{"id":225511,"date":"2025-10-19T22:29:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-19T22:29:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/225511\/"},"modified":"2025-10-19T22:29:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-19T22:29:09","slug":"walkley-book-award-2025-longlist-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/225511\/","title":{"rendered":"Walkley Book Award 2025 longlist announced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\tMonday, 20 October 2025 \u00a0 Books+Publishing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/booksandpublishing\/\" class=\"entry-social\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> @booksandpublishing<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Walkley Foundation has announced the finalists for the 70th annual Walkley Awards for Excellence in Journalism.<\/p>\n<p>The works longlisted for the Walkley Book Award are:<\/p>\n<p>All Women Want (Alyx Gorman, HarperCollins)<br \/>\nA Bunker in Kyiv (John Lyons, ABC Books)<br \/>\nThe Chairman\u2019s Lounge (Joe Aston, Scribner)<br \/>\nGreat Game On: The Contest for Central Asia and Global Supremacy (Geoff Raby, Melbourne University Publishing)<br \/>\nThe Holy and the Broken (Ittay Flescher, HarperCollins)<br \/>\nMeadow\u2019s Law (Quentin McDermott, ABC Books)<br \/>\nMean Streak (Rick Morton, Fourth Estate)<br \/>\nN\u00e4ku Dh\u00e4ruk The Bark Petitions (Clare Wright, Text).<\/p>\n<p>The shortlist will be announced on 6 November, with the winners to be announced on 27 November.<\/p>\n<p>More information is available on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.walkleys.com\/2025-walkley-book-award-longlist-finalists-announced\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the Walkley Foundation website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"catlist\">Category: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.booksandpublishing.com.au\/?category_name=awards-news\" class=\"catitem\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Awards<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.booksandpublishing.com.au\/?category_name=local-news\" class=\"catitem\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Local\u00a0news<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>\t\t<script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Monday, 20 October 2025 \u00a0 Books+Publishing @booksandpublishing The Walkley Foundation has announced the finalists for the 70th annual&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":225512,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[6109,2840,11080,11083,11077,5533,353,11082,49,48,1951,75,11079,5441,11081,11078],"class_list":["post-225511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-books","tag-asia-pacific","tag-australia","tag-author-interviews","tag-book-awards","tag-book-news","tag-book-reviews","tag-books","tag-bookseller-jobs","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-ebooks","tag-entertainment","tag-library-news","tag-new-zealand","tag-publishing-jobs","tag-publishing-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=225511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225511\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/225512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}