With nominations up by almost 100 this year, the shortlists for the 2010 Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature are now hot off the press. Salt authors Pam Brown and Marion May Campbell have both been nominated.
The winners will be announced at 4pm on Sunday February 28 (the first day of Adelaide Writers’ Week) in a presentation open to the public in the East Tent, Pioneer Women’s Memorial Gardens.
Established by the SA Government in 1986 the awards are managed through Arts SA and granted biennially, with a prize pool this year of $130,000. There are six national awards as well as two awards and two fellowships specifically for South Australian writers.
The most coveted national award is the Premier’s Award ($10,000), which is selected from amongst the winners of the published categories.
Innovation award ($10,000) – for a published book which departs from the conventional use of genre by borrowing elements from a number of genres such as fiction, non-fiction, biography, autobiography, poetry or cultural criticism.
- Marion May Campbell (VIC), Fragments from a Paper Witch, Salt Publishing.
- MTC Cronin (QLD), Squeezing Desire Through a Sieve: Micro-essays on Judgement and Justice, Puncher and Wattmann.
- Ross Gibson (NSW), The Summer Exercises, University of Western Australia Press.
- Prof Stephen Muecke (NSW), Joe in the Andamans and other fictocritical stories, Local Consumptions Publications.
- Gerald Murnane (VIC), Barley Patch, Giramondo.
John Bray poetry award ($15,000) – for a published collection of poetry.
- Adam Aitken (NSW), Eighth Habitation, Giramondo Poets.
- Pam Brown (NSW), True Thoughts, Salt Publishing.
- Martin Harrison (NSW), Wild Bees: New and Selected Poems, University of Western Australia Press.
- Emma Jones (Aust/UK), The Striped World, Faber and Faber Ltd.
- Martin Langford (NSW), The Human Project: New and Selected Poems, Puncher and Wattmann Poetry.
- Bronwyn Lea (QLD), The Other Way Out, Giramondo Poets.
