The Miles Franklin Literary Award Longlist has been announced. State Library of NSW Mitchell Librarian and judge Richard Neville said the longlist is “nearly all contemporary and urban.” Mr Neville will be a guest speaker at the Orange Readers and Writers Festival to be held on Saturday 22nd July at the Hotel Canobolas.
The longlisted authors are:
Steve Amsterdam – The Easy Way Out
Emily Maguire – An Isolated Incident
Mark O’Flynn – The Last Days of Ava Landon
Ryan O’Neill – Their Brilliant Careers
Josephine Rowe – A Loving, Faithful Animal
Philip Salom – Waiting
Inga Simpson – Where the Trees Are
Kristen Tranter – Hold
Josephine Wilson – Extinctions
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