Chief Minister and Minister for the Arts Jon Stanhope has announced the five short-listed nominations to the prestigious ACT Book of the Year Award. The Award for excellence in literature, valued at $10,000, recognises quality contemporary Australian literary works by ACT writers including fiction, non-fiction and poetry. Two Scribe titles have been short-listed.

Congratulations go to Nicholas Drayson for Love and the Platypus, and Tony Kevin for Walking the Camino: A Modern Pilgrimage to Santiago!