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.

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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.

Best Australian Essays!

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Jessie has an essay in the latest edition of Best Australian Essays, edited by Robert Manne, due for release in November 2014.

Check out the list of contributors.

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