Please join us for the celebration of the Finlay Lloyd Publishing Prize 20/40 for the winning books of 2024

About the Prize

The 20/40 Prize is an annual publishing prize for fiction and nonfiction manuscripts of between 20,000 and 40,000 words. Each year, two books are chosen through a blind evaluation process by a panel of judges. Finlay Lloyd is a not-for-profit press devoted to encouraging and enabling Australian writing. In this spirit, the 20/40 winning manuscripts are supported through a thorough editing process and their authors are invited to join the judging panel the following year.

The Winners of 20/40 -2024

Winning Book of 20/40 -2024 for Nonfiction
Tremor, Sonya Voumard
The winner of the 20/40 Prize for 2024
Sonya Voumard is a non-fiction writer and former political journalist with The Age.
She has written three other books, including The Media and the Massacre (2016),
which was listed for a Nita B Kibble Literary Award and longlisted for a Stella Prize.
Her essays and stories have been published in Griffith Review, Meanjin, Island and
Neighbourhood. She has a Doctorate of Creative Arts from UTS where she taught
non-fiction writing for nine years.

Winning Book of 20/40 Prize for 2024 for Fiction The Thirty-One Legs of Vladimir Putin, PS Cottier & NG Hartland

PS Cottier has written eight books of poetry, a collection of stories and a non-fiction
pamphlet about the wildlife near Parliament House. Her collection Utterly was
shortlisted for the ACT Book of the Year. She has worked as a university tutor, a
union organiser, a lawyer and a tea-lady.
NG Hartland’s short stories have been published in Australia, the United States, and
South Korea. ‘How to get to be a three-thousand-year-old mining AI’ was included in
Robotic Ambitions: Tales of Mechanical Sentience. He has worked in criminology,
social policy, and as a ministerial adviser.

About the Event

Books will be available for purchase and signing at the event.
Registration is required for this event.
Accessible parking spaces directly below the Harry Hartog ANU Bookshop are available should you require them. Kambri ANU / Parking
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