OUR 2018 PARTNERS 02 AND PATRONS AND A MESSAGE FROM THE MELBOURNE PRIZE TRUST 04 ABOUT THE FINALIST EXHIBITION 06 2018 PRIZES AND AWARDS 08 GOVERNMENT PARTNERS 12 JUDGES 16 MELBOURNE PRIZE ALUMNI MELBOURNE PRIZE 18 FOR LITERATURE 2018 26 BEST WRITING AWARD 2018 38 READINGS RESIDENCY AWARD 2018 ACKNOWLEDGEMENT AND ABOUT 44 THE MELBOURNE PRIZE TRUST Thank you to our 2018 partners and patrons THANK YOU TO OUR 2018 A MESSAGE FROM PARTNERS AND PATRONS Melbourne Prize for Best Writing Reading Residency THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR Government Partners Patrons Literature 2018 Partners Award 2018 Sole Patron Award 2018 OF THE MELBOURNE PRIZE TRUST

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Melbourne Prize for Best Writing Reading Residency _ THE MELBOURNE PRIZE for Literature 2018 & Awards has had a record ExhibitionGovernment Partners & Event Patrons Literature 2018 Partners Award 2018 Sole Patron Award 2018 year, which is testament to the abundant literary talent we have in Civic Choice Award 2018 Partner Creative Partners Victoria across all writing genres. AS A UNSECO City of Literature, Marc Besen AC Partner _ & Eva Besen AO Melbourne and Victoria have a vibrant and creative literary sector. The Melbourne Prize for Literature 2018 & “THE MELBOURNE Awards positions Melbourne and Victoria Diana Gibson AO as a place of opportunity for writers and demonstrates the importance of recognising Exhibition & Event BOOKSPRIZE FOR and rewarding talent across all literary Civic Choice Award 2018 Partner Creative Partners Corporate Partners Marc Besen AC Partner genres. This year marks the 14th anniversary & Eva Besen AO Exhibition Signage & AV Print Partners LITERATURE of the annual Melbourne Prize. _ THIS YEAR'S PROGRAM would not be possible without the Diana Gibson AO 2018 & AWARDS support of our 2018 partners and patrons, for which we remain most appreciative. This year Media Communications BOOKS Corporate Partners D C we will offer the $60,000 Melbourne Prize Exhibition Signage & AV Print Partners POSITIONS for Literature 2018, $30,000 Best Writing Award 2018 and the new $7,500 Readings Founding Partners MELBOURNE Residency Award 2018. All finalists will Media Communications D C have the opportunity of winning the $4,000 Exhibition Consultant IT Services AND VICTORIA Civic Choice Award—voting is now open Founding Partners at melbourneprize.org _ FEDERATION SQUARE Wine Partner The Mighty Wonton CONTINUE as our much-valued exhibition Exhibition Consultant IT Services AS A PLACE OF and event partner. At the finalist exhibition Names24 from 12-26 November, the work of all 18 The Mighty Wonton Wine Partner OPPORTUNITY finalists will be showcased along with a Professional Services Awards CateringNames24 Banners Trophies free exhibition catalogue. _ THE DEDICATION FOR WRITERS.” OF our 2018 judges is greatly appreciated. Professional Services Awards Catering Banners Trophies Congratulations to all finalists._ THE ANNUAL MELBOURNE Prize is supported by the Victorian Government through Creative Victoria, the City of Melbourne and our Partners and Patrons. _ THE 2018 PROGRAM continues the objectives of the Melbourne Prize Trust to recognise and reward Victorian writers across all genres. _ I WOULD LIKE to take this opportunity to thank all applicants this year, plus the Victorian literary sector, for their generous support. Creative direction direction and designand design by Cornwell, by Cornwell, visuals by MR.P visuals by MR.P a founding supporter a founding supporter SIMON WARRENDER EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR AND FOUNDER MELBOURNE PRIZE TRUST AND ANNUAL MELBOURNE PRIZE MELBOURNEPRIZE.ORG

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Flinders St _ I AM DELIGHTED to welcome the Melbourne Prize _ FEDERATION SQUARE REFLECTS FLINDERS STREET back to Federation Square. It is a vital part of and cultivates Melbourne’s our arts calendar and we are pleased to, once pre-eminence as a centre for again, support this important cultural event. creativity and innovation. As Melbourne’s iconic meeting place, Federation The team at Federation Square Square is the perfect venue to showcase is dedicated to working with FLINDERS STREET extraordinary artistic talent. We are proud to artists and creative practitioners ACMI Atrium be an Exhibition and Events partner of the to create provocative works Melbourne Prize for Literature 2018, and it is that respond specifically to wonderful to be able to provide our visitors with the unique physical and social this exciting opportunity to engage with the arts. environment that is Melbourne’s meeting place. _ FEDERATION JONATHAN TRIBE SQUARE IS the exhibition and CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER NGV FEDERATION SQUARE PTY LTD events partner and ‘home’ of the annual Melbourne Prize. C _ TOGETHER WITH THE annual X

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MELBOURNE PRIZE READINGS RESIDENCY FOR LITERATURE 2018 AWARD 2018 _ THE $60,000 MELBOURNE Prize for Literature 2018 is open to all _ THE NEW READINGS Residency Award 2018 is for an early career literary genres and is awarded to a Victorian author whose Victorian author and is open to all literary genres. It includes body of published work has made an outstanding contribution a residency at The University of Melbourne’s Norma Redpath Studio to and to cultural and intellectual life. and an affiliation with the School of Culture and Communication. _ THE MELBOURNE PRIZE is supported by Principal Partner $5,000 supported by Readings. The Vera Moore Foundation, The Tallis Foundation and The Melbourne Prize Trust.

BEST WRITING CIVIC CHOICE AWARD 2018 AWARD 2018 _ THE $30,000 BEST Writing Award 2018 is open to all literary _ EACH OF THE finalists across all awards categories will also be in genres and awarded to a Victoria author for a work, published the running for the publically-voted $4,000 Civic Choice Award between 2015 and 2018, of outstanding clarity, originality 2018. Supported by Hardie Grant Books, the winner will be and creativity. _ THIS AWARD IS supported by its sole patron, determined by popular vote. Voting for the Civic Choice Award 2018 The Robert Salzer Foundation. is open at melbourneprize.org. _ VOTERS WILL HAVE a chance to win an overnight stay at Sofitel Melbourne on Collins, Melbourne's Hotel for the Arts.

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6. 7. A MESSAGE FROM A MESSAGE FROM THE CHIEF EXECUTIVE THE LORD MAYOR OF CREATIVE VICTORIA OF MELBOURNE

_ EACH YEAR THE Melbourne Prize celebrates our _ THE CITY OF Melbourne is proud of the contribution state’s creative strengths and shines a light on made by our creative community of artists, to our brightest creative talents. _ IT IS FITTING that the liveability of our city. _ THE MELBOURNE PRIZE, this year’s Prize focuses on literature. 2018 now in its 14th year, continues to recognise this marks the 10th anniversary of Melbourne’s contribution by rewarding artistic talent and designation as a UNESCO City of Literature— excellence. _ THIS YEAR WE celebrate outstanding a designation that recognises our rich literary entries in literature, with our finalists representing history, our vibrant contemporary literary culture the immense literary talent of Victoria, across all and our strong and diverse community of writers, genres of writing. _ ON THE 10TH anniversary of our publishers, libraries, booksellers and book designation as a UNESCO City of Literature, the lovers. _ THE MELBOURNE PRIZE for Literature is part City of Melbourne is proud to support this prize. of this community, and this year’s finalists are It offers an important financial and professional a roll call of some of our most beloved authors, development to our artists. _ I CONGRATULATE THE alongside writers across a range of genres who finalists and wish all involved every success. have broken through this past decade. _ CREATIVE SALLY CAPP VICTORIA IS proud to be a part of the Melbourne LORD MAYOR Prize story. We congratulate all finalists and hope this year’s list encourages you to explore the many voices that earn us the City of Literature title. Happy reading!

ANDREW ABBOTT CHIEF EXECUTIVE, CREATIVE VICTORIA

“EACH YEAR THE MELBOURNE “THIS YEAR WE CELEBRATE PRIZE CELEBRATES OUR OUTSTANDING ENTRIES STATE’S CREATIVE STRENGTHS IN LITERATURE.” AND SHINES A LIGHT ON OUR BRIGHTEST CREATIVE TALENTS.”

8. 9. CELEBRATING 15 YEARS OF CREATIVE ENDEAVOUR WITH CORNWELL. VISUALISATIONS COURTESY OF MR.P STUDIOS. 10. 11. 2018 ANDREA MARIEKE JUDGES GOLDSMITH HARDY PANEL

_ THE WRITTEN WORD is flourishing in the State _ JUDGING A LITERARY competition can be a fraught _ WHAT A PRIVILEGE and joy it is to immerse of Victoria. This year, there was a record process, and stories abound about battles in oneself in the myriad creative gifts of number of entries over the three categories the judging room. This was not the experience of Melbourne’s best writers. Through establishing for the Melbourne Prize for Literature 2018 judging the 2018 Melbourne Prize for Literature. the Melbourne Prize for Literature, the Trust and Awards. The writers revealed a diversity It was a pleasure to read such a diversity of has allowed not only the nurturing and of background and interest, and the styles of writing across all the disciplines, and to consider recognition of emerging literary talent, but writing covered the entire range of traditional the wealth on offer with my esteemed and fine- celebration of some of Melbourne’s most to experimental. _ THE JUDGES WERE particularly humoured fellow judges—equally diverse in established and esteemed authors, playwrights impressed with the depth of literary experience, both literary and otherwise. _ I WAS and poets. _ I AM HONOURED to have been a part of imagination revealed in this year’s entries. DELIGHTED to discover many new writers, as well the robust discussion around the prize shortlist It was both a privilege and a pleasure to be as to celebrate the extraordinary creativity and warmly congratulate all participants in involved, and we thank all the entrants. Our of so many established authors. The breadth the writing community. You do good work and congratulations to the short-listed authors. and richness of creative writing in Victoria we see you. is astonishing, and the Melbourne Prize for JUDGES' STATEMENT 2018 Literature serves to highlight this.

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WRITER 12.12. 13. NAM MICHAEL KHALID LE WILLIAMS WARSAME

_ IT WAS A pleasure and honour to judge the _ EVERY THREE YEARS, the Melbourne Prize for _ IT'S BEEN SUCH a tremendous pleasure and honour Melbourne Prize this year. I enjoyed reading Literature acts as a powerful reminder of the to be one of the judges this year for the Melbourne “THE DEPTH across genres—fiction, non-fiction, plays, extraordinary voices—novelists and poets, Prize. More than anything, the judging process screenplays, poetry—and observing the ways journalists and playwrights, memoirists and has reiterated for me just how much vibrant and OF LITERARY in which subject and song were refracted writers for children—who tell our stories and utterly compelling writers there are living and across different forms. It’s been a particularly shape our understanding of who we are. This working in Victoria. It was a true labour of love IMAGINATION strong three years, I reckon, for Victorian poetry. year’s shortlists (and winners) once again testify reading the entries, rediscovering old favourites to the compassionate, deeply humanistic and _ MOSTLY, I’M GLAD to have been introduced to as well as exciting new writers. _ MY FELLOW JUDGES so many new writers. Here’s hoping the Prize exhilarating surprises to be found in the writing and I were absolutely blown away by many entries [WAS] REVEALED I’VE ALWAYS BEEN kicks on for years! from our City of Literature. _ guilty and it was truly difficult to whittle down the many, of judging people I meet by the books they have on many amazing entries into a shortlist. More than IN THIS YEAR’S their shelves: forget eyes being the window to the anything, I'm excited for the future of the literature soul, it’s your reading tastes that give you away. By in this country: if the entrants to the Melbourne ENTRIES that measure, Melbourne is curious, activist, wise Prize are any indication, it's an exciting time to be .” and kind. Judging this prize is a mammoth and consuming task, but it is also a privilege and a reader in Victoria. a treat. I’m glad I chose it over having a life.

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TROPHIES—HAND CAST BY FUNDERE FINE ART FOUNDRY MELBOURNE, DESIGN BY CORNWELL. 16. 1 7. MELBOURNE PRIZE FOR LITERATURE 2018 _ THE $60,000 MELBOURNE Prize for Literature 2018 is open to all literary genres and is awarded to a Victorian author whose body of published work has made an outstanding contribution to Australian literature and to cultural and intellectual life. _ THE MELBOURNE PRIZE is supported by Principal Partner The Vera Moore Foundation, The Tallis Foundation and The Melbourne Prize Trust.

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18. 19. GIDEON ALISON HAIGH LESTER GIDEONHAIGH.COM ALISONLESTER.COM

_ GIDEON HAIGH WAS born in London, brought LITERARY CAREER up in Geelong and lives in Melbourne, where PHOTO BY: he has been a journalist since the age of 18, CHRIS GROENHOUT contributing to more than 100 newspapers and magazines, writing 37 books and editing seven others. He has won premier’s literary awards in three states, two Waverley Library Prizes, a Ned CELEBRATE Kelly Award and seven Australian Cricket Society “MY BOOKS Literary Awards. His work now appears mainly OUR WORLD AND THE in The Australian and The Times. “ I HOPE I’M A BETTER JOURNALIST He is a life member of South Yarra PEOPLE IN IT, AND I CC, where he has been playing for THAN I WAS A YEAR AGO; I’D LIKE TO twenty-five years. LOVE SEEING CHILDREN BE BETTER STILL A YEAR HENCE.” STAND A BIT TALLER AS READING AND WRITING AWAKENS THEIR SELF-BELIEF.” The Cricket War: The Inside Story of Kerry Packer’s World Series Cricket, Text (1993) KEY PUBLISHED WORKS The Summer Game: Australian cricket in the 1950s and 1960s, Text (1996) _ ALISON IS ONE of Australia’s most beloved creators Mystery Spinner: The Story of Jack Iverson, of children’s books. In a career spanning more LITERARY CAREER Penguin Random House (1999) than thirty years and forty books, she has delighted generations of children in Australia Asbestos House: The Secret History of James and all over the world. Her books mix imaginary Hardie Industries, Hardie Industries, Scribe (2006) worlds with everyday life, encouraging children The Quicksand Pony, Allen and Unwin (1997) KEY PUBLISHED The Racket: How Abortion Became Legal in to believe in themselves and celebrate the Magic Beach, Allen and Unwin (1990) Australia, MUP (2009) WORKS differences that make them special. _ SHE IS AN Imagine, Allen and Unwin (1990) On Warne, Penguin Random House (2012) ambassador for the Indigenous Literacy Foundation, Are We There Yet?, Penguin Australia (2004) The Office: A Hardworking History, MUP (2012) the Melbourne Royal Children’s Hospital’s Education Institute, the Clean Ocean Foundation Noni the Pony, Allen and Unwin (2010) Certain Admissions: A Beach, a Body and a Lifetime and Buk Bilong Pikinini, and in 2012 became One Small Island, Penguin Australia (2011) of Secrets, Penguin Random House (2015) Australia’s first Children’s Laureate, with Boori Sophie Scott goes South, Penguin Australia (2012) Stroke of Genius: Victor Trumper and the Shot that Monty Pryor. In 2016, Alison was awarded the Changed Cricket, Penguin Random House (2017) Dromkeen Medal for her outstanding achievement Kissed by the Moon, Penguin Australia (2013) A Scandal in Bohemia: The Life and Death in the creation of Australian children’s literature. My Dog Bigsy, Penguin Australia (2015) of Mollie Dean, Penguin Random House (2018) _ ALISON LIVES ON a farm in the Victorian countryside. The Very Noisy Baby, Affirm Press (2017) She spends part of each year travelling to schools NOMINATED BY: around Australia, helping students and teachers NOMINATED BY: PENGUINRANDOMHOUSE.COM.AU develop their own stories. PENGUINRANDOMHOUSE.COM.AU

20. 21. CHRISTOS ALEXIS TSIOLKAS WRIGHT CHRISTOSTSIOLKAS.COM.AU

_ IS a member of the Waanyi PHOTO BY: LITERARY CAREER nation of the southern highlands of the Gulf of JOHN TSIAVIS Carpentaria. The author of the prize-winning novels Carpentaria and The Swan Book, Wright has published three works of non-fiction: Take Power, an oral history of the Central Land Council; Grog War, a study of alcohol abuse in the Northern Territory; and Tracker, an award- winning collective memoir of Aboriginal leader, Tracker Tilmouth. _ HER BOOKS HAVE been published widely overseas, including in China, the US, the UK, Italy, France and Poland. Alexis holds the A YOUNG WOMAN position of the Boisbouvier Chair “WITHOUT THE SUPPORT “WHEN I WAS in Australian Literature at the I WAS GIVEN THE ROLE AS SCRIBE University of Melbourne. Wright AND ENCOURAGEMENT is the only author to win both the BY MY ELDERS—NOT THE ROLE I (in 2007 for AND THE STORYTELLING Carpentaria) and the Stella Prize WOULD HAVE CHOSEN FOR MYSELF, (in 2018 for Tracker). _ CHRISTOS TSIOLKAS IS a fiction writer, an essayist, TRADITIONS FROM HIS a playwright and a screenwriter. His novels have BUT IT MADE ME A WRITER.” been published in over twenty languages and PARENTS, HE COULD his novels and short stories have been adapted for both stage and screen. Christos is a proud NEVER HAVE BECOME supporter of the Richmond Football Club, an THE WRITER HE NOW IS.” ambassador for the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre and a patron of Writers Victoria. He is the film reviewer for The Saturday Paper. LITERARY CAREER

Loaded, Random House (1995) KEY PUBLISHED Plains of Promise, UQP (1997) WORKS Jump Cuts, Random House (1996) KEY PUBLISHED The Jesus Man, Random House (1999) Grog War, Magabala (1997) WORKS The Devil’s Playground, Currency Press (2003) Take Power, Like This Old Man Here: An anthology of writings celebrating twenty Dead Europe, Random House (2005) years of land rights in Central Australia, The Slap, Allen and Unwin (2008) 1977–1997, IAD (1998) Barracuda, Allen and Unwin (2013) Carpentaria, Giramondo (2006) Merciless Gods, Allen and Unwin (2014) The Swan Book, Giramondo (2013) On Patrick White, Black Inc (2017) Tracker, Giramondo (2017)

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“ ALL MY WRITING IS BASED ON AN INITIAL SENSE OF CURIOSITY FOLLOWED BY A DESIRE TO WRITE IN ORDER TO MAKE SENSE OF THE WORLD.”

_ TONY BIRCH IS a well-known Australian academic, poet, short-story writer and novelist. He is LITERARY CAREER currently the recipient of the Victoria University Bruce McGuinness Indigenous Postdoctoral Research Fellowship. He is the author of Ghost River (2015), which won the Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for Indigenous Writing, and Blood (2011), which was shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Award. He is also the author of Shadowboxing (2006), and three short story collections, Father’s Day (2009), The Promise (2014) and Common People (2017). _ HIS FICTION AND non-fiction writing has been published widely in literary magazines and anthologies, both in Australia and internationally. Shadowboxing, Scribe (2006) KEY PUBLISHED WORKS Father’s Day, Hunger Publishers (2009) Blood, UQP (2011) The Promise, UQP (2014) Ghost River, UQP (2015) Common People, UQP (2017)

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24. 25. BEST WRITING AWARD 2018 _ THE $30,000 BEST Writing Award 2018 is open to all literary genres and awarded to a Victorian author for a work, published between 2015 and 2018, of outstanding clarity, originality and creativity. _ THIS AWARD IS supported by its sole patron, The Robert Salzer Foundation.

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26. 2 7. JUDITH ANGUS BISHOP CERINI JUDITHBISHOP.NET

_ ANGUS CERINI IS a writer, performer and theatre _ IN A DIRT-DRY town in rural Australia, a shot maker. His work has been performed throughout ABOUT shatters the still night. A mother and her Australia and internationally. In Australia his work ENTERED WORK daughters have just welcomed home the man of has been produced by companies including the the house – with a crack in the shins and a bullet Melbourne Theatre Company, Sydney Theatre in the neck. The only issue now is disposing of the Company, Griffin Theatre Company, Malthouse body. Triggered into thrilling motion by an act of Theatre, Arena Theatre Company, Arts Centre revenge, The Bleeding Tree is rude, rhythmical and Melbourne, Sydney Opera House and widely irreverently funny. _ A MURDER BALLAD blown up for within the independent sector including at the stage, set against a deceptively deadly Aussie LaMama theatre. _ HIS PLAYS INCLUDE The Bleeding backdrop, with three fierce females fighting back. Tree, Save for Crying, Resplendence, Filch, and The Bleeding Tree was developed with the support Wretch. These works have been recognized with of Playwriting Australia (in association with the awards including The Victorian Premiers Literary University of Sydney) and Creative Victoria. It won Award, the NSW Premiers Literary Award, the Griffin Play Prize and directed by Lee Lewis The Patrick White Playwrights’ Award, the it premiered with Griffin Theatre in Sydney. It Griffin Play Prize, the David Williamson Prize, has since enjoyed return seasons with Sydney an AWGIE award, RE Ross Prize and Melbourne Theatre Company, and toured within Australia – Green Room Awards. LITERARY CAREER including to Arts Centre Melbourne. _ EVOKING LOVE ACROSS time, space and species, ABOUT Interval conveys the delight and risk that comes GRIFFINTHEATRE.COM.AU ENTERED WORK with “human consonance”—the marvellous, “I KNOCKED HIS KNEES indeed, miraculous, way that two minds and two beings resonate with one another. The presence OUT. I CONKED HIS HEAD. on the page of the trace of a human mind— _ JUDITH’S AWARDS FOR poetry include the Peter its precise communication across time and I SHOT THAT HOUSE Porter Poetry Prize (2006, 2011) and the Marten LITERARY CAREER distance—remains a kind of magic. Close Bequest Travelling Scholarship (2002-2004). connection matters deeply to this poet, both CLOWN IN THE NECK.” Her previous publications include Event (Salt from a poetic and ecological point of view. QUOTE FROM Publishing, 2007), which won the FAW Anne Elder _ THESE POEMS TRACK the silence before and after THE BLEEDING award, and was shortlisted for the CJ Dennis events both personal and global: two births; two TREE (2015) Prize, the Judith Wright Calanthe Award, and deaths; emerging revolutions in technology that the ASAL Mary Gilmore Prize, and Aftermarks will alter what it means to be human; this liminal (Vagabond Press, 2012). _ HER ESSAY O Brave time for climate change. Fierce in their desire New World That Has Such Data In’t: Love and for intimacy and presence, Interval’s poems Self-Understanding in an Algorithmic Age was cannot release the past, even as they speed longlisted for the 2018 Calibre Prize. She is into our own uncertain future. Director of Linguistic Services at Appen and lives with her family in Melbourne. UQP.EDU.AU

QUOTE FROM INTERVAL (2018) “COME NEAR, LET ME SENSE YOU, IN THIS HUMAN WAY WE HAVE—FOR NOW AND NOT FOREVER.” 28. 29. KATE BRIOHNY COLE-ADAMS DOYLE KATECOLEADAMS.COM BRIOHNY-DOYLE.COM

_ BRIOHNY DOYLE’S FICTION, poetry and criticism _ BRIOHNY DOYLE TURNED thirty with no idea PHOTO BY: has appeared in The Sunday Times, The Age, ABOUT what her adult life should look like. PETER The Lifted Brow, Overland, and Meanjin. She ENTERED WORK The world she lived in, characterised by KENNEALLY has performed at the Sydney Festival, and the economic and environmental uncertainty, MCA, Sydney. Her 2017 non-fiction book Adult political conservatism, and precarious Fantasy (Scribe) has drawn comparisons with employment, didn’t match the one her parents Ariel Levy and Maggie Nelson. The Island Will had known. Every day she read editorials Sink, her critically acclaimed debut novel, describing her millennial cohort—dubbed the was the first title from Brow Books in 2016. ‘Peter Pan generation’—as reluctant to embrace _ IN 2017, BRIOHNY was an Endeavour scholarship traditional markers of adulthood: recipient and resident at Yale University, and a stable career, a house in the suburbs, the University of California, Santa Cruz. She is a nuclear family. _ BUT DO THESE emblems of currently a lecturer in the Writing and Literature maturity mean the same thing today as they Group at Deakin University. did thirty years ago? In a smart and spirited enquiry, Doyle examines whether millennials BRIOHNY-DOYLE.COM LITERARY CAREER are redefining what it means to be an adult. Blending personal essay and cultural critique, she ventures into the big claims of philosophy _ UNTIL A HUNDRED and seventy years ago many and the neon buzz of pop culture to ask: ABOUT people chose death over the ordeal of surgery. “ I PICTURED MYSELF A in a rapidly changing world, do the so- ENTERED WORK Now hundreds of thousands undergo operations called adult milestones distract us from every day. Anaesthesia has made it possible. WINE-DARK STREAK IN A TV other measures of maturity? _ BUT HOW MUCH do we really know about what happens to us on the operating table? Can we DESERT, EARS TOO FULL OF THE SCRIBEPUBLICATIONS.COM.AU _ KATE COLE-ADAMS is a Melbourne-based writer hear what’s going on around us? Is pain still pain SUMMER WIND TO HEAR THAT and journalist. Her book, Anaesthesia: The Gift LITERARY CAREER if we are not awake to feel it, or don’t remember of Oblivion and the Mystery of Consciousness it afterwards? How does the unconscious mind OMINOUS TICKING IN THE SKY: is a personal, journalistic and philosophical deal with the body’s experience of being cut open exploration of what happens when we go under. It and ransacked? And how can we help ourselves A CULTURAL CLOCK COUNTING won the 2017 Mark and Evette Moran Nib Literary through it? _ HAUNTING, LYRICAL, SOMETIMES shattering, Award, was shortlisted for the 2018 Victorian Anaesthesia leavens science with personal ME OUT OF YOUTH.” Premier’s Literary Award for Non-fiction and experience to bring an intensely human curiosity QUOTE FROM longlisted for the 2018 Stella Prize. KATE’S 2008 to the unknowable realm beyond consciousness. _ ADULT FANTASY NOVEL, Walking to the Moon, was shortlisted for (2017) the 2006 Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards for TEXTPUBLISHING.COM.AU an Unpublished Manuscript. She is fascinated by unconscious processes and other things she can’t understand. She writes very slowly.

QUOTE FROM ANAESTHESIA (2017) “LIKE DEATH, YOU GO THERE ALONE; AND, LIKE BIRTH, YOU EMERGE SEEMINGLY EMPTY-HANDED.” 30. 31. MARIA SARAH TUMARKIN KRASNOSTEIN SARAHKRASNOSTEIN.COM

_ MARIA TUMARKIN WRITES books, reviews, essays and _THE PAST SHAPES the present – they teach us that in pieces for performance and radio. Her latest book ABOUT schools and universities. (Shapes? Infiltrates, more PHOTO BY: is Axiomatic. She collaborates with visual artists, ENTERED WORK like; imbues, infuses.) This past cannot be visited GINA MILICIA psychologists and historians and her work has like an ageing aunt. It doesn’t live in little zoo been published, performed, carved into dockside enclosures. Half the time, this past is nothing less tiles, and set to music. Maria holds a PhD in than the present’s beating heart. How to speak cultural history from the University of Melbourne, of its aliveness? Stories are not enough, history & where she teaches in the creative writing program. LITERARY CAREER psychology—not enough. _ IN AXIOMATIC MY starting point is five axioms: ‘Time Heals All Wounds’, ‘Those Who Forget the Past are Condemned to Repeat It’, ‘History Repeats Itself’, ‘Give Me a Child Before the Age of Seven...’, ‘You Can’t Enter The Same River Twice’. In this book I am not: a debunker, an apologist, a historian, a social commentator. I take the axioms as deep “I THINK, SHIT, IT’S WHAT WE ACTUALLY statements about our world and our times (they DO, ISN’T IT? WE—WRITERS. WE LIFT are also the crustiest of A BIT OFF. WE CARRY SOME CORNER clichés, part of the culture’s furniture). _ BEFORE SHE WAS a trauma cleaner, Sandra OF IT SOME OF THE WAY. WE ASK ABOUT Pankhurst was many things: husband and THELIFTEDBROW.COM ENTERED WORK father, drag queen, gender reassignment WITHOUT ASKING,WOULD ANYTHING patient, sex worker, small businesswoman, trophy wife. _ BUT AS A little boy, raised in violence MAKE IT LIGHTER?” _ SARAH KRASNOSTEIN IS a writer, lecturer and a legal and excluded from the family home, she just researcher with a doctorate in criminal law. She LITERARY CAREER wanted to belong. Now she believes her clients QUOTE FROM was born in America, studied in Melbourne and A WOMAN WHO AXIOMATIC deserve no less. _ sleeps among (2018) has lived and worked in both countries. garbage she has not put out for forty years. A man who bled quietly to death in his loungeroom. A woman who lives with rats, random debris and terrified delusion. The still life of a home vacated by accidental overdose. _ SARAH KRASNOSTEIN HAS watched the extraordinary Sandra Pankhurst bring order and care to these, the living and the dead—and the book she has written is equally extraordinary. Not just the compelling story of a fascinating life among lives of desperation, but an affirmation that, as isolated as we may feel, we are all in this together.

QUOTE FROM TEXTPUBLISHING.COM.AU THE TRAUMA CLEANER (2017) “BUT THE DIFFERENCE IS THIS PHONE CALL. AND THE OTHERS LIKE IT I COULD MAKE. AND HOW STRONG WE ARE WHEN WE ARE LOVED.” 32. 33. LOUISE JOCK MILLIGAN SERONG TWITTER.COM/MILLIGANREPORTS TEXTPUBLISHING.COM.AU/AUTHORS/JOCKSERONG

_ JOCK SERONG’S DEBUT novel Quota won the _ ON THE JAVA Ridge, skipper Isi Natoli and a 2015 Ned Kelly Award for Best First Crime LITERARY CAREER group of Australian surf tourists are anchored Novel. In 2016, his second novel, The Rules off the Indonesian island of Dana. In the of Backyard Cricket was shortlisted for the Canberra office of Cassius Calvert, Minister for Victorian Premier’s Literary Award. _ HIS THIRD Border Integrity, a federal election looms and a NOVEL On the Java Ridge was published in hardline new policy on asylum-seekers is being 2017 and won the 2018 Colin Roderick Award. rolled out. _ NOT FAR FROM Dana, the Takalar is Formerly a lawyer, Jock is now a feature writer having engine trouble. Among the passengers and was the editor of Great Ocean Quarterly. on board fleeing from persecution are Roya He lives with his wife and four children in and her mother, and Roya’s unborn sister. THE _ Port Fairy, Victoria. ABOUT STORM NOW closing in on the Takalar and the Java ENTERED WORK Ridge will mean catastrophe for them all.

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“ THEY WERE UP HIGH FOR AN INSTANT, THE RAIN IN THE _ LOUISE MILLIGAN IS an investigative reporter for the ABC TV Four Corners program. AIR AROUND THEM. THEN THE FURIOUS WATER DESCENDED AND THE NIGHT DISAPPEARED.”

QUOTE FROM ON THE JAVA RIDGE (2017)

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_ A. FRANCES JOHNSON is a poet, novelist and artist _ MY NEW COLLECTION extends themes touched on in PHOTO BY: and is Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at LITERARY CAREER The Wind-up Birdman of Moorabool Street (2012). MATTHEW WREN the University of Melbourne, where she teaches Satirical poems reflect with tenderness, anger and Poetry and Poetics and Contemporary irony on the ways humans chronicle, construct and Eco-fictions.Rendition for Harp & Kalashnikov war upon their natural environments. Rendition puns is her third book of poetry (Puncher and Wattman on the idea of a song lyric, translation, surrender and 2017). The Wind-up Birdman of Moorabool also torture. In anti-pastoral, anti-war poems, human Street (Puncher and Wattmann) won the 2012 beings appear tragically marginalised, lost or held too Michel Wesley Wright Prize. In 2015 she won close. I wanted cautionary ecocritical threnodies to sit the Griffith University-Josephine Ulrick Poetry alongside personal elegies and historically themed Prize for her suite, The Book of Interdictions and, free-verse political poems to suggest a world awash in 2017, received an Australia Council residency with interlinked maladies, as if to say that human (B. R. Whiting Studio) in Rome. Her post-colonial beings must recalibrate love, death, survival and novel, Eugene’s Falls (Arcadia 2007), retraced the history as matters of urgency. _ FOR PART ONE (Soar), Victorian journeys of colonial painter Eugene von I researched drone technology and the devastating Guerard, and two associated solo exhibitions environmental impacts of war. Shelley’s west wind interrogated the construction of knowledge becomes a problem of national emergency; images

discourse around colonial landscape, agriculture ABOUT of drones and border security meld with parodic _ PAUL ROBESON WAS a prize-winning scholar and and botany (Geelong Gallery 2010, 2015). ENTERED WORK romantic imaging of nature. Landscape and tropes ABOUT the greatest footballer of his era, even before of the natural world are shown as subjects of loss ENTERED WORK he ascended to global superstardom as a singer, and abandonment. In part two (Sore), different Hollywood actor and activist. The son of an “THIS BOOK OF APOCALYPTIC sorrows are contemplated. A series of elegies deploy escaped slave, Robeson stunned audiences parodic techniques in order to resist sentimental with Ol’ Man River and Othello, as his passion POEMS OFFERS US A WORLD lamentation. The dead are mourned, but death itself _ JEFF SPARROW IS a writer, editor and broadcaster. for social justice led him from Jazz Age Harlem is de-reverenced, shown as capable of its own ironies LITERARY CAREER TRANSFORMED BY CRUELTY He writes a regular column for The Guardian to the mining towns of Wales, from the frontiers and clever tricks. Part three (Saw) shows history and and contributes regularly to many other of the Spanish Civil War to Stalin’s Russia. AND WAR, YET THESE POEMS culture under pressure; free-verse poems perform publications, as well as being a member of _ CHARISMATIC, ELOQUENT, AND handsome, he had time-travelling acts of witness, representing the past the 3RRR Breakfasters radio team. Jeff is the everything—and then lost it all for the sake of ARE HAUNTED EQUALLY anew to our troubled zeitgeist. immediate past editor of the literary and his principles. _ JEFF SPARROW TRACES Robeson’s cultural journal Overland, and the author of troubled life and stellar career, in a story that BY THE BEAUTY AND PUNCHERANDWATTMANN.COM several books, including Trigger Warnings: traverses the arc of the twentieth century and political correctness and the rise of the right, illuminates the fissures of today’s fractured BRUTALITY OF BEING ALIVE.” No Way But This: in search of Paul Robeson, world. From Black Lives Matter to Putin’s United QUOTED Communism: a love story and Russia, Sparrow visits the places Robeson lived REMARKS Killing: misadventures in violence. and worked, exploring race in America, freedom COURTESY OF in Moscow, and the legacies of communism and THE POET MARIA fascism in Europe. TAKOLANDER

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QUOTE FROM NO WAY BUT THIS (2017) “THE ARTIST MUST TAKE SIDES. HE MUST ELECT TO FIGHT FOR FREEDOM OR SLAVERY. I HAVE MADE MY CHOICE. I HAD NO ALTERNATIVE.” 36. 3 7. READINGS RESIDENCY AWARD 2018 _ THE NEW READINGS Residency Award 2018 is for an early career Victorian author and is open to all literary genres. It includes a residency at The University of Melbourne’s Norma Redpath Studio and an affiliation with the School of Culture and Communication. $5,000 supported by Readings.

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38. 39. MICHELINE LEE

_ MICHELINE’S AIM IN the next few years is to complete a book of essays and short stories CAREER that draws from the experience of living with a OBJECTIVE disability. She is fascinated to see the symbolic power that disability holds for people. There are many questions that Micheline wants to explore in her writing around our responses to mortality, vulnerability and difference. _ BEYOND THIS NEXT book, Micheline has not decided what she will write about. She knows however that she will continue to tell stories. She says she needs to do this to make the world intelligible, to connect with other people, and to challenge herself and others to think differently.

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_ MICHELINE LEE WAS born in Malaysia and migrated LITERARY CAREER to Melbourne at the age of eight. She has worked as a writer, artist and human rights advocate. While working as a community legal service lawyer in Darwin, she started painting. Soon she was holding exhibitions internationally. Micheline and her partner adopted a baby boy in Darwin. When they moved back to Melbourne, Micheline “THE HEALING PARTY, A NOVEL, started writing her first published novel after her motor neurone disability slowed WAS PUBLISHED BY BLACK down her painting. Micheline is currently INC IN 2016; AND THE ART OF doing a cross-disciplinary creative writing / DEPENDENCY APPEARS IN THE law PhD at University of Melbourne. BEST AUSTRALIAN ESSAYS 2017.”

40. 41. JAMIE MARINA MARLEE JANE LAU WARD

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_ JAMIE'S CAREER OBJECTIVE is to continue to _ JAMIE MARINA LAU is a writer, artist and author. _ GOOD WRITING DOESN'T always fall neatly into write and produce works which challenge and LITERARY CAREER Her debut novel Pink Mountain on Locust Island CAREER categories; genre is only a device that tells dissect traditional forms of literature by using was published by Brow Books this year at age OBJECTIVE libraries and booksellers where to put your stuff contemporary literary aesthetics, pop-culture 21. _ HER WORK CAN be found in Cordite Literary on a shelf. Marlee Jane's aim as a writer is to and modern inventions and paranoias. _ IT’S VERY Review, Voiceworks, Rookie, Monash’s anthology forge a career that spans genres: speculative, IMPORTANT for Jamie, in the course of her career, ‘Verge’ and Meanjin. She is currently working on literary, young adult and non-fiction. Marlee Jane to constantly be learning through every work her next novel exploring East/West entertainment wants to bridge genres and bring them together, she produces whether that be from the writers industries and ideas of beauty. exploring the personal, the past, the now and the Jamie reads or those she talks to during the future through words rendered from her heart. THELIFTEDBROW.COM development of each work. Jamie hopes to be _ MARLEE JANE WANTS to explore the issues that

publishing predominantly in the novel form and CAREER matter to her. Her aim is to tell stories that young, collections of both short stories and poetry. OBJECTIVE queer, or neurodiverse people can see themselves in, using her own experiences and her own voice to represent these communities on the page. Marlee Jane wants to explore the issues that “MY LITERARY CAREER IS these communities and all communities face now and into the future: late-stage capitalism, FOCUSED ON BEING OPEN climate change, the rise of xenophobia and wilful ignorance. _ MARLEE JANE'S AIM is to continue AND ADAPTIVE.” a trend of exciting and thought-provoking Australian writing with an understanding, through lived experience, of the issues that people on the margins of society have to survive.

_ MARLEE JANE WARD is a writer from Melbourne. Her debut novella, Welcome to Orphancorp, LITERARY CAREER won the Viva La Novella Prize and the Victorian Premier’s Award for YA Fiction. Her short fiction has been published at Interfictions, Terraform, Apex, Aurealis and more. Her non-fiction can be read at Overland, Scum Mag, Kill Your Darlings and Going Down Swinging.

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_ THE ANNUAL MELBOURNE Prize is the most valuable _ ESTABLISHED IN 2004, the Melbourne Prize Trust prize of its kind in Australia and runs in a was established to recognise and reward talent, three-year cycle, which includes the Melbourne excellence and inspire creative development. Prize for Literature (2018), the Melbourne Prize The Trust achieves this aim by running the annual for Music (2019) and the Melbourne Prize for Melbourne Prize, which is funded by a collaboration Urban Sculpture (2020). The annual Melbourne of partners and patrons. The Melbourne Prize Prize is in its 14th year. _ SINCE INCEPTION THE Trust was founded by Simon Warrender with the annual Melbourne Prize has made available support of Committee for approximately $1.5 million in prizes and awards, “THE MELBOURNE Melbourne. The design plus artist residencies, overseas travel, equipment and brand identity is by grants and an annual public exhibition at Federation Cornwell. _ A FULL LIST of Square to Victorian writers, sculptors and musicians. PRIZE TRUST WAS partners and patrons can _ THE PRIZE CELEBRATES artistic be found on page two “THE MELBOURNE excellence under the unique ESTABLISHED TO of this catalogue and at banner of Melbourne. melbourneprize.org. With its focus on Victorian RECOGNISE AND _ THANK YOU TO Committee PRIZE TRUST artists, the Prize provides for Melbourne for making our local creative talent REWARD an office available to the IS THE MOST with significant financial, TALENT, Melbourne Prize Trust. professional development _ THE ORIGINS OF Melbourne VALUABLE PRIZE and exhibition opportunities. EXCELLENCE AND Prize Trust date back to an _THE MAJOR EVENT of the annual earlier project of Simon Melbourne Prize is the free INSPIRE CREATIVE Warrender; The Magic OF ITS KIND.” two-week public exhibition Pudding sculpture of finalists’ work and the prize announcement DEVELOPMENT.” commission and children’s held each November at Federation Square. _ THE garden precinct at the ANNUAL MELBOURNE Prize is supported by the Victorian Royal Botanic Garden Melbourne. The Melbourne Government through Creative Victoria, the City of Prize Trust is a Deductible Gift Recipient and Income Melbourne and our partners and patrons. Thank you. Tax Exempt Charity.

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_ THE GENEROUS SUPPORT of the many partners and patrons _THE CIVIC CHOICE Award 2018 is kindly made possible this year have made it possible to offer the Melbourne Prize by Hardie Grant Books and supported by the Sofitel for Literature 2018 and Awards and the Federation Square Melbourne On Collins. Thank you to the Committee exhibition. Many partners and patrons have been with for Melbourne for making the head office available to the the Prize since inception in 2004. _ THANK YOU TO the many Melbourne Prize Trust. _ OUR PATRONS ARE acknowledged for literary entrants and finalists, whose interest in the prize their generous donations this year. These include major is greatly appreciated in this record year. _ THE MELBOURNE patron The Vera Moore Foundation, Marc Besen AC and PRIZE Trust would like to thank the Victorian Government, Eva Besen AO, Diana Gibson AO, The Yulgilbar Foundation, through Creative Victoria, and the City of Melbourne as our Guillaume and Sylvie Dillée of Dillée Art Consultants Government Partners for their ongoing and generous support. and The Scanlon Foundation. _ THERE ARE A number of _ THANK YOU TO the 2018 judges Andrea Goldsmith, Marieke organisations that provide valued professional services Hardy, Nam Le, Khalid Warsame and Michael Williams for to the annual Melbourne Prize, for which the Trust is their dedication this year. _ THANK YOU TO Melbourne Prize thankful for their generous and ongoing partnership. Trust Directors, Dr Janine Kirk AM, Professor Andrea Hull _ ROYCE PROVIDE STRATEGIC media and communications AO, Clive Scott, Gerard Dalbosco, Pamela Warrender advice, along with Grant Thornton, who undertake the OAM and Anthony Poynton, along with Dr Janine Kirk AM, annual audit of the Trust and its activities. Rothfield Print Anthony Poynton and Simon Warrender as members of the Management, Ellikon and Spicers Paper are generous Management Committee. _ FOUNDING PARTNERS CORNWELL, supporters of the Trust’s print requirements. Thank you EY, Minter Ellison and the Committee for Melbourne have to Premier Graphics for building our exhibitions. _ THANK played an integral role in establishing and maintaining the YOU TO Evan Evans for supporting our digital printing, project since its inception in 2004. The brand identity and to Bill and Helen Coleby for our risk management, to Lee exhibition design for the 2018 Melbourne Prize, including Wong of The Mighty Wonton for our website management the catalogue, is developed by Sally Dobell and the team and Rod Birrell for web hosting. The Trust would like to at Cornwell Design—thank you all—including designers thank Fundere Fine Art Foundry Melbourne for crafting Bella Plush, Caitlin Demetriou and Riley Griffiths, finished the unique presentation trophies for the awards and for artist James Withers and account executive Danielle George. fabricating the miniatures of The Magic Pudding sculpture The digital rendering skills of MR.P Studios with the design (located at the Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne). is greatly appreciated. _ OUR EVENTS PARTNER, Federation _ THE TRUST WOULD like to thank Mark Pearce and James Square enables the Melbourne Prize to have its ‘home’ Ball at Treat Catering for their generous support on in one of the highest profile public spaces from 12-26 catering and Robert Oatley Vineyards for providing wine November. Thank you to Creative Vision & Audio for their for the Awards event. _ THE TRUST WOULD like to thank the many support with the exhibition. The Trust greatly appreciates organisation supporting the literary sector in Victoria, the generous support of Corporate Partners Qantas, to who support this year has been invaluable. The many foster overseas travel of our awards recipients, and Sofitel literary sector journals, peak bodies, commercial Luxury Hotels, who have made available our partner events organisation and websites made it possible to promote and an overnight stay to be given away to a voter on our the prize during the entry period. _ THE TRUST IS fortunate website during the finalist exhibition. _ THE MELBOURNE to have the support of a number of people whose PRIZE for Literature 2018 would not be possible without contribution this year is greatly appreciated. These include the support of major patron, The Vera Moore Foundation Melbourne Prize Trust Administration and Operations and The Tallis Foundation. The Best Writing Award 2018 is Assistant Sarah Kempson and volunteers Sara Cook, generously supported by The Robert Salzer Foundation. Judy Hargrave, Tahlia Cruise, Allison Cameron, Annabel Thank you to Readings and The University of Melbourne Bowden and Amanda Clark. _ THE TRUST WOULD like to thank (Department of Culture & Communications) for supporting the public and visitors to the Federation Square exhibition the new Readings Residency Award 2018. for their interest in the Melbourne Prize for Literature 2018.

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