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Harvested from Twitter, these are the winners of the Queensland Literary Awards announced today.

Winners are in bold.

Queensland Premier’s Award for a work of State Significance     (waiting on the announcement for this one)

• Heartland: How Rugby League Explains Queensland by Joe Gorman (UQP)
• Meet Me at Lennon’s by Melanie Myers (UQP), see Sue’s review at Whispering Gums
• Stone Sky Gold Mountain by Mirandi Riwoe (UQP), see Theresa’s review at Theresa Smith writes
• Hearing Maud by Jessica White (UWA Publishing), see my review

Queensland Premier’s Young Publishers and Writers Award (I haven’t seen a tweet about this yet).

• Sara El Sayed
• Zenobia Frost
• Ellen Wengert
• Yen-Rong Wong

 The University of Queensland Fiction Book Award

• Act of Grace by Anna Krien (Black Inc.), see my review
• Stone Sky Gold Mountain by Mirandi Riwoe (UQP), see Theresa’s review at Theresa Smith writes
• The Returns by Philip Salom (Transit Lounge), see my review
• The Adversary by Ronnie Scott (Penguin Random House)
• The Yield by Tara June Winch (Penguin Random House), see my review

The University of Queensland Non-Fiction Book Award

• Bedlam at Botany Bay by James Dunk (NewSouth Publishing)
• Olive Cotton: A Life in Photography by Helen Ennis (HarperCollins)
• Friends and Rivals by Brenda Niall (Text Publishing)
• Truganini by Cassandra Pybus (Allen & Unwin) on my TBR, see Janine’s review at The Resident Judge of Port Phillip
• The Watermill by Arnold Zable (Text Publishing)

Griffith University Children’s Book Award

• Detention by Tristan Bancks (Penguin Random House)
• Winston and the Wondrous Wooba Gymnastics Club by Tamsin Janu (Omnibus Books)
• Fly by Jess McGeachin (Penguin Random House)
• Nop by Caroline Magerl (Walker Books)
• As Fast As I Can by Penny Tangey (UQP)

Griffith University Young Adult Book Award

• Deep Water by Sarah Epstein (Allen & Unwin)
• Ghost Bird by Lisa Fuller (UQP), on my TBR
• How to Grow a Family Tree by Eliza Henry-Jones (HarperCollins)
• It Sounded Better in My Head by Nina Kenwood (Text Publishing)
• This Is How We Change the Ending by Vikki Wakefield (Text Publishing)

 University of Southern Queensland Steele Rudd Award for a Short Story Collection

• A Constant Hum by Alice Bishop (Text Publishing)
• Lucky Ticket by Joey Bui (Text Publishing)
• The House of Youssef by Yumna Kassab (Giramondo Publishing), see Kim’s review at Reading Matters.
• A Couple of Things Before the End by Sean O’Beirne (Black Inc.)
• Here Until August by Josephine Rowe (Black Inc.)

 Judith Wright Calanthe Award for a Poetry Collection

• Enfolded in the Wings of a Great Darkness by Peter Boyle (Vagabond Press)
• Lyre by Stuart Cooke (UWA Publishing)
• Heide by Pi.O (Giramondo Publishing)
• Throat by Ellen van Neerven (UQP)
• Nganajungu Yagu by Charmaine Papertalk Green (Cordite Books)

 David Unaipon Award for an Emerging Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander Writer

• ‘The Space Between the Paperbark’ by Jazz Money (poetry, NSW)
• ‘Valley of Cane and Crows’ by Boyd Quakawoot (novel, Queensland)
• ‘Last Rites of Spring’ by Mykaela Saunders (novel, Victoria)
• ‘Burn’ by Melanie Saward (novel, Queensland)

 Glendower Award for an Emerging Queensland Writer (I haven’t seen a tweet about this yet)

• ‘The Solitary Light’ by Bianca Millroy
• ‘Daddy & Other Father Figures’ by Jonathan O’Brien
• ‘If You’re Happy’ by Fiona Robertson
• ‘Without a Word’ by Jenny Ruge
• ‘As We Knew It’ by Siall Waterbright

The Courier-Mail People’s Choice Queensland Book of the Year Award

• A Lifetime of Impossible Days by Tabitha Bird (Penguin Random House), see Theresa’s review at Theresa Smith Writes
• The Kowloon Kid by Phil Brown (Transit Lounge) , see my review
• A River with a City Problem by Margaret Cook (UQP)
• Feeding the Birds at Your Table by Darryl Jones (NewSouth Publishing)
• Meet Me at Lennon’s by Melanie Myers (UQP), see Theresa’s review at Theresa Smith writes
• The Breeding Season by Amanda Niehaus (Allen & Unwin)
• Stone Sky Gold Mountain by Mirandi Riwoe (UQP)