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2008 Inky Awards Shortlist Announced
12 September 2008
The shortlist of Australia's only teen-choice book awards was announced today. Three Australian and three international books were chosen by a panel that included Simmone Howell, author of Notes from the Teenage Underground, comedian Andrew Finegan, and several teenagers.
Anyone under the age of 20 from anywhere in the world can vote online for their favourite book from this shortlist. And the books with the most votes win.
There are two awards: the Golden Inky for an Australian book, and the Silver Inky for an international book.
The winner of the Golden Inky will receive a trophy and AU$2000 in prize money. The winner of the Silver Inky will receive a trophy.
This year a new award, the Inkys Creative Reading Prize, will be awarded to a reader who develops the best creative response to a book on the Inkys long-list. The response can come in any form from short-stories and songs to poems or videos – anything goes.
The Inky Awards were created by the State Library of Victoria’s Centre for Youth Literature to encourage reading for pleasure amongst teenagers. Last year more than 3000 teenage readers voted for their favourite Inkys book.
The winners of the Golden and Sliver Inkys and Creative Reading prize will be announced at the State Library of Victoria, Thursday 6 November 2008.
Read the Inkys' shortlist >
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