The Peter Carey Short Story Award is delighted to announce its shortlist for 2023.
From a longlist of fifteen standout stories, our judge Anne Casey-Hardy has had the difficult task of narrowing that to a shortlist of seven, ahead of her final verdict in June.
Anne’s selection is as follows:
2023 Peter Carey Short Story Award Shortlist:
A Woman of Nineveh ~ Jumaana Abdu
Book An Appointment At Your Earliest Convenience ~ Joseph Earp
Iso ~ Greg Foyster
Newton’s Cradle ~ Lisa Moule
Sea Glass ~ Laura Elvery
The appointment ~ Josephine Browne
The Lorca Steps ~ Roger Vickery
The winner and runner-up will be announced at an awards ceremony at the Lerderderg Library in Bacchus Marsh, Victoria, on Saturday 3 June at 2pm. The recipient of Best Local Entry will also be announced at the ceremony, along with the winners of Moorabool Young Writers’ Awards. Please follow this link to reserve a ticket as bookings are essential. This awards ceremony will also be available to watch live via Microsoft Teams. Please email: Kristie Seketa, Library Programs Coordinator on kseketa@moorabool.vic.gov.au if you wish to join the announcement online.
We would like to thank the record number of writers who submitted work to this year’s award and wish the finalists the very best of luck.
The 2023 Peter Carey Short Story Award Committee
The Peter Carey Short Story Award is excited to announce its longlist for 2023.
Opening for submissions in February, we were thrilled to receive 438 short stories from writers all across Australia, our highest number of entries by far since the award’s inception. Our longlisting panel (Laurie Steed, Brooke Dunnell, Eugen Bacon) faced the difficult job of selecting from that field only a small number of standout stories. A task made all the more challenging by the very high quality of submissions overall.
Please be advised of the panel’s selection of a longlist of 15 stories:
A Soldier ~ Norm Stevens
A Woman of Nineveh ~ Jumaana Abdu
Anti-theft Door ~ Hossein Asgari
Book An Appointment At Your Earliest Convenience ~ Joseph Earp
Bushfire ~ Lee Hana
Firehuggers ~ Greg Foyster
Honeypot ~ RT Wenzel
Iso ~ Greg Foyster
Newton’s Cradle ~ Lisa Moule
Nomenklatura ~ Keith Johnson
Sea Glass ~ Laura Elvery
The appointment ~ Josephine Browne
The Girls in the Band ~ Catherine Moffat
The Halfway Space ~ Timothy Clarke
The Lorca Steps ~ Roger Vickery
Judging for Best Local Entry is still underway, with the winner announced along with the first and second-placed stories in the general category on Saturday 3 June at an awards ceremony at the Lerderderg Library in Bacchus Marsh, Victoria. Further details for this event will be announced with the posting of the shortlist later in May.
As always, we’d like to thank the many writers who submitted work to this year’s award, and to wish the finalists good luck. Our head judge, Anne Casey-Hardy, has commenced her deliberation on the longlist.
The 2023 Peter Carey Short Story Award Committee