Judges for the $10,000 prize said I Shot the Devil was an ‘atmospheric and chillingly entertaining’ novel by an emerging writer of considerable talent
• Read an extract from Ruth McIver’s winning novel, I Shot the Devil
When Ruth McIver learned two weeks ago that her novel had won the $10,000 Richell Prize for Emerging Writers, she had trouble keeping the news to herself. “It’s been a little weird knowing,” she told Guardian Australia. “I don’t have a good poker face.”
To add to the difficulty, McIver felt that her literary luck had changed very suddenly. Having been a writer for a decade with a couple of novel drafts under her belt, she entered a swathe of competitions – something she did every year. But this time, her work started to place.
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