The 17th annual Ned Kelly Awards:

Winners of the 2012 Ned Kelly Awards were announced in Melbourne on 29 August:

Best Fiction: Pig Boy by J C Burke, Woolshed Press 

Best First Fiction: The Cartographer by Peter Twohig, Fourth Estate

Best True Crime: Sins of the Father by Eamonn Duff, Allen & Unwin

S D Harvey Short Story Award: A J Clifford ‘Summer of the Seventeenth Poll’

Lifetime Achievement: Gabrielle Lord

See the shortlist for the 2012 awards.

The Ned Kelly Awards are proud to announce support in 2012 from the Copyright Agency Limited (CAL). This ensured that winners in each category of the Ned Kelly Awards are supported both culturally and financially.

CAL’s Cultural Fund supports a wide variety of projects which aim to encourage, and provide practical assistance to CAL's members and the Australian cultural community.