Congratulations to Simon Haynes author of Hal Spacejock: Just Desserts for winning a 2008 Tin Duck Award from the Western Australian Science Fiction Foundation for best professional long work.

The Edge of the World by Marcella Polain was shortlisted for a Commonwealth Writers’ Prize in the category of Best First Novel in South East Asia and the South Pacific this week.

Caroline Caddy’s latest collection of poetry, Esperance: new and selected poems, was shortlisted for the prestigious John Bray Poetry Prize worth $15,000 this week.