Marshall shortlisted for new Aussie fiction prize

Key points

• Bacchus Marsh author Wayne Marshall has been shortlisted for this year's Readings New Australian Fiction Prize. His book, Henry Goes Bush, is inspired by the life of writer Henry Lawson.
• It blends a real outback trip Lawson took as a young man with science fiction and comedy. Marshall learned of the shortlisting by phone while visiting Lawson's birthplace of Grenfell in New South Wales.
• The six shortlisted books were selected by a panel of Readings staff. The winner will be announced in Carlton on 27 October.