1. 1. Betts' Text Prize-winning YA novel, Zac & Mia, has been shortlisted for the Ethel Turner Prize for Young People’s Literature in the in the 2014 NSW Premier’s Literary Awards.

‘The voices of Zac and Mia are distinctive, real, raw, unsentimental, empathetic and completely believable,’ said the judges in their report.

The winners will be announced on 19 May.