The shortlists for the 2009 Ned Kelly Awards have been announced.
The nominees are:
Best first fiction
Ghostlines, Nick Gadd
Crooked, Camilla Nelson
The Build Up, Phillip Gwynee
Best Fiction
Bright Air, Barry Maitland
Deep Water, Peter Corris
Smoke & Mirrors, Kel Robertson
Best True crime
The Killing of Caroline Byrne, Robert Wainwrights
The Tall Man, Chloe Hooper
A Question of Power, Michelle Schwarz
The SD Harvey Short Story
Fidget's Farewell, Scott McDermott
Farewell My Lovelies, Chris Womersley
Fern's Farwell, Bronwyn Mehan
Farewell to the Shade, Cheryl Rogers
The SD Harvey Short Story category is a new award this year. The details of the award, and SD Harvey are given on The Crime Writers of Australia website. (Seems you have to start your story's title with an "F" to get nominated this year.)
But seriously, the awards will be presented during the Melbourne Writers' Festival, on Friday 28th August at 7:00pm. The venue: Festival Club, Australian Centre for the Moving Image on Flinders Street. The event is free, so be early, find a spot by the bar and make friends with a brew or two. I'll be the ugly one down the back.
