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FICTION BOOK AWARD



EMERGING QUEENSLAND AUTHOR - MANUSCRIPT AWARD

  • 2005 ''The Long Road of the Junkmailer'' by Patrick Holland

  • 2004 ''An Accidental Terrorist'' by Steven Lang

  • 2003 ''The Kingdome Where Nobody Dies'' by Kimberley Starr

  • 2002 '' The Lambing Flat '' by Nerida Newton

  • 2001 ''Mama Kuma: One Woman, Two Cultures'' by Deborah Carlyon

  • 2000 ''The Bone Flute'' by Nicole Bourke

  • 1999 ''Shoelaces'' by Jillian Watkinson



UNPUBLISHED INDIGENOUS WRITER - THE DAVID UNAIPON AWARD

  • 2005 Anonymous Premonition by Yvette Holt

  • 2004 Dust on Waterglass by Tara June Winch



NON-FICTION BOOK AWARD

  • 2005 Papunya - A Place Made After the Story by Geoffrey Bardon and James Bardon

  • 2004 A Death in Brazil by Peter Robb

  • 2003 Meeting of the Waters by Margaret Simons

  • 2002 The Boyds: A Family Biography by Dr Brenda Niall

  • 2001 A Fine and Private Place by Brian Matthews



HISTORY BOOK AWARD

  • 2005 The Sounds of Slavery: Discovering African History Through Songs, Sermons and Speech by Shane White and Graham White

  • 2004 Dancing with Strangers by Inga Clendinnen

  • 2003 Mussolini by Professor Richard Bosworth

  • 2002 Gallipoli by Les Carlyon

  • 2001 The Colonial Earth by Tim Bonyhady

  • 2000 JohnCurtin: A Life by David Day

  • 1999 The Sky Travellers by Bil Gammage



CHILDREN'S BOOK AWARD

  • 2005 Camel Rider by Prue Mason

  • 2004 Dragonkeeper by Carole Wilkinson

  • 2003 Rain May and Captain Daniel by Catherine Bateson

  • 2002 Blat Magic by Michael Stephens

  • 2001 Fox by Margaret Wild and Ron Brooks

  • 2000 The Family Tree by Jane Godwin

  • 1999 Unseen by Paul Jennings



YOUNG ADULT BOOK AWARD

  • 2005 Secret Scribbled Notebooks by Joanne Horniman

  • 2004 How to Make a Bird by Martine Murray

  • 2003 Boys of Blood and Bone by David Metzenthen

  • 2002 When Dogs Cry by Markus Zusak



SCIENCE WRITERS - DEPARTMENT OF STATE DEVELOPMENT, TRADE AND INNOVATION AWARD

  • 2005 Stem Cells by Elizabeth Finkel

  • 2004 Genius of Junk by Sonya Pemberton



POETRY COLLECTION - ARTS QUEENSLAND JUDITH WRIGHT CALANTHE AWARD

  • 2005 The Ship by Sarah Day

  • 2004 Wolf Notes by Judith Beveridge



AUSTRALIAN SHORT STORY COLLECTION - ARTS QUEENSLAND STEELE RUDD AWARD

  • 2005 Vincenzo's Garden by John Clancy

  • 2004 Mahjar by Eva Sallis



LITERARY WORK ADVANCING PUBLIC DEBATE - THE HARRY WILLIAMS AWARD

  • 2005 Sickness in the System by Hedley Thomas

  • 2004 The History Wars by Stuart Macintyre and Anna Clark

  • 2003 Dark Victory by David Marr and Marian Wilkinson

  • 2002 In Denial: The Stolen Generations and the Right by Robert Manne and Reconciliation: A Journey by Michael Gordon

  • 2001 Borderline: Australia's Treatment of Refugees and Asylum Seekers by Peter Mares and Dossier Inside the ABC by David Fagan and Dossier Team

  • 2000 Why Weren't We Told by Henry Reynolds

  • 1999 The Moment the Laughter Died by Tony Koch



FILM SCRIPT - THE PACIFIC FILM AND TELEVISION COMMISSION AWARD



TELEVISION SCRIPT - QUT CREATIVE INDUSTRIES AWARD

  • 2005 RAN: Remote Area Nurse - Episode 5 - Blue Hawaii by Sue Smith

  • 2004 The Cooks - Ep 12. Series 1 - Honey and Wounds by Blake Ayshford



DRAMA SCRIPT (STAGE) AWARD

  • 2005 Black Hands/Dead Section by Van Badham

  • 2004 Run Rabbit Run by Alana Valentine

  • 2003 Last Cab to Darwin by Reg Cribb

  • 2002 Old Masters by Beatrix Christian

  • 2001 Meat Party by Duong Le Quy

  • 2000 Box the Pony by Leah Purcell and Scott Rankin

  • 1999 Who's Afraid of the Working Class by Andrew Bovell, Melissa Reeves, Patricia Cornelius and Christos Tsiolkas



ENCOURAGEMENT AND DEVELOPMENT PRIZE

  • 2005 The Comfort of Figs by Simon Cleary



EXTERNAL LINKS

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