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8/16/2017

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The Valerie Parv Award for an unpublished romance novel went to Joanna Nell; the Emerald Award for best unpublished manuscript went to Wendy Lee Davies; and the Emerald Pro Award for the best unpublished manuscript by a published author writing in a new genre went to Diane Demetre. The Roma Award for Media (ROMA), which recognises professional, positive media coverage of the romance industry, was presented to Hsu-Ming Teo for ‘ Love and the Land: Early Australian Rural Romances ’, on the Australian Women’s History blog . For more information about the awards, click here . Longlists for Tasmanian Premier’s Literary Prizes announced The longlists for the Tasmanian Premier’s Literary Prizes have been announced. The longlisted works and their authors are: Tasmania Book Prize for the best book with Tasmanian content in any genre ($25,000) Losing Streak: How Tasmania was Gamed by the Gambling Industry (James Boyce, Black Inc.) The Diemenois: Being the Correct and True Account of the Sensational Escape, Seclusion and Cruel Demise of a Most Infamous Man by (J W Clennett, Hunter Publishers) Archipelago of Souls (Gregory Day, Pan Macmillan) Solomon’s Noose: The True Story of Her Majesty’s Hangman of Hobart (Steve Harris, Melbourne Books) Physick (Pete Hay, Shoestring Press) The Better Son (Katherine Johnson, Ventura Press) Wild Island (Jennifer Livett, A&U) Fall of the Derwent (Justy Phillips and Margaret Woodward, A Published Event) Musquito: Brutality and Exile (Michael Powell, Fullers Publishing) Into the Heart of Tasmania (Rebe Taylor, MUP) Margaret Scott Prize for the best book by a Tasmanian writer ($5000) The Shape of Water (Anne Blythe-Cooper, Forty South) In Brazil (Fran Bryson, Scribe) Woven Landscape: Connections in the Tasmanian Midlands (Peter E Davies, self-published) A History of Port Davey, South West Tasmania, Volume One: Fleeting Hopes (Tony Fenton, Forty South) The White Room Poems (Anne Kellas, Walleah Press) South Pole: Nature and Culture (Elizabeth Leane, Realktion Books) Shadows in Suriname (Margaretta Pos, Forty South) The Museum of Modern Love (Heather Rose, A&U) Down the Dirt Roads (Rachael Treasure, Penguin Random House)

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