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Milestones<br />
Adele Jones’ young adult novel Activate<br />
was released on 1 November 2016 by<br />
Rhiza Press.<br />
Anita Heiss has published and released<br />
Barbed Wire and Cherry Blossoms with<br />
Simon and Schuster Australia.<br />
Ann Harth received a highly<br />
commended prize in the 2016 Children’s<br />
and Young Adult Writers and Illustrators<br />
Competition for the picture book You’re<br />
Doing It Wrong!<br />
Bette Guy has launched her latest<br />
independently published book Riding the<br />
Fate Train, available from Amazon.<br />
Anna Jacobson has been shortlisted for<br />
the Scribe Nonfiction Prize for her work<br />
entitled How to Knit a Human.<br />
The Illusion of Islands by Andrea<br />
Baldwin has been included in the 2016<br />
Richell Prize longlist for Emerging<br />
Writers.<br />
Cheryl Fagan has published Murder &<br />
Misconduct, the historical true crime<br />
prequel to Murder & Misconduct – The<br />
Complete Files.<br />
Damen O’Brien was highest placed<br />
Queensland entrant in the Val Vallis<br />
Award with his poem Sand.<br />
Elizabeth Smyth has been longlisted<br />
in the 2016 ABR Elizabeth Jolley Short<br />
Story Prize for Will it leave a scar?<br />
Hazel Barker will publish The Story of<br />
a Conchie with Rhiza Press. Her other<br />
publications this year include Chocolate<br />
Soldier and Heaven Tempers the Wind.<br />
The Beach House by Janelle Nucifora<br />
has been included in the 2016 Richell<br />
Prize longlist for Emerging Writers.<br />
Janet Lee has won The Australian<br />
Funeral Directors Association Award in<br />
the Grieve Project competition for My<br />
Mourning.<br />
Jessica White’s short story Black Soil<br />
has been longlisted for the 2016 ABR<br />
Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize.<br />
Kali Napier has signed a two-book deal<br />
with Hachette Australia due for release<br />
from 2018. Kali is a 2015 QWC Hachette<br />
Manuscript Development Alumni.<br />
Karen Lee Roberts wrote and<br />
performed the cabaret It’s Not Easy<br />
Being Green in October at Room To Play<br />
Independent Theatre.<br />
Kelly Lyonns has signed with Atlas<br />
Productions to publish her regency<br />
paranormal romance The Soldier’s<br />
Woman, due for release in January 2017.<br />
Kerry Lown Whalen’s short story The<br />
Cool Group won the 2016 Gold Coast<br />
Writers’ Short Story Competition. It will<br />
be published in eWriteabout.<br />
Lauren Daniels has been shortlisted in<br />
the Half the World Global Literati Award<br />
for her novel The Serpent’s Wake: A Fairy<br />
Tale for the Bitten.<br />
Lea Davey has self-published her first<br />
novel, The Shack by the Bay.<br />
iGrief by Lech Blaine has been<br />
shortlisted in the 2016 Scribe Nonfiction<br />
Prize Shortlist.<br />
Lesley Synge’s play The Nature of my<br />
Illness Being will be performed at a<br />
benefit for coal miners with Black Lung<br />
disease at Magda Community Arts in<br />
September. Her essay about Australian<br />
earth artist Siegi Karl-Spence was<br />
published in online journal Communion.<br />
Growth by Mirandi Riwoe has been<br />
shortlisted for the 2016 Josephine<br />
Ulrick Prize. Her story Dignity has been<br />
longlisted for the 2016 ABR Elizabeth<br />
Jolley Short Story Prize.<br />
Mocco Wollert has had poems<br />
Heatwave and Growing published in<br />
Positive Words magazine, In Love with<br />
Gauguin published in The Australia<br />
Times magazine, Much to do About Haiku<br />
in The Fellowship of Australian Writers’<br />
Scope magazine. Her poem Home was<br />
awarded third prize in the Society of<br />
Women Writers Queensland Poetry<br />
Competition. She has received second<br />
place in the Positive Words competition<br />
for Wind at the Rock.<br />
Nathan Shepherdson’s poem Whitely<br />
visits Morandi has been shortlisted for<br />
the 2016 Josephine Ulrick Prize.<br />
Paula White’s children’s book Clippity<br />
Clippity’s Exciting Discovery has been<br />
published by Ex Libris. It is illustrated<br />
by Marvin Paracuelles.<br />
Ron Ramsay has published his memoir,<br />
An Eternal World, Messages from the<br />
Other Side, online with Boolarong Press.<br />
Sandra Watkins has published The<br />
History of the Ekka.<br />
Shelley Nolan signed a two-book<br />
deal with Atlas Productions for Lost<br />
Reaper and Winged Reaper, released in<br />
September and October.<br />
The Rabbits by Sophie Overett has<br />
been included in the 2016 Richell Prize<br />
longlist for Emerging Writers.<br />
Tania Joyce has released her third<br />
romance novel, Distractions, as an<br />
ebook and print book.<br />
Wendy Dartnall has published A Wind<br />
from the East through Balboa Press.<br />
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