The Queensland Literary Awards is an awards program established in 2012 by the Queensland literary community, funded by sponsors and administered by the

State Library of Queensland The State Library of Queensland is the main reference and research library provided to the people of the State of Queensland, Australia, by the state government. Its legislative basis is provided by the Queensland Libraries Act 1988. It contai ...

. Like the former Queensland Premier's Literary Awards, the QLAs celebrate and promote outstanding Australian writing. The awards aim to seek out, recognize and nurture great talent in Australian writing. They draw national and international attention to some of our best writers and to Queensland's recognition of outstanding Australian literature and publishing. These Awards have a focus on supporting new writing through the Emerging Queensland Writer – Manuscript Award and Unpublished Indigenous writer – David Unaipon Award. "They give local writers and new writers something to aspire to."

History

The Queensland Literary Awards was established by a not-for-profit association of passionate Queensland volunteers and advocates for literature, in response to Queensland Premier

Campbell Newman Campbell Kevin Thomas Newman (born 12 August 1963) is a former Australian politician who served as the 38th Premier of Queensland from 26 March 2012 to 14 February 2015. He served as the member for Ashgrove in the Legislative Assembly of Quee ...

disestablishing the Queensland Premier's Literary Awards in 2012. In 2012 and 2013 the program was run by a volunteer workforce. Following consultation with the QLA Inc. governing committee, 2014 saw the management of the QLA transition to State Library of Queensland (SLQ). While SLQ took on a leadership role in delivering the program, the aim was to continue to build on the existing collaborative model where the community and writing sector partners are key stakeholders. The original Premier's awards were established by

Peter Beattie Peter Douglas Beattie (born 18 November 1952) is an Australian former politician who served as the 36th Premier of Queensland, in office from 1998 to 2007. He was the state leader of the Australian Labor Party (Queensland Branch), Labor Party ...

, the then Premier of Queensland in 1998 and first awarded in 1999.

Award categories

There are currently twelve award categories including: *Queensland Premier's Award for a work of State Significance *Queensland Premier's Young Publishers and Writers Award *Queensland Writers Fellowships *The University of Queensland Fiction Book Award *The University of Queensland Non-Fiction Book Award *Griffith University Young Adult Book Award *Griffith University Children's Book Award *University of Southern Queensland Steele Rudd Award for a Short Story Collection *Judith Wright Calanthe Award for a Poetry Collection *David Unaipon Award for an Emerging Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Writer *Glendower Award for an Emerging Queensland Writer *The Courier-Mail People's Choice Queensland Book of the Year

Judging

The Awards are judged by independent panels of writers, critics, journalists, academics and booksellers. The Awards are presented to works the judges determine possess the highest literary merit.

Winners

2022

The winners were announced on 8 September 2022: * Queensland Premier's Award for a work of State Significance – ''Wounded Country: The Murray-Darling Basin – a contested history'' by Quentin Beresford * The Courier-Mail People's Choice Queensland Book of the Year Award – ''Another Day in the Colony'' by

Chelsea Watego Chelsea Joanne Watego (formerly Bond, born 1978/1979) is an Aboriginal Australian academic and writer. She is a Mununjali Yugambeh and South Sea Islander woman and is currently Professor of Indigenous Health at Queensland University of Techn ...

* The University of Queensland Fiction Book Award – ''The Other Half of You'' by

Michael Mohammed Ahmad Michael Mohammed Ahmad is an Australian novelist, teacher and community arts worker. Biography Ahmad was born in Inner Sydney and attended Punchbowl Boys High School. In 2012, Ahmad founded SWEATSHOP Western Sydney Literacy Movement, an arts ...

* The University of Queensland Non-Fiction Book Award – ''Lies, Damned Lies'' by Claire G. Coleman * Judith Wright Calanthe Award for a Poetry Collection – ''Stasis Shuffle'' by

Pam Brown Pamela Jane Barclay Brown (born 1948) is an Australian poet. Career Pam Brown was born in Seymour, Victoria. Most of her childhood was spent on military bases in Toowoomba and Brisbane. Since her early twenties, she has lived in Melbourne a ...

* University of Southern Queensland Steele Rudd Award for a Short Story Collection – ''Dark as Last Night'' by

Tony Birch Tony Birch (born 1957) is an Aboriginal Australian author, academic and activist. He regularly appears on ABC local radio and Radio National shows and at writers’ festivals. He was head of the honours programme for creative writing at the Un ...

* Griffith University Young Adult Book Award – ''Girls in Boys’ Cars'' by

Felicity Castagna Felicity Castagna is an Award winning Australian writer. She won the young adult fiction prize at the 2014 Prime Minister's Literary Awards for her book, ''The Incredible Here and Now''. She won the Victorian Premier's Literary Awards for her ...

* Children's Book Award – ''Kunyi'' written and illustrated by Kunyi June Anne McInerney * Queensland Premier's Young Publishers and Writers Award – ** Rebecca Cheers ** Marilena Hewitt * Queensland Writers Fellowships – **

Melissa Ashley Melissa Ashley (born 1973) is an Australian novelist. In the 2017 Queensland Literary Awards, her novel ''The Birdman's Wife'' won the University of Queensland Fiction Book Award. It also received the Australian Booksellers Association Nielsen Bo ...

** Geneve Flynn **

Mary-Rose MacColl Mary-Rose MacColl (born 1961) is an Australian novelist. MacColl's first novel, ''No Safe Place'', was shortlisted for the 1995 Australian/Vogel Literary Award. In the 2016 Queensland Literary Awards, she won The Courier-Mail People’s Choice ...

* Glendower Award for Emerging Queensland Author – Yen-Rong Wong, "Things Left Unsaid" * David Unaipon Award for an Emerging Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Writer – Mykaela Saunders for "Always Will Be – stories of Goori sovereignty, from the future(s) of the Tweed"

2021

The winners were announced on 9 September 2021: * Queensland Premier's Award for a work of State Significance – ''Biting the Clouds: A Badtjala perspective on the Aboriginals Protection and Restriction of the Sale of Opium Act, 1897'' by

Fiona Foley Fiona Foley (born 1964) is a contemporary Indigenous Australian artist from K'gari (Fraser Island), Queensland. Foley is known for her activity as an academic, cultural and community leader and for co-founding the Boomalli Aboriginal Artists Co-o ...

* The Courier-Mail People's Choice Queensland Book of the Year Award – ''Mary’s Last Dance: The untold story of the wife of Mao’s Last Dancer'' by Mary Li * The University of Queensland Fiction Book Award – ''Song of the Crocodile'' by

Nardi Simpson Nardi Simpson (born 1975) is a Yuwaalaraay musician and writer in Australia. She is a founding member of the Indigenous folk group Stiff Gins. Her debut novel, ''Song of the Crocodile'', was published in 2020. Early life and education Nardi ...

* The University of Queensland Non-Fiction Book Award – ''Amnesia Road: Landscape, violence and memory'' by Luke Stegemann * Judith Wright Calanthe Award for a Poetry Collection – ''Terminally Poetic'' by Ouyang Yu * University of Southern Queensland Steele Rudd Award for a Short Story Collection – ''Ordinary Matter'' by Laura Elvery * Griffith University Young Adult Book Award – ''Metal Fish, Falling Snow'' by Cath Moore * Griffith University Children's Book Award – ''Bindi'' written by Kirli Saunders and illustrated by Dub Leffler * Queensland Premier's Young Publishers and Writers Award – ** Allanah Hunt ** Ellen Wengert * Queensland Writers Fellowships – ** Tabitha Bird for "The Healing Giggle of Wonder" ** Ella Jeffery for "Split Level" ** Kali Napier for "Preserving: Stories" * Glendower Award for Emerging Queensland Author – Siang Lu, "The Whitewash" * David Unaipon Award for an Emerging Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Writer – Ngankiburka-mekauwe (Senior Woman of Water) Georgina Williams for "Mekauwe=Tears Volume #1 Poems (Notes For Song) 1970–2020"

2020

The winners were announced on 4 September 2020: * Queensland Premier's Award for a work of State Significance – ''Heartland: How Rugby League Explains Queensland'', Joe Gorman * The Courier-Mail People's Choice Queensland Book of the Year Award – ''A Lifetime of Impossible Days'' by Tabitha Bird * The University of Queensland Fiction Book Award – ''Stone Sky Gold Mountain'', Mirandi Riwoe * The University of Queensland Non-Fiction Book Award – ''Olive Cotton: A Life in Photography'', Helen Ennis * Judith Wright Calanthe Award for a Poetry Collection – ''Heide'', П. O. * University of Southern Queensland Steele Rudd Award for a Short Story Collection – ''Lucky Ticket'', Joey Bui * Griffith University Young Adult Book Award – ''Ghost Bird,'' Lisa Fuller * Griffith University Children's Book Award – ''As Fast As I Can'', Penny Tangey * Queensland Premier's Young Publishers and Writers Award – Zenobia Frost and Yen-Rong Wong * Queensland Writers Fellowships – Sara El Sayed, Anna Jacobson and Amanda Niehaus * Glendower Award for Emerging Queensland Author – ''If You're Happy,'' Fiona Robertson * David Unaipon Award for an Emerging Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Writer – ''The Space Between the Paperbark'', Jazz Money

2019

The winners were announced on 12 November 2019: * Queensland Premier's Award for a work of State Significance – '' Too Much Lip,'' Melissa Lucashenko * The Courier-Mail People's Choice Queensland Book of the Year Award – ''Adani, Following Its Dirty Footsteps: A Personal Story,'' Lindsay Simpson * University of Queensland Fiction Book Award – ''Exploded View,''

Carrie Tiffany Carrie Tiffany (born 1965) is an English-born Australian novelist and former park ranger. Biography Tiffany was born in Halifax, West Yorkshire and migrated to Australia with her family in the early 1970s. She grew up in Perth, Western Australi ...

* University of Queensland Non-Fiction Book Award – ''An Unconventional Wife: The Life of Julia Sorell Arnold,'' Mary Hoban * University of Southern Queensland History Book Award – ''An Unconventional Wife: The Life of Julia Sorell Arnold,'' Mary Hoban * State Library of Queensland Poetry Collection – Judith Wright Calanthe Award – ''Blakwork,'' Alison Whittaker * University of Southern Queensland Australian Short Story Collection – Steele Rudd Award – ''Zebra: And Other Stories,''

Debra Adelaide Debra Adelaide (born 1958) is an Australian novelist, writer and academic. She teaches creative writing at the University of Technology Sydney. Biography Adelaide was born in Sydney and grew up in the Sutherland Shire. A contemporary of writers ...

* Griffith University Young Adult Book Award – ''Lenny’s Book of Everything,'' Karen Foxlee * Griffith University Children's Book Award – ''The Slightly Alarming Tale of the Whispering Wars,''

Jaclyn Moriarty Jaclyn Moriarty (born 1968 in Perth) is an Australian novelist, most known for her young adult literature. She is a recipient of the Davitt Award and the Aurealis Award for best children's fiction. Biography Moriarty was raised in the north-west ...

* Queensland Premier's Young Publishers and Writers Awards – Ella Jeffery and

Ellen van Neerven Ellen van Neerven (born 1990) is an Aboriginal Australian author, educator and editor. They are queer and non-binary. Their first work of fiction, ''Heat and Light'' (2013), won several awards, and in 2019 Van Neerven won the Queensland Premier ...

* Queensland Writers Fellowships – Claire Christian,

Sarah Holland-Batt Sarah Holland-Batt is a contemporary Australian poet, critic, and academic. Early life and education Born in Southport, Queensland, Sarah Holland-Batt grew up in Australia and Denver, Colorado. She was educated at the University of Queensland ...

and Emily O'Grady * Glendower Award for Emerging Queensland Author for unpublished manuscript – ''Henry Hamlet’s Heart'' by Rhiannon Ratcliffe Wilde * Unpublished Indigenous Writer – David Unaipon Award – Not awarded in 2019 * QUT Digital Literature Award – ''V gnettes,''

Mez Breeze Mez Breeze is an Australian-based artist and practitioner of net.art, working primarily with code poetry, electronic literature, mezangelle, and digital games. Born Mary-Anne Breeze, she uses a number of avatar nicknames, including Mez and Netw ...

2018

The 2018 winners were: * Queensland Premier's Award for a work of State Significance – ''We'll Show the World: Expo 88'', Jackie Ryan * The Courier Mail People's Choice Queensland Book of the Year Award – ''Brisbane Houses with Gardens'', Beth Wilson * University of Queensland Fiction Book Award – ''Taboo'',

Kim Scott Kim Scott (born 18 February 1957) is an Australian novelist of Aboriginal Australian ancestry. He is a descendant of the Noongar people of Western Australia. Biography Scott was born in Perth in 1957 and is the eldest of four siblings with a ...

* University of Queensland Non-Fiction Book Award – ''Tracker'',

Alexis Wright Alexis Wright (born 25 November 1950) is a Waanyi (Aboriginal Australian) writer best known for winning the Miles Franklin Award for her 2006 novel '' Carpentaria'' and the 2018 Stella Prize for her "collective memoir" of Leigh Bruce "Tracker" ...

* University of Southern Queensland History Book Award – ''We'll Show the World: Expo 88'', Jackie Ryan * State Library of Queensland Poetry Collection – Judith Wright Calanthe Award – ''I Love Poetry'', Michael Farrell * University of Southern Queensland Australian Short Story Collection – Steele Rudd Award – ''Pulse Points'',

Jennifer Down Jennifer Down (born 1990) is an Australian novelist and short story writer. She won the 2022 Miles Franklin Award for her novel ''Bodies of Light''. Biography Down was in born 1990. She studied arts at Melbourne University before studying ...

* Griffith University Young Adult Book Award – ''In the Dark Spaces'', Cally Black * Griffith University Children's Book Award – ''The Elephant'', Peter Carnavas * Queensland Premier's Young Publishers and Writers Awards – Anna Jacobson &

Bri Lee Brianna "Bri" Lee (born 13 December 1991) is an Australian author, journalist, and activist, known for her 2018 memoir ''Eggshell Skull''. Career Writing and journalism Lee's early writing work included a short story published in Voicewor ...

* Queensland Writers Fellowships – Michael Gerard Bauer, Jackie Ryan and Laura Elvery * Glendower Award for Emerging Queensland Author for unpublished manuscript – ''Garrison Town'', Melanie Myers * Unpublished Indigenous Writer – David Unaipon Award – ''The Making of Ruby Champion'', Kirstie Parker * QUT Digital Literature Award – ''Little Emperor Syndrome'', David Thomas Henry Wright, with Chris Arnold

2017

The 2017 winners were: * Queensland Premier's Award for a work of State Significance – ''The Daintree Blockade: The Battle for Australia's Tropical Rainforests'', Bill Wilkie * The Courier Mail People's Choice Queensland Book of the Year Award – ''Saltwater'', Cathy McLennan * University of Queensland Fiction Book Award – ''The Birdman's Wife'',

* University of Queensland Non-Fiction Book Award – ''Saltwater'', Cathy McLennan * University of Southern Queensland History Book Award – ''Into the Heart of Tasmania: A Search for Human Antiquity'',

Rebe Taylor Rebe Taylor is an English-born Australian historian and author specialising in southeast Australian indigenous peoples and European settlement. Early life Taylor was born in London and came to live in Adelaide, South Australia with her family a ...

* State Library of Queensland Poetry Collection – Judith Wright Calanthe Award – ''Fragments'', Antigone Kefala * University of Southern Queensland Australian Short Story Collection – Steele Rudd Award – ''The Circle and the Equator'',

Kyra Giorgi Kyra Giorgi (born 1977) is an Australian author and historian. Early life and career Kyra Giorgi was born in Perth Western Australia—her mother is the novelist Gail Jones. Giorgi took her PhD in history from La Trobe University in 2012 with ...

* Griffith University Young Adult Book Award – ''Words in Deep Blue'',

Cath Crowley Cath Crowley is a young adult fiction author based in Melbourne, Australia. She has been shortlisted and received numerous literary awards including the 2011 Prime Minister's Literary Award for Young Adult Fiction for her novel ''Graffiti Moon'' ...

* Griffith University Children's Book Award – ''The Grand, Genius Summer of Henry Hoobler'', Lisa Shanahan * Queensland Premier's Young Publishers and Writers Awards – Lech Blaine and Mindy Gill * Queensland Writers Fellowships – Mirandi Riwoe, Zenobia Frost and Linda Neil * Emerging Queensland Author – Manuscript Award – ''The Killing of Louisa'', Janet Lee * Unpublished Indigenous Writer – David Unaipon Award – ''Mirrored Pieces'', Lisa Fuller * QUT Digital Literature Award – ''Nine Billion Branches'',

Jason Nelson Jason Nelson is a digital and hypermedia poet and artist. He is Associate Professor of Digital Culture at the University of Bergen, where he was also a Fulbright Fellow from 2016-17. Until 2020 he was a lecturer on Cyberstudies, digital writ ...

2016

The 2016 winners were: * Queensland Premier's Award for a work of State Significance – ''Not Just Black and White'', Lesley and Tammy Williams * The Courier Mail People's Choice Queensland Book of the Year Award – ''Swimming Home'',

* University of Queensland Fiction Book Award – ''Between a Wolf and a Dog'',

Georgia Blain Georgia Frances Elise Blain (12 December 19649 December 2016) was an Australian novelist, journalist and biographer. Biography Born in Sydney in 1964 to journalist and broadcaster Anne Deveson (d. 2016) and broadcaster Ellis Blain (d. 1978), ...

* University of Queensland Non-Fiction Book Award – ''Small Acts of Disappearance: Essays on Hunger'',

Fiona Wright Fiona Wright (born 1983) is an Australian poet and critic. Life and career Fiona Wright grew up in Menai, New South Wales. Wright has completed residencies including an Island of Residencies placement at the Tasmanian Writers' Centre in 2007. S ...

* University of Southern Queensland History Book Award – ''The Pearl Frontier: Indonesian Labour and Indigenous Encounters in Australia’s Northern Trading Network'', Julia Martínez and Adrian Vickers * State Library of Queensland Poetry Collection – Judith Wright Calanthe Award – ''Anatomy of Voice'', David Musgrave * University of Southern Queensland Australian Short Story Collection – Steele Rudd Award – co-winners: ''A Few Days in the Country and other stories'', Elizabeth Harrower and ''The High Places'',

Fiona McFarlane Fiona McFarlane (born 1978) is an Australian author, best known for her book ''The Night Guest'' and her collection of short stories ''The High Places''. She is a recipient of the Voss Literary Prize, the UTS Glenda Adams Award for New Writing a ...

* Griffith University Young Adult Book Award – ''Dreaming the Enemy'', David Metzenthen * Griffith University Children's Book Award – ''KidGlovz'', Julie Hunt (author) and Dale Newman (illustrator) * Queensland Premier's Young Publishers and Writers Awards – Emily Craven and Michelle Law * Emerging Queensland Author – Manuscript Award – No winner, two Encouragement Awards given – ''The Boatman'', H.E. Crampton; and ''The Elements'', Laura Elvery * Unpublished Indigenous Writer – David Unaipon Award – ''Dancing Home'', Paul Collis

2015

The 2015 winners were: * Queensland Premier's Award for a work of State Significance – ''Warrior'', Libby Connors * The Courier Mail People's Choice Queensland Book of the Year Award – ''On the road...with the kids'', John Ahern * University of Queensland Fiction Book Award – '' The Golden Age'', Joan London * University of Queensland Non-Fiction Book Award – ''The Bush : Travels in the Heart of Australia'',

Don Watson Don Watson (born 1949) is an Australian author, screenwriter, former political adviser, and speechwriter. Early life Watson was born in 1949 at Warragul in the Gippsland region of Victoria, and grew up on a farm in nearby Korumburra. Academi ...

* University of Southern Queensland History Book Award – ''ANZAC, The Unauthorised Biography'', Carolyn Holbrook * State Library of Queensland Poetry Collection – Judith Wright Calanthe Award – ''Waiting for the Past'', Les Murray * Australian Short Story Collection – Steele Rudd Award – ''Merciless Gods'',

Christos Tsiolkas Christos Tsiolkas is an Australian author, playwright, and screenwriter. He is especially known for '' The Slap'', which was both well-received critically and highly successful commercially. Several of his books have been adapted for film and t ...

* Griffith University Young Adult Book Award – ''The Pause'', John Larkin * Children's Book Award – ''A Single Stone'',

Meg McKinlay Meg McKinlay is a Western Australian writer. She has written a number of books for children and young adults, including ''How to Make a Bird'' and ''A Single Stone''. She has won two Prime Minister's Literary Awards and three Crystal Kite Awar ...

* Queensland Premier's Young Publishers and Writers Awards – Megan McGrath and Rebecca Jessen * Emerging Queensland Author – Manuscript Award – ''Aurora'', Elizabeth Kasmer * Unpublished Indigenous Writer – David Unaipon Award – ''The First Octoroon or Report of an Experimental Child'', Andrew Booth

2014

The 2014 winners were: * The Courier Mail People's Choice Queensland Book of the Year Award – ''How to do a Liver Transplant: Stories from my Surgical Life'', Kellee Slater * University of Queensland Fiction Book Award – '' The Narrow Road to the Deep North'', Richard Flanagan * University of Queensland Non-Fiction Book Award – ''1914: The Year the World Ended'',

Paul Ham Paul Ham is an Australian author, historian, journalist and publisher, who writes on the 20th century history of war, politics and diplomacy. He lives in Sydney and Paris. Life and career Between 1984 and 1998 Ham worked in London as a business ...

* University of Southern Queensland History Book Award – ''Broken Nation'', Joan Beaumont * State Library of Queensland Poetry Collection – Judith Wright Calanthe Award – ''Earth Hour'',

David Malouf David George Joseph Malouf AO (; born 20 March 1934) is an Australian poet, novelist, short story writer, playwright and librettist. Elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2008, Malouf has lectured at both the University of Quee ...

* Australian Short Story Collection – Steele Rudd Award – ''Only the Animals'',

Ceridwen Dovey Ceridwen Dovey (born 1980) is a South African and Australian social anthropologist and author. In 2009 she was named a 5 under 35 nominee by the National Book Foundation and in 2020 won The Bragg UNSW Press Prize for Science Writing. Early year ...

* Griffith University Young Adult Book Award – ''The Cracks in the Kingdom'',

* Children's Book Award – ''Refuge'', Jackie French and ''Rules of Summer'',

Shaun Tan Shaun Tan (born 1973) is an Australian artist, writer and film maker. He won an Academy Award for '' The Lost Thing'', a 2011 animated film adaptation of a 2000 picture book he wrote and illustrated. Other books he has written and illustrated inc ...

(joint winners) * Emerging Queensland Author – Manuscript Award – ''We Come From Saltwater People'', Cathy McLennan * Unpublished Indigenous Writer – David Unaipon Award – ''It’s Not Just Black and White'', Lesley & Tammy Williams

2013

The 2013 winners were: * The Courier Mail People's Choice Queensland Book of the Year Award – ''The Secret Keeper'',

Kate Morton Kate Morton (born 1976) is an Australian author. Morton has sold more than 16 million books in 42 countries, making her one of Australia's "biggest publishing exports". The author has written six novels: '' The House at Riverton'' (The Shifting ...

* Deloitte Fiction Book Award – ''

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'', Melissa Lucashenko * University of Queensland Non-Fiction Book Award – ''Boy, Lost'', Kristina Olsson * University of Southern Queensland History Book Award – ''The Flash of Recognition'', Jane Lydon * State Library of Queensland Poetry Collection – Judith Wright Calanthe Award – ''Jam Tree Gully'', John Kinsella * Australian Short Story Collection – Steele Rudd Award – ''Like a House on Fire'',

Cate Kennedy Cate Kennedy (born 1963) is an Australian author based in Victoria. Life and career Kennedy graduated from the University of Canberra and has also taught at several colleges, including The University of Melbourne. She is the author of the hi ...

* Griffith University Young Adult Book Award – ''A Corner of White'',

* Children's Book Award – ''Don't Let a Spoonbill in the Kitchen!'',

Narelle Oliver Narelle Oliver (1960 - 2016) was an Australian artist, print maker and award-winning children's author-illustrator. Early life Narelle Oliver was born on 25 February 1960 and grew up in Toowoomba in south east Queensland. Career Oliver majored ...

* Gadens Feature Film Script Award – ''Healing'', Craig Monahan and Alison Nisselle * Emerging Queensland Author – Manuscript Award – ''Gap'', Rebecca Jessen * Unpublished Indigenous Writer – David Unaipon Award – ''Heat and Light'',

2012

The 2012 winners were: * Fiction Book Award – ''

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Frank Moorhouse Frank Thomas Moorhouse (21 December 1938 – 26 June 2022) was an Australian writer. He won major Australian national prizes for the short story, the novel, the essay, and for script writing. His work has been published in the United Kingdom, ...

* Non-Fiction Book Award – ''The People Smuggler'', Robin De Crespigny * History Book Award – ''The Biggest Estate on Earth: How Aborigines Made Australia'',

Bill Gammage William Leonard Gammage (born 1942) is an Australian academic historian, adjunct professor and senior research fellow at the Humanities Research Centre of the Australian National University (ANU). Gammage was born in Orange, New South Wales, ...

* Literary or Media Work Advancing Public Debate – Harry Williams Award – ''The Australian Moment: How We Were Made For These Times'',

George Megalogenis George Megalogenis (born 1964)Bryant, NickGeorge Megalogenis ''Aesop Register'', 2013. is an Australian journalist, political commentator and author. Early life Born in Melbourne, Megalogenis attended Melbourne High School and went on to study e ...

* Science Writers Award – ''Sex, Genes & Rock 'n' Roll'', Rob Brooks * Poetry Collection – Judith Wright Calanthe Award – ''Crimson Crop'', Peter Rose * Australian Short Story Collection – Steele Rudd Award – ''Turbulence'',

Janette Turner Hospital Janette Turner Hospital (née Turner) (born 1942) is an Australian-born novelist and short story writer who has lived most of her adult life in Canada or the United States, principally Boston (Massachusetts), Kingston (Ontario) and Columbia (South ...

* Young Adult Book Award – ''The Ink Bridge'', Neil Grant * Children's Book Award – ''Kumiko and the Shadow Catchers'', Briony Stewart * Film Script Award – ''Dead Europe'', Louise Fox * Emerging Queensland Author – Manuscript Award – ''Island of the Unexpected'', Catherine Titasey * Unpublished Indigenous Writer – David Unaipon Award – ''Story'', Siv Parker * Drama Script (Stage) Award – ''War Crimes'', Angela Betzien * Television Script Award – '' Mabo'', Sue Smith

References

External links

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