Shortlist Announcement | 2024 Northern Territory Literary Awards

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Library & Archives NT would like to congratulate all writers who have been shortlisted for the 2024 Northern Territory Literary Awards!

This year, over 240 entries were received across 7 categories. We would like to thank all writers who entered the awards for their contributions to NT literature.

The winners will be announced at the NT Literary Awards ceremony on Wednesday 4 September at 5.30pm at Library & Archives NT, Parliament House. The ceremony will be livestreamed at Red Kangaroo Books in Alice Springs and on the Library & Archives NT Facebook page.

The 2024 Northern Territory Literary Awards shortlist includes:

Brown’s Mart Theatre
She Sits – Sarah Reuben

Charles Darwin University Creative Non-Fiction Award
Jim Jim Falls (In and Out of Love) – Clare Bizley
Remember – Dave Clark
What am I here for? – Rachael McGuirk
Loss of Faith – M. C. Smith

Charles Darwin University Essay Award
The Compulsory Teaching in English for the First Four Hours of Each School Day policy (2008, NT): an evaluation – Steve Hawkins

Flash Fiction Award
Sirens – Joe Abraham
The Earth Flickering Beneath Our Mobility Devices – Lee Frank
Daddy Lessons – Alley Pascoe
Heat Index – Cyra Sebastian

Kath Manzie Youth Award 
Letting Go – Jemima Carter
Wildflower – Maisie Davis
Bittersweet Seventeen – Gabriella Francis
Hip Flask – A Recovery Story – Grace Johnstone

NT Writers’ Centre Poetry Award
Precious Thing – Fiona Dorrell
Moriac – Susan Fielding
Repair with megafauna – Meg Mooney
When the tides turn – Dani Powell
husk – Emma Trenorden

Zip Print Short Story Award
Make Some Noise – Dave Clark
The Madness of Being Loved – Barbara Eather
Lines in the Sand - Alister Pullman