2006 Shortlist

Fiction Book Award
Emerging Queensland Author - Manuscript Award
Unpublished Indigenous Writer - The David Unaipon Award
Non Fiction - The Dymocks Literacy Foundation Award
History Book Award
Children's Book Award
Young Adult Book Award
Science Writer - the Department of State Development, Trade and Innovation Award
Poetry Collection - Arts Queensland Judith Wright Calanthe Award
Australian Short Story Collection - Arts Queensland Steele Rudd Award
Literary or Media Work Advancing Public Debate - The Harry Williams Award
Drama Script (Stage) Award
Film Script - Pacific Film and Television Commission Award
Television Script - QUT Creative Industries Award

Fiction Book Award
Brian Castro for The Garden Book
Robert Drewe for Grace
Kate Grenville for The Secret River
Roger McDonald for The Ballad of Desmond Kale
Gail Jones for Dreams of Speaking

Emerging Queensland Author - Manuscript Award
Michele Di Bartolo for The Sicilian Kitchen
Karen Foxlee for The Anatomy of Wings
Simon Groth for Here Today
Hamish Sewell for A Quota of Heartbeats

Unpublished Indigenous Writer - The David Unaipon Award
Gayle Kennedy for Me, Antman and Fleabag
Jeanine Anne Leane for Dark Secrets: After Dreaming AD 1887 - 1961
Lorraine McGee-Sippel for Hey Mum, What's a Half Caste?
Barrina South and Aunty June Barker for Life on the Brewarrina Mission

Non Fiction - The Dymocks Literacy Foundation Award
Neil Chenoweth for Packer's Lunch
Dr Brenda Niall for Judy Cassab: a portrait
Jacob Rosenberg for East of Time
Craig Sherborne for Hoi Polloi

History Book Award
Richard Bosworth for Mussolini's Italy
Dr Peter Edwards for Arthur Tange: The Last of the Mandarins
Dr Regina Ganter for Mixed Relations: Asian/Aboriginal Contact in North Australia
Prof Patricia Jalland for Changing Ways of Death in Twentieth Century Australia

Children's Book Award
Chardi Christian for Selkie and the Fisherman
Martine Murray for The Slightly Bruised Glory of Cedar B. Hartley (who can't help flying high and falling in deep)
Narelle Oliver for Home
Tohby Riddle for Irving the Magician
Carole Wilkinson for Garden of the Purple Dragon

Young Adult Book Award
Catherine Bateson for His Name in Fire
Ursula Dubosarsky for The Red Shoe
Julia Lawrinson for Bye, Beautiful
Kierin Meehan for In the Monkey Forest
Scott Westerfeld for Peeps

Science Writer - the Department of State Development, Trade and Innovation Award
Brad Collis for Food Crops
Dr Carole Hungerford for Good Health in the 21st Century
Murray Sayle for Overloading Emoh Ruo: The Rise and Rise of Hydrocarbon Civilisation

Poetry Collection - Arts Queensland Judith Wright Calanthe Award
John Kinsella for The New Arcadia
Jennifer Maiden for Friendly Fire
Les Murray for The Biplane Houses
Jaya Savige for Latecomers

Australian Short Story Collection - Arts Queensland Steele Rudd Award
Tony Birch for Shadow Boxing
Craig Cormick for A Funny thing Happened at 27 000 Feet.....
Michael De Valle for Take a Breath & Hold it
Tara June Winch for Swallow the Air

Literary or Media Work Advancing Public Debate - The Harry Williams Award
Matthew Carney for The Ice Age
David Corlett for Following them Home: The Fate of the Returned Asylum Seekers
Graeme Crowley and Paul Wilson for Who Killed Leanne?
Gideon Haigh for Asbestos House
Murray Sayle for Overloading Emoh Ruo: The Rise and Rise of Hydrocarbon Civilisation

Drama Script (Stage) Award
Van Badham for The Gabriels
Patrick Carr for Batavia
Patricia Cornelius for Boy Overboard
Noelle Janaczewska for Mrs Petrov's Shoe
Stephen Sewell for The 3 Furies: Scenes from the Life of Frances Bacon

Film Script - Pacific Film and Television Commission Award
Tony Ayres for The Home Song Stories
Reg Cribb for Last Train to Freo
Rolf de Heer for Ten Canoes
Ana Kokkinos and Andrew Bovell for Book of Revelation
Keith Thompson for Clubland
Ann Turner for Irresistible

Television Script - QUT Creative Industries Award
Richard Dennison for Pioneers of Love
Sarah Lambert for The Alice - Episode 14
Sean Nash for All Saints - Episode 358 "Drawing the Line"
Fiona Seres for Love My Way - Episode 15
Katherine Thomson for Unfolding Florence