The Inkys

There is no other award in Australia that reflects what teenagers want to read. The Inkys are international awards for teenage literature, voted for online by the readers of insideadog.com.au. There are three awards: the Golden Inky for an Australian book, the Silver Inky for an international book, and the Creative Reading Prize, won by a young person for a creative response to a book they love, in any format they choose.

In 2011 James Moloney (Silvermay) won the Gold Inky having been published in Australia for many years and covering several genres in his career.  In the Silvery Inky category, Cassandra Clare won for the first in the Mortal instruments series prequel, Clockwork Angel.  Congratulations to James and Cassie on their win.

The shortlists, decided by a teen judging panel, is as follows.

THE GOLD INKY SHORTLIST(for an Australian YA book)

Graffiti Moon by Cath Crowley
This Is Shyness by Leanne Hall
Silvermay by James Moloney
Black Painted Fingernails by Steven Herrick
All I Ever Wanted by Vikki Wakefield

THE SILVER INKY SHORTLIST (for an international YA book)

Dash and Lily’s Book of Dares by Rachel Cohn & David Levithan
No and Me by Delphine de Vigan
Clockwork Angel by Cassandra Clare
The Agency: The Body at the Tower by Y.S. Lee
Where She Went by Gayle Forman

The Inkys are a choice award for teenagers (aged 12-20 years old), we cannot control who votes for the awards (as to do so would make the voting process unappealingly restrictive). 

Voting closed at midnight on 14 October 2011. The Centre for Youth Literature announced the winner of the Gold Inky, the Silver Inky and the Creative Reading Prize on the 25th October at our special Inkyfest event at the State Library of Victoria. 

The 2010 Inky Awards:

The Gold Inky - Stolen by Lucy Christopher

The Silver Inky - Shiver by Maggie Stiefvater

Creative Reading Prize - Natalie Keyton for her visual design portfolio for Suzanne Collins's The Hunger Games.

Creative Reading Prize Runners Up:

• David McNamara for his tumblr response to Arthur Miller's The Crucible. 
• Alexander Mourtikas for his additional chapter to Suzanne Collins's Mockingjay.
• Adam Lloyd for his video trailer of Mark Haddon's The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time.
• Jack Callahan, Jared Verecondi, Nathan Gulli, James Tuddenham for their video trailer of Patrick Ness's The Knife of Never Letting Go. 
• Kirsty Gurtler for her french knitted Harry Potter 
• Cassie Nelson for her illustration based on Wildwood Dancing by Juliet Marillier. 
• Michael Walsh for his extra scene for Sophocles's King Oedipus. 
• Lauren Hayes for her diary entries written from the point of view of Lee from Tomorrow, When the War Began. 
• Vishal Chopra for his creative writing piece that involved four different characters from different books .