• Foal’s Bread (Gillian Mears, A&U)

Poetry

• Interferon Psalms (Luke Davies, A&U)

Non-fiction

• An Eye for Eternity: The Life of Manning Clark (Mark McKenna, MUP)

Prize for Australian History

• The Biggest Estate on Earth: How Aborigines Made Australia (Bill Gammage, A&U)

Young adult fiction

• When We Were Two (Robert Newton, Penguin)

Children’s fiction

• Goodnight, Mice! (Frances Watts, illus by Judy Watson, ABC Books).

The winners of each of the categories will receive a tax-free cash prize $80,000, with each shortlistee receiving $5000 tax-free.