2016 Queensland Literary Awards Shortlists
The Queensland Literary Awards congratulates the authors and publishers of all shortlisted nominations for the 2016 Awards.
The winners of each category were announced at the Award Ceremony on Wednesday 5 October 2016.
Queensland Premier's Award for a work of State Significance
Nadia Buick & Madeleine King Remotely Fashionable: A Story of Subtropical Style (The Fashion Archives)
Matthew Condon All Fall Down (UQP)
Elspeth Muir Wasted (Text Publishing)
P. J. Parker The Long Goodbye (Hardie Grant Books)
Lesley and Tammy Williams Not Just Black and White (UQP)
The University of Queensland Fiction Book Award
Tony Birch Ghost River (UQP)
Georgia Blain Between a Wolf and a Dog (Scribe Publications)
David Dyer The Midnight Watch (Penguin Random House)
Patrick Holland One (Transit Lounge Publishing)
Charlotte Wood The Natural Way of Things (Allen & Unwin)
The University of Queensland Non-fiction Book Award
Madeline Gleeson Offshore: Behind the Wire on Manus and Nauru (NewSouth Publishing)
Stan Grant Talking to My Country (HarperCollins Australia)
Drusilla Modjeska Second Half First (Penguin Random House Australia)
Tim Winton Island Home (Penguin Random House)
Fiona Wright Small Acts of Disappearance: Essays on Hunger (Giramondo Publishing)
Griffith University Young Adult Book Award
Will Kostakis The Sidekicks (Penguin Random House)
David Metzenthen Dreaming the Enemy (Allen & Unwin)
Glenda Millard The Stars at Oktober Bend (Allen & Unwin)
James Roy and Noël Zihabamwe One Thousand Hills (Scholastic Australia)
Claire Zorn One Would Think the Deep (UQP)
Griffith University Children's Book Award
Lucy Estela, illustrator: Matt Ottley Suri's Wall (Penguin/Viking)
Bob Graham How the Sun Got to Coco's House (Walker Books)
Libby Hathorn; illustrator: Gaye Chapman Incredibilia (Little Hare)
Julie Hunt; illustrator:Dale Newman KidGlovz (Allen & Unwin)
Chris McKimmie Me, Teddy (Allen & Unwin)
University of Southern Queensland History Book Award
Vicken Babkenian and Peter Stanley Armenia, Australia and the Great War (NewSouth Publishing)
Stuart Macintyre Australia's Boldest Experiment: War and reconstruction in the 1940s (NewSouth Publishing)
Julia Martinez and Adrian Vickers The Pearl Frontier: Indonesian Labor and Indigenous Encounters in Australia's Northern Trading Network (University of Hawaii Press)
Jeff Maynard The Unseen Anzac (Scribe Publications)
John Newton The Oldest Foods on Earth: A history of Australian native foods with recipes (NewSouth Publishing)
Garry Wotherspoon Gay Sydney: A History (NewSouth Publishing)
University of Southern Queensland Australian Short Story Collection - Steele Rudd Award
Tegan Bennett Daylight Six Bedrooms (Penguin Random House)
Sonja Dechian An Astronaut's Life (Text Publishing)
Elizabeth Harrower A Few Days in the Country and Other Stories (Text Publishing)
Julie Koh Portable Curiosities (UQP)
Fiona McFarlane The High Places (Penguin Random House)
State Library of Queensland Poetry Collection – Judith Wright Calanthe Award
Joel Deane Year of the Wasp (Hunter Publishers)
Liam Ferney Content (Hunter Publishers)
Sarah Holland-Batt The Hazards (UQP)
David Musgrave Anatomy of Voice (GloriaSMH Press)
Chloe Wilson Not Fox Nor Axe (Hunter Publishers)
Queensland Premier's Young Publishers and Writers Awards
Unpublished Indigenous Writer - David Unaipon Award
Paul Collis Dancing Home
B.A. Quakawoot The Song of Jessica Perkins
Yvonne Weldon 67 Days
Emerging Queensland Writer – Manuscript Award
H.E. Crampton for The Boatman
Laura Elvery for The Elements
The Courier-Mail 2016 People's Choice Queensland Book of the Year
Nadia Buick and Madeleine King - Remotely fashionable: A Story of Subtropical Style
Matt Condon - All Fall Down
Trent Jamieson - Day Boy
Susan Johnson - The Landing
Mary-Rose MacColl - Swimming Home
Cass Moriarty - The Promise Seed
Elspeth Muir - Wasted: A Story of Alcohol, Grief and Death
Cory Taylor - Dying: A Memoir
