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Queensland Literary Awards
Australian literary awards
Summary
Australian literary awards
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| name | Queensland Literary Awards |
| country | Australia |
| location | Brisbane |
| year | |
| website |
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. 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These awards have a focus on supporting new writing through the Emerging Queensland Writer – Manuscript Award and Unpublished Indigenous writer – David Unaipon Award.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 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, 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
- Young Adult Book Award
- 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. They are presented to works the judges determine possess the highest literary merit.
Winners
2025
The shortlist was announced in early September 2025. Winners were announced on 26 September 2025.
| Category | Author | Title | Result | Queensland Premier's Award for a Work of State Significance | The University of Queensland Non-Fiction Book Award | The University of Queensland Fiction Book Award | Young Adult Book Award | Children's Book Award | Judith Wright Calanthe Award for a Poetry Collection | The Courier-Mail People's Choice Queensland Book of the Year Award | David Unaipon Award for an Emerging Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander Writer | Queensland Writers Fellowships | Glendower Award for Emerging Queensland Author | Queensland Premier’s Young Publishers and Writers Award |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Amy McQuire | Black Witness | Winner | ||||||||||||
| Lech Blaine | Australian Gospel: A Family Saga | Finalist | ||||||||||||
| Simon Cleary | Everything is Water | |||||||||||||
| Cheryl Leavy & Christopher Bassi | Yanga Mother | |||||||||||||
| Darren Rix & Craig Cormick | Warra Warra Wai | |||||||||||||
| Clare Wright | Näku Dhäruk: The Bark Petitions | Winner | ||||||||||||
| Santilla Chingaipe | Black Convicts | Finalist | ||||||||||||
| Helen Garner | The Season | |||||||||||||
| Stan Grant | Murriyang: Song of time | |||||||||||||
| Darren Rix & Craig Cormick | Warra Warra Wai | |||||||||||||
| Emily Maguire | Rapture | Winner | ||||||||||||
| Laura Elvery | Nightingale | Finalist | ||||||||||||
| Charlotte McConaghy | Wild Dark Shore | |||||||||||||
| Josephine Rowe | Little World | |||||||||||||
| Gretchen Shirm | Out of the Woods | |||||||||||||
| C. G. Drews | Don't Let the Forest In | Winner | ||||||||||||
| Lauren Draper | Return to Sender | Finalist | ||||||||||||
| Kate Gordon | My Brother, Finch | |||||||||||||
| Erin Gough | Into the Mouth of the Wolf | |||||||||||||
| Ambelin Kwaymullina | Liar's Test | |||||||||||||
| Sandy Bigna | Little Bones | Winner | ||||||||||||
| Sophie Beer | Thunderhead | Finalist | ||||||||||||
| Aaron Fa'Aoso & Michelle Scott | Spirit of the Crocodile | |||||||||||||
| Katrina Nannestad | All the Beautiful Things | |||||||||||||
| Shivaun Plozza | Summer of Shipwrecks | |||||||||||||
| Chris Andrews | The Oblong Plot | Winner | ||||||||||||
| Judith Beveridge | Tintinnabulum | Finalist | ||||||||||||
| Luke Johnson | Kangaroo Unbound | |||||||||||||
| Isabella G. Mead | The Infant Vine | |||||||||||||
| Alan Wearne | Mixed Business | |||||||||||||
| Laura Elvery | Nightingale | Winner | ||||||||||||
| Santilla Chingaipe | Black Convicts | Finalist | ||||||||||||
| Simon Cleary | Everything is Water | |||||||||||||
| Anita Heiss | Dirrayawadha | |||||||||||||
| Grantlee Kieza | Annette Kellerman, Australian Mermaid | |||||||||||||
| Tess Merlin | Red Dirt Blue Lights | |||||||||||||
| Steve MinOn | First Name Second Name | |||||||||||||
| Gari Tudor-Smith, Paul Williams & Felicity Meakins | Bina: First Nations Languages, Old and New | |||||||||||||
| E. S. Crismani | "Finding Billy Brown" | Winner | ||||||||||||
| Vika Mana | "Eskos" | Finalist | ||||||||||||
| B. S. Windon | "Neurodiverging Into [He]ARTS" | |||||||||||||
| Vuong Pham | "Reborn" | Winner | ||||||||||||
| Mykaela Saunders | "Dear Uncle" | |||||||||||||
| Gillian Hagenus | "Commonplaces" | Winner | ||||||||||||
| Bronte Coates | "The Curse" | Finalist | ||||||||||||
| Mindy Gill | "Easy Living" | |||||||||||||
| Karen Lee | "The Burning Season" | |||||||||||||
| Dani Ringrose | "The Lyrebirds" | |||||||||||||
| Alex Philp | Winner | |||||||||||||
| Sean West | ||||||||||||||
| Olivia J. Bennett | Finalist | |||||||||||||
| Svetlana Sterlin |
2024
The shortlist was announced on 1 August 2024. Winners were announced on 5 September 2024.
| Category | Author | Title | Result | Queensland Premier's Award for a Work of State Significance | The University of Queensland Non-Fiction Book Award | The University of Queensland Fiction Book Award | Young Adult Book Award | Children's Book Award | Steele Rudd Award for a Short Story Collection | Judith Wright Calanthe Award for a Poetry Collection | The Courier-Mail People's Choice Queensland Book of the Year Award | David Unaipon Award for an Emerging Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander Writer | Queensland Writers Fellowships | Glendower Award for Emerging Queensland Author | Queensland Premier’s Young Publishers and Writers Award |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Melissa Lucashenko | Edenglassie | Winner | |||||||||||||
| Graham Akhurst | Borderland | Finalist | |||||||||||||
| Kris Kneen | Fat Girl Dancing | ||||||||||||||
| J. M. Tolcher | Poof | ||||||||||||||
| Ellen van Neerven | Personal Score: Sport, Culture, Identity | ||||||||||||||
| Abbas El-Zein | Bullet, Paper, Rock: A Memoir of Words and Wars | Winner | |||||||||||||
| James Bradley | Deep Water: The World In the Ocean | Finalist | |||||||||||||
| Bonny Cassidy | Monument | ||||||||||||||
| Antony Loewenstein | The Palestine Laboratory: How Israel Exports the Technology of Occupation Around the World | ||||||||||||||
| Ellen van Neerven | Personal Score: Sport, Culture, Identity | ||||||||||||||
| Sharlene Allsopp | The Great Undoing | Winner | |||||||||||||
| Katherine Brabon | Body Friend | Finalist | |||||||||||||
| Yumna Kassab | Politica | ||||||||||||||
| Siang Lu | Ghost Cities | ||||||||||||||
| Melissa Lucashenko | Edenglassie | ||||||||||||||
| sydney khoo | The Spider and Her Demons | Winner | |||||||||||||
| Graham Akhurst | Borderland | Finalist | |||||||||||||
| Barry Jonsberg | Smoke & Mirrors | ||||||||||||||
| Will Kostakis | We Could Be Something | ||||||||||||||
| Ann Liang | I Hope This Doesn't Find You | ||||||||||||||
| Karen Comer | Sunshine on Vinegar Street | Winner | |||||||||||||
| Trace Balla | Leaf-light | Finalist | |||||||||||||
| Peter Carnavas | Leo and Ralph | ||||||||||||||
| Jaclyn Moriarty, illustrated by Kelly Canby | The Impossible Secret of Lillian Velvet | ||||||||||||||
| Blake Nuto | When You're a Boy | ||||||||||||||
| John Morrissey | Firelight | Winner | |||||||||||||
| David Cohen | The Terrible Event | Finalist | |||||||||||||
| Magdalena McGuire | Born For You | ||||||||||||||
| Laura Jean McKay | Gunflower | ||||||||||||||
| John Richards | The Gorgon Flower | ||||||||||||||
| L. K. Holt | Three Books | Winner | |||||||||||||
| Manisha Anjali | Naag Mountain | Finalist | |||||||||||||
| Jarad Bruinstroop | Reliefs | ||||||||||||||
| Mitchell Welch | Vehicular Man | ||||||||||||||
| Petra White | That Galloping Horse | ||||||||||||||
| Carly-Jay Metcalfe | Breath | Winner | |||||||||||||
| Sharlene Allsopp | The Great Undoing | Finalist | |||||||||||||
| Melissa Ashley | The Naturalist of Amsterdam | ||||||||||||||
| Wendy Cooper | The Bird Art of William T. Cooper | ||||||||||||||
| Anna Jacobson | How to Knit a Human | ||||||||||||||
| Grantlee Kieza | The Remarkable Mrs Reibey | ||||||||||||||
| Siang Lu | Ghost Cities | ||||||||||||||
| Anna McGahan | Immaculate | ||||||||||||||
| Dominic Guerrera | Native Rage | Winner | |||||||||||||
| Chella Goldwin | Politics | Finalist | |||||||||||||
| Lulu Houdini | River Page | ||||||||||||||
| Jarad Bruinstroop | "For the Duration" | Winner | |||||||||||||
| Sarah Kanake | "Lazarus; or, The Whale" | ||||||||||||||
| Cheryl Leavy | "Mudhunda—Song Country" | ||||||||||||||
| Emily Lighezzolo | Life Drawing | Winner | |||||||||||||
| Myles McGuire | Tender Age | Finalist | |||||||||||||
| Nicky Peelgrane | EndGain | ||||||||||||||
| Lillian Telford | Lovesick | ||||||||||||||
| Gavin Yuan Gao | Winner | ||||||||||||||
| Myles McGuire | |||||||||||||||
| Wallea Eaglehawk | Finalist | ||||||||||||||
| Alex Philip | |||||||||||||||
| Sean West |
2023
The winners were announced on 6 September 2023.
| Category | Author | Title | Result | Queensland Premier's Award for a Work of State Significance | The Courier-Mail People's Choice Queensland Book of the Year Award | The University of Queensland Fiction Book Award | The University of Queensland Non-Fiction Book Award | Judith Wright Calanthe Award for a Poetry Collection | University of Southern Queensland Steele Rudd Award for a Short Story Collection | Griffith University Young Adult Book Award | Children's Book Award | Queensland Premier's Young Publishers and Writers Award | Queensland Writers Fellowships | Glendower Award for Emerging Queensland Author | David Unaipon Award for an Emerging Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Writer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sarah Holland-Batt | The Jaguar | Winner | |||||||||||||
| Debra Dank | We Come With This Place | Finalist | |||||||||||||
| Kate Foster | The Bravest Word | ||||||||||||||
| Sally Piper | Bone Memories | ||||||||||||||
| Alexis Wright | Praiseworthy | ||||||||||||||
| Sita Walker | The God of No Good | Winner | |||||||||||||
| Debra Dank | We Come With This Place | Finalist | |||||||||||||
| Veronica Lando | The Whispering | ||||||||||||||
| Kate Morton | Homecoming | ||||||||||||||
| Sally Piper | Bone Memories | ||||||||||||||
| Holly Ringland | The Seven Skins of Esther Wilding | ||||||||||||||
| Marion Stell | The Bodyline Fix | ||||||||||||||
| Penny van Oosterzee | Cloud Land | ||||||||||||||
| Alexis Wright | Praiseworthy | Winner | |||||||||||||
| Geraldine Brooks | Horse | Finalist | |||||||||||||
| Fiona McFarlane | The Sun Walks Down | ||||||||||||||
| Michael Meehan | An Ungrateful Instrument | ||||||||||||||
| Shaun Prescott | Bon and Lesley | ||||||||||||||
| Debra Dank | We Come With This Place | Winner | |||||||||||||
| Joëlle Gergis | Humanity’s Moment | Finalist | |||||||||||||
| Louisa Lim | Indelible City | ||||||||||||||
| Anna Spargo-Ryan | A Kind of Magic | ||||||||||||||
| Sam Wallman | Our Members Be Unlimited | ||||||||||||||
| Lionel Fogarty | Harvest Lingo | Winner | |||||||||||||
| Michael Farrell | Googlecholia | Finalist | |||||||||||||
| Autumn Royal | The Drama Student | ||||||||||||||
| Simon Tedeschi | Fugitive | ||||||||||||||
| Rae White | Exactly As I Am | ||||||||||||||
| Katerina Gibson | Women I Know | Winner | |||||||||||||
| Paul Dalla Rosa | An Exciting and Vivid Inner Life | Finalist | |||||||||||||
| Else Fitzgerald | Everything Feels Like the End of the World | ||||||||||||||
| Chris Flynn | Here Be Leviathans | ||||||||||||||
| Biffy James | Completely Normal (and Other Lies) | Winner | |||||||||||||
| Helena Fox | The Quiet and the Loud | Finalist | |||||||||||||
| Nina Kenwood | Unnecessary Drama | ||||||||||||||
| Ann Liang | If You Could See the Sun | ||||||||||||||
| Jared Thomas | My Spare Heart | ||||||||||||||
| Katrina Nannestad | Waiting for the Storks | Winner | |||||||||||||
| Zana Fraillon | The Way of Dog | Finalist | |||||||||||||
| Bob Graham | Jigsaw: A Puzzle in the Post | ||||||||||||||
| Hakea Hustler, Carl Merrison & Samantha Campbell | My Deadly Boots | ||||||||||||||
| Gabrielle Wang | Zadie Ma and the Dog Who Chased the Moon | ||||||||||||||
| Jasmin McGaughey | Winner | ||||||||||||||
| Jonathan O'Brien | |||||||||||||||
| Myles McGuire | Finalist | ||||||||||||||
| Alex Philp | |||||||||||||||
| Sean West | |||||||||||||||
| Al Campbell | Door 64 | Winner | |||||||||||||
| B. R. Dionysius | The Eromanga Sea | ||||||||||||||
| Melanie Saward | The Next Chapter | ||||||||||||||
| Steve MinOn | First Name, Second Name | Winner | |||||||||||||
| Fernanda Dahlstrom | The See-Saw | Finalist | |||||||||||||
| Sandra Minke | Treasure | ||||||||||||||
| Margot Shave | Exchange Me | ||||||||||||||
| Maria van Neerven | To Give Them a Voice | Winner | |||||||||||||
| Lulu Houdini | guniimara | Finalist | |||||||||||||
| Brooke Scobie | Always and Again |
2022
The winners were announced on 8 September 2022.
| Category | Author | Title | Result | Queensland Premier's Award for a Work of State Significance | The Courier-Mail People's Choice Queensland Book of the Year Award | The University of Queensland Fiction Book Award | The University of Queensland Non-Fiction Book Award | Judith Wright Calanthe Award for a Poetry Collection | University of Southern Queensland Steele Rudd Award for a Short Story Collection | Griffith University Young Adult Book Award | Children's Book Award | Queensland Premier's Young Publishers and Writers Award | Queensland Writers Fellowships | Glendower Award for Emerging Queensland Author | David Unaipon Award for an Emerging Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Writer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Quentin Beresford | Wounded Country: The Murray-Darling Basin – a contested history | Winner | |||||||||||||
| Sara El Sayed | Muddy People | Finalist | |||||||||||||
| Mirandi Riwoe | The Burnished Sun | ||||||||||||||
| John Shobbrook | Operation Jungle | ||||||||||||||
| Chelsea Watego | Another Day in the Colony | ||||||||||||||
| Chelsea Watego | Another Day in the Colony | Winner | |||||||||||||
| Ed Ayres | Whole Notes | Finalist | |||||||||||||
| Al Campbell | The Keepers | ||||||||||||||
| Sara El Sayed | Muddy People | ||||||||||||||
| Anita Heiss | Bila Yarrudhanggalangdhuray | ||||||||||||||
| Krissy Kneen | The Three Burials of Lotty Kneen | ||||||||||||||
| Nicolas Rothwell | Red Heaven | ||||||||||||||
| Dime Sheppard | Crime Writer | ||||||||||||||
| Michael Mohammed Ahmad | The Other Half of You | Winner | |||||||||||||
| Jessica Au | Cold Enough for Snow | Finalist | |||||||||||||
| Mandy Beaumont | The Furies | ||||||||||||||
| Al Campbell | The Keepers | ||||||||||||||
| Yumna Kassab | Australiana | ||||||||||||||
| Claire G. Coleman | Lies, Damned Lies | Winner | |||||||||||||
| Sara El Sayed | Muddy People | Finalist | |||||||||||||
| Amani Haydar | The Mother Wound | ||||||||||||||
| Krissy Kneen | The Three Burials of Lotty Kneen | ||||||||||||||
| Chelsea Watego | Another Day in the Colony | ||||||||||||||
| Pam Brown | Stasis Shuffle | Winner | |||||||||||||
| Eunice Andrada | Take Care | Finalist | |||||||||||||
| Dan Disney | accelerations & inertias | ||||||||||||||
| Gavin Yuan Gao | At the Altar of Touch | ||||||||||||||
| Ann Vickery | Bees Do Both: An antagonist’s carepack | ||||||||||||||
| Tony Birch | Dark as Last Night | Winner | |||||||||||||
| Merlinda Bobis | The Kindness of Birds | Finalist | |||||||||||||
| Mirandi Riwoe | The Burnished Sun | ||||||||||||||
| Fiona Robertson | If You’re Happy | ||||||||||||||
| Su-May Tan | Lake Malibu and Other Stories | ||||||||||||||
| Felicity Castagna | Girls in Boys’ Cars | Winner | |||||||||||||
| Brian Falkner | Katipo Joe: Wolf’s lair | Finalist | |||||||||||||
| Michael Hyde | Morrison and Mr Moore | ||||||||||||||
| Kay Kerr | Social Queue | ||||||||||||||
| Carly Nugent | Sugar | ||||||||||||||
| Kunyi June Anne McInerney | Kunyi | Winner | |||||||||||||
| Peter Carnavas | My Brother Ben | Finalist | |||||||||||||
| Shirley Marr | A Glasshouse of Stars | ||||||||||||||
| Sandhya Parappukkaran, illus by Michelle Pereira | The Boy Who Tried to Shrink His Name | ||||||||||||||
| Corey Tutt, illus by Blak Douglas | The First Scientists | ||||||||||||||
| Rebecca Cheers and Marilena Hewitt | Winner | ||||||||||||||
| Melissa Ashley, Geneve Flynn and Mary-Rose MacColl | Winner | ||||||||||||||
| Yen-Rong Wong | Things Left Unsaid | Winner | |||||||||||||
| John Richards | The Interventions | Finalist | |||||||||||||
| A E Macleod | Do you like the artist Georgia O’Keeffe? | ||||||||||||||
| Emily Winter | Sunshowers | ||||||||||||||
| Mykaela Saunders | Always Will Be – stories of Goori sovereignty, from the future(s) of the Tweed | Winner | |||||||||||||
| Edoardo Crismani | Finding Billy Brown | Finalist | |||||||||||||
| Julie-Ann ‘Garrimaa’ Moore | Wawun, Judulu and The Big Storm | ||||||||||||||
| Rick Slager | Untitled | ||||||||||||||
| Aunty Joan Tranter | Unplanned Journey: A personal account of one Indigenous woman’s life |
2021
The winners were announced on 9 September 2021.
| Category | Author | Title | Result | Queensland Premier's Award for a Work of State Significance | The Courier-Mail People's Choice Queensland Book of the Year Award | The University of Queensland Fiction Book Award | The University of Queensland Non-Fiction Book Award | Judith Wright Calanthe Award for a Poetry Collection | University of Southern Queensland Steele Rudd Award for a Short Story Collection | Griffith University Young Adult Book Award | Griffith University Children's Book Award | Queensland Premier's Young Publishers and Writers Award | Queensland Writers Fellowships | Glendower Award for Emerging Queensland Author | David Unaipon Award for an Emerging Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Writer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fiona Foley | Biting the Clouds: A Badtjala perspective on the Aboriginals Protection and Restriction of the Sale of Opium Act, 1897 | Winner | |||||||||||||
| Lech Blaine | Car Crash | Finalist | |||||||||||||
| Laura Elvery | Ordinary Matter | ||||||||||||||
| Pattie Lees with Adam C Lees | A Question of Colour | ||||||||||||||
| Jaya Savige | Change Machine | ||||||||||||||
| Mary Li | Mary’s Last Dance: The untold story of the wife of Mao’s Last Dancer | Winner | |||||||||||||
| Trent Dalton | All Our Shimmering Skies | Finalist | |||||||||||||
| Sandra Hogan | With My Little Eye | ||||||||||||||
| Kathleen Jennings | Flyaway | ||||||||||||||
| Susan Johnson | From Where I Fell | ||||||||||||||
| Grantlee Kieza | Banks | ||||||||||||||
| Pattie Lees with Adam C Lees | A Question of Colour: My journey to belonging | ||||||||||||||
| A G Slatter | All the Murmuring Bones | ||||||||||||||
| Nardi Simpson | Song of the Crocodile | Winner | |||||||||||||
| Kavita Bedford | Friends & Dark Shapes | Finalist | |||||||||||||
| S L Lim | Revenge | ||||||||||||||
| Amanda Lohrey | The Labyrinth | ||||||||||||||
| Charlotte McConaghy | Migrations | ||||||||||||||
| Luke Stegemann | Amnesia Road: Landscape, violence and memory | Winner | |||||||||||||
| Lech Blaine | Car Crash | Finalist | |||||||||||||
| Eleanor Hogan | Into the Loneliness | ||||||||||||||
| Henry Reynolds | Truth-Telling | ||||||||||||||
| Marian Wilkinson | The Carbon Club | ||||||||||||||
| Ouyang Yu | Terminally Poetic | Winner | |||||||||||||
| Evelyn Araluen | Dropbear | Finalist | |||||||||||||
| Benjamin Dodds | Airplane Baby Banana Blanket | ||||||||||||||
| Jaya Savige | Change Machine | ||||||||||||||
| Elfie Shiosaki | Homecoming | ||||||||||||||
| Laura Elvery | Ordinary Matter | Winner | |||||||||||||
| Melissa Manning | Smokehouse | Finalist | |||||||||||||
| Elizabeth Tan | Smart Ovens for Lonely People | ||||||||||||||
| Adam Thompson | Born Into This | ||||||||||||||
| Barry Lee Thompson | Broken Rules and Other Stories | ||||||||||||||
| Cath Moore | Metal Fish, Falling Snow | Winner | |||||||||||||
| Davina Bell | The End of the World is Bigger Than Love | Finalist | |||||||||||||
| Rebecca Lim | Tiger Daughter | ||||||||||||||
| Gary Lonesborough | The Boy From the Mish | ||||||||||||||
| Lili Wilkinson | The Erasure Initiative | ||||||||||||||
| Kirli Saunders & Dub Leffler | Bindi | Winner | |||||||||||||
| Sami Bayly | The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Dangerous Animals | Finalist | |||||||||||||
| Meg McKinlay, illus by Matt Ottley | How to Make a Bird | ||||||||||||||
| Jaclyn Moriarty, illus by Kelly Canby | The Stolen Prince of Cloudburst | ||||||||||||||
| Katrina Nannestad, illus by Martina Heiduczek | We Are Wolves | ||||||||||||||
| Allanah Hunt and Ellen Wengert | Winner | ||||||||||||||
| Tabitha Bird, Ella Jeffery, and Kali Napier | Winner | ||||||||||||||
| Siang Lu | The Whitewash | Winner | |||||||||||||
| Jason Gent | On the Exhale | Finalist | |||||||||||||
| Natalie Sprite | The Luminous Heart | ||||||||||||||
| Lillian Telford | It’s Chemical | ||||||||||||||
| Ngankiburka-mekauwe (Senior Woman of Water) Georgina Williams | Mekauwe=Tears Volume #1 Poems (Notes For Song) 1970–2020 | Winner | |||||||||||||
| Chella Goldwin | Politiks | Finalist |
2020
The winners were announced on 4 September 2020.
| Category | Author | Title | Result | Queensland Premier's Award for a Work of State Significance | The Courier-Mail People's Choice Queensland Book of the Year Award | The University of Queensland Fiction Book Award | The University of Queensland Non-Fiction Book Award | Judith Wright Calanthe Award for a Poetry Collection | University of Southern Queensland Steele Rudd Award for a Short Story Collection | Griffith University Young Adult Book Award | Griffith University Children's Book Award | Queensland Premier's Young Publishers and Writers Award | Queensland Writers Fellowships | Glendower Award for Emerging Queensland Author | David Unaipon Award for an Emerging Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Writer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Joe Gorman | Heartland: How Rugby League Explains Queensland | Winner | |||||||||||||
| Melanie Myers | Meet Me at Lennon’s | Finalist | |||||||||||||
| Mirandi Riwoe | Stone Sky Gold Mountain | ||||||||||||||
| Jessica White | Hearing Maud | ||||||||||||||
| Tabitha Bird | A Lifetime of Impossible Days | Winner | |||||||||||||
| Phil Brown | The Kowloon Kid | Finalist | |||||||||||||
| Margaret Cook | A River with a City Problem | ||||||||||||||
| Darryl Jones | Feeding the Birds at Your Table | ||||||||||||||
| Melanie Myers | Meet Me at Lennon's | ||||||||||||||
| Amanda Niehaus | The Breeding Season | ||||||||||||||
| Mirandi Riwoe | Stone Sky Gold Mountain | ||||||||||||||
| Jessica White | Hearing Maud | ||||||||||||||
| Mirandi Riwoe | Stone Sky Gold Mountain | Winner | |||||||||||||
| Anna Krien | Act of Grace | Finalist | |||||||||||||
| Philip Salom | The Returns | ||||||||||||||
| Ronnie Scott | The Adversary | ||||||||||||||
| Tara June Winch | The Yield | ||||||||||||||
| Helen Ennis | Olive Cotton: A Life in Photography | Winner | |||||||||||||
| James Dunk | Bedlam at Botany Bay | Finalist | |||||||||||||
| Brenda Niall | Friends and Rivals | ||||||||||||||
| Cassandra Pybus | Truganini: Journey Through the Apocalypse | ||||||||||||||
| Arnold Zable | The Watermill | ||||||||||||||
| П. O. | Heide | Winner | |||||||||||||
| Peter Boyle | Enfolded in the Wings of a Great Darkness | Finalist | |||||||||||||
| Stuart Cooke | Lyre | ||||||||||||||
| Ellen van Neerven | Throat | ||||||||||||||
| Charmaine Papertalk Green | Nganajungu Yagu | ||||||||||||||
| Joey Bui | Lucky Ticket | Winner | |||||||||||||
| Alice Bishop | A Constant Hum | Finalist | |||||||||||||
| Yumna Kassab | The House of Youssef | ||||||||||||||
| Sean O’Beirne | A Couple of Things Before the End | ||||||||||||||
| Josephine Rowe | Here Until August | ||||||||||||||
| Lisa Fuller | Ghost Bird | Winner | |||||||||||||
| Sarah Epstein | Deep Water | Finalist | |||||||||||||
| Eliza Henry-Jones | How to Grow a Family Tree | ||||||||||||||
| Nina Kenwood | It Sounded Better in My Head | ||||||||||||||
| Vikki Wakefield | This Is How We Change the Ending | ||||||||||||||
| Penny Tangey | As Fast As I Can | Winner | |||||||||||||
| Tristan Bancks | Detention | Finalist | |||||||||||||
| Tamsin Janu | Winston and the Wondrous Wooba Gymnastics Club | ||||||||||||||
| Jess McGeachin | Fly | ||||||||||||||
| Caroline Magerl | Nop | ||||||||||||||
| Zenobia Frost and Yen-Rong Wong | Winner | ||||||||||||||
| Sara El Sayed, Anna Jacobson and Amanda Niehaus | Winner | ||||||||||||||
| Fiona Robertson | If You're Happy | Winner | |||||||||||||
| Bianca Millroy | The Solitary Light | Finalist | |||||||||||||
| Jonathan O’Brien | Daddy & Other Father Figures | ||||||||||||||
| Jenny Ruge | Without a Word | ||||||||||||||
| Siall Waterbright | As We Knew It | ||||||||||||||
| Jazz Money | The Space Between the Paperbark | Winner | |||||||||||||
| Boyd Quakawoot | Valley of Cane and Crows | Finalist | |||||||||||||
| Mykaela Saunders | Last Rites of Spring | ||||||||||||||
| Melanie Saward | Burn |
2019
The winners were announced on 12 November 2019.
| Category | Author | Title | Result | Queensland Premier's Award for a Work of State Significance | The Courier-Mail People's Choice Queensland Book of the Year Award | University of Queensland Fiction Book Award | University of Queensland Non-Fiction Book Award | University of Southern Queensland History Book Award | State Library of Queensland Poetry Collection – Judith Wright Calanthe Award | University of Southern Queensland Australian Short Story Collection – Steele Rudd Award | Griffith University Young Adult Book Award | Griffith University Children's Book Award | Queensland Premier's Young Publishers and Writers Awards | Queensland Writers Fellowships | Glendower Award for Emerging Queensland Author for unpublished manuscript | Unpublished Indigenous Writer – David Unaipon Award | QUT Digital Literature Award |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Melissa Lucashenko | Too Much Lip | Winner | |||||||||||||||
| Matthew Condon | The Night Dragon | Finalist | |||||||||||||||
| Trent Dalton | Boy Swallows Universe | ||||||||||||||||
| Jake Goetz | meditations with passing water | ||||||||||||||||
| Krissy Kneen | Wintering | ||||||||||||||||
| Lindsay Simpson | Adani, Following Its Dirty Footsteps: A Personal Story | Winner | |||||||||||||||
| Toni Risson | Brisbane’s Greek Cafes: A Million Malted Milks | Finalist | |||||||||||||||
| Trent Dalton | Boy Swallows Universe | ||||||||||||||||
| James Halford | Requiem with Yellow Butterflies: A Memoir | ||||||||||||||||
| Krissy Kneen | Wintering | ||||||||||||||||
| Melissa Lucashenko | Too Much Lip | ||||||||||||||||
| Rick Searle | Charles Ulm | ||||||||||||||||
| Rohan Wilson | Daughter of Bad Times | ||||||||||||||||
| Carrie Tiffany | Exploded View | Winner | |||||||||||||||
| Nigel Featherstone | Bodies of Men | Finalist | |||||||||||||||
| Melissa Lucashenko | Too Much Lip | ||||||||||||||||
| Kristina Olsson | Shell | ||||||||||||||||
| Rohan Wilson | Daughter of Bad Times | ||||||||||||||||
| Mary Hoban | An Unconventional Wife: The Life of Julia Sorell Arnold | Winner | |||||||||||||||
| Alice Gorman | Dr Space Junk vs The Universe: Archaeology and the future | Finalist | |||||||||||||||
| Stuart Kells | Shakespeare’s Library: Unlocking the greatest mystery in literature | ||||||||||||||||
| Harry Saddler | The Eastern Curlew | ||||||||||||||||
| Christina Thompson | Sea People: The puzzle of Polynesia | ||||||||||||||||
| Mary Hoban | An Unconventional Wife: The Life of Julia Sorell Arnold | Winner | |||||||||||||||
| Judith Brett | From Secret Ballot to Democracy Sausage: How Australia got compulsory voting | Finalist | |||||||||||||||
| Kate Legge | Kindred: A Cradle Mountain love story | ||||||||||||||||
| Elizabeth Malcolm and Dianne Hall | A New History of the Irish in Australia | ||||||||||||||||
| Clare Wright | You Daughters of Freedom: The Australians who won the vote and inspired the world | ||||||||||||||||
| Alison Whittaker | Blakwork | Winner | |||||||||||||||
| Liam Ferney | Hot Take | Finalist | |||||||||||||||
| Keri Glastonbury | Newcastle Sonnet | ||||||||||||||||
| Marjon Mossammaparast | That Sight | ||||||||||||||||
| Omar Sakr | The Lost Arabs | ||||||||||||||||
| Debra Adelaide | Zebra: And Other Stories | Winner | |||||||||||||||
| Robert Drewe | The True Colour of the Sea | Finalist | |||||||||||||||
| Ryan O'Neill | The Drover's Wives | ||||||||||||||||
| Karen Foxlee | Lenny’s Book of Everything | Winner | |||||||||||||||
| Sarah Epstein | Small Spaces | Finalist | |||||||||||||||
| Helena Fox | How it Feels to Float | ||||||||||||||||
| Steven Herrick | The Bogan Mondrian | ||||||||||||||||
| Ambelin Kwaymullina and Ezekiel Kwaymullina | Catching Teller Crow | ||||||||||||||||
| Jaclyn Moriarty | The Slightly Alarming Tale of the Whispering Wars | Winner | |||||||||||||||
| Lorraine Marwood | Leave Taking | Finalist | |||||||||||||||
| Carl Merrison and Hakea Hustler | Black Cockatoo | ||||||||||||||||
| Emily Rodda | His Name was Walter | ||||||||||||||||
| Margaret Wild and Mandy Ord | Chalk Boy | ||||||||||||||||
| Ella Jeffery and Ellen van Neerven | Winner | ||||||||||||||||
| Claire Christian, Sarah Holland-Batt and Emily O'Grady | Winner | ||||||||||||||||
| Rhiannon Ratcliffe Wilde | Henry Hamlet’s Heart | Winner | |||||||||||||||
| Sue Goldstiver | Little Birds | Finalist | |||||||||||||||
| Karen Hollands | The Still Point of Being | ||||||||||||||||
| Jack Lio | Apparitions | ||||||||||||||||
| Not awarded. | |||||||||||||||||
| Mez Breeze | V[R]ignettes | Winner | |||||||||||||||
| Eda Gunaydin | Gothic Body, in Two Parts | Finalist | |||||||||||||||
| Benjamin Laird | Psychometric Researches | ||||||||||||||||
| C B Mako and M J Flamiano | ITERATION – Part 3/Chapter 3 | ||||||||||||||||
| Jason Nelson | The Wonders of Lost Trajectories |
2018
| Category | Author | Title | Result | Queensland Premier's Award for a Work of State Significance | The Courier Mail People's Choice Queensland Book of the Year Award – Brisbane Houses with Gardens, Beth Wilson | University of Queensland Fiction Book Award | University of Queensland Non-Fiction Book Award | University of Southern Queensland History Book Award | State Library of Queensland Poetry Collection – Judith Wright Calanthe Award | University of Southern Queensland Australian Short Story Collection – Steele Rudd Award | Griffith University Young Adult Book Award | Griffith University Children's Book Award | Queensland Premier's Young Publishers and Writers Awards | Queensland Writers Fellowships | Glendower Award for Emerging Queensland Author for unpublished manuscript | Unpublished Indigenous Writer – David Unaipon Award | QUT Digital Literature Award |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jackie Ryan | We'll Show the World: Expo 88 | Winner | |||||||||||||||
| Benjamin Allmon and David Kelly | The Saltwater Story | Finalist | |||||||||||||||
| Anna Broinowski | Please Explain | ||||||||||||||||
| Barbara Miller | White Woman Black Heart: Journey Home to Old Mapoon | ||||||||||||||||
| Beth Wilson | Brisbane Houses with Garden | ||||||||||||||||
| Beth Wilson | Brisbane Houses with Gardens | Winner | |||||||||||||||
| Venero Armanno | Burning Down | Finalist | |||||||||||||||
| Eddie Ayres | Danger Music | ||||||||||||||||
| Ben Hobson | To Become a Whale | ||||||||||||||||
| Emily O'Grady | The Yellow House | ||||||||||||||||
| Holly Ringland | The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart | ||||||||||||||||
| Jackie Ryan | We'll Show the World: Expo 88 | ||||||||||||||||
| Charlie Veron | A Life Underwater | ||||||||||||||||
| Kim Scott | Taboo | Winner | |||||||||||||||
| Robbie Arnott | Flames | Finalist | |||||||||||||||
| Shokoofeh Azar | The Enlightenment of the Greengage Tree | ||||||||||||||||
| Mirandi Riwoe | The Fish Girl | ||||||||||||||||
| Tim Winton | The Shepherd's Hut | ||||||||||||||||
| Alexis Wright | Tracker | Winner | |||||||||||||||
| Judith Brett | The Enigmatic Mr Deakin | Finalist | |||||||||||||||
| Phillipa McGuinness | The Year Everything Changed: 2001 | ||||||||||||||||
| Charles Massy | Call of the Reed Warbler: A New Agriculture — A New Earth | ||||||||||||||||
| Michael Pembroke | Korea: Where the American Century Began | ||||||||||||||||
| Jackie Ryan | We'll Show the World: Expo 88 | Winner | |||||||||||||||
| Judith Brett | The Enigmatic Mr Deakin | Finalist | |||||||||||||||
| Billy Griffiths | Deep Time Dreaming: Uncovering Ancient Australia | ||||||||||||||||
| Jayne Persian | Beautiful Balts: From Displaced Persons to New Australians | ||||||||||||||||
| Christina Twomey | The Battle Within: POWs in Postwar Australia | ||||||||||||||||
| Michael Farrell | I Love Poetry | Winner | |||||||||||||||
| Pam Brown | click here for what we do | Finalist | |||||||||||||||
| Bonny Cassidy | Chatelaine | ||||||||||||||||
| Oscar Schwartz | The Honeymoon Stage | ||||||||||||||||
| Bella Li | Lost Lake | ||||||||||||||||
| Jennifer Down | Pulse Points | Winner | |||||||||||||||
| Claire Aman | Bird Country | Finalist | |||||||||||||||
| Tony Birch | Common People | ||||||||||||||||
| Stephanie Buckle | Habits of Silence | ||||||||||||||||
| Laura Elvery | Trick of the Light | ||||||||||||||||
| Cally Black | In the Dark Spaces | Winner | |||||||||||||||
| Victoria Carless | The Dream Walker | Finalist | |||||||||||||||
| Scot Gardner | Sparrow | ||||||||||||||||
| Erin Gough | Amelia Westlake | ||||||||||||||||
| Pip Harry | Because of You | ||||||||||||||||
| Peter Carnavas | The Elephant | Winner | |||||||||||||||
| Sarah Brennan, illustrated by Jane Tanner | The Storm Whale | Finalist | |||||||||||||||
| Jane Godwin, illustrated by Anna Walker | Go Go and the Silver Shoes | ||||||||||||||||
| Emily Rodda | The Shop at Hoopers Bend | ||||||||||||||||
| Anne Spudvilas | Swan Lake | ||||||||||||||||
| Anna Jacobson and Bri Lee | Winner | ||||||||||||||||
| Michael Gerard Bauer, Jackie Ryan and Laura Elvery | Winner | ||||||||||||||||
| Melanie Myers | Garrison Town | Winner | |||||||||||||||
| Karen Herschell | fate, revenge and chipburgers | Finalist | |||||||||||||||
| Laura Kenny | On Either Side | ||||||||||||||||
| Christopher Przewloka | Hidebound | ||||||||||||||||
| Kirstie Parker | The Making of Ruby Champion | Winner | |||||||||||||||
| Melanie Saward | Why Worry Now | Finalist | |||||||||||||||
| Wendy Somerville | Jilba's Song | ||||||||||||||||
| Waiata Telfer | Song — The Story of a Girl, a Bird and a Teapot | ||||||||||||||||
| Teila Watson | Destinations Past Present Future: Diving Through Timelines | ||||||||||||||||
| David Thomas Henry Wright, with Chris Arnold | Little Emperor Syndrome | Winner | |||||||||||||||
| Mez Breeze | Our Cupidity Coda | Finalist | |||||||||||||||
| Mez Breeze | A Place Called Ormalcy | ||||||||||||||||
| Benjamin Laird | Core Values |
2017
| Category | Author | Title | Result | Queensland Premier's Award for a Work of State Significance | The Courier Mail People's Choice Queensland Book of the Year Award | University of Queensland Fiction Book Award | University of Queensland Non-Fiction Book Award | University of Southern Queensland History Book Award | State Library of Queensland Poetry Collection | University of Southern Queensland Australian Short Story Collection – Steele Rudd Award | Griffith University Young Adult Book Award | Griffith University Children's Book Award | Queensland Premier's Young Publishers and Writers Awards | Queensland Writers Fellowships | Emerging Queensland Author – Manuscript Award | Unpublished Indigenous Writer – David Unaipon Award | QUT Digital Literature Award |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bill Wilkie | The Daintree Blockade: The Battle for Australia's Tropical Rainforests | Winner | |||||||||||||||
| Matthew Condon | Little Fish Are Sweet | Finalist | |||||||||||||||
| Mary-Rose MacColl | For a Girl | ||||||||||||||||
| Cathy McLennan | Saltwater | ||||||||||||||||
| Cathy McLennan | Saltwater | Winner | |||||||||||||||
| Melissa Ashley | The Birdman's Wife | Finalist | |||||||||||||||
| Nick Earls | Vancouver | ||||||||||||||||
| Richard Fidler | Ghost Empire | ||||||||||||||||
| Ashley Hay | A Hundred Small Lessons | ||||||||||||||||
| Anita Heiss | Barbed Wire and Cherry Blossoms | ||||||||||||||||
| Joan Isaacs | To Prey and To Silence | ||||||||||||||||
| Mary-Rose MacColl | For a Girl | ||||||||||||||||
| Melissa Ashley | The Birdman's Wife | Winner | |||||||||||||||
| Nick Earls | Vancouver | Finalist | |||||||||||||||
| Ashley Hay | A Hundred Small Lessons | ||||||||||||||||
| Hannah Kent | The Good People | ||||||||||||||||
| Heather Rose | The Museum of Modern Love | ||||||||||||||||
| Cathy McLennan | Saltwater | Winner | |||||||||||||||
| Deng Adut and Ben Mckelvey | Songs of a War Boy | Finalist | |||||||||||||||
| Richard Fidler | Ghost Empire | ||||||||||||||||
| Mary-Rose MacColl | For a Girl | ||||||||||||||||
| Kim Mahood | Position Doubtful | ||||||||||||||||
| Rebe Taylor | Into the Heart of Tasmania: A Search for Human Antiquity | Winner | |||||||||||||||
| Rebecca Ananian-Welsh | The Tim Carmody Affair: Australia's Greatest Judicial Crisis | Finalist | |||||||||||||||
| Andrew Lynch | Appleby | ||||||||||||||||
| Paul Irish | Hidden in Plain View: The Aboriginal people of coastal Sydney | ||||||||||||||||
| John Murphy | Evatt: A life | ||||||||||||||||
| Antigone Kefala | Judith Wright Calanthe Award – Fragments | Winner | |||||||||||||||
| Jordie Albiston | Euclid's Dog | Finalist | |||||||||||||||
| Carmen Leigh Keates | Meteorites | ||||||||||||||||
| Cassie Lewis | The Blue Decodes | ||||||||||||||||
| Omar Sakr | These Wild Houses | ||||||||||||||||
| Kyra Giorgi | The Circle and the Equator | Winner | |||||||||||||||
| Michelle Cahill | Letter to Pessoa | Finalist | |||||||||||||||
| Kyra Giorgi | The Circle and the Equator | ||||||||||||||||
| Tara June Winch | After the Carnage | ||||||||||||||||
| Cath Crowley | Words in Deep Blue | Winner | |||||||||||||||
| Simon Butters | The Hounded | Finalist | |||||||||||||||
| Zana Fraillon | The Bone Sparrow | ||||||||||||||||
| Mark Smith | The Road to Winter | ||||||||||||||||
| Richard Yaxley | This is My Song | ||||||||||||||||
| Lisa Shanahan | The Grand, Genius Summer of Henry Hoobler | Winner | |||||||||||||||
| Gus Gordon | Somewhere Else | Finalist | |||||||||||||||
| Paul Jennings | A Different Dog | ||||||||||||||||
| Bren MacDibble | How to Bee | ||||||||||||||||
| Wendy Orr | Dragonfly Song | ||||||||||||||||
| Lech Blaine and Mindy Gill | Winner | ||||||||||||||||
| Mirandi Riwoe, Zenobia Frost and Linda Neil | Winner | ||||||||||||||||
| Janet Lee | The Killing of Louisa | Winner | |||||||||||||||
| Anna Jacobson | How to Knit a Human | Finalist | |||||||||||||||
| Ben Marshall | The Gimp | ||||||||||||||||
| Siall Waterbright | The Coming | ||||||||||||||||
| Lisa Fuller | Mirrored Pieces | Winner | |||||||||||||||
| Alicia Farmer | Mai Stori | Finalist | |||||||||||||||
| Jason Nelson | Nine Billion Branches | Winner | |||||||||||||||
| Mez Breeze | Inanimate Alice: Perpetual Nomads (Beta) | Finalist | |||||||||||||||
| Pascalle Burton | Generation Loss | ||||||||||||||||
| David Thomas Henry Wright | Paige and Power | ||||||||||||||||
| Marianna Shek | Limerence |
2016
| Category | Author | Title | Result | Queensland Premier's Award for a Work of State Significance | The Courier Mail People's Choice Queensland Book of the Year Award | University of Queensland Fiction Book Award | University of Queensland Non-Fiction Book Award | University of Southern Queensland History Book Award | State Library of Queensland Poetry Collection – Judith Wright Calanthe Award | University of Southern Queensland Australian Short Story Collection – Steele Rudd Award | Griffith University Young Adult Book Award | Griffith University Children's Book Award | Queensland Premier's Young Publishers and Writers Awards | Emerging Queensland Author – Manuscript Award | Unpublished Indigenous Writer – David Unaipon Award |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lesley and Tammy Williams | Not Just Black and White | Winner | |||||||||||||
| Nadia Buick and Madeleine King | Remotely Fashionable: A Story of Subtropical Style | Finalist | |||||||||||||
| Matthew Condon | All Fall Down | ||||||||||||||
| Elspeth Muir | Wasted: A Story of Alcohol, Grief and a Death in Brisbane | ||||||||||||||
| P.J. Parker | The Long Goodbye | ||||||||||||||
| Mary-Rose MacColl | Swimming Home | Winner | |||||||||||||
| Trent Jamieson | Day Boy | Finalist | |||||||||||||
| Susan Johnson | The Landing | ||||||||||||||
| Cass Moriarty | The Promise Seed | ||||||||||||||
| Nadia Buick and Madeleine Kin | Remotely Fashionable: A Story of Subtropical Style | ||||||||||||||
| Matt Condon | All Fall Down | ||||||||||||||
| Elspeth Muir | Wasted: A Story of Alcohol, Grief and a Death in Brisbane | ||||||||||||||
| Cory Taylor | Dying: A Memoir | ||||||||||||||
| Georgia Blain | Between a Wolf and a Dog | Winner | |||||||||||||
| Tony Birch | Ghost River | Finalist | |||||||||||||
| David Dyer | The Midnight Watch | ||||||||||||||
| Patrick Holland | One | ||||||||||||||
| Charlotte Wood | The Natural Way of Thing | ||||||||||||||
| Fiona Wright | Small Acts of Disappearance: Essays on Hunger | Winner | |||||||||||||
| Madeline Gleeson | Offshore: Behind the Wire on Manus and Nauru | Finalist | |||||||||||||
| Stan Grant | Talking to My Country | ||||||||||||||
| Drusilla Modjeska | Second Half First | ||||||||||||||
| Tim Winton | Island Home | ||||||||||||||
| Julia Martínez and Adrian Vickers | The Pearl Frontier: Indonesian Labour and Indigenous Encounters in Australia’s Northern Trading Network | Winner | |||||||||||||
| Vicken Babkenien and Peter Stanley | Armenia, Australia and the Great War | Finalist | |||||||||||||
| Stuart Macintyre | Australia’s Boldest Experiment | ||||||||||||||
| Jeff Maynard | Unseen Anzac | ||||||||||||||
| John Newton | The oldest foods on earth | ||||||||||||||
| Garry Wotherspoon | Gay Sydney | ||||||||||||||
| David Musgrave | Anatomy of Voice | Winner | |||||||||||||
| Joel Deane | Year of the Wasp | Finalist | |||||||||||||
| Liam Ferney | Content | ||||||||||||||
| Sarah Holland-Batt | The Hazards | ||||||||||||||
| Chloe Wilson | Not Fox Nor Axe | ||||||||||||||
| Elizabeth Harrower | A Few Days in the Country and other stories | Winner | |||||||||||||
| Fiona McFarlane | The High Places | ||||||||||||||
| Tegan Bennett Daylight | Six Bedrooms | Finalist | |||||||||||||
| Sonja Dechian | An Astronaut’s Life | ||||||||||||||
| Julie Koh | Portable Curiosities | ||||||||||||||
| David Metzenthen | Dreaming the Enemy | Winner | |||||||||||||
| Will Kostakis | The Sidekicks | Finalist | |||||||||||||
| Glenda Millard | The Stars at October Bend | ||||||||||||||
| James Roy and Noël Zihabamwe | One Thousand Hills | ||||||||||||||
| Claire Zorn | One Would Think the Deep | ||||||||||||||
| Julie Hunt (author) and Dale Newman (illustrator) | KidGlovz | Winner | |||||||||||||
| Lucy Estela and Matt Ottley | Suri’s Wall | Finalist | |||||||||||||
| Bob Graham | How the Sun Got to Coco’s House | ||||||||||||||
| Libby Hathorn and Gaye Chapman | Incredibilia | ||||||||||||||
| Chris McKimmie | Me, Teddy | ||||||||||||||
| Emily Craven and Michelle Law | Winner | ||||||||||||||
| Not awarded. | |||||||||||||||
| Paul Collis | Dancing Home | Winner | |||||||||||||
| Yvonne Weldon | 67 Days | Finalist | |||||||||||||
| B.A. (Boyd) Quakawoot | Song of Jessica |
2015
| Category | Author | Title | Result | Queensland Premier's Award for a Work of State Significance | The Courier Mail People's Choice Queensland Book of the Year Award | University of Queensland Fiction Book Award | University of Queensland Non-Fiction Book Award | University of Southern Queensland History Book Award | State Library of Queensland Poetry Collection – Judith Wright Calanthe Award | Australian Short Story Collection – Steele Rudd Award | Griffith University Young Adult Book Award | Children's Book Award | Queensland Premier's Young Publishers and Writers Awards | Emerging Queensland Author – Manuscript Award | Unpublished Indigenous Writer – David Unaipon Award |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Libby Connors | Warrior | Winner | |||||||||||||
| Ellen van Neerven | Heat and Light | Finalist | |||||||||||||
| Zoe Boccabella | Joe’s Fruit Shop and Milk Bar | ||||||||||||||
| Mark Bahnisch | Queensland: Everything you ever wanted to know but were afraid to ask | ||||||||||||||
| Anna Bligh | Through the Wall: Reflections on Leadership, Love and Survival | ||||||||||||||
| John Ahern | On the road...with the kids | Winner | |||||||||||||
| Nick Earls | Analogue Men | Finalist | |||||||||||||
| Mary Lou Simpson | From Convict to Politician | ||||||||||||||
| Zoe Boccabella | Joe’s Fruit Shop and Milk Bar | ||||||||||||||
| Patrick Holland | Navigatio | ||||||||||||||
| Inga Simpson | Nest | ||||||||||||||
| Kári Gíslason | The Ash Burner | ||||||||||||||
| David Murray | The Murder of Allison Baden-Clay | ||||||||||||||
| Joan London | The Golden Age | Winner | |||||||||||||
| Amanda Lohrey | A Short History of Richard Kline | Finalist | |||||||||||||
| Mark Henshaw | The Snow Kimono | ||||||||||||||
| Malcolm Knox | The Wonder Lover | ||||||||||||||
| Rohan Wilson | To Name Those Lost | ||||||||||||||
| Don Watson | The Bush: Travels in the Heart of Australia | Winner | |||||||||||||
| Brenda Niall | Mannix | Finalist | |||||||||||||
| Anne Manne | The Life of I: The New Culture of Narcissism | ||||||||||||||
| Annabel Crabb | The Wife Drought | ||||||||||||||
| Karen Lamb | Thea Astley: Inventing Her Own Weather | ||||||||||||||
| Carolyn Holbrook | ANZAC, The Unauthorised Biography | Winner | |||||||||||||
| Angela Woollacott | Settler Society in the Australian Colonies: Self-Government and Imperial Culture | Finalist | |||||||||||||
| Christine Kenneally | The Invisible History of the Human Race | ||||||||||||||
| Agnieszka Sobocinska | Visiting the Neighbours: Australians in Asia | ||||||||||||||
| Sophie Cunningham | Warning: The Story of Cyclone Tracy | ||||||||||||||
| Les Murray | Waiting for the Past | Winner | |||||||||||||
| Susan Bradley Smith | Beds For All Who Come | Finalist | |||||||||||||
| Robert Adamson | Net Needle | ||||||||||||||
| David Brooks | Open House | ||||||||||||||
| Lucy Dougan | The Guardians | ||||||||||||||
| Christos Tsiolkas | Merciless Gods | Winner | |||||||||||||
| Nic Low | Arms Race and Other Stories | Finalist | |||||||||||||
| Nick Jose | Bapo | ||||||||||||||
| Ellen van Neerven | Heat and Light | ||||||||||||||
| J.M. Coetzee | Three Stories | ||||||||||||||
| John Larkin | The Pause | Winner | |||||||||||||
| Darren Groth | Are you Seeing Me? | Finalist | |||||||||||||
| Justine Larbalestier | Razorhurst | ||||||||||||||
| Diana Sweeney | The Minnow | ||||||||||||||
| Jeri Kroll | Vanishing Point | ||||||||||||||
| Meg McKinlay | A Single Stone | Winner | |||||||||||||
| Tasmin Janu | Figgy in the World | Finalist | |||||||||||||
| David Mackintosh | Lucky | ||||||||||||||
| Nick Earls | New Boy | ||||||||||||||
| Rebecca Young & Matt Ottley | Teacup | ||||||||||||||
| Megan McGrath and Rebecca Jessen | Winner | ||||||||||||||
| Elizabeth Kasmer | Aurora | Winner | |||||||||||||
| Imogen Smith | Araluen | Finalist | |||||||||||||
| K W George | Sargasso | ||||||||||||||
| Kate Elkington | Wool Spin Burn | ||||||||||||||
| Andrew Booth | The First Octoroon or Report of an Experimental Child | Winner | |||||||||||||
| Mayrah Yarraga Dreise | Social Consciousness Series | Finalist | |||||||||||||
| Patricia Lees with Adam C. Lees | A Question of Colour |
2014
| Category | Author | Title | Result | The Courier Mail People's Choice Queensland Book of the Year Award | University of Queensland Fiction Book Award | University of Queensland Non-Fiction Book Award | University of Southern Queensland History Book Award | State Library of Queensland Poetry Collection – Judith Wright Calanthe Award | Australian Short Story Collection – Steele Rudd Award | Griffith University Young Adult Book Award | Children's Book Award | Emerging Queensland Author – Manuscript Award | Unpublished Indigenous Writer – David Unaipon Award |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kellee Slater | How to do a Liver Transplant: Stories from my Surgical Life | Winner | |||||||||||
| T. M. Clark | My Brother, But One | Finalist | |||||||||||
| Frances Whiting | Walking on Trampolines | ||||||||||||
| Catherine Titasey | My Island Homicide | ||||||||||||
| Sally Breen | Atomic City | ||||||||||||
| Matthew Condon | Jacks and Jokers | ||||||||||||
| Deb Drummond and Janis Teunis | Lingering Doubts: Going Inside Brisbane's Arcade Murder | ||||||||||||
| Keelen Mailman | The Power of Bones | ||||||||||||
| Richard Flanagan | The Narrow Road to the Deep North | Winner | |||||||||||
| Fiona Capp | Gotland | Finalist | |||||||||||
| Alex Miller | Coal Creek | ||||||||||||
| Tim Winton | Eyrie | ||||||||||||
| Evie Wyld | All the Birds, Singing | ||||||||||||
| Paul Ham | 1914: The Year the World Ended | Winner | |||||||||||
| Steve Bisley | Stillways | Finalist | |||||||||||
| Iain McCalman | The Reef | ||||||||||||
| Penny Olsen | An Eye for Nature: The Life and Art of William T. Cooper | ||||||||||||
| Janis Sheldrick | Nature's Line: George Goyder, surveyor, environmentalist, visionary | ||||||||||||
| Joan Beaumont | Broken Nation | Winner | |||||||||||
| Nicholas Clements | The Black War: Fear, Sex and Resistance in Tasmania | Finalist | |||||||||||
| Iain McCalman | The Reef | ||||||||||||
| Bruce Pascoe | Black Emu | ||||||||||||
| Henry Reynolds | The Forgotten War | ||||||||||||
| Clare Wright | The Forgotten Rebels of Eureka | ||||||||||||
| David Malouf | Earth Hour | Winner | |||||||||||
| Judith Beveridge | Devadatta’s Poems | Finalist | |||||||||||
| Rachael Briggs | Free Logic | ||||||||||||
| Liam Ferney | Boom | ||||||||||||
| Anthony Lawrence | Signal Flare | ||||||||||||
| Ceridwen Dovey | Only the Animals | Winner | |||||||||||
| Debra Adelaide | Letter to George Clooney | Finalist | |||||||||||
| Tony Birch | The Promise | ||||||||||||
| Luke Carman | An Elegant Young Man | ||||||||||||
| Laura Jean McKay | Holiday in Cambodia | ||||||||||||
| Jaclyn Moriarty | The Cracks in the Kingdom | Winner | |||||||||||
| A.J. Betts | Zac and Mia | Finalist | |||||||||||
| Felicity Castagna | The Incredible Here and Now | ||||||||||||
| Kate Hendrick | The Accident | ||||||||||||
| David Metzenthen | Tigerfish | ||||||||||||
| Jackie French | Refuge | Winner | |||||||||||
| Shaun Tan | Rules of Summer | ||||||||||||
| Pamela Rushby | The Ratcatcher's Daughter | Finalist | |||||||||||
| Claire Saxby and Graham Byrne | Nature Storybooks: Big Red Kangaroo | ||||||||||||
| Samantha Wheeler | Smooch and Rose | ||||||||||||
| Cathy McLennan | We Come From Saltwater People | Winner | |||||||||||
| Leanne Nolan | Open Cut | Finalist | |||||||||||
| Julie Kearney | 3 for a Wedding, 4 for Death | ||||||||||||
| Lesley & Tammy Williams | It’s Not Just Black and White | Winner |
[[2013 in Australian literature|2013]]
| Category | Author | Title | Result | The Courier Mail People's Choice Queensland Book of the Year Award | Deloitte Fiction Book Award | University of Queensland Non-Fiction Book Award | University of Southern Queensland History Book Award | State Library of Queensland Poetry Collection – Judith Wright Calanthe Award | Australian Short Story Collection – Steele Rudd Award | Griffith University Young Adult Book Award | Children's Book Award | Gadens Feature Film Script Award | Emerging Queensland Author – Manuscript Award | Unpublished Indigenous Writer – David Unaipon Award |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kate Morton | The Secret Keeper | Winner | ||||||||||||
| Susan Johnson | My Hundred Lovers | Finalist | ||||||||||||
| Melissa Lucashenko | Mullumbimby | |||||||||||||
| Jamie Callister | The Man Who Invented Vegemite | |||||||||||||
| Matthew Condon | Three Crooked Kings | |||||||||||||
| Kristina Olsson | Boy, Lost | |||||||||||||
| Melissa Lucashenko | Mullumbimby | Winner | ||||||||||||
| Murray Bail | The Voyage | Finalist | ||||||||||||
| Susan Johnson | My Hundred Lovers | |||||||||||||
| Christopher Koch | Lost Voices | |||||||||||||
| Kristina Olsson | Boy, Lost | Winner | ||||||||||||
| Richard Gill | Give Me Excess of It | Finalist | ||||||||||||
| Paul Ham | Sandakan | |||||||||||||
| Jenny Hocking | Gough Whitlam: His Time | |||||||||||||
| Kate Richard | Madness: A Memoir | |||||||||||||
| Jane Lydon | The Flash of Recognition | Winner | ||||||||||||
| Alison Alexander | The Ambitions of Jane Franklin | Finalist | ||||||||||||
| David Day | Antarctica: A Biography | |||||||||||||
| Walter Hamilton | Children of the Occupation | |||||||||||||
| Lawrence Bamblett | Our Stories are Our Survival | |||||||||||||
| John Kinsella | Jam Tree Gully: Poems | Winner | ||||||||||||
| Stephen Edgar | Eldershaw | Finalist | ||||||||||||
| Paul Hetherington | Haunted Rooms | |||||||||||||
| Jennifer Maiden | Liquid Nitrogen | |||||||||||||
| Alan Wearne | Prepare the Cabin for Landing | |||||||||||||
| Cate Kennedy | Like a House on Fire | Winner | ||||||||||||
| Susan Midalia | An Unknown Sky | Finalist | ||||||||||||
| Jennifer Mills | The Rest is Weight | |||||||||||||
| A S Patric | Las Vegas for Vegans | |||||||||||||
| Chris Somerville | We Are Not the Same Anymore | |||||||||||||
| Jaclyn Moriarty | A Corner of White | Winner | ||||||||||||
| Andrew McGahan | Ship Kings: The Voyage of the Unquiet Ice | Finalist | ||||||||||||
| Maureen McCarthy | The Convent | |||||||||||||
| Vikki Wakefield | Friday Brown | |||||||||||||
| Fiona Wood | Wildlife | |||||||||||||
| Narelle Oliver | Don't Let a Spoonbill in the Kitchen! | Winner | ||||||||||||
| Jackie French | Pennies for Hitler | Finalist | ||||||||||||
| Jane Godwin | Today We Have No Plans | |||||||||||||
| Steven Herrick | Pookie Aleera is Not My Boyfriend | |||||||||||||
| Margaret Wild | The Treasure Box | |||||||||||||
| Craig Monahan and Alison Nisselle | Healing | Winner | ||||||||||||
| Rebecca Jessen | Gap | Winner | ||||||||||||
| Jarryd Luke | Cockscrew Section | Finalist | ||||||||||||
| Cass Moriarty | The Promise Seed | |||||||||||||
| Ellen van Neerven | Heat and Light | Winner | ||||||||||||
| Martin Doyle | Sugar Shed Road | Finalist | ||||||||||||
| Adrian Stanley | Could Be Worse | |||||||||||||
| Ellen van Neerven | Hard | |||||||||||||
| Dorothy Williams-Kemp | My Journey that May Never End |
2012
| Category | Author | Title | Result | Fiction Book Award | Non-Fiction Book Award | History Book Award | Literary or Media Work Advancing Public Debate – Harry Williams Award | Science Writers Award | Poetry Collection – Judith Wright Calanthe Award | Australian Short Story Collection – Steele Rudd Award | Young Adult Book Award | Children's Book Award | Film Script Award | Emerging Queensland Author – Manuscript Award | Unpublished Indigenous Writer – David Unaipon Award | Drama Script (Stage) Award | Television Script Award |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Frank Moorhouse | Cold Light | Winner | |||||||||||||||
| Peter Carey | The Chemistry of Tears | Finalist | |||||||||||||||
| Anna Funder | All That I am | ||||||||||||||||
| Kate Grenville | Sarah Thornhill | ||||||||||||||||
| Alex Miller | Autumn Laing | ||||||||||||||||
| Robin De Crespigny | The People Smuggler | Winner | |||||||||||||||
| Jane Gleeson-White | Double Entry | Finalist | |||||||||||||||
| Patrick Holland | Riding the Trains in Japan | ||||||||||||||||
| William McInnes & Sarah Watt | Worse Things Happen at Sea | ||||||||||||||||
| Alice Pung | Her Father's Daughter | ||||||||||||||||
| Bill Gammage | The Biggest Estate on Earth: How Aborigines Made Australia | Winner | |||||||||||||||
| Robyn Arianrhod | Seduced by Logic | Finalist | |||||||||||||||
| James Boyce | 1835: The Founding of Melbourne and the Conquest of Australia | ||||||||||||||||
| Nicole Moore | The Censor's Library | ||||||||||||||||
| George Megalogenis | The Australian Moment: How We Were Made For These Times | Winner | |||||||||||||||
| Paul Cleary | Too Much Luck: The Mining Boom and Australia's Future | Finalist | |||||||||||||||
| Michael Weley | There Goes the Neighbourhood | ||||||||||||||||
| Rob Brooks | Sex, Genes & Rock 'n' Roll | Winner | |||||||||||||||
| Robyn Arianrhod | Seduced by Logic | Finalist | |||||||||||||||
| Frank Bowden | Gone Viral | ||||||||||||||||
| Richard Smith | Australia: The Time Traveller’s Guide | ||||||||||||||||
| Peter Rose | Crimson Crop | Winner | |||||||||||||||
| Anthony Lawrence | The Welfare of My Enemy | Finalist | |||||||||||||||
| David McCooey | Outside | ||||||||||||||||
| Rhyll McMaster | Late Night Shopping | ||||||||||||||||
| Simon West | The Yellow Gum’s Conversion | ||||||||||||||||
| Janette Turner Hospital | Turbulence | Winner | |||||||||||||||
| Rodney Hall | Silence | Finalist | |||||||||||||||
| Marion Halligan | Shooting the Fox | ||||||||||||||||
| John Kinsella | In the Shade of the Shady Tree | ||||||||||||||||
| Ryan O'Neill | The Weight of a Human Heart | ||||||||||||||||
| Neil Grant | The Ink Bridge | Winner | |||||||||||||||
| Kirsty Eagar | Night Beach | Finalist | |||||||||||||||
| Judith Clarke | Three Summers | ||||||||||||||||
| Margo Lanagan | Sea Hearts | ||||||||||||||||
| Vikki Wakefield | All I Ever Wanted | ||||||||||||||||
| Briony Stewart | Kumiko and the Shadow Catchers | Winner | |||||||||||||||
| Pamela Rushby | The Horses Didn’t Come Home | Finalist | |||||||||||||||
| John Flanagan | Brotherband 1: The Outcasts | ||||||||||||||||
| Libby Gleeson & Freya Blackwood | Look a Book! | ||||||||||||||||
| Elizabeth Honey | Ten Blue Wrens | ||||||||||||||||
| Louise Fox | Dead Europe | Winner | |||||||||||||||
| Miro Bilbra | Being Venice | Finalist | |||||||||||||||
| Shane Armstrong & S P Krauss | Rarer Monsters | ||||||||||||||||
| Brendan Cowell | Save Your Legs | ||||||||||||||||
| Catherine Titasey | Island of the Unexpected | Winner | |||||||||||||||
| Aaron Smibert | Scratches on the Surface | Finalist | |||||||||||||||
| Luke Thomas | Home Mechanics | ||||||||||||||||
| Ariella Van Luyn | Hidden Objects | ||||||||||||||||
| Siv Parker | Story | Winner | |||||||||||||||
| Ellen van Neerven-Currie | Hard | Finalist | |||||||||||||||
| Dorothy Williams-Kemp | My Journey that May Never End | ||||||||||||||||
| Angela Betzien | War Crimes | Winner | |||||||||||||||
| Wayne Blair | Bloodland | Finalist | |||||||||||||||
| Patricia Cornelius | Taxi | ||||||||||||||||
| Rita Kalnejais | Baby Teeth | ||||||||||||||||
| Lally Katz | A Golem Story | ||||||||||||||||
| Sue Smith | Mabo | Winner | |||||||||||||||
| Blake Ayshford | The Straits: ‘Yawor – My Lovely’, episode 3 | Finalist | |||||||||||||||
| Brendan Cowell | The Slap: ‘Harry’, episode 3 | ||||||||||||||||
| Anthony Mullins | Strange Calls: ‘Phantom’, episode 3 | ||||||||||||||||
| Liz Doran | Dance Academy: ‘The Prix de Fonteyn’, episode 24 |
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