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Colin Roderick Literary Award 2019 Longlist
Staying has been longlisted for the Colin Roderick 2019 Literary Award.
For more information go to the JCU Foundation for Australian Literary Studies.
Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards 2019 Shortlist
Jessie Cole’s Staying: A Memoir has made the Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards shortlist in the Non-Fiction category.
Read the judges’ report.
Shortlisted titles are:
Non-fiction
No Friend But the Mountains: Writing from Manus Prison (Behrouz Boochani, Picador)
Staying: A Memoir (Jessie Cole, Text)
The Arsonist: A Mind on Fire (Chloe Hooper, Hamish Hamilton)
Eggshell Skull (Bri Lee, A&U)
Miss Ex-Yugoslavia (Sofija Stefanovic, Viking)
Axiomatic (Maria Tumarkin, Brow Books)
For more information, go to the Wheeler Centre.
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