Vote for your favourite book of the year
Eight finalists are in the mix to take out the $10,000 people’s choice prize as part of the Queensland Literary Awards, with voting now open.
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A debut novel about raising two autistic teenagers and a memoir about growing up in an Egyptian Muslim family are just two of the rich offerings in this year’s search for best book of the year.
There are eight finalists – four fiction and four nonfiction – in The Courier-Mail People’s Choice Queensland Book of the Year Award are in the mix to win $10,000 as part of the Queensland Literary Awards.
Brisbane-born author Al Campbell is a finalist for her debut novel, The Keepers, that was inspired by her life raising two adult sons with autism and explores both the love and pain of being a carer.
Sara El Sayed, a 2020 finalist in the Queensland Premier’s Young Writers and Publishers Award, is also in the mix with her coming-of-age memoir Muddy People about growing up in Queensland as a Muslim with strict family rules.
Other finalists are music teacher and presenter of ABC Classic’s Weekend Breakfast Ed Ayres who has written his fourth book, Whole Notes: Life Lessons Through Music; award-winning author Anita Heiss with her historical novel celebrating the Wiradjuri language, Bila Yarrudhanggalangdhuray; and former barista and film student Ange King who writes under the pen name Dime Sheppard with her mystery/romance/comedy novel Crime Writer.
Respected Brisbane author Krissy Kneen is a finalist for a memoir about the fearsome matriarch who dominated her childhood in The Three Burials of Lotty Kneen.
Journalist for The Australian newspaper, Nicolas Rothwell, has written Red Heaven, described by judges as a blend of fiction and criticism “with the quality of art’’; while Chelsea Watego presents a collection of essays about her experiences and “ongoing colonialism’’ as a Mununjali Yugambeh and South Sea islander woman in Another Day in the Colony.
Voting closes at 5pm on August 15 and everyone who votes goes into the draw to win a $100 State Library of Queensland library shop voucher.
Vote at:
https://www.slq.qld.gov.au/queensland-literary-awards/peoples-choice
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