Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards 2018 winners announced
Melbourne-based writer Sarah Krasnostein has won the $100,000 Victorian Prize for Literature for her first book, The Trauma Cleaner: One Woman’s Extraordinary Life in Death, Decay & Disaster (Text Publishing)...
Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards 2018 shortlists announced
The 2018 Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards shortlists have been announced. The shortlisted titles are: Fiction A New England Affair (Steven Carroll, HarperCollins) Australia Day (Melanie Cheng, Text) The Life to...
Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards 2016 shortlists announced
The 2016 Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards shortlists have been announced. The shortlisted titles are: Fiction Fever of Animals (Miles Allinson, Scribe) The Other Side of the World (Stephanie Bishop, Hachette)...
Fictional realism: Miles Allinson on ‘Fever of Animals’
Artist and writer Miles Allinson’s debut novel Fever of Animals (Scribe, September) is about a young artist and writer, also called Miles, ‘who is chain-smoking his way across Europe, seeking...
Shortlist for 2015 Vic Prem’s unpublished manuscript award announced
The shortlist for this year’s Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for an Unpublished Manuscript has been announced.The shortlisted titles are: The Dry (Jane Harper) Nikolai the Perfect (Jim McIntyre) Fine (Michelle Wright). The judges also...
Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards 2015 winners announced; ‘The Europeans in Australia: Volume Three: Nation’ wins Victorian Prize for Literature
Writer and historian Alan Atkinson has won the Victorian Prize for Literature, worth $100,000, for his book The Europeans in Australia: Volume Three: Nation (NewSouth).Atkinson’s book is the final volume...
Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards 2015 shortlists announced
The 2015 Victorian Premier’s Literary awards shortlists have been announced.The shortlisted titles are:Fiction Only the Animals (Ceridwen Dovey, Penguin) Golden Boys (Sonya Hartnett, Penguin) The Snow Kimono (Mark Henshaw, Text)...
Lucashenko wins 2014 Vic Prem’s Literary Award for Indigenous Writing
Melissa Lucashenko has won the 2014 Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for Indigenous Writing for her novel Mullumbimby (UQP).The $20,000 award was presented at the Wheeler Centre in Melbourne as part...
Allinson wins 2014 Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for unpublished manuscript
Melbourne writer, artist and Readings bookseller Miles Allinson has won the 2014 Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for an unpublished manuscript.Allinson was announced as the winner of the $15,000 prize at...
Shortlist for 2014 Vic Prem’s unpublished manuscript award announced
The shortlist for the Victorian Premier's Literary Award for an Unpublished Manuscript has been announced. The shortlisted titles are: Fever of Animals (Miles Allinson) Our Magic Hour (Jennifer Down) Good...
2014 Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards winners announced; ‘Liquid Nitrogen’ wins Victorian Prize for Literature
Liquid Nitrogen by Jennifer Maiden (Giramondo) has won the 2014 Victorian Prize for Literature, worth $100,000.Giramondo publisher Ivor Indyk accepted the award on Maiden’s behalf from Victorian Premier Denis Napthine...
Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards 2014 shortlists announced
The shortlists for the 2014 Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards have been announced. The shortlisted titles are: Fiction Burial Rites (Hannah Kent, Picador) The Narrow Road to the Deep North (Richard...
Hachette signs three-book deal with Vic Prem’s Unpublished Manuscript winner
Hachette Australia has signed a three-book deal with the winner of the 2013 Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for an Unpublished Manuscript, Maxine Beneba Clarke. Hachette will publish Clarke’s award-winning short...
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,...
Attendance, box office up at EWF 2013
The 2013 Emerging Writers’ Festival (EWF) attracted a larger audience and higher box office sales than last year’s festival, according to festival director Sam Twyford-Moore. The festival, which was the first...
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...
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)...
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...
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...
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,...