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)