Recipients will be announced and presented with their awards on Thursday, 3 February 2022 at MPavilion. The People’s Choice Award encourages readers to participate in the awards by voting for their favourite book published in 2021, the winner is recognised alongside category accolades and receives a $2,000 prize. Winners in each of the award categories will receive $25,000, with one selected for the coveted Victorian Prize for Literature – the most valuable literary recognition in the country with a $100,000 prize.Īlongside these awards is the $15,000 prize for an unpublished manuscript, which has previously uncovered new talent – including literary sensation and now a major film, The Dry by Jane Harper and Victoria Hannan’s Kokomo. Spanning the breadth of human experience by telling stories of resilience, the works explore hope, family secrets, motherhood, trauma, survival and love. The hotly anticipated shortlist comprises 2021’s top titles spanning fiction, non-fiction, Indigenous writing, drama, poetry, writing for young adults and unpublished manuscripts. Footnotes, diagrams, nearly 500 photographs, and a list of approximately 68 additional reading materials are included.Victoria’s most exceptional writers have been showcased with the announcement of 26 works shortlisted for the 2022 Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards, Australia’s richest single literary prize. A final section on basics that strengthen tactics includes chapters on protective equipment firearms control firearms cleaning maintenance of revolvers, semiautomatics, and shotguns and physical fitness. In addition, psychological reactions to a shooting situation are explored, and the benefits of self-help techniques, therapy, and peer support are noted. Also discussed are reloading under fire and making a safe final approach for handcuffing and searching. An exploration of shooting techniques covers instinct shooting, multiple adversaries, center mass, ricochet shooting, muzzle flash, and unpredictable reactions. Next, a discussion on finding and maintaining cover and concealment examines the process of choosing objects to hide behind, changing cover, choosing position and grips, using the patrol car as cover, and realizing the penetration power of bullets. This last tactic, the use of surprise, is covered in material on the kill zone, movement inside the kill zone, close-up surprise, firearm retention, and suspect disarmament. Detailed and advanced methods are examined for effectively approaching dangerous situations, controlling light, issuing verbal challenges, and using surprise. The book draws on the street experience of over a dozen major police departments, as well as on documented reports of more than 400 officer-involved shootings.
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