M. N. Cox's urban fantasy manuscript Sarina — vampires, North Queensland, stakes very much required — has been longlisted for the Queensland Writers Centre's Publishable program.

Mabel Davison is a hard-working single mum running a diner and motel in a depressed highway town — and when she thinks a young Black teen has been wrongly picked up for murder, she speaks up. Loud. Heart of a Runaway Girl is carried entirely on Mabel's shoulders, and she earns every bit of it.