Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards 2021 shortlists announced
The shortlists for the 2021 Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards have been announced. The shortlisted and highly commended works in each category are: Fiction The Living Sea of Waking Dreams (Richard...
Hachette acquires VPLA winner in ‘competitive’ auction
Hachette has acquired ANZ rights to Victorian Premier’s unpublished manuscript prize-winner Kokomo by Victoria Hannan in a two-book deal. Hachette head of literary Robert Watkins acquired rights from Pippa Masson...
Affirm acquires VPLA-shortlisted short-story collection
Affirm Press has acquired world rights to the debut short-story collection by Victorian author Wayne Marshall, which was a runner-up in the 2019 Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards in the unpublished manuscript category. The...
Victorian government calls on university to reverse decision on MUP
Victorian minister for creative industries Martin Foley has called on the University of Melbourne to reverse its decision to overhaul Melbourne University Publishing (MUP). In his speech at the Victorian...
Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards 2019 shortlists announced
The shortlists for the 2019 Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards have been announced. The shortlisted titles are: Fiction Flames (Robbie Arnott, Text) Ironbark (Jay Carmichael, Scribe) The Fireflies of Autumn: And...
Come out swinging: Christian White on ‘The Nowhere Child’
Christian White’s The Nowhere Child (Affirm, July) tells the story of a Melbourne woman caught up in the investigation of a decades-old kidnapping in Kentucky. Reviewer Deborah Crabtree spoke to...
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...
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Clarke wins 2013 Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for unpublished manuscript
Maxine Beneba Clarke has won the 2013 Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for an unpublished manuscript.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...
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,...
‘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...
2011 Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards winners announced; ‘That Deadman Dance’ wins Victorian Prize for Literature
The winners of this year's Victorian Premier's Literary Awards were announced in Melbourne on 6 September, with That Deadman Dance by Kim Scott (Picador) winning the inaugural Victorian Prize for...
2011 Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards shortlists announced
The shortlists for this year's Victorian Premier's Literary Awards were announced in Melbourne on 26 July. This year's finalists has been branded as 'the Premier's 21', reflecting the idea that the...
2011 Victorian Premier?s Literary Awards shortlists announced
The shortlists for this year's Victorian Premier's Literary Awards were announced in Melbourne on 26 July. This year's shortlist has been branded as 'the Premier's 21', reflecting the idea that...