Edenglassie longlisted for the 2024 Mark and Evette Moran Nib Literary Award

Congratulations Melissa Lucashenko, whose Edenglassie has been longlisted for the 2024 Mark and Evette Moran Nib Literary Award.

With a major prize of $40,000, the Mark & Evette Moran Nib Literary Award is Waverley Council’s annual celebration of the best in Australian research-based literature. Submissions are judged on high literary merit, quality research, readability and value to the community.

Melissa Lucashenko's epic novel is set in Brisbane when First Nations people still outnumber the colonists, and tells two extraordinary stories set five generations apart. Torching Queensland’s colonial myths, Melissa reimagines an Australian future.

Edenglassie has so far been recognised with a breathtaking 10 awards (and counting), including winner of the Victorian Premier's Literary Award for Fiction, the ABIAs Small Publisher Adult Book of the Year, and the Indie Book Awards for Fiction. Edenglassie was also longlisted for the 2024 Miles Franklin Literary Award and Stella Prize.

The Nib Literary Award shortlist will be announced on 17 September. Stay tuned!