Melbourne Prize finalists

Magisterium, my second collection of poetry, has been named as a finalist in the 2009 Melbourne Prize for Literature's Best New Writing category.

It's a unique award, run ever three years and open to just about every literary form, from poetry to fiction to non-fiction to theater. The only criteria is that award has to be 'for a piece of published or produced work of outstanding clarity, originality and creativity by a Victorian writer, 40 years or under.'

The range of work represented by the other finalists is very broad. Those finalists are:

• Tom Cho - Look Who’s Morphing
  

• Lisa Gorton - Press Release
  

• Chloe Hooper - The Tall Man
  

• Simmone Howell - Everything Beautiful
  

• Myfanwy Jones - The Rainy Season
  

• Lally Katz – Goodbye Vaudeville Charlie Mudd
  

• Nam Le - The Boat
  

• Amra Pajalic - The Good Daughter
  

• Jeff Sparrow – Killing
  

It's great to be in such good company.