Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards 2016
The Winners
Fiction: The World Without Us by Mireille Juchau (Bloomsbury)
Non-fiction: Something For The Pain by Gerald Murnane (Text Publishing)
Drama: Broken by Mary Anne Butler (Currency Press)
Poetry: Crankhandle by Alan Loney (Cordite)
Writing for Young Adults: Welcome to Orphancorp by Marlee Jane Ward (Xoum Publishing)
The Victorian Prize for Literature: Broken by Mary Anne Butler (Currency Press)
Separately, Melanie Cheng won the Award for an Unpublished Manuscript.
The Judges
Fiction: Thuy On, Jo Case, Toni Jordan (convenor)
Non-fiction: Sam Cooney, Bhakthi Puvanenthiran, Jonathan Green, Sharon Mullins, Robyn Annear (convenor)
Drama: Tom Gutteridge, Lorin Clarke, David Ryding (convenor)
Poetry: Jacinta Le Plastrier, Bonny Cassidy, Cassandra Atherton (convenor)
Writing for Young Adults: Emily Gale, Jess Tran, Bec Kavanagh (convenor)
Award for an Unpublished Manuscript: Kate Callingham, Jennifer Down, Maxine Beneba Clarke
Submissions from publishers and writers are open in September each year for titles published between 1 January and 31 December of the same year.
Chat about the shortlisted titles using the #vpla2016 hashtag.
Highly commended works
Fiction
· Six Bedrooms by Tegan Bennett Daylight (Random House Australia)
· The Mothers by Rod Jones (Text Publishing)
· Black Rock White City by A.S. Patrić (Transit Lounge Publishing)
Non-fiction
· Good Muslim Boy by Osamah Sami (Hardie Grant Books)
· Small Acts of Disappearance by Fiona Wright (Giramondo Publishing)
Drama
· I am a Miracle by Declan Greene
Poetry
· Happiness by Martin Harrison (UWA Publishing)
Writing for Young Adults
· Illuminae by Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff (Allen & Unwin)
· Becoming Kirrali Lewis by Jane Harrison (Magabala Books)