The 2011 longlist for the Inky Awards for teenage literature has been announced.
Longlisted Australian titles for the Gold Inky include:
- Pig Boy (J C Burke, Woolshed Press)
- Good Oil (Laura Buzo, A&U)
- Just a Girl (Jane Caro, UQP)
- The FitzOsbourne’s in Exile (Michelle Cooper, Random House)
- Graffiti Moon (Cath Crowley, Pan Macmillan)
- This is Shyness (Leanne Hall, Text)
- Black Painted Fingernails (Steven Herrick, A&U)
- Silvermay (James Moloney, HarperVoyager)
- The Comet Box (Adrian Stirling, Penguin)
- All I Ever Wanted (Vikki Wakefield, Text)
Longlisted international titles for the Silver Inky include:
- Clockwork Angel (Cassandra Clare, Walker Books)
- Dash and Lily’s Book of Dares (Rachel Cohn & David Levithan, A&U)
- No and Me (Delphine de Vigan, Bloomsbury)
- Where She Went (Gayle Forman, Doubleday Children’s)
- Bright Young Things (Anna Godbersen, Puffin)
- The Agency: The Body in the Tower (Y S Lee, Candlewick Press)
- Anna and the French Kiss (Stephanie Perkins, Penguin)
- First Light (Rebecca Stead, Text)
- Marcelo in the Real World (Francisco Stork, Scholastic)
- Violence 101 (Denis Wright, Walker Books)
The shortlist is announced 1 September. Readers of insideadog.com.au will vote for the winning titles and voting is open until 18 October. For more information go here.
