Poet and novelist (and sydneypoetry.com site member) David Musgrave has been shortlisted in the 2011 Prime Minister's Literary Awards in the Fiction list. Congratulations to David. Congratulations also to Roberta Lowing, another Sydney poet and organiser of the PULP readings, who is also on the fiction shortlist.

Non-fiction shortlist

• Sydney, Delia Falconer
• How To Make Gravy, Paul Kelly
• The Party, Richard McGregor
• The Hard Light of Day, Rod Moss
• Claude Levi-Strauss: The Poet in the Laboratory, Patrick Wilcken

Fiction shortlist

• Traitor, Stephen Daisley
• Notorious, Roberta Lowing
• When Colts Ran, Roger McDonald
• Glissando, David Musgrave
• That Deadman Dance, Kim Scott

Young adult fiction shortlist

• Good Oil, Laura Buzo
• Graffiti Moon, Cath Crowley
• The Three Loves of Persimmon, Cassandra Gold
• About a Girl, Joanne Horniman
• The Piper's Son, Melina Marchetta

Children's fiction shortlist

• Why I Love Australia, Bronwyn Bancroft
• Flyaway, Lucy Christopher
• Now, Morris Gleitzman
• April Underhill, Tooth Fairy, Bob Graham
• Shake a Leg, Boori Monty Pryor and Jan Ormerod

Find out more in the press release.

Wait! What? No!

You know what I notice about these awards... there's no Poetry shortlist!

Sadly still, four years into the award, good poets must resort to writing a novel to make it into the Prime Minister's Literary Awards! 

When will this oversight be corrected? Send your enthusiastic inquiries to Simon Crean, Minister for the Arts.