In a year that seems to have been filled with awards congratulations should go out to all Australian authors, who are clearly putting on a jolly good show.

Most recently we’d like to send a special congratulations to Booked Outers Michael Gerard Bauer and Anna Krien for their wins in the 2011 Queensland Premiers Literary Awards.

Michael won the Mary Ryan Children’s Book Award for Just a Dog with judges saying that “Children will understand and appreciate patience and hope more deeply after reading this fine book and discover that ‘a story doesn’t stop being true just because you stop telling it’”.

Anna as always offers food for thought, winning the Harry Williams Award for a literary or media work advancing public debate. After seeing Anna live at the Melbourne Writer’s Festival recently I have no doubt that she is going to be at the forefront of public debate for some time still with her edgy responses to contemporary public issues.

So congratulations to all winners and especially to Anna and Michael (seen here in a cheeky photo we pinched from the Courier Mail).

• Bec Kavanagh, Booked Out