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Queensland Literary Awards 2023 winners announced

Thursday, 7 September 2023   Books+Publishing
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The winners of the 2023 Queensland Literary Awards have been announced, with a total of $238,500 in prize money awarded across 12 categories.

The winning titles in each category are:

Queensland Premier’s Award for a Work of State Significance ($25,000)

  • The Jaguar (Sarah Holland-Batt, UQP)

Queensland Premier’s Young Publishers and Writers Awards ($12,500)
(Two awards of $10,000 plus career development support to the value of $2500 each)

  • Jasmin McGaughey
  • Jonathan O’Brien

Fiction Book Award ($15,000)

  • Praiseworthy (Alexis Wright, Giramondo)

Nonfiction Book Award ($15,000)

  • We Come with This Place (Debra Dank, Echo)

Children’s Book Award ($15,000)

  • Waiting for the Storks (Katrina Nannestad, ABC Books)

Young Adult Book Award ($15,000)

  • Completely Normal (and Other Lies) (Biffy James, HGCP)

Steele Rudd Award for a Short Story Collection ($15,000)

  • Women I Know (Katerina Gibson, Scribner)

Judith Wright Calanthe Award for a Poetry Collection ($15,000)

  • Harvest Lingo (Lionel Fogarty, Giramondo)

David Unaipon Award for an Emerging Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander Writer ($15,000)

  • ‘To Give Them a Voice’ by Maria van Neerven

Glendower Award for an Emerging Queensland Writer ($15,000)

  • ‘First Name Second Name’ by Steve MinOn

People’s Choice Queensland Book of the Year Award ($10,000)

  • The God of No Good (Sita Walker, Ultimo)

Queensland Writers Fellowships ($19,500)

(Three fellowships of $15,000 each, plus professional development support to the value of $4500)

  • Al Campbell for her novel project ‘Door 64’
  • B R Dionysius for his poetry project ‘The Eromanga Sea’
  • Melanie Saward for her novel project ‘The Next Chapter’.

The winners were announced at ceremony hosted by Benjamin Law and livestreamed on the State Library of Queensland (SLQ) website on 6 September.

‘The calibre of award winners is exceptional, and I look forward to watching their continuing journeys and celebrating their successes,’ said SLQ state librarian and CEO Vicki McDonald. ‘Now more than ever we need authors in our lives who help us connect to stories that matter and keep us curious about our world.’

For more information, including the shortlisted works, see the SLQ website.

 

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