Most Underrated Book Award 2013 shortlist announced
23 October 2013 Books+Publishing @booksandpublishing
The Small Press Network (SPN) has announced the shortlist for this year’s Most Underrated Book Award (MUBA).
The shortlisted books are:
- Fish-Hair Woman (Merlinda Bobis, Spinifex Press)
- Staunch (Ginger Briggs, Affirm Press)
- Whiskey Charlie Foxtrot (Annabel Smith, Fremantle Press)
- The Hum of Concrete (Anna Solding, MidnightSun Publishing).
The winner will be announced on 15 November at a public gala event as part of the SPN Independent Publishing Conference. There is no prize this year, but the shortlisted and winning books will be promoted in a campaign across Readings bookshops.
The MUBA aims to ‘shine a light on some of the outstanding titles that are released by small and independent publishers that, for whatever reason, did not receive their fair dues’. Last year, Wayne Macauley won the inaugural award for The Cook (Text).
For more information about the MUBA, visit the SPN website here.
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