Oh! Did I miss the longlist announcement for the 2022 NSW Premier’s Literary Awards? If I did, I can’t find it anywhere and I apologise to the authors listed on it.
Anyway, here’s the shortlist:
Christina Stead Prize for Fiction
Dark as Last Night, by Tony Birch
The Kindness of Birds by Merlinda Bobis, see my review
The Shut Ins by Katherine Brabon
The Dogs by John Hughes, see my review
Pushing Back by John Kinsella
The Performance by Claire Thomas, see my review
Highly Commended
Love Objects by Emily Maguire, see my review
The Other Half of You by Michael Mohammed Ahmad
Believe in Me by Lucy Neave, see my review
UTS Glenda Adams Award for New Writing
The New Animal by Ella Baxter
Friends & Dark Shapes by Kavita Bedford
Low Expectations by Stuart Everly Wilson
Night Blue by Angela O’Keeffe, see my review
The Archaeology of a Dream City by Monica Raszewski
Highly Commended
The Magpie Wing by Max Easton
Love & Virtue by Diana Reid
Douglas Stewart Prize for Non Fiction
Leaping into Waterfalls by Bernadette Brennan, on my TBR
Black and Blue by Veronica Gorrie
The Mother Wound by Amani Haydar
The Winter Road by Kate Holden
The School by Brendan James Murray
Rogue Forces by Mark Willacy
Indigenous Writers Award
After Story by Larissa Behrendt, see my review
Ghost Bird by Lisa Fuller
Bila Yarrudhangglangdhuray, River of Dreams by Anita Heiss, see my review
True Tracks by Terri Janke
The Boy from the Mish by Gary Lonesborough
God, the Devil and Me by Alf Taylor
Click here to see all the other award categories.
ANZ LitLovers LitBlog 
There are some terrific reads there, and others I have not (yet) read.
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By: Jennifer on April 5, 2022
at 12:50 pm
Yes. I’m a bit cross with myself… I bought The School, and then when I was trying to make space on my NF TBR, I thought I didn’t really want to revisit school issues and I recycled it at the U3A bookswap.
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By: Lisa Hill on April 5, 2022
at 12:56 pm
Sigh. I know that feeling, Lisa. I have an electronic copy of The School and hope to read it very soon.
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By: Jennifer on April 7, 2022
at 9:19 am
It had very good reviews at the time that I bought it.
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By: Lisa Hill on April 7, 2022
at 9:55 am
I saw this come through this morning but I don’t recollect a longlist.
I’ve only read a couple, but I do have a few on my TBR, and hope to get to some of them soon. The only one I’ve read that you haven’t is Alf Taylor’s memoir. I’ve seen very little about it so it’s interesting to see it here.
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By: whisperinggums on April 5, 2022
at 1:27 pm
PS I gave my daughter Love and virtue for Christmas and she loved it.
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By: whisperinggums on April 5, 2022
at 1:28 pm
PPS (Sorreee!) It just occurred to me that Highly commended on shortlists is unusual. Maybe they did this instead of having a longlist
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By: whisperinggums on April 5, 2022
at 1:29 pm
Yes, I wondered if that was the case too.
There are three listed here that I borrowed from the library, started them, gave them a fair fifty pages to engage me, and returned them unread. I haven’t named them because the last time I did that, someone tackled me about it and I had to spend time on books I didn’t finish justifying why I didn’t finish them. It was a waste of time, on top of a waste of time.
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By: Lisa Hill on April 5, 2022
at 1:53 pm
Fair enough… I think I remember your being tackled though can’t recollect which books (and no I’m not asking you to name them and open that can of worms again!)
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By: whisperinggums on April 5, 2022
at 2:24 pm
Do they always release a long list? I know the WA ones tend to go straight to a shortlist.
The only book here that I have read that you haven’t is The New Animal by Ella Baxter, which I loved. And I am currently reading Alf Taylor’s memoir for my #readingfirstnationswriters project
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By: kimbofo on April 6, 2022
at 9:45 am
You might be right… I’ve just looked back at my own posts tagged with NSWPLA, and FWIW for each year there’s just a post about the shortlists and the winner, not for any longlists.
But I’d be the first to admit that I don’t (can’t) always post about awards, there’s just too many to keep track of them all.
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By: Lisa Hill on April 6, 2022
at 10:14 am
PS Ha ha, that’s the one you said was ‘maybe not a “Lisa” book!’
https://readingmattersblog.com/2021/12/10/new-animal-by-ella-baxter/
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By: Lisa Hill on April 6, 2022
at 10:16 am
You do any amazing job covering all the ones that you do!
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By: kimbofo on April 6, 2022
at 10:24 pm