Frances Hardinge, this month’s star interviewee (p16) has been shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal with The Lie Tree. The rest of the Carnegie Medal shortlist, and the Kate Greenaway Medal (for illustration) shortlists are: Carnegie:One, Sarah Crossan; There Will Be Lies, Nick Lake; The Rest of Us Just Live Here, Patrick Ness; Five Children on the Western Front, Kate Saunders; The Ghosts of Heaven, Marcus Sedgwick; Lies We Tell Ourselves, Robin Talley; Fire Colour One, Jenny Valentine. Kate Greenaway:Willy’s Stories, Anthony Browne; There’s a Bear on My Chair, Ross Collins; Once Upon an Alphabet, Oliver Jeffers; Sam & Dave Dig a Hole, Jon Klassen and Mac Barnett; Something About a Bear, Jackie Morris; Captain Jack and the Pirates, Helen Oxenbury; The Sleeper and the Spindle, Chris Riddell and Neil Gaiman; Footpath Flowers, Sydney Smith.
The longlist for the Sunday Times EFG Short Story Award is: Backcountry, Maggie Shipstead; Clap Hands, Thomas Morris; Poppies in the Snow, Madhulika Liddle; The Dacha, Alix Christie; The Elector of Nossnearly, Rob Magnuson Smith; The Glass Woman, Deborah Levy; The Human Phonograph, Jonathan Tel; The Master Swordsman, Marcel Theroux; The News of Her Death, Petina Gappah; The Phosphoresence, Nicholas Ruddock; What Time is it Now?, Colum McCann and Unbeschert, Edith Pearlman. The winner of the £30,000 prize will be announced on 22 April.