Written in two startlingly original voices, Rocks in the Belly is about the effortless destruction we wreak on one another in the simple pursuit of our own happiness, and a reminder that we never leave our childhood behind. ‘That exotic tribe was us. Like many other young men and women, they were ready, willing and able to put the war effort first. His rich and poetic prose is unsentimental: instead underpinning this story is a sensitivity, humour and candour which gives it its strength of truthfulness, and therefore hope. And when a sailor from the ship befriends her mother, he shares his stories with them all—of Antarctica, his home in Denmark and life on board. June and Anna Worth are teenagers when their parents, John and Helen, separate. Following Alex Miller's Miles Franklin-winning Journey to the Stone Country, Landscape of Farewell is a wise and grave novel of power, beauty and truth. In this powerful novel, award-winning author Steven Amsterdam challenges readers to face the most taboo and heartbreaking of dilemmas. The Pages is a beguiling meditation on friendship and love, on men and women, on landscape and the difficulties of thought itself, by one of Australia’s greatest novelists, the author of the much-loved Eucalyptus. We see and feel the hardship, tragedies and aspirations of the settlement, and at the same time we are transported into the mystical and spiritual life worlds of Wabalanginy and his people. To Freya Kiley and the other local kids, the Jensons are a family from a magazine, and Rex a hero – successful, attentive, attractive, always there to lend a hand. Olivier is a young aristocrat, one of an endangered species born in France just after the Revolution. She returns home for his burial, wracked with grief and burdened with all she tried to leave behind. The author of seven novels and two collections of stories, Gail Jones is one of Australia’s most celebrated writers. With taut dialogue and an unsentimental yet perceptive eye, Sherborne reveals the grandeur of the physical landscape as he explores the intricate nature of human connection. He still lives with the legacy of his own adolescence. Ruth Becker, defiant and cantankerous, is living out her days in the eastern suburbs of Sydney. He is the winner of two national Eureka Prizes for science and medical journalism. In the remote outback of North-west Australia, English anthropologist Nicholas Keene and his wife Stella raise a curious child, Perdita. You can reopen your draft application and start where you left off. Driving the story is the intersection of the rhythms of nature and 1950s regional Australian life. Ted Whittlemore, a radical Australian journalist, does just that. This spare, restrained novel is powerfully driven, paradoxically, by Imbaraki’s reticence. She expected a young student not a middle-aged bookseller whose marriage has fallen apart. A magnificent novel about fate, Australia and what it means to be human... it just happens to be narrated by a galah called Lucky. His work has won the Hal Porter and Roland Robinson awards and been shortlisted for the Queensland Premier’s Steele Rudd Award and the Age Short-Story Prize. Based on real events, this is the story of an unstoppable force of nature and the birth and death of an Australian dream. From here, we follow the narrator down certain rabbit holes into his history that centre on books read, people recalled, objects owned and locations visited. Deborah Forster is married to Alan Kohler and they have three children. Once you have submitted your application, no further editing or uploading of support materials is possible. They all go quiet and wait for me to explain myself, redeem myself, pull my shirt out, rejoin the pack. That same morning, Rita is awakened by a dream of her husband’s snores, yet it is years since Vic moved north. Along with fractious brother Jordy, Tom is repossessed without warning by their wayward mother and driven away from their settled life in the care of grandparents. Terms and conditions can be viewed here. In 2005, best-selling Rhubarb, was chosen as the 'One Book' for the Perth International Writers' Festival, and was included in the national Books Alive campaign. She lives in Sydney. From this first sentence we know that Ruthie, one of the two narrators of Anna Funder's historical novel, has a story to tell, and it will be shaped by personal and intimate memories. The Yield won the Miles Franklin award when it was published in Australia in 2019. His first novel, Furies, was published by UQP in 2004. At Hope, Silver finds unexpected friendship and, at last, a place to call home. Ten years later, George is running a sailors’ home and is married with three boys. Her head is set on publishing books on semiotics and her heart is turned towards her stalled personal life. The Lebs plunges us deep inside the testosterone-fuelled classrooms and corridors of Punchbowl Boys High School. It was more now than a notion, he could see the damn bars. In 2014 she won the UK William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award, and 2018 she received a Sidney Myer Fellowship. A graduate of the University of Melbourne and RMIT, Lucy is a writer and editor, and has plied her trades both in Australia and in Cambodia, where she lived for a number of years. Craig Sherborne’s incisive, gently comedic tale of life on the margins centres on a tight-knit band of itinerant misfits who find themselves seasonal ‘squatters’ on an abandoned property on the Wimmera Mallee plains in Victoria’s rural west. One among them has been plagued by troubling visions of this cataclysm for years. Thus begins the secret history of a soldier at war with his own sexuality and dangerously at odds with the racism that underpins the crumbling British Empire. honoring the legacy of Miles Franklin through the administration and promotion of the Miles Franklin Literary Award. But when Jimmy's world falls apart, he has to navigate the unfathomable world on his own, and make things right. Steph, an Australian journalist living in New York, is devastated by the sudden death of Annie, who has been her closest friend since their shared childhood in the Sydney seaside suburb of Coogee thirty years before. She fights him at the place where she believes his heart lives – in the engine of the car. 5/03/2021 4:26 AM. Marianna's has been ruined by men... A woman who has had to flee the country after her husband lied to the wrong people. This thrilling, high-speed story starts in one way and then takes you someplace else. Yet he finds fellow spirits in a fiery old suffragette and a distractingly attractive married lawyer, who undermines his belief that a revolutionary cannot spare the time for relationships. The narrative hums with raw bodily functions and procreation: the birds whose lives Harry carefully documents in a journal; Harry’s cows; Harry’s considered, meticulous meditations on the nature of sex which he feels he needs to impart to young Michael; Betty’s desire for Harry; and Michael’s own, much more instinctive desire for his girlfriend. Set on the banks of Lake Illawarra and spanning four centuries, is a cleverly woven novel spanning centuries, told through the perspectives of five main characters, who reflect different aspects of Australian history and experience. This was followed by Momoko (1994), The Love Song of Lucy McBride (1998), and then The Art of the Engine Driver (2001) and The Gift of Speed (2004), shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Award in 2002 and 2005, respectively. Perpetual is the Trustee for the Miles Franklin Literary Award. At its centre is Norm Phantom, an old man of the sea and custodian of indigenous lore, his wife Angel Day, and their son Will, who is involved in a deadly fight for land rights against the shadowy proprietors of the huge Gurfurrit mine. It was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize and the Orange Prize for Fiction. The Golden Age becomes the little world that reflects the larger one, where everything occurs, love and desire, music, death, and poetry. The only inhabitants of Janus Rock, he and his wife Isabel live a quiet life, cocooned from the rest of the world. She has appeared on ABC Radio National and at the Melbourne Writers Festival and Emerging Writers’ Festival. Submissions closed at 5:00PM 10 December 2020 (AEDT). Two years later he was called up for National Service. But one night he receives the devastating news of the death of his oldest friend, Jed, recently returned from working in a remote Aboriginal community. She too has lost her mother, and she and Vincent see themselves as twin spirits, inhabiting a shared, platonic world of fantasy and ritual. Kate Grenville is one of Australia’s finest writers. None of this has dampened his sense of humour. Louis Nowra is an acclaimed author, screenwriter and playwright and lives in Sydney. In the weeks that follow, Rebecca and Zach are drawn into a treacherous, adult world. Miller's seventh novel, Prochownik's Dream, was published in 2005. Struggling to recall exactly why they've remained close all these years, the grieving women gather for Christmas at Sylvie's old beach house - not for festivities, but to clean the place out before it is sold. Oscillating between the future and the past, Dyschronia is a novel that tantalises and dazzles, as one woman's prescient nightmares become entangled with her town's uncertain fate. Anna Funder confirms her place as one of our finest writers with this gripping, compassionate, inspiring first novel. Three times shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Award, her prizes include the WA Premier's Award for Fiction, the Nita B. Kibble Award, the Steele Rudd Award, the Age Book of the Year Award, the Adelaide Festival Award for Fiction and the ASAL Gold Medal. Taboo is a compelling novel about an issue at the heart of this country – the possibilities of reconciliation between Aboriginal Australia and White Australia. And then there’s Les, Jack’s inscrutable brother, whose loyalties are also torn. He stares out of them almost miserably, as if his loveliness is an affliction. The girls all have something in common, but what is it? The man stands there, tall and narrow, hand still on the doorknob, surprised. It offers an intimate awareness of the realities facing Aboriginal people; the energy and humour in her writing finds hope in the bleakest situations; and the remarkable combination of storytelling elements, drawn from myth and legend and fairy tale, has Oblivia Ethylene in the company of amazing characters like Aunty Bella Donna of the Champions, the Harbour Master, Big Red and Mechanic, a talking monkey called Rigoletto, three genies with doctorates, and throughout, the guiding presence of swans. But Eli's life is about to get a whole lot more serious. Herein lives the village idiot. AT A GLANCE: Expect more of the same for 2021 – massive debt, central bank “printing,” and dollar devaluation, while consumer prices and inflation rise. At the centre of The White Girl are the everyday crushing indignities imposed by White Australia on Aboriginal people, and the vast pools of community resistance and support in response. She bequeathed her estate to fund this award. A menacing sense of anarchy inhabits the hospital where Jovan works after an anonymous ‘Dr Graffito’ begins defacing the wards with cryptic, distressing messages. When she meets a man who could offer not only security but a ready-made family, she consults the Book of Crossroads and the answer changes the course of her life. As of 2016, the award is valued A$60,000. It is the winter of 1985. Her books include Exiles at Home; the NSW Premier's Award-winning Poppy; Sisters, which she co-edited; the Nita B. Kibble, NSW Premier's Award and Australian Bookseller's Book of the Year Award-winner The Orchard; Timepieces; and Secrets with Robert Dessaix and Amanda Lohrey. Amid his growing paranoia, the ghost of his dead friend shows up and commands him to paint ‘No More Boats’ in giant letters across his front yard. It is the second novel from the award-winning author of After the Fire, A Still Small Voice. Are they born, or are they made?'. Her first novel, Black Mirror, won the Nita B. Kibble Award and the Fiction Prize in the Western Australian Premier's Book Awards in 2003. Submissions closed at 5:00PM 10 December 2020 (, Applicant Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ's). An anarchic comic adventure about a father and son against the world, and against each other. Her short fiction has been published by Overland, Tincture, Seizure, Griffith Review, Meanjin and Review of Australian Fiction. The biographical narrative is a fundamental component of any history: it’s a scaffold around which the status and authority of a text can be conferred. Like Bach’s Goldberg Variations, Castro’s writing is simple, complex, compounding and cyclical. Part crime novel, part road movie, part love story, No One takes its protagonist to the very heart of a nation where non-existence is the true existence, where crimes cannot be resolved and guilt cannot be redeemed, and no one knows what to do with ghosts that are real. Through her eyes the nation’s capital becomes a visionary project. These real lives are the fossil fragments, Funder tells us, which she clothes with the skin and feathers of fiction. What unfolds is a powerful, haunting novel about love, sex and marriage, parenting and children, and the fury and intensity – all the passions and conflicting beliefs – that family can arouse. The bush and the birds and the endless beach are Sylvie’s only salvation, apart from her teacher, Miss Taylor. ‘Evidently she knew who I was, or thought she did, since I had apparently needed no introduction and certainly hadn’t received one… She told stories. Surrender was published in 2005. Internationally her fiction has been longlisted for the Man Booker Prize and the Orange Prize and shortlisted for the IMPAC Award and the Prix Femina Étranger. In this suburban underworld, symbolised by the fetid drainpipe, stirrings of love compete with far more damaging storms that rage amongst the Jenson and Kiley children. Steven Amsterdam is the award-winning author of Things We Didn't See Coming (winner of the Age Book Of The Year, shortlisted for the NSW Premier's Award for Fiction and longlisted for The Guardian First Book Award) and What The Family Needed (AWW Great Read and longlisted for the Dublin IMPAC literary award). A spare, epic work of haunting beauty that breathes life back into legend and confirms Shearston as one of Australia's finest writers. Must a girl always be a part? For just as Evan Johnson's story is about to end (and perhaps with a giant leap), my story prepares to take flight... Michelle de Kretser was born in Sri Lanka and emigrated to Australia when she was 14. Confined to the hospital with its iron lungs and fierce matrons, her mother, Lily May, rescues her and declares she will walk again, and she does, through hard work and sheer determination. He has worked as a writer-in-residence at secondary schools; given workshops on fictionwriting; judged writing awards; and was on the board of the SA Writers’ Centre 2004-2006. Deborah Forster grew up in Footscray, Melbourne. These writers represent many genres, but the common thread is their success: they are the top of their fields. Stephen Orr is a teacher and freelance literary reviewer and columnist. Her bestselling novel, , won the 2016 Stella Prize, the Indie Book of the Year and Indie Book Award for Fiction, was joint winner of the Prime Minister's Literary Award for Fiction, and was published throughout Europe, the United Kingdom and North America. The Yield, a story of pain, loss, resilience and hope, is a novel where the past is the present is the future. On every screen (page of the form) you will find a Form Navigation contents box, this links directly to every page of the application. Joan London’s books have all been published internationally to critical acclaim. As a descendant of those who first created human society along that edge of ocean, he is proud to be one among those who call themselves Noongar. He lives in the Blue Mountains. Helen waits three days to report her disappearance. Erica, a philosopher, is sent from Sydney to appraise his life’s work. The writing convincingly reflects the different characters’ voices, captures the contours of the region and allows some mysteries to remain unsolved so that the reader has a full sense of the potency of story-telling. Some time in the last months. Sofie Laguna originally studied to be a lawyer, but after deciding law was not for her, she trained as an actor. Hope Farm is the masterful second novel from award-winning author Peggy Frew, and is a devastatingly beautiful story about the broken bonds of childhood, and the enduring cost of holding back the truth. Over the years that pass, an Aboriginal boy, Tully, at first a friend, becomes part of the family. She returns home for his burial, wracked with grief and burdened with all she tried to leave behind. Their meeting and growing friendship sets Max on a journey that would have seemed unthinkable just a few short weeks earlier. In The White Girl, Miles-Franklin-shortlisted author Tony Birch shines a spotlight on the 1960s and the devastating government policy of taking Indigenous children from their families. She watches over her small brother and manages her mother’s happiness, while carefully guarding her private passions. Sofie's first novel for adults, One Foot Wrong, was also published throughout Europe, the United States and the United Kingdom. This novel is a celebration of the humble and unsung, firmly grounded in a specific North Melbourne locale. Written in luminous prose and with an aching affinity for the landscape the book describes, Foal's Bread is the work of a born writer at the height of her considerable powers. All it takes is an awkward encounter in the lobby. Tony Birch’s novel describes the journey of Odette, her thirteen-year-old granddaughter Sissy and their struggle to stay together when the authorities are determined to break them apart. Jon is originally from the UK but has been in Melbourne for the last ten years, migrating to Australia on a Distinguished Talent visa in 2009 before being awarded full citizenship in 2011. He hasn’t forgiven her, or himself, for what happened, and yet she isn’t the same domineering woman anymore. Macha patrols Siddon Rock by night, watching over the town’s inhabitants: Brigid, Granna, and all of the Aberline clan; Alistair in Meakin's Haberdashery, with his fine sense of style; Sybil, scrubbing away at the bloodstains in her father's butcher shop; Reverend Siggy, afraid of the outback landscape and the district’s magical saltpans; silent Nell with her wild dogs; publican Marg, always accompanied by a cloud of blue; and the new barman, Kelpie Crush. What will they reveal? Here, at last, is sixteen-year-old Adrian’s journey in full, from fantasies about orgies with American film stars and idealised visions of suburban marital bliss to his struggles as a Catholic novice, and finally a burgeoning sense of the boundless imaginative possibilities to be found in literature and landscapes. In ways connected but unforeseen, Peal’s tragedy will soon affect the worlds of these two strangers. David Foster was born in 1944 and spent his early childhood in the Blue Mountains of New South Wales. Set in Hobart and Antarctica, When the Night Comes tells the story of a young girl, learning what is important in life and who to trust; and of a crewman on the Antarctic supply ship, the Nella Dan, a modern Viking searching to understand his past and find his place in the world. We see the political and moral corruption of a profession under siege from the media, business and political interests, and the ambition of its own officers. Peggy is also a member of the critically acclaimed and award-winning Melbourne band Art of Fighting. Unlike Joe, Harry and Miles are too young to leave home and so are forced to live under the dark cloud of their father's mood, trying to stay as invisible as possible whenever he is home. He doesn’t know the boy, but he knows the story. Their charged encounter propels Evangeline’s past into the present and sparks a change in all their lives. A great wave had swept them up and dumped them here. It is a hymn to the rhythm of country life – to vicious birds, virginal cows, adored dogs and ill-used sheep. Their souls, bodies and lives are fused, and love offers protection of sorts from the violence and anxiety around them, until Leela is taken off the street to an interrogation centre somewhere outside the city. He has written ten works of non-fiction, including his recent memoir Searching For Schindler, and the histories The Commonwealth of Theives, The Great Shame and American Scoundrel, and 27 works of fiction, including The Widow and her Hero (shortlisted for the Prime Minister’s Literary Award), An Angel in Australia and Bettany's Book. In 1998 he won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Jack Maggs, and again in 2001 for True History Of The Kelly Gang. Her third novel, The Catherine Wheel, appeared in 1960. Traditionally, the serving Mitchell Librarian has always been a fixture on the panel. Ernst Toller, self-doubting revolutionary and poet, sits in a New York hotel room settling up the account of his life. Brian Castro was born in Hong Kong in 1950 of Portuguese, Chinese and English parentage. One Foot Wrong is her first adult novel. The characters are connected by kinship or history, but all witness – or perpetrate – violence, and all are affected by the landscape which binds and influences their actions. Edith now has ambitions to become Australia's first female ambassador, but while she waits for a Call from On High, she finds herself caught up in the planning of the national capital and the dream that it should be 'a city like no other'. The novel’s mode shifts—mystery one minute, vernacular melodrama the next, but always earthed by an apprehension of tragedy and the savage consequences of human frailty. He currently teaches Australian Literature at Sydney University and is the co-editor of Southerly. Finding Frank's behaviour increasingly irresponsible, she becomes convinced that all is not well in the house. It was selected as a Kirkus Reviews Best Debut Novel of the year and was shortlisted for the ABIA Literary Fiction award, the ALS Gold Medal, the Indie Debut Fiction award, and longlisted for the Miles Franklin award. It is rich, lyrical and profound. In 2011, Inga took part in the Hachette Australia/Queensland Writers Centre Manuscript Development Program and, as a result, Hachette published her first novel, the acclaimed Mr Wigg, in 2013. Divorced and unemployed, he's lost faith in everything precious to him. It was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize and the Orange Prize for Fiction. Mateship with Birds is a novel about young lust and mature love. Figurehead is his first novel. In 2011 she was listed as one of the Culture Show’s Best New British Novelists. Trevor and Elizabeth might be disparagingly called ordinary middle-aged people. A searing gothic novel of love, longing and justice, Bereft is about the suffering endured by those who go to war and those who are forever left behind. When Zach's wealthy mother goes missing, Rebecca – the truckie's daughter – is implicated in her disappearance. Rachel, however, still trusts her mother and looks for her approval. Together, they are able to shut out the dread and squalor of warring Europe. Driven by the need to atone for the neglect of a single tragic summer's night, he works at nothing jobs and, in his spare time, trains his body and mind to conquer the hostile environment that took his love and smashed up his future. Sandra lives in Sydney. Some Tests has been shortlisted for an Adelaide Festival Award for Literature and an Australian Book Design Award. After ‘so much damage, too much shame’, can there be a going back?”. 'When Hitler came to power I was in the bath. Conditions of Faith, his fifth novel, was published in 2000 and won the Christina Stead Prize for fiction in the 2001 NSW Premiers Literary Awards. Autumn Laing is an unflinchingly intimate portrait of a woman and her time – she is unforgettable. Grand Days, the first novel in the Edith Trilogy, won the SA Premier's Award for Fiction. Set in Sydney over a single day, Animal People traces a watershed day in the life of Stephen, aimless, unhappy, unfulfilled – and without a clue as to how to make his life better. Tom and Jordy hit the road with Loretta in her beat-up car. Maguire’s novel explores masculinity and violence, both personal and corporate, set in a tough regional town. Frank Draper is trapped by the guilt of those his treatment and care failed on their first day of freedom. She retreats to the only place that holds any meaning for her-the tiger enclosure at the zoo-where, for reasons she barely understands, she starts to sketch the beautiful killers. Inspired by her performance, filmmaker Mo Patterson approaches Dame Lena to make a film about her life. Chris Womersley was born in Melbourne in 1968. Rodney Hall is one of our foremost authors. Annie, an anthropology graduate fresh from the city, is determined to uncover the mystery of the child’s disappearance. Isn't he done with love and hope? What is strong in her life is the love of her much older brothers, and the affection of her parents. She has an Honours degree in English and Art History from the University of Melbourne where she is currently undertaking a PhD. Together they enter a phantasmagorical underworld of hospital waiting rooms, local parks, pubs and public transport. The highly acclaimed Dog Boy was shortlisted for numerous prizes and won the Prime Minister’s Literary Award in 2010. 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