The winners for the 2003 Discover Great New Writers Awards have been announnced.
The Australian interest in these awards lay in the fiction category where The Hamilton Case by Michelle de Kretser and How the Light Gets In by M.J. Hyland were both nominated. Unfortunately for the Australians they came second and third (in the order listed here), losing out to Heaven Lake by John Dalton. A fine achievement by the two writers nevertheless, and, hopefully, it will expose their work to a wider range of readers, especially in the US market.
