I am thrilled to announce that I have been shortlisted for the 2024 Dorothy Hewett Award!

UWA Publishing, with support from the Copyright Agency Cultural Fund, have announced the 6 writers from across Australia who have been shortlisted for the award. The judges for the award are Tony Hughes-d’Aeth, Astrid Edwards, Thuy On and Kate Pickard. They have noted that the 6 manuscripts “are a sterling representation of all that is good in Australian literature today.”

The shortlist:
– Angella Whitton for ‘The Protector of Fledglings’
– Jeremy Tager for ‘Vanishment’
– Kaya Ortiz for ‘Past and Parallel Lives’
– Kimberley Lipschus for ‘The Lost House’
– Rachel Bowman for ‘The Fear of Empty Spaces’
– Rhian Healy for ‘My Heart is a Plastic Shoe’

The winner of the award receives $10,000, courtesy of the Copyright Agency Cultural Fund, and publishing contract with UWA Publishing. Stay tuned for the winner announcement in June!

The Dorothy Hewett Award is an annual literary award for the best unpublished fiction, narrative nonfiction or poetry manuscript by an Australian writer, run annually in November.

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