Inky Awards – Long List
Readers of insideadog.com.au are the ones who get to vote for the Inky Awards, international awards for teenage literature. The Inkys are divided into two categories; the Gold Inky which recognised writing talent that comes from Australia and the Silver Inky for international titles.
The long lists for the Inkys were announced on July 1 and here are the deserving nominees:
GOLD INKY LONG LIST
(Australian titles)
- Pigboy by JC Burke
- Good Oil by Laura Buzo
- Just a Girl by Jane Caro
- The FitzOsbourne’s in Exile by Michelle Cooper
- Graffiti Moon by Cath Crowley
- This is Shyness by Leanne Hall
- Black Painted Fingernails by Steven Herrick
- Silvermay by James Moloney
- The Comet Box by Adrian Stirling
- All I Ever Wanted by Vikki Wakefield
SILVER INKY LONG LIST
(International titles)
- Clockwork Angel by Cassandra Clare
- Dash and Lily’s Book of Dares by Rachel Cohn & David Levithan
- No and Me by Delphine de Vigan
- Where She Went by Gayle Forman
- Bright Young Things by Anna Godbersen
- The Agency: The Body in the Tower by YS Lee
- Anna and the French Kiss by Stephanie Perkins
- First Light by Rebecca Stead
- Marcelo in the Real World by Francisco Stork
- Violence 101 by Denis Wright