Lenton Shortlisted: Russell Prize for Humour Writing 2023
Congratulations Patrick Lenton whose short story collection Sexy Tales of Paleontology has been shortlisted for the Russell Prize for Humour Writing 2023.
Administered by the State Library of NSW, the $10,000 biennial prize seeks to ‘celebrate, recognise and encourage the humour-writing genre’.
The 2023 shortlist for the Russell Prize for Humour Writing, selected by judges Alistair Baldwin, Rawah Arja, and Wendy Harmer, includes:
Off the Charts (Georgie Carroll, Pan Macmillan)
You’re Doing it Wrong (Kaz Cooke, Penguin Random House)
Sexy Tales of Paleontology (Patrick Lenton, Subbed In)
My Daughter’s Wedding (Gretel Killeen, Hachette)
The Speechwriter (Martin McKenzie-Murray, Scribe)
Here Goes Nothing (Steve Toltz, Penguin Random House)
Huge congratulations to all the shortlistees!
