Michael Mohammed Ahmad, The Other Half of You (Hachette Australia)
Larissa Behrendt, After Story (University of Queensland Press)
Emily Bitto, Wild Abandon (Allen & Unwin)
Katherine Brabon, The Shut Ins (Allen & Unwin)
Michelle De Kretser, Scary Monsters (Allen & Unwin)
Jennifer Down, Bodies of Light (Text Publishing Company)
Graeme Friedman, What the Boy Hears When the Girl Dreams (Brio Books)
Hannah Kent, Devotion (Picador Pan Macmillan)
Susan Johnson, From Where I Fell (Allen & Unwin)
Alice Pung, One Hundred Days (Black Inc)