Congratulations to the 2024 QLA 'Published Book Award' winners

Congratulations to Melissa Lucashenko and Carly-Jay Metcalfe on their 2024 Queensland Literary Award wins. Melissa Lucashenko's Edenglassie has won the 2024 Queensland Premier's Award for a Work of State Significance and Carly Metcalfe's memoir Breath has won The Courier-Mail People's Choice Queensland Book of the Year Award.

Part of the Queensland Literary Awards, the Queensland Premier's Award for a Work of State Significance is for an outstanding work by a Queensland author or an outstanding work by an Australian writer that tells a Queensland story.

On Melissa Lucashenko's novel Edenglassie the judges stated-

'Edenglassie  explores our tangled roots of land, belonging, and resistance through a rich amalgam of past and present Aboriginal lives. Making use of extensive research, Lucashenko recreates the early frontier in vivid detail, crafting a narrative that resonates deeply and elevates our understanding of Queensland’s soul.'

Part of the Queensland Literary Awards, The Courier-Mail People's Choice Queensland Book of the Year Award is for an outstanding book of fiction or non-fiction by a Queensland author.

On Carly-Jay Metcalfe's memoir Breath the judges stated-

'[Breath is] an uplifting account of the writer's experiences living with cystic fibrosis. Surviving a lung transplant aged 21 and the multiple complications thereafter, Metcalfe weaves a triumphant tale of indomitable spirit told with a passion and warmth that's irresistible.'

Congratulations again to Melissa Lucashenko and Carly-Jay Metcalfe on their respective wins.