Tasmanian Literary Awards 2025 winners announced

The winners of the Tasmanian Literary Awards for 2025 have been announced.

Category winners – chosen from shortlists announced last month – are:

Premier’s Prize for Fiction ($25,000)

• Heartsease (Kate Kruimink, Picador)

Premier’s Prize for Nonfiction ($25,000)

• Graft (Maggie MacKellar, Penguin)

Minister for the Arts’ Prize for Books for Young Readers and Children ($25,000)

• Digger Digs Down (Johanna Bell, illus by Huni Melissa Bolliger, UQP)

Tim Thorne Prize for Poetry ($25,000)

• say, a river (Pam Schindler, Ginninderra).

Winners for the manuscript and fellowship prizes are:

University of Tasmania Prize ($10,000)

• ‘Department of the Vanishing’ (Johanna Bell)

Aboriginal Writer’s Fellowship ($10,000; publishing opportunity in Island magazine)

• Nunami Sculthorpe‑Green

Margaret Scott Tasmanian Young Writer’s Fellowship ($5000; publishing opportunity in Island magazine)

• Lars Rogers.

The People’s Choice Awards were also announced, including:

Fiction

• The Angry Women’s Choir (Meg Bignell, Michael Joseph)

Nonfiction

• Graft (Maggie MacKellar, Penguin)

Books for Young Readers and Children

• Amazing Animal Journeys (Jennifer Cossins, Lothian)

Poetry

• Ways to Say Goodbye (Anne Kellas, Liquid Amber Press).

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