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Australia’s most prestigious literary award established through the will of writer Stella Miles Franklin, best known for the novel 'My Brilliant Career'

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Tomorrow we find out who made the 2026 #MilesFranklin shortlist!

This year’s Miles Franklin shortlist and all future Award updates will be shared exclusively on Instagram and Facebook. Follow us there so you don’t miss it!

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You Must Remember This by Sean Wilson sits with something most books won't go near. What happens when memory starts to go and the life you built blurs at the edges? Tender, unsettling, and quietly devastating.

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An Australian academic. A desert on the edge of collapse. A marriage quietly coming undone.
Told through Eloise’s sharp, searching voice, 'Elegy, Southwest' follows an Australian woman’s road trip across the American southwest that becomes something else entirely.
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A dead girl. An engineer who doesn't know what to do with her. Little World is a story that stretches from 1950s Australia to Panama to Nauru, weaving together lives that keep brushing up against mysteries they can't resolve.
#LittleWorld #JosephineRowe @blackinc #MFLA2026

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Fierceland opens with a funeral and one question. How do you mourn a father whose wealth was built on destroyed rainforest and a man who disappeared because he got in the way?
#Fierceland #OmarMusa @penguinbooksAus #MFLA2026

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My Heart at Evening' drops you into Van Diemen's Land in 1832, where a surveyor is dead and nothing adds up. Petty lies, strange alliances, voices in the dark. Konrad Muller makes colonial history feel uncomfortably close.

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'First Name Second Name' asks what we actually inherit from the people who came before us. Race, belonging, sexuality, the stories we're told about where we come from. Steve Minon wraps all of it in something as funny as it is unsettling.

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A girl with a plan. A world that had other ideas. 'Tenderfoot' is a sharp and tender portrait of growing up faster than you ever expected, set against the grit of 1970s Brisbane.

#ToniJordan #Tenderfoot @HachetteAus #MilesFranklin #MFLA2026
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One woman. Two secrets. A world shaped by empire. 'Salt Upon the Water' is a sweeping debut love story about identity, truth, and the long reach of history.

#LynDickens #SaltUponTheWater
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One reclusive author. One ambitious writer. One story built entirely on lies. 'I Want Everything' is a sharp debut about ambition, deception, and what we are willing to steal to get what we want.
#DominicAmerena #IWantEverything
@Summitbooksaus
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Two careers. One protest. No easy answers. Discipline is a story about what we are willing to sacrifice for what we believe is right.

#RandaAbdelFattah #Discipline #MFLALonglist #Longlist2026
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“Destabilised histories, faltering memories and chequered geographies meet in the pages of the 2026 Miles Franklin longlist. These novels hold up mirrors to little worlds and large ones too.”

- Miles Franklin Literary Award 2026 Judges

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The 2026 Miles Franklin Literary Award Longlist is here!
Ten extraordinary Australian novels recognised - which one are you reading first?
🔗 See the full longlist: https://t.co/xX71tJAmd0

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One week until the Miles Franklin 2026 Longlist is announced.
Which Australian stories will make the cut?
Drop your predictions below 👇
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The countdown has begun.
Australia's most prestigious literary prize — the Miles Franklin Literary Award 2026 is here.
Because great fiction doesn't just reflect Australia, it defines it.
Follow for upcoming announcements👇
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For nearly 70 years, the #MilesFranklin has celebrated literature that reflects the evolving spirt of Australian life. Your donation can support that mission – and Miles Franklin’s vision.

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Thanks to the #MilesFranklin 2025 judging panel:
Richard Neville (Chair), A/Prof Jumana Bayeh, Dr Mridula Nath Chakraborty, Prof Tony Hughes-d’Aeth and Prof Hsu-Ming Teo.
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“Shimmering with satire and wisdom, and with an absurdist bravura, Ghost Cities is a genuine landmark in Australian literature.”
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