Queensland Literary Awards — winners portraits

Congratulations to all the shortlisted and winning writers at the Queensland Literary Awards tonight!

I had the honour of illustrating all the award winners — all of whom are listed below:

Queensland Premier’s Award for a work of State Significance

• Heartland: How Rugby League Explains Queensland by Joe Gorman (UQP)

The University of Queensland Fiction Book Award

• Stone Sky Gold Mountain by Mirandi Riwoe (UQP)

The University of Queensland Non-Fiction Book Award

• Olive Cotton: A Life in Photography by Helen Ennis (HarperCollins)

Griffith University Young Adult Book Award

• Ghost Bird by Lisa Fuller (UQP)

Griffith University Children’s Book Award

• As Fast As I Can by Penny Tangey (UQP)

University of Southern Queensland Steele Rudd Award for a Short Story Collection

• Lucky Ticket by Joey Bui (Text Publishing)

Judith Wright Calanthe Award for a Poetry Collection

• Heide by Pi.O (Giramondo Publishing)

Queensland Writers Fellowships

• Sara El Sayed, ‘The Blind Pussy  Cat’
• Anna Jacobson, ‘Anxious in a Sweet Store’ (incidentally, she’s an illustrator too!)
• Amanda Niehaus, ‘Relativity’

David Unaipon Award for an Emerging Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander Writer

• ‘The Space Between the Paperbark’ by Jazz Money

Glendower Award for an Emerging Queensland Writer

• ‘If You’re Happy’ by Fiona Robertson

Queensland Premier’s Young Publishers and Writers Awards

• Zenobia Frost
• Yen-Rong Wong

The Courier-Mail People’s Choice Queensland Book of the Year Award

• A Lifetime of Impossible Days by Tabitha Bird (Penguin Random House)