UQP Authors Shortlisted for the Queensland Literary Awards

Congratulations to the following UQP authors who have been shortlisted for the Queensland Literary Awards:

Queensland Premier's Award for a Work of State Significance

• Black Witness, Amy McQuire
• Everything is Water, Simon Cleary
• Yanga Mother, Cheryl Leavy and Christopher Bassi

The University of Queensland Fiction Book Award

• Nightingale, Laura Elvery

Children's Book Award

• Little Bones, Sandy Bigna
• Summer of Shipwrecks, Shivaun Plozza

The Courier-Mail People's Choice Queensland Book of the Year Award

• Nightingale, Laura Elvery
• First Name Second Name, Steve MinOn
• Everything is Water, Simon Cleary
• Black Witness, Amy McQuire