VPLAs add children’s award

The Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards (VPLAs) will add a new children’s book award worth $25,000.

The Award for Children’s Literature will be presented to the creators of the best children’s book published in Australia each year, for ages 0–12. The first intake for entries will be 2023 with the inaugural winner to be announced at the 2024 awards ceremony. The winner of the children’s award each year will also be in the running for the overall Victorian Prize for Literature, worth $100,000.

‘This prize recognises the significance of children’s literature and will celebrate the talented writers and illustrators who bring the art of storytelling, the wonder of imagination and a tonne of fun to our lives from the very beginning,’ said minister for creative industries Steve Dimopoulos, announcing the new award.

The VPLAs currently award prizes in fiction, nonfiction, drama, poetry, Indigenous writing and writing for young adults, as well as for an unpublished manuscript and people’s choice award.

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