IP Picks Award
Subcategory of Awards Australian Awards
The material on this page is available to AustLit subscribers. If you are a subscriber or are from a subscribing organisation, please log in to gain full access. To explore options for subscribing to this unique teaching, research, and publishing resource for Australian culture and storytelling, please contact us or find out more.

History

This award was hosted by Interactive Publishing. The award was discontinued with the final winners announced in 2012. 

Notes

  • Administered by Interactive Press, Brisbane

Subcategories

Latest Winners / Recipients (also see subcategories)v2174

Year: 2008

winner y separately published work icon In Between the Dancing E. A. Gleeson , Carindale : Interactive Publications , 2008 Z1574463 2008 selected work poetry

'Winner of the 2008 IP Picks Best First Book Award. An impressive first poetry collection that traverses time and place with ease. Acute in her ability to juxtapose cultures in a breath, Gleeson is as much at ease adopting a perspective on Tongan women as the wife of the Desert Fox, Irwin Rommel. ‘In the poems of Anne Gleeson, memory is transformed into memorable speech. With wit and passion, skill and fellow feeling, the fragmentations of the past are made whole through a re-imagining as poetry. In Between the Dancing is the premier of a new poet, a first book that is as premier as it is memorable.’ – Paul Kane, Antipodes'

winner y separately published work icon Put the Billy On : Growing up in Queensland's Gulf Country Ann Jones , Carindale : Glass House Books , 2008 9438188 2008 single work autobiography

'Put The Billy On gives us insights into what it was like to grow up in Australia in the 1930s and 40s. The story is mixed with undertones of delightful humour and fading innocence. Historical events, such as the lead up to World War II, are artfully compared to the tensions in the speaker's own life. Ann Jones invites us to reflect on how far we've come, and the precious things that may have been lost on the way.' (Source: On-line)

Best Creative Non-Fiction Award

Year: 2007

winner (Best Fiction) y separately published work icon Back Burning and Other Stories Sylvia Petter , Brisbane : Interactive Press , 2007 Z1357143 2007 selected work short story
winner (Best First Book) y separately published work icon With One Brush Jan Dean , Carindale : Interactive Publications , 2007 Z1378716 2007 selected work poetry
winner (Best Poetry) y separately published work icon What Can Be Proven Mark O'Flynn , Carindale : Interactive Press , 2007 Z1489902 2007 selected work poetry (taught in 1 units)

Year: 2006

winner (Best Fiction) y separately published work icon House of Given Bill Collopy , Carindale : Interactive Publications , 2006 Z1305817 2006 single work novel From within the shifting walls of an earth brick house outside of Melbourne, young Finbar Given unravels the stories of four families, over four generations, to discover that his bloodlines amount to a thousand and one interlocking narratives. (Source: Publisher's email bulletin 05.10.06)
winner (Best First Book) y separately published work icon The Accidental Cage Michelle Cahill , Carindale : Interactive Publications , 2007 Z1305831 2007 selected work poetry

'Winner, Best First Book, IP Picks 2006. The Accidental Cage explores the perceptual and emotional experience of entrapment in its many forms. Exile, asylum, desire, love and motherhood all enter the speaker s imagination, often transformed by the force of resistance. The poems are nuanced, balancing a dramatic tension between the beauty of the metaphor and the impact of the meaning. The collection compiles longer meditations with shorter lyrical and imagistic poetry. This is an absorbing collection that weds classical metaphor and lyricism with contemporary voices and themes, while exploring a range of form. Essential for libraries and schools to widen their poetry collections.' (Publication summary)

Year: 2005

winner (Best Poetry) y separately published work icon Subterranean Radio Songs Joel Deane , Brisbane : Interactive Press , 2005 Z1243461 2005 selected work poetry
winner y separately published work icon A Ticket for Perpetual Locomotion: or, Eduardo's Perpetual Locomotors Geoffrey Gates , Carindale : Interactive Press , 2005 Z1226040 2005 single work novel

Year: 2004

winner (Best Fiction) y separately published work icon Another Joel Deane , Brisbane : Interactive Press , 2004 Z1136606 2004 single work novel young adult
winner (Best Poetry) y separately published work icon Skin for Comfort Nora Krouk , Brisbane : Interactive Press , 2004 Z1152575 2004 selected work poetry This volume of multicultural writing contains six sections titled The Plot Fails; You Cannot Grieve; So Now What We Are; Leo; The Smoke Grass; and Memoi. Life's broader issues are combined with the poet's emotional response to the tragedies of her family and to the present. The settings range from wartime Russia to the Middle East and modern Australia.
joint winner (Best Poetry) y separately published work icon Joyflight Cate Kennedy , Brisbane : Interactive Press , 2004 Z1149799 2004 selected work poetry
X