May 7, 2014

Norma K Hemming Shortlist is out.

The shortlist for this year’s Norma K Hemming Award has been released and it features a strong and slightly larger field than last year if I recall correctly.

What’s the Award about?

Launched in 2010 by the Australian Science Fiction Foundation, the award attempts to recognize excellence in the exploration of themes of race, gender, class and sexuality by an Australian Writer.

This year’s nominees are:

 

A Very Unusual Pursuit – City of Orphans by Catherine Jinks (Allen & Unwin)

Caution: Contains Small Parts by Kirstyn McDermott (Twelfth Planet Press)

Dark Serpent by Kylie Chan (HarperVoyager)

Fairytales for Wilde Girls by Allyse Near (Random House)

Rupetta by N. A. Sulway (Tartarus Press (UK))

Trucksong by Andrew Macrae (Twelfth Planet Press)

 

Very good to see a mix of publishers and publishers or different sizes.

Rupetta has already garnered a Tiptree and Fairytales for Wilde Girls an Aurealis.  Caution: Contains Small Parts has been well received but seems to be a bit of a bridesmaid in awards this year, always featuring but just missing out.

In the end though its good to see an increase in the number of books being recognised for dealing with these themes.

 


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Sue Bursztynski · 566 weeks ago

Fairytales for Wilde Girls is on this year's Children's Book Council shortlist. So I'll have to read it. I haven't read any Kylie Chan since her first book because the publishers made her put in all sorts of extraneous waffle so they could do it as a trilogy when it could easily have done better as a duology. Hopefully this is no longer happening and they let her write tighter stuff now. Only read Kirstyn's first book.
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1 reply · active 566 weeks ago
I haven't heard much buzz about the Jinks or the Chan but the others seem to pop up on multiple radars.
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Sue Bursztynski · 566 weeks ago

Oh, yes, forgot to mention I've read quite a lot of Catherine Jinks, but not this one. A very versatile writer. I liked her Pagan series of mediaeval YA novels best of the lot.
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1 reply · active 566 weeks ago
I think you may have mentioned Pagan before. Either that or she is getting some buzz :D

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