Robbie Arnott, Limberlost (Text Publishing)

Michelle Cahill, Daisy and Woolf (Hachette)

Steven Carroll, Goodnight, Vivienne, Goodnight (Fourth Estate) 

Robert Drewe, Nimblefoot (Hamish Hamilton)

Gail Jones, Salonika Burning (Text Publishing)

Tracey Lien, All That’s Left Unsaid (HQ)  

Fiona Kelly McGregor, Iris (Picador)

Jock Serong, The Settlement (Text Publishing)

Craig Sherborne, The Grass Hotel (Text Publishing)

Steve Toltz, Here Goes Nothing (Hamish Hamilton)