Overview
- The Miles Franklin Award, which released its 2026 longlist on Wednesday, named ten novels for the $60,000 prize.
- Randa Abdel‑Fattah made the list with Discipline after her January removal from Adelaide Writers’ Week set off a speaker boycott that led to the event’s cancellation.
- University of Queensland Press faced an author boycott in April after it pulped an Indigenous children’s book over concerns about the illustrator’s comments, yet two of its titles appear on the list.
- Judges said the selections explore destabilised histories and range from Far North Queensland and Tasmania to remote Western Australia and locations abroad.
- The list mixes debuts and established writers, signaling a new cohort of voices gaining national attention.