Cory Taylor – Dying: A Memoir
Congratulations to all the authors, editors and publishers – how good it is to see small indie publishers featuring in these shortlists!
ANZ LitLovers LitBlog 
I haven’t read enough (hardly any!) of these to guess the winners though I’m happy to barrack for Matthew Condon and Charlotte Wood. I have a 2016 Georgia Blain in my reviewing queue, but her YA ‘Special’, not the highly regarded ‘Between a wolf and a dog’.
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By: wadholloway on September 9, 2016
at 7:08 pm
I’ve got a link to your review of The Natural Way in the combined review, did you review the Matthew Condon?
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By: Lisa Hill on September 9, 2016
at 8:08 pm
No. Nor read it, I just like the idea of everyone being reminded again of Qld police corrupt from top to bottom. And thanks for link to Ch.Wood.
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By: wadholloway on September 9, 2016
at 8:34 pm
I’ve read only a few too – Ghost river, and The natural way of things, in the fiction award, and two of the short stories. I’d love to see Harrower win that section – she’s been shortlisted a few times – but as I’ve only read two of the selections I can’t actually argue hers should be the winner. Pity!
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By: whisperinggums on September 9, 2016
at 7:42 pm
Sue, If you’ve reviewed the short stories, can you please let me have the URLs (and those for Ghost River at the Natural Way) and I’ll link them.
Also, didn’t you review the essays on hunger?
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By: Lisa Hill on September 9, 2016
at 8:07 pm
It is always difficult to keep up with all the new authors that keep arriving every year. I’ve only read a few of those you list, Tim Winton, Elizabeth Harrower, Fiona MvFarlane.
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By: Anokatony on September 9, 2016
at 11:25 pm
I was wondering whether or not any of these would see the light of day on this continent and then I saw the Harrower collection–which I have.
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By: Guy Savage on September 10, 2016
at 8:02 am
Ah well, sometimes a book’s presence on a shortlist can be what propels it into availability overseas:)
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By: Lisa Hill on September 10, 2016
at 8:09 am
True. Nothing like a prize winner to get attention.
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By: Guy Savage on September 10, 2016
at 11:23 am
Good to see some titles on these lists that haven’t already been on ALL THE AWARDS lists this year.
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By: Kate W on September 10, 2016
at 10:05 pm
I know what you mean… and yet it must be hard for authors to be shortlisted for everything but not win anything.
I am not a gambler but sometimes I think I’d love to win a lot of money in Tatts and then I would splash it around with the Lisa Hill Liked Your Book Awards, $50,000 for ten authors each year, I would only need a few million to do it…
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By: Lisa Hill on September 10, 2016
at 10:59 pm
and then there’s the poor novelists who didn’t get shortlisted, and kids in homes without books, and the starving in Africa, and …. Still it’s a nice thought and maybe one day we’ll get a government that does more than FA about any of the above.
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By: wadholloway on September 10, 2016
at 11:14 pm
Dream on…
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By: Lisa Hill on September 10, 2016
at 11:17 pm
That’s the BEST idea Lisa 😀,especially knowing how far $50000 would go for so many writers.
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By: Kate W on September 11, 2016
at 12:18 am
I chose it on purpose because that would give them a year off work to write me a new novel, (and woe betide them if they don’t!)
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By: Lisa Hill on September 11, 2016
at 7:56 am
I think Lisa Hill Liked Your Book stickers would be delightful :-)
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By: amandacurtin on September 11, 2016
at 3:16 am
That’s a thought… Possibly not as appealing to an author as a $50,000 cheque, but a bit more affordable for a retired chalkie.
I believe Oprah stickers are good for sales, though LOL I am not quite as famous as Oprah.
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By: Lisa Hill on September 11, 2016
at 8:06 am
Give it time, Lisa… :-)
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By: amandacurtin on September 12, 2016
at 12:48 am
[…] PS Between a Wolf and a Dog has been shortlisted for the Queensland Literary Awards. […]
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By: Between a Wolf and a Dog, by Georgia Blain | ANZ LitLovers LitBlog on November 2, 2016
at 8:20 pm