The shortlisted titles in each category are:

Christina Stead Prize for Fiction 

• Vancouver: Wisdom Tree Book Three (Nick Earls, Inkerman & Blunt)
• Their Brilliant Careers: The Fantastic Lives of Sixteen Extraordinary Australian Writers (Ryan O’Neill, Black Inc.) ?
• The Museum of Modern Love (Heather Rose, A&U)
• Where the Light Falls (Gretchen Shirm, A&U)
• After the Carnage (Tara June Winch, UQP)
• The Natural Way of Things (Charlotte Wood, A&U)

UTS Glenda Adams Award for New Writing

• The Memory Artist (Katherine Brabon, A&U)
• Letter to Pessoa (Michelle Cahill, Giramondo)
• Dodge Rose (Jack Cox, Text)
• Our Magic Hour (Jennifer Down, Text)
• Portable Curiosities (Julie Koh, UQP)
• The Bonobo’s Dream (Rose Mulready, Xoum) ?

Douglas Stewart Prize for Nonfiction 

• Everywhere I Look (Helen Garner, Text)
• Talking To My Country (Stan Grant, HarperCollins)
• The Art of Time Travel: Historians and Their Craft (Tom Griffiths, Black Inc.)
• Avalanche (Julia Leigh, Hamish Hamilton)
• Our Man Elsewhere: In Search of Alan Moorehead (Thornton McCamish, Black Inc.)
• Prince of Darkness: The Untold Story of Jeremiah G Hamilton, Wall Street’s First Black Millionaire (Shane White, St Martin’s Press)

Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry

• Ghostspeaking (Peter Boyle, Vagabond Press)
• Burnt Umber (Paul Hetherington, UWA Publishing)?
• Breaking the Days (Jill Jones, Whitmore Press)?
• Fragments (Antigone Kefala, Giramondo)?
• Firebreaks: Poems (John Kinsella, W W Norton)?
• Comfort Food (Ellen van Neerven, UQP)?

Patricia Wrightson Prize for Children’s Literature

• Magrit (Lee Battersby & Amy Daoud, Walker Books)
• Something Wonderful (Raewyn Caisley & Karen Blair, Viking)
• Desert Lake: The Story of Kati Thanda‐Lake Eyre (Pamela Freeman & Liz Anelli, Walker Books)
• Iris and the Tiger (Leanne Hall, Text)
• Figgy and the President (Tamsin Janu, Omnibus)
• Welcome to Country (Aunty Joy Murphy & Lisa Kennedy, Black Dog Books)

Ethel Turner Prize for Young Adult’s Literature ($30,000)

• Elegy (Jane Abbott, Random House)
• The Ghost by the Billabong (Jackie French, HarperCollins)
• The Sidekicks (Will Kostakis, Penguin)
• One Thousand Hills (James Roy & Noël Zihabamwe, Omnibus)
• The Boundless Sublime (Lili Wilkinson, A&U)
• One Would Think the Deep (Claire Zorn, UQP)

Multicultural NSW Award

• The Hate Race (Maxine Beneba Clarke, Hachette)
• Offshore: Behind the Wire on Manus and Nauru (Madeline Gleeson, NewSouth)
• Not Quite Australian: How Temporary Migration is Changing the Nation (Peter Mares, Text) ?
• Of Ashes and Rivers that Run to the Sea (Marie Munkara, Vintage)
• Promising Azra (Helen Thurloe, A&U)
• The Fighter: A True Story (Arnold Zable, Text)

The NSW Premier’s Translation Prize

• J M Q Davies
• Penny Hueston
• Jennifer Lindsay
• Royall Tyler

Multicultural NSW Early Career Translator Prize

• Jan Owen
• Christopher Williams

Nick Enright Prize for Playwriting

• The Hanging (Angela Betzien, Sydney Theatre Company)
• You and Me and The Space Between (Finegan Kruckemeyer, Terrapin Puppet Theatre & Honolulu Theatre for Youth)
• The Drover’s Wife (Leah Purcell, Currency Press, Belvoir & Oombarra Productions)
• Ladies Day (Alana Valentine, Currency Press & Griffin Theatre Sydney)

Betty Roland Prize for Scriptwriting

• The Code Series 2 Episode 2 (Shelley Birse, Playmaker Media)
• Sucker (Lawrence Leung & Ben Chessell, RKP Productions with Jason Byrne Productions)
• Down Under (Abe Forsythe, Riot Film)
• The Kettering Incident, Episode 1: Victoria Madden (Porchlight Films & Sweet Potato Films)
• Afghanistan: Inside Australia’s War, Episode 3 ‘We All Have To Get Home’ (Victoria Midwinter Pitt, Essential Media and Entertainment)
• Cleverman, Episode 5 ‘Terra Nullius’ (Michael Miller, GoalPost Pictures

Voting for People’s Choice Award closes on 14 May http://www.sl.nsw.gov.au/about-library-awards/peoples-choice-award.

More details click here http://www.sl.nsw.gov.au/about-library-awards/nsw-premiers-literary-awards.