Congratulations to all the authors shortlisted for this year’s Kibble and Dobbie Literary Awards. These Awards are open to Australian women writers who have published a book of fiction or nonfiction classifiable as ‘life writing’.

The shortlisted titles for the $30,000 Nita B Kibble Literary Award for an established author are:

• The Hate Race by Maxine Beneba Clarke
• The Life to Come by Michelle de Kretser
• Everywhere I Look by Helen Garner
• The High Places by Fiona McFarlane

The shortlisted titles for the $5000 Dobbie Literary Award for a first-time published author are:

• Troppo by Madelaine Dickie
• The Trauma Cleaner by Sarah Krasnostein
• The Healing Party by Micheline Lee

The winners will be announced on 25 July. To find out more about the awards, click here.