The 2011 Queensland Premier's Literary Awards shortlist was announced by Premier Anna Bligh. The Screen Queensland Award for Film Script shortlist includes:

Alice Addison for The Hunter, Porchlight Films
Beck Cole for Here I Am, Scarlett Pictures Pty Ltd
Shaun Grant for Snowtown, Warp Films Australia

"This year's shortlist includes passionate, inspiring, educational and humorous works by some of Australia's great writers, reflecting the incredible literary talent thriving in Queensland and throughout Australia," Premier Bligh said. "I am very pleased this important awards program, in its thirteenth year, is still attracting so many diverse and high quality entries from such exceptional established and emerging authors.

The Queensland Premier's Literary Awards is a national program that acknowledges, supports and enriches the arts throughout Australia, and offers Australian writers the opportunity to gain national recognition while developing their craft of writing.  The winners of the 2011 awards will be announced at an awards ceremony on Tuesday 6 September 2011. For more information visit www.literaryawards.qld.gov.au.

The complete shortlist for the 2011 Queensland Premier's Literary Awards includes:

Fiction Book Award

Geraldine Brooks for Caleb's Crossing, HarperCollins Publishers Australia

Amanda Lohrey for Reading Madame Bovary, Black Inc.

Peter Rose for Roddy Parr, HarperCollins Publishers Australia

Kim Scott for That Deadman Dance, Pan Macmillan Australia

Ouyang Yu for The English Class, Transit Lounge Publishing

Emerging Queensland Author - Manuscript Award

Andrea Dudley for From Winter or River

Annah Lee Faulkner for The Beloved

Bruce Nash for Empty Beach

Sally Piper for At Mother's Elbow

Ross Watkins for The Arc

Unpublised Queensland Writer - Arts Queensland David Unaipon Award

Dylan Coleman for Clear Water White Death: STORM ON THE HORIZON

Dylan Coleman for 'Mazin' Grace

Brenda Saunders for SKIN DEEP

Non-Fiction Book Award

John Bradley for Singing Saltwater Country: Journey to the Songlines of Carpentaria, Allen & Unwin

David Hicks for GUANTANAMO: my journey, Random House Australia

Anna Krien for Into the Woods: The Battle for Tasmania's Forests, Black Inc.

Maggie MacKellar for When It Rains: A Memoir, Random House Australia

Mark McKenna for An Eye for Eternity: The life of Manning Clark, The Miegunyah Press