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The internet here at our hotel is slow as a wet week, so this is a rudimentary heads-up about the QLD awards, and apologies for any layout problems.

Queensland Premier’s Award for a work of State Significance

• Matthew Condon Little Fish Are Sweet (UQP)
• Mary-Rose MacColl For a Girl (Allen & Unwin)
• Cathy McLennan Saltwater (UQP)
• Bill Wilkie The Daintree Blockade: The Battle for Australia’s Tropical Rainforests (Four Mile Books)

Queensland Premier’s Young Publishers and Writers Awards

• Lech Blaine
• Mindy Gill
• Anna Jacobson
• Emily O’Grady
• Bonnie Stevens

The University of Queensland Fiction Book Award

• Melissa Ashley The Birdman’s Wife (Affirm Press), see my review
• Nick Earls Vancouver (Inkerman & Blunt)
• Ashley Hay A Hundred Small Lessons (Allen & Unwin), on my TBR
• Hannah Kent The Good People (Pan Macmillan)
• Heather Rose The Museum of Modern Love (Allen & Unwin), see my review

The University of Queensland Non-fiction Book Award

• Deng Adut and Ben Mckelvey Songs of a War Boy (Hachette)
• Richard Fidler Ghost Empire (HarperCollins)
• Mary-Rose MacColl For a Girl (Allen & Unwin)
• Kim Mahood Position Doubtful (Scribe), see my review
• Cathy McLennan Saltwater (UQP)

Griffith University Children’s Book Award

• Gus Gordon Somewhere Else (Penguin Random House)
• Paul Jennings A Different Dog (Allen & Unwin)
• Bren MacDibble How to Bee (Allen & Unwin)
• Wedy Orr Dragonfly Song (Allen & Unwin)
• Lisa Shanahan The Grand, Genius Summer of Henry Hoobler (Allen & Unwin)

Griffith University Young Adult Book Award

• Simon Butters The Hounded (Wakefield Press)
• Cath Crowley Words in Deep Blue (Pan Macmillan)
• Zana Fraillon The Bone Sparrow (Hachette)

University of Southern Queensland History Book Award

• Rebecca Ananian-Welsh, Gabrielle Appleby, Andrew Lynch The Tim Carmody Affair: Australia’s Greatest Judicial Crisis (NewSouth Books)
• Paul Irish Hidden in Plain View: The Aboriginal People of Coastal Sydney (NewSouth Books)
• John Murphy Evatt: A Life (NewSouth Books)
• Rebe Taylor Into the Heart of Tasmania (MUP), see my review
• Mark Smith The Road to Winter (Text Publishing)
• Richard Yaxley This is My Song (Scholastic)

University of Southern Queensland Australian Short Story Collection – Steele Rudd Award

• Michelle Cahill Letter to Pessoa (Giramondo)
• Kyra Giorgi The Circle and the Equator (UWA Publishing)
• Tara June Winch After the Carnage (Penguin), see my review

State Library of Queensland Poetry Collection – Judith Wright Calanthe Award

• Jordie Albiston Euclid’s Dog (GloriaSMH Press)
• Carmen Leigh Keates Meteorites (Whitmore press)
• Antigone Kefala Fragments (Giramondo)
• Cassie Lewis The Blue Decodes (Grand Parade Poets)
• Omar Sakr These Wild Houses (Cordite Books)

QUT Digital Literature Award

• Mez Breeze Inanimate Alice: Perpetual Nomads (Beta)
• Pascalle Burton Generation Loss (after Alvin Lucier)
• Jason Nelson Nine Billion Branches
• David Thomas Henry Wright with Karen Lowry and Julia Lane Paige and Powe
• Marianna Shek Limerence

Unpublished Indigenous Writer – David Unaipon Award

• Alicia Farmer Mai Stori
• Lisa Fuller Mirrored Pieces

Emerging Queensland Writer – Manuscript Award

• Anna Jacobson for How to Knit a Human
• Janet Lee for The Killing of Louisa
• Ben Marshall for The Fox
• Siall Waterbright for The Coming