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The shortlist for the the Queensland Literary Awards 2022 has been announced. The winners will be announced on Thursday 8 September 2022.

Queensland Premier’s Award for a Work of State Significance

• Wounded Country by Quentin Beresford, NewSouth
• Muddy People by Sara El Sayed, Black Inc. Books
• The Burnished Sun by Mirandi Riwoe, University of Queensland Press
• Operation Jungle by John Shobbrook, University of Queensland Press
• Another Day in the Colony by Chelsea Watego, University of Queensland Press

Queensland Premier’s Young Publishers and Writers Award

• Rebecca Cheers
• Marilena Hewitt
• Miranda Hine
• Sean West

The University of Queensland Fiction Book Award

• The Other Half of You by Michael Mohammed Ahmad, Hachette Australia
• Cold Enough for Snow by Jessica Au, Giramondo Publishing, see my review
• The Furies by  Mandy Beaumont Hachette Australia
• The Keepers by Al Campbell,  University of Queensland Press
• Australiana by Yumna Kassab, Ultimo Press

University of Queensland Non-Fiction Book Award

• Lies, Damned Lies by Claire G. Coleman, Ultimo Press
• Muddy People by Sara El Sayed, Black Inc. Books
• The Mother Wound by Amani Haydar, Pan Macmillan
• The Three Burials of Lotty Kneen by Krissy Kneen, Text Publishing
• Another Day in the Colony by Chelsea Watego, University of Queensland Press

Children’s Book Award

• My Brother Ben by Peter Carnavas, University of Queensland Press
• A Glasshouse of Stars by Shirley Marr, Penguin Random House Australia
• Kunyi by Kunyi June Anne McInerney, Magabala Books
• The Boy Who Tried to Shrink His Name, by Sandhya Parappukkaran and illustrated by Michelle Pereira, Hardie Grant Children’s Publishing
• The First Scientists by Corey Tutt and illustrated by Blak Douglas, Hardie Grant Explore

Griffith University Young Adult Book Award

• Girls in Boys’ Cars by Felicity Castagna, Pan Macmillan
• Katipo Joe: Wolf’s Lair by Brian Falkner, Scholastic
• Morrison and Mr Moore by Michael Hyde, In Case of Emergency Press
• Social Queue by Kay Kerr, Text Publishing
• Sugar by Carly Nugent, Text Publishing

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

• Dark as Last Night by Tony Birch, University of Queensland Press
• The Kindness of Birds, by Merlinda Bobis, Spinifex Press, see my review
• The Burnished Sun by Mirandi Riwoe, University of Queensland Press
• If You’re Happy by Fiona Robertson, University of Queensland Press
• Lake Malibu and Other Stories by Su-May Tan, Spineless Wonders

Judith Wright Calanthe Award for a Poetry Collection

• TAKE CARE by Eunice Andrada, Giramondo Publishing
• Statis Shuffle by Pam Brown, Hunter Publishers
• accelerations & inertias, by Dan Disney, Vagabond Press
• At the Altar of Touch by Gavin Yuan Gao,  University of Queensland Press
• Bees Do Bother: An Antagonist’s Carepack by Ann Vickery, Vagbond Press

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

• ‘Finding Billy Brown’ by Edoardo Crismani
• ‘Wawun, Judulu and The Big Storm’ by Julie-Ann ‘Garrimaa’ Moore
• ‘Always Will Be – stories of Goori sovereignty, from the future(s) of the Tweed’ by Mykaela Saunders
• untitled manuscript by Rick Slager
• ‘Unplanned Journey: A personal account of one Indigenous woman’s life’ by  Aunty Joan Tranter

Glendower Award for an Emerging Queensland Writer

• ‘Do you like the artist Georgia O’Keeffe?’ by A E Macleod
• ‘The Interventions’ by John Richards
• ‘Sunshowers’ by Emily Winter
• ‘Things Left Unsaid’ by Yen-Rong Wong

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

Voting is open for The Courier-Mail People’s Choice Queensland Book of the Year Award.  Cast your vote by 15 August.

• Whole Notes by Ed Ayres, ABC Books
• The Keepers by Al Campbell, University of Queensland Press
• Muddy People by Sara El Sayed, Black Inc. Books
• Bila Yarrudhanggalangdhuray by Anita Heiss,  Simon & Schuster Australia, see my review
• The Three Burials of Lotty Kneen by Krissy Kneen, Text Publishing
• Red Heaven by Nicolas Rothwell, Text Publishing
• Crime Writer by Dime Sheppard, Ruby Books
• Another Day in the Colony by Chelsea Watego, University of Queensland Press

To read the judges comments, see the awards website.