Fiction - Lovesong by Alex Miller; Parrot and Olivier in America by Peter Carey; The World Beneath by Cate Kennedy; Summertime by J M Coetzee; Come Inside by G L Osborne.
Non-Fiction - The Lost Mother by Anne Summers; Listening To Country by Ros Moriarty; Ten Hail Marys by Kate Howarth; Flying With Paper Wings by Sandy Jeffs; Otherland by Maria Tumarkin.
Poetry - Taller When Prone by Les Murray; Authentic Local by Pam Brown; Wimmera by Homer Rieth; A Whistled Bit of Bop by Ken Bolton; Pirate Rain by Jennifer Maiden.
The winners will be announced at the Melbourne Writers Festival (25 Aug - 04 Sept)
