WA Premier’s Book Awards adds emerging writers category
The Western Australian Premier’s Book Awards will include an award for emerging writers for the first time in 2014. The $10,000 Western Australian Emerging Writers Award will be awarded to a...
WA Premier’s Book Awards 2012 winners announced
The winners of this year’s Western Australian Premier’s Book Awards were announced by Minister for the Arts John Day on 16 September. Michelle de Kretser was presented with the $25,000 Premier’s Prize, which...
2012 WA Premier’s Book Awards shortlists announced
The shortlists for the 2012 Western Australian Premier’s Book Awards have been announced. The shortlisted titles in each of the categories are: Fiction ($15,000) and nominees for the People’s Choice...
Vic Prem’s Awards to be presented in January 2014
The 2013 Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards will be presented in early 2014 instead of September this year. In previous years, the awards have been presented in the second half of the year,...
Clarke wins 2013 Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for unpublished manuscript
Maxine Beneba Clarke has won the 2013 Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for an unpublished manuscript. Clarke was announced as the winner of the $15,000 prize, which is administered by the Wheeler Centre...
NSW Premier’s Literary Awards winners announced; ‘Ruby Moonlight’ wins Book of the Year
The winners of this year’s New South Wales Premier’s Literary Award were announced in Sydney on 19 May, on the eve of the 2013 Sydney Writers’ Festival. Ali Cobby-Eckermann’s verse...
Victorian Premier’s unpublished manuscript award shortlist announced
The shortlist for this year’s Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for an unpublished manuscript has been announced. The shortlisted manuscripts are: A Field Guide to Birdwatching in Bad Weather (Naomi Bailey)...
NSW Premier’s Literary Awards shortlists announced
The shortlists for this year’s New South Wales Premier’s Literary Awards have been announced. The shortlisted titles for the book-related categories are: Christina Stead Prize for Fiction ($40,000) and nominees...
NSW Premier’s Literary and History Awards winners announced
The winners of this year’s New South Wales Premier’s Literary and History Awards were announced on 30 November at the State Library of New South Wales. In the Premier’s Literary...
NSW Premier’s Literary and History Awards shortlists announced
The shortlists for this year’s New South Wales Premier’s Literary and History Awards have been announced. The shortlisted titles for book-related categories of the NSW Premier’s Literary Awards are: Christina...
2012 Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards winners announced; ‘The Biggest Estate on Earth’ wins Victorian Prize for Literature
The Biggest Estate on Earth: How Aborigines Made Australia by Bill Gammage (A&U) has won the 2012 Victorian Prize for Literature, worth $100,000. Gammage, who has spent the past...
WA Premier’s Book Awards 2011 winners announced
The winners of this year’s Western Australian Premier’s Book Awards were announced on 17 September. Fiona Skyring was presented with the $25,000 Premier’s Prize, which goes to the most outstanding book...
Vic Prem’s award for Indigenous Writing shortlisted titles announced
The titles shortlisted for this year’s Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for Indigenous Writing have been announced. The announcement of the shortlist today and of the winner this afternoon are to...
Queensland Literary Awards 2012 shortlists announced
The titles shortlisted for the Queensland Literary Awards have been announced. The shortlisted titles in each category are: Fiction book award The Chemistry of Tears (Peter Carey, Penguin) All That...
2012 Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards shortlists announced
The shortlists for this year’s Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards have been announced. The shortlisted titles—collectively known as 'the Premier's 21'—are: Vance Palmer Prize for Fiction ($25,000) Foal’s Bread (Gillian Mears,...
2011 WA Premier’s Book Awards shortlists announced
The shortlists for the 2011 Western Australian Premier’s Books Awards have been announced. The shortlisted titles in each of the categories are: Nonfiction ($15,000) 1835: The Founding of Melbourne and...
‘The Rosie Project’ wins 2012 Victorian Premier’s unpublished manuscript award
A novel about a man with undiagnosed Asperger’s Syndrome who is looking for the perfect partner has won this year’s Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for an unpublished manuscript, announced during...
Queensland Literary Awards to replace axed Prem’s awards
The Queensland Literary Awards (QLAs), established by a volunteer committee to replace the recently axed Queensland Premier’s awards, will take place in 2012 and are open for nominations. ‘Thanks to...
Changes to NSW Premier’s Literary and History Awards announced
The New South Wales Government has announced that this year’s NSW Premier’s Literary and History Awards will be presented at the State Library of NSW in November. The NSW Premier’s...
SA Govt increases cash prize for Adelaide Festival Awards
The South Australian Government has announced that it will offer an extra $15,000 for the Premier’s Award at the next Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature, reports Adelaide Now. The additional...