Craig Sherborne's memoirHoi Polloiwas shortlisted for the Queensland and Victorian Premier's Literary Awards. The follow-up,Muck, won the Queensland Literary Award for Non-fiction. Sherborne's debut novel,The Amateur Science of Love, won the Best Writing Prize in the 2012 Melbourne Prize for Literature and was shortlisted for the NSW and Victorian Premiers' Awards. He has also written two volumes of poetry, and his journalism and poetry have appeared in most of Australia's leading literary journals and anthologies.