Queensland Literary Awards
| Queensland Literary Awards | |
|---|---|
| Location | Brisbane |
| Country | Australia |
| First awarded | 4 September 2012 |
| Website | www |
The Queensland Literary Awards is an awards program established in 2012 by the Queensland literary community, funded by sponsors and administered by the State Library of Queensland. Like the former Queensland Premier's Literary Awards, the QLAs celebrate and promote outstanding Australian writing. The awards aim to seek out, recognize and nurture great talent in Australian writing. They draw national and international attention to some of our best writers and to Queensland's recognition of outstanding Australian literature and publishing.
These awards have a focus on supporting new writing through the Emerging Queensland Writer – Manuscript Award and Unpublished Indigenous writer – David Unaipon Award. "They give local writers and new writers something to aspire to."[1]
History
The Queensland Literary Awards was established by a not-for-profit association of passionate Queensland volunteers and advocates for literature, in response to Queensland Premier Campbell Newman disestablishing the Queensland Premier's Literary Awards in 2012.[2]
In 2012 and 2013 the program was run by a volunteer workforce. Following consultation with the QLA Inc. governing committee, 2014 saw the management of the QLA transition to State Library of Queensland (SLQ). While SLQ took on a leadership role in delivering the program, the aim was to continue to build on the existing collaborative model where the community and writing sector partners are key stakeholders.
The original Premier's awards were established by Peter Beattie, the then Premier of Queensland in 1998 and first awarded in 1999.[3]
Award categories
There are currently twelve award categories including:
- Queensland Premier's Award for a work of State Significance
- Queensland Premier's Young Publishers and Writers Award
- Queensland Writers Fellowships
- The University of Queensland Fiction Book Award
- The University of Queensland Non-Fiction Book Award
- Young Adult Book Award
- Children's Book Award
- University of Southern Queensland Steele Rudd Award for a Short Story Collection
- Judith Wright Calanthe Award for a Poetry Collection
- David Unaipon Award for an Emerging Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Writer
- Glendower Award for an Emerging Queensland Writer
- The Courier-Mail People's Choice Queensland Book of the Year
Judging
The awards are judged by independent panels of writers, critics, journalists, academics and booksellers. They are presented to works the judges determine possess the highest literary merit.
Winners
2024
The shortlist was announced on 1 August 2024.[4] Winners were announced on 5 September 2024.[5]
| Category | Author | Title | Result |
|---|---|---|---|
| Queensland Premier's Award for a Work of State Significance | Melissa Lucashenko | Edenglassie | Winner |
| Graham Akhurst | Borderland | Finalist | |
| Kris Kneen | Fat Girl Dancing | ||
| J. M. Tolcher | Poof | ||
| Ellen van Neerven | Personal Score: Sport, Culture, Identity | ||
| The University of Queensland Non-Fiction Book Award | Abbas El-Zein | Bullet, Paper, Rock: A Memoir of Words and Wars | Winner |
| James Bradley | Deep Water: The World In the Ocean | Finalist | |
| Bonny Cassidy | Monument | ||
| Antony Loewenstein | The Palestine Laboratory: How Israel Exports the Technology of Occupation Around the World | ||
| Ellen van Neerven | Personal Score: Sport, Culture, Identity | ||
| The University of Queensland Fiction Book Award | Sharlene Allsopp | The Great Undoing | Winner |
| Katherine Brabon | Body Friend | Finalist | |
| Yumna Kassab | Politica | ||
| Siang Lu | Ghost Cities | ||
| Melissa Lucashenko | Edenglassie | ||
| Young Adult Book Award | sydney khoo | The Spider and Her Demons | Winner |
| Graham Akhurst | Borderland | Finalist | |
| Barry Jonsberg | Smoke & Mirrors | ||
| Will Kostakis | We Could Be Something | ||
| Ann Liang | I Hope This Doesn't Find You | ||
| Children's Book Award | Karen Comer | Sunshine on Vinegar Street | Winner |
| Trace Balla | Leaf-light | Finalist | |
| Peter Carnavas | Leo and Ralph | ||
| Jaclyn Moriarty, illustrated by Kelly Canby | The Impossible Secret of Lillian Velvet | ||
| Blake Nuto | When You're a Boy | ||
| Steele Rudd Award for a Short Story Collection | John Morrissey | Firelight | Winner |
| David Cohen | The Terrible Event | Finalist | |
| Magdalena McGuire | Born For You | ||
| Laura Jean McKay | Gunflower | ||
| John Richards | The Gorgon Flower | ||
| Judith Wright Calanthe Award for a Poetry Collection | L. K. Holt | Three Books | Winner |
| Manisha Anjali | Naag Mountain | Finalist | |
| Jarad Bruinstroop | Reliefs | ||
| Mitchell Welch | Vehicular Man | ||
| Petra White | That Galloping Horse | ||
| The Courier-Mail People's Choice Queensland Book of the Year Award | Carly-Jay Metcalfe | Breath | Winner |
| Sharlene Allsopp | The Great Undoing | Finalist | |
| Melissa Ashley | The Naturalist of Amsterdam | ||
| Wendy Cooper | The Bird Art of William T. Cooper | ||
| Anna Jacobson | How to Knit a Human | ||
| Grantlee Kieza | The Remarkable Mrs Reibey | ||
| Siang Lu | Ghost Cities | ||
| Anna McGahan | Immaculate | ||
| David Unaipon Award for an Emerging Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander Writer | Dominic Guerrera | Native Rage | Winner |
| Chella Goldwin | Politics | Finalist | |
| Lulu Houdini | River Page | ||
| Queensland Writers Fellowships | Jarad Bruinstroop | "For the Duration" | Winner |
| Sarah Kanake | "Lazarus; or, The Whale" | ||
| Cheryl Leavy | "Mudhunda—Song Country" | ||
| Glendower Award for Emerging Queensland Author | Emily Lighezzolo | Life Drawing | Winner |
| Myles McGuire | Tender Age | Finalist | |
| Nicky Peelgrane | EndGain | ||
| Lillian Telford | Lovesick | ||
| Queensland Premier’s Young Publishers and Writers Award | Gavin Yuan Gao | Winner | |
| Myles McGuire | |||
| Wallea Eaglehawk | Finalist | ||
2023
The winners were announced on 6 September 2023.[6]
| Category | Author | Title | Result |
|---|---|---|---|
| Queensland Premier's Award for a Work of State Significance | Sarah Holland-Batt | The Jaguar | Winner |
| Debra Dank | We Come with This Place | Finalist | |
| Kate Foster | The Bravest Word | ||
| Sally Piper | Bone Memories | ||
| Alexis Wright | Praiseworthy | ||
| The Courier-Mail People's Choice Queensland Book of the Year Award | Sita Walker | The God of No Good | Winner |
| Debra Dank | We Come with This Place | Finalist | |
| Veronica Lando | The Whispering | ||
| Kate Morton | Homecoming | ||
| Sally Piper | Bone Memories | ||
| Holly Ringland | The Seven Skins of Esther Wilding | ||
| Marion Stell | The Bodyline Fix | ||
| Penny van Oosterzee | Cloud Land | ||
| The University of Queensland Fiction Book Award | Alexis Wright | Praiseworthy | Winner |
| Geraldine Brooks | Horse | Finalist | |
| Fiona McFarlane | The Sun Walks Down | ||
| Michael Meehan | An Ungrateful Instrument | ||
| Shaun Prescott | Bon and Lesley | ||
| The University of Queensland Non-Fiction Book Award | Debra Dank | We Come With This Place | Winner |
| Joëlle Gergis | Humanity’s Moment | Finalist | |
| Louisa Lim | Indelible City | ||
| Anna Spargo-Ryan | A Kind of Magic | ||
| Sam Wallman | Our Members Be Unlimited | ||
| Judith Wright Calanthe Award for a Poetry Collection | Lionel Fogarty | Harvest Lingo | Winner |
| Michael Farrell | Googlecholia | Finalist | |
| Autumn Royal | The Drama Student | ||
| Simon Tedeschi | Fugitive | ||
| Rae White | Exactly As I Am | ||
| University of Southern Queensland Steele Rudd Award for a Short Story Collection | Katerina Gibson | Women I Know | Winner |
| Paul Dalla Rosa | An Exciting and Vivid Inner Life | Finalist | |
| Else Fitzgerald | Everything Feels Like the End of the World | ||
| Chris Flynn | Here Be Leviathans | ||
| Griffith University Young Adult Book Award | Biffy James | Completely Normal (and Other Lies) | Winner |
| Helena Fox | The Quiet and the Loud | Finalist | |
| Nina Kenwood | Unnecessary Drama | ||
| Ann Liang | If You Could See the Sun | ||
| Jared Thomas | My Spare Heart | ||
| Children's Book Award | Katrina Nannestad | Waiting for the Storks | Winner |
| Zana Fraillon | The Way of Dog | Finalist | |
| Bob Graham | Jigsaw: A Puzzle in the Post | ||
| Hakea Hustler, Carl Merrison & Samantha Campbell | My Deadly Boots | ||
| Gabrielle Wang | Zadie Ma and the Dog Who Chased the Moon | ||
| Queensland Premier's Young Publishers and Writers Award | Jasmin McGaughey | Winner | |
| Jonathan O'Brien | |||
| Myles McGuire | Finalist | ||
| Alex Philp | |||
| Sean West | |||
| Queensland Writers Fellowships | Al Campbell | Door 64 | Winner |
| B. R. Dionysius | The Eromanga Sea | ||
| Melanie Saward | The Next Chapter | ||
| Glendower Award for Emerging Queensland Author | Steve MinOn | First Name, Second Name | Winner |
| Fernanda Dahlstrom | The See-Saw | Finalist | |
| Sandra Minke | Treasure | ||
| Margot Shave | Exchange Me | ||
| David Unaipon Award for an Emerging Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Writer | Maria van Neerven | To Give Them a Voice | Winner |
| Lulu Houdini | guniimara | Finalist | |
| Brooke Scobie | Always and Again | ||
2022
The winners were announced on 8 September 2022.[7][8]
| Category | Author | Title | Result |
|---|---|---|---|
| Queensland Premier's Award for a Work of State Significance | Quentin Beresford | Wounded Country: The Murray-Darling Basin – a contested history | Winner |
| Sara El Sayed | Muddy People | Finalist | |
| Mirandi Riwoe | The Burnished Sun | ||
| John Shobbrook | Operation Jungle | ||
| Chelsea Watego | Another Day in the Colony | ||
| The Courier-Mail People's Choice Queensland Book of the Year Award | Chelsea Watego | Another Day in the Colony | Winner |
| Ed Ayres | Whole Notes | Finalist | |
| Al Campbell | The Keepers | ||
| Sara El Sayed | Muddy People | ||
| Anita Heiss | Bila Yarrudhanggalangdhuray | ||
| Krissy Kneen | The Three Burials of Lotty Kneen | ||
| Nicolas Rothwell | Red Heaven | ||
| Dime Sheppard | Crime Writer | ||
| The University of Queensland Fiction Book Award | Michael Mohammed Ahmad | The Other Half of You | Winner |
| Jessica Au | Cold Enough for Snow | Finalist | |
| Mandy Beaumont | The Furies | ||
| Al Campbell | The Keepers | ||
| Yumna Kassab | Australiana | ||
| The University of Queensland Non-Fiction Book Award | Claire G. Coleman | Lies, Damned Lies | Winner |
| Sara El Sayed | Muddy People | Finalist | |
| Amani Haydar | The Mother Wound | ||
| Krissy Kneen | The Three Burials of Lotty Kneen | ||
| Chelsea Watego | Another Day in the Colony | ||
| Judith Wright Calanthe Award for a Poetry Collection | Pam Brown | Stasis Shuffle | Winner |
| Eunice Andrada | TAKE CARE | Finalist | |
| Dan Disney | accelerations & inertias | ||
| Gavin Yuan Gao | At the Altar of Touch | ||
| Ann Vickery | Bees Do Both: An antagonist’s carepack | ||
| University of Southern Queensland Steele Rudd Award for a Short Story Collection | Tony Birch | Dark as Last Night | Winner |
| Merlinda Bobis | The Kindness of Birds | Finalist | |
| Mirandi Riwoe | The Burnished Sun | ||
| Fiona Robertson | If You’re Happy | ||
| Su-May Tan | Lake Malibu and Other Stories | ||
| Griffith University Young Adult Book Award | Felicity Castagna | Girls in Boys’ Cars | Winner |
| Brian Falkner | Katipo Joe: Wolf’s lair | Finalist | |
| Michael Hyde | Morrison and Mr Moore | ||
| Kay Kerr | Social Queue | ||
| Carly Nugent | Sugar | ||
| Children's Book Award | Kunyi June Anne McInerney | Kunyi | Winner |
| Peter Carnavas | My Brother Ben | Finalist | |
| Shirley Marr | A Glasshouse of Stars | ||
| Sandhya Parappukkaran, illus by Michelle Pereira | The Boy Who Tried to Shrink His Name | ||
| Corey Tutt, illus by Blak Douglas | The First Scientists | ||
| Queensland Premier's Young Publishers and Writers Award | Rebecca Cheers and Marilena Hewitt | Winner | |
| Queensland Writers Fellowships | Melissa Ashley, Geneve Flynn and Mary-Rose MacColl | Winner | |
| Glendower Award for Emerging Queensland Author | Yen-Rong Wong | Things Left Unsaid | Winner |
| John Richards | The Interventions | Finalist | |
| A E Macleod | Do you like the artist Georgia O’Keeffe? | ||
| Emily Winter | Sunshowers | ||
| David Unaipon Award for an Emerging Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Writer | Mykaela Saunders | Always Will Be – stories of Goori sovereignty, from the future(s) of the Tweed | Winner |
| Edoardo Crismani | Finding Billy Brown | Finalist | |
| Julie-Ann ‘Garrimaa’ Moore | Wawun, Judulu and The Big Storm | ||
| Rick Slager | Untitled | ||
| Aunty Joan Tranter | Unplanned Journey: A personal account of one Indigenous woman’s life | ||
2021
The winners were announced on 9 September 2021.[9]
| Category | Author | Title | Result |
|---|---|---|---|
| Queensland Premier's Award for a Work of State Significance | Fiona Foley | Biting the Clouds: A Badtjala perspective on the Aboriginals Protection and Restriction of the Sale of Opium Act, 1897 | Winner |
| Lech Blaine | Car Crash | Finalist | |
| Laura Elvery | Ordinary Matter | ||
| Pattie Lees with Adam C Lees | A Question of Colour | ||
| Jaya Savige | Change Machine | ||
| The Courier-Mail People's Choice Queensland Book of the Year Award | Mary Li | Mary’s Last Dance: The untold story of the wife of Mao’s Last Dancer | Winner |
| Trent Dalton | All Our Shimmering Skies | Finalist | |
| Sandra Hogan | With My Little Eye | ||
| Kathleen Jennings | Flyaway | ||
| Susan Johnson | From Where I Fell | ||
| Grantlee Kieza | Banks | ||
| Pattie Lees with Adam C Lees | A Question of Colour: My journey to belonging | ||
| A G Slatter | All the Murmuring Bones | ||
| The University of Queensland Fiction Book Award | Nardi Simpson | Song of the Crocodile | Winner |
| Kavita Bedford | Friends & Dark Shapes | Finalist | |
| S L Lim | Revenge | ||
| Amanda Lohrey | The Labyrinth | ||
| Charlotte McConaghy | Migrations | ||
| The University of Queensland Non-Fiction Book Award | Luke Stegemann | Amnesia Road: Landscape, violence and memory | Winner |
| Lech Blaine | Car Crash | Finalist | |
| Eleanor Hogan | Into the Loneliness | ||
| Henry Reynolds | Truth-Telling | ||
| Marian Wilkinson | The Carbon Club | ||
| Judith Wright Calanthe Award for a Poetry Collection | Ouyang Yu | Terminally Poetic | Winner |
| Evelyn Araluen | Dropbear | Finalist | |
| Benjamin Dodds | Airplane Baby Banana Blanket | ||
| Jaya Savige | Change Machine | ||
| Elfie Shiosaki | Homecoming | ||
| University of Southern Queensland Steele Rudd Award for a Short Story Collection | Laura Elvery | Ordinary Matter | Winner |
| Melissa Manning | Smokehouse | Finalist | |
| Elizabeth Tan | Smart Ovens for Lonely People | ||
| Adam Thompson | Born Into This | ||
| Barry Lee Thompson | Broken Rules and Other Stories | ||
| Griffith University Young Adult Book Award | Cath Moore | Metal Fish, Falling Snow | Winner |
| Davina Bell | The End of the World is Bigger Than Love | Finalist | |
| Rebecca Lim | Tiger Daughter | ||
| Gary Lonesborough | The Boy From the Mish | ||
| Lili Wilkinson | The Erasure Initiative | ||
| Griffith University Children's Book Award | Kirli Saunders & Dub Leffler | Bindi | Winner |
| Sami Bayly | The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Dangerous Animals | Finalist | |
| Meg McKinlay, illus by Matt Ottley | How to Make a Bird | ||
| Jaclyn Moriarty, illus by Kelly Canby | The Stolen Prince of Cloudburst | ||
| Katrina Nannestad, illus by Martina Heiduczek | We Are Wolves | ||
| Queensland Premier's Young Publishers and Writers Award | Allanah Hunt and Ellen Wengert | Winner | |
| Queensland Writers Fellowships | Tabitha Bird, Ella Jeffery, and Kali Napier | Winner | |
| Glendower Award for Emerging Queensland Author | Siang Lu | The Whitewash | Winner |
| Jason Gent | On the Exhale | Finalist | |
| Natalie Sprite | The Luminous Heart | ||
| Lillian Telford | It’s Chemical | ||
| David Unaipon Award for an Emerging Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Writer | Ngankiburka-mekauwe (Senior Woman of Water) Georgina Williams | Mekauwe=Tears Volume #1 Poems (Notes For Song) 1970–2020 | Winner |
| Chella Goldwin | Politiks | Finalist | |
2020
The winners were announced on 4 September 2020.[10]
| Category | Author | Title | Result |
|---|---|---|---|
| Queensland Premier's Award for a Work of State Significance | Joe Gorman | Heartland: How Rugby League Explains Queensland | Winner |
| Melanie Myers | Meet Me at Lennon’s | Finalist | |
| Mirandi Riwoe | Stone Sky Gold Mountain | ||
| Jessica White | Hearing Maud | ||
| The Courier-Mail People's Choice Queensland Book of the Year Award | Tabitha Bird | A Lifetime of Impossible Days | Winner |
| Phil Brown | The Kowloon Kid | Finalist | |
| Margaret Cook | A River with a City Problem | ||
| Darryl Jones | Feeding the Birds at Your Table | ||
| Melanie Myers | Meet Me at Lennon's | ||
| Amanda Niehaus | The Breeding Season | ||
| Mirandi Riwoe | Stone Sky Gold Mountain | ||
| Jessica White | Hearing Maud | ||
| The University of Queensland Fiction Book Award | Mirandi Riwoe | Stone Sky Gold Mountain | Winner |
| Anna Krien | Act of Grace | Finalist | |
| Philip Salom | The Returns | ||
| Ronnie Scott | The Adversary | ||
| Tara June Winch | The Yield | ||
| The University of Queensland Non-Fiction Book Award | Helen Ennis | Olive Cotton: A Life in Photography | Winner |
| James Dunk | Bedlam at Botany Bay | Finalist | |
| Brenda Niall | Friends and Rivals | ||
| Cassandra Pybus | Truganini | ||
| Arnold Zable | The Watermill | ||
| Judith Wright Calanthe Award for a Poetry Collection | П. O. | Heide | Winner |
| Peter Boyle | Enfolded in the Wings of a Great Darkness | Finalist | |
| Stuart Cooke | Lyre | ||
| Ellen van Neerven | Throat | ||
| Charmaine Papertalk Green | Nganajungu Yagu | ||
| University of Southern Queensland Steele Rudd Award for a Short Story Collection | Joey Bui | Lucky Ticket | Winner |
| Alice Bishop | A Constant Hum | Finalist | |
| Yumna Kassab | The House of Youssef | ||
| Sean O’Beirne | A Couple of Things Before the End | ||
| Josephine Rowe | Here Until August | ||
| Griffith University Young Adult Book Award | Lisa Fuller | Ghost Bird | Winner |
| Sarah Epstein | Deep Water | Finalist | |
| Eliza Henry-Jones | How to Grow a Family Tree | ||
| Nina Kenwood | It Sounded Better in My Head | ||
| Vikki Wakefield | This Is How We Change the Ending | ||
| Griffith University Children's Book Award | Penny Tangey | As Fast As I Can | Winner |
| Tristan Bancks | Detention | Finalist | |
| Tamsin Janu | Winston and the Wondrous Wooba Gymnastics Club | ||
| Jess McGeachin | Fly | ||
| Caroline Magerl | Nop | ||
| Queensland Premier's Young Publishers and Writers Award | Zenobia Frost and Yen-Rong Wong | Winner | |
| Queensland Writers Fellowships | Sara El Sayed, Anna Jacobson and Amanda Niehaus | Winner | |
| Glendower Award for Emerging Queensland Author | Fiona Robertson | If You're Happy | Winner |
| Bianca Millroy | The Solitary Light | Finalist | |
| Jonathan O’Brien | Daddy & Other Father Figures | ||
| Jenny Ruge | Without a Word | ||
| Siall Waterbright | As We Knew It | ||
| David Unaipon Award for an Emerging Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Writer | Jazz Money | The Space Between the Paperbark | Winner |
| Boyd Quakawoot | Valley of Cane and Crows | Finalist | |
| Mykaela Saunders | Last Rites of Spring | ||
| Melanie Saward | Burn | ||
2019
The winners were announced on 12 November 2019.[11]
| Category | Author | Title | Result |
|---|---|---|---|
| Queensland Premier's Award for a Work of State Significance | Melissa Lucashenko | Too Much Lip | Winner |
| Matthew Condon | The Night Dragon | Finalist | |
| Trent Dalton | Boy Swallows Universe | ||
| Jake Goetz | meditations with passing water | ||
| Krissy Kneen | Wintering | ||
| The Courier-Mail People's Choice Queensland Book of the Year Award | Lindsay Simpson | Adani, Following Its Dirty Footsteps: A Personal Story | Winner |
| Toni Risson | Brisbane’s Greek Cafes: A Million Malted Milks | Finalist | |
| Trent Dalton | Boy Swallows Universe | ||
| James Halford | Requiem with Yellow Butterflies: A Memoir | ||
| Krissy Kneen | Wintering | ||
| Melissa Lucashenko | Too Much Lip | ||
| Rick Searle | Charles Ulm | ||
| Rohan Wilson | Daughter of Bad Times | ||
| University of Queensland Fiction Book Award | Carrie Tiffany | Exploded View | Winner |
| Nigel Featherstone | Bodies of Men | Finalist | |
| Melissa Lucashenko | Too Much Lip | ||
| Kristina Olsson | Shell | ||
| Rohan Wilson | Daughter of Bad Times | ||
| University of Queensland Non-Fiction Book Award | Mary Hoban | An Unconventional Wife: The Life of Julia Sorell Arnold | Winner |
| Alice Gorman | Dr Space Junk vs The Universe: Archaeology and the future | Finalist | |
| Stuart Kells | Shakespeare’s Library: Unlocking the greatest mystery in literature | ||
| Harry Saddler | The Eastern Curlew | ||
| Christina Thompson | Sea People: The puzzle of Polynesia | ||
| University of Southern Queensland History Book Award | Mary Hoban | An Unconventional Wife: The Life of Julia Sorell Arnold | Winner |
| Judith Brett | From Secret Ballot to Democracy Sausage: How Australia got compulsory voting | Finalist | |
| Kate Legge | Kindred: A Cradle Mountain love story | ||
| Elizabeth Malcolm and Dianne Hall | A New History of the Irish in Australia | ||
| Clare Wright | You Daughters of Freedom: The Australians who won the vote and inspired the world | ||
| State Library of Queensland Poetry Collection – Judith Wright Calanthe Award | Alison Whittaker | Blakwork | Winner |
| Liam Ferney | Hot Take | Finalist | |
| Keri Glastonbury | Newcastle Sonnet | ||
| Marjon Mossammaparast | That Sight | ||
| Omar Sakr | The Lost Arabs | ||
| University of Southern Queensland Australian Short Story Collection – Steele Rudd Award | Debra Adelaide | Zebra: And Other Stories | Winner |
| Robert Drewe | The True Colour of the Sea | Finalist | |
| Ryan O’Neill | The Drover’s Wives | ||
| Griffith University Young Adult Book Award | Karen Foxlee | Lenny’s Book of Everything | Winner |
| Sarah Epstein | Small Spaces | Finalist | |
| Helena Fox | How it Feels to Float | ||
| Steven Herrick | The Bogan Mondrian | ||
| Ambelin Kwaymullina and Ezekiel Kwaymullina | Catching Teller Crow | ||
| Griffith University Children's Book Award | Jaclyn Moriarty | The Slightly Alarming Tale of the Whispering Wars | Winner |
| Lorraine Marwood | Leave Taking | Finalist | |
| Carl Merrison and Hakea Hustler | Black Cockatoo | ||
| Emily Rodda | His Name was Walter | ||
| Margaret Wild and Mandy Ord | Chalk Boy | ||
| Queensland Premier's Young Publishers and Writers Awards | Ella Jeffery and Ellen van Neerven | Winner | |
| Queensland Writers Fellowships | Claire Christian, Sarah Holland-Batt and Emily O'Grady | Winner | |
| Glendower Award for Emerging Queensland Author for unpublished manuscript | Rhiannon Ratcliffe Wilde | Henry Hamlet’s Heart | Winner |
| Sue Goldstiver | Little Birds | Finalist | |
| Karen Hollands | The Still Point of Being | ||
| Jack Lio | Apparitions | ||
| Unpublished Indigenous Writer – David Unaipon Award | Not awarded. | ||
| QUT Digital Literature Award | Mez Breeze | V[R]ignettes | Winner |
| Eda Gunaydin | Gothic Body, in Two Parts | Finalist | |
| Benjamin Laird | Psychometric Researches | ||
| C B Mako and M J Flamiano | ITERATION – Part 3/Chapter 3 | ||
| Jason Nelson | The Wonders of Lost Trajectories | ||
2018
| Category | Author | Title | Result |
|---|---|---|---|
| Queensland Premier's Award for a Work of State Significance | Jackie Ryan | We'll Show the World: Expo 88 | Winner |
| Benjamin Allmon and David Kelly | The Saltwater Story | Finalist | |
| Anna Broinowski | Please Explain | ||
| Barbara Miller | White Woman Black Heart: Journey Home to Old Mapoon | ||
| Beth Wilson | Brisbane Houses with Garden | ||
| The Courier Mail People's Choice Queensland Book of the Year Award – Brisbane Houses with Gardens, Beth Wilson | Beth Wilson | Brisbane Houses with Gardens | Winner |
| Venero Armanno | Burning Down | Finalist | |
| Eddie Ayres | Danger Music | ||
| Ben Hobson | To Become a Whale | ||
| Emily O'Grady | The Yellow House | ||
| Holly Ringland | The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart | ||
| Jackie Ryan | We'll Show the World: Expo 88 | ||
| Charlie Veron | A Life Underwater | ||
| University of Queensland Fiction Book Award | Kim Scott | Taboo | Winner |
| Robbie Arnott | Flames | Finalist | |
| Shokoofeh Azar | The Enlightenment of the Greengage Tree | ||
| Mirandi Riwoe | The Fish Girl | ||
| Tim Winton | The Shepherd's Hut | ||
| University of Queensland Non-Fiction Book Award | Alexis Wright | Tracker | Winner |
| Judith Brett | The Enigmatic Mr Deakin | Finalist | |
| Phillipa McGuinness | The Year Everything Changed: 2001 | ||
| Charles Massy | Call of the Reed Warbler: A New Agriculture — A New Earth | ||
| Michael Pembroke | Korea: Where the American Century Began | ||
| University of Southern Queensland History Book Award | Jackie Ryan | We'll Show the World: Expo 88 | Winner |
| Judith Brett | The Enigmatic Mr Deakin | Finalist | |
| Billy Griffiths | Deep Time Dreaming: Uncovering Ancient Australia | ||
| Jayne Persian | Beautiful Balts: From Displaced Persons to New Australians | ||
| Christina Twomey | The Battle Within: POWs in Postwar Australia | ||
| State Library of Queensland Poetry Collection – Judith Wright Calanthe Award | Michael Farrell | I Love Poetry | Winner |
| Pam Brown | click here for what we do | Finalist | |
| Bonny Cassidy | Chatelaine | ||
| Oscar Schwartz | The Honeymoon Stage | ||
| Bella Li | Lost Lake | ||
| University of Southern Queensland Australian Short Story Collection – Steele Rudd Award | Jennifer Down | Pulse Points | Winner |
| Claire Aman | Bird Country | Finalist | |
| Tony Birch | Common People | ||
| Stephanie Buckle | Habits of Silence | ||
| Laura Elvery | Trick of the Light | ||
| Griffith University Young Adult Book Award | Cally Black | In the Dark Spaces | Winner |
| Victoria Carless | The Dream Walker | Finalist | |
| Scot Gardner | Sparrow | ||
| Erin Gough | Amelia Westlake | ||
| Pip Harry | Because of You | ||
| Griffith University Children's Book Award | Peter Carnavas | The Elephant | Winner |
| Sarah Brennan, illustrated by Jane Tanner | The Storm Whale | Finalist | |
| Jane Godwin, illustrated by Anna Walker | Go Go and the Silver Shoes | ||
| Emily Rodda | The Shop at Hoopers Bend | ||
| Anne Spudvilas | Swan Lake | ||
| Queensland Premier's Young Publishers and Writers Awards | Anna Jacobson and Bri Lee | Winner | |
| Queensland Writers Fellowships | Michael Gerard Bauer, Jackie Ryan and Laura Elvery | Winner | |
| Glendower Award for Emerging Queensland Author for unpublished manuscript | Melanie Myers | Garrison Town | Winner |
| Karen Herschell | fate, revenge and chipburgers | Finalist | |
| Laura Kenny | On Either Side | ||
| Christopher Przewloka | Hidebound | ||
| Unpublished Indigenous Writer – David Unaipon Award | Kirstie Parker | The Making of Ruby Champion | Winner |
| Melanie Saward | Why Worry Now | Finalist | |
| Wendy Somerville | Jilba's Song | ||
| Waiata Telfer | Song — The Story of a Girl, a Bird and a Teapot | ||
| Teila Watson | Destinations Past Present Future: Diving Through Timelines | ||
| QUT Digital Literature Award | David Thomas Henry Wright, with Chris Arnold | Little Emperor Syndrome | Winner |
| Mez Breeze | Our Cupidity Coda | Finalist | |
| Mez Breeze | A Place Called Ormalcy | ||
| Benjamin Laird | Core Values | ||
2017
| Category | Author | Title | Result |
|---|---|---|---|
| Queensland Premier's Award for a Work of State Significance | Bill Wilkie | The Daintree Blockade: The Battle for Australia's Tropical Rainforests | Winner |
| Matthew Condon | Little Fish Are Sweet | Finalist | |
| Mary-Rose MacColl | For a Girl | ||
| Cathy McLennan | Saltwater | ||
| The Courier Mail People's Choice Queensland Book of the Year Award | Cathy McLennan | Saltwater | Winner |
| Melissa Ashley | The Birdman's Wife | Finalist | |
| Nick Earls | Vancouver | ||
| Richard Fidler | Ghost Empire | ||
| Ashley Hay | A Hundred Small Lessons | ||
| Anita Heiss | Barbed Wire and Cherry Blossoms | ||
| Joan Isaacs | To Prey and To Silence | ||
| Mary-Rose MacColl | For a Girl | ||
| University of Queensland Fiction Book Award | Melissa Ashley | The Birdman's Wife | Winner |
| Nick Earls | Vancouver | Finalist | |
| Ashley Hay | A Hundred Small Lessons | ||
| Hannah Kent | The Good People | ||
| Heather Rose | The Museum of Modern Love | ||
| University of Queensland Non-Fiction Book Award | Cathy McLennan | Saltwater | Winner |
| Deng Adut and Ben Mckelvey | Songs of a War Boy | Finalist | |
| Richard Fidler | Ghost Empire | ||
| Mary-Rose MacColl | For a Girl | ||
| Kim Mahood | Position Doubtful | ||
| University of Southern Queensland History Book Award | Rebe Taylor | Into the Heart of Tasmania: A Search for Human Antiquity | Winner |
| Rebecca Ananian-Welsh | The Tim Carmody Affair: Australia's Greatest Judicial Crisis | Finalist | |
| Andrew Lynch | Appleby | ||
| Paul Irish | Hidden in Plain View: The Aboriginal people of coastal Sydney | ||
| John Murphy | Evatt: A life | ||
| State Library of Queensland Poetry Collection | Antigone Kefala | Judith Wright Calanthe Award – Fragments | Winner |
| Jordie Albiston | Euclid's Dog | Finalist | |
| Carmen Leigh Keates | Meteorites | ||
| Cassie Lewis | The Blue Decodes | ||
| Omar Sakr | These Wild Houses | ||
| University of Southern Queensland Australian Short Story Collection – Steele Rudd Award | Kyra Giorgi | The Circle and the Equator | Winner |
| Michelle Cahill | Letter to Pessoa | Finalist | |
| Kyra Giorgi | The Circle and the Equator | ||
| Tara June Winch | After the Carnage | ||
| Griffith University Young Adult Book Award | Cath Crowley | Words in Deep Blue | Winner |
| Simon Butters | The Hounded | Finalist | |
| Zana Fraillon | The Bone Sparrow | ||
| Mark Smith | The Road to Winter | ||
| Richard Yaxley | This is My Song | ||
| Griffith University Children's Book Award | Lisa Shanahan | The Grand, Genius Summer of Henry Hoobler | Winner |
| Gus Gordon | Somewhere Else | Finalist | |
| Paul Jennings | A Different Dog | ||
| Bren MacDibble | How to Bee | ||
| Wendy Orr | Dragonfly Song | ||
| Queensland Premier's Young Publishers and Writers Awards | Lech Blaine and Mindy Gill | Winner | |
| Queensland Writers Fellowships | Mirandi Riwoe, Zenobia Frost and Linda Neil | Winner | |
| Emerging Queensland Author – Manuscript Award | Janet Lee | The Killing of Louisa | Winner |
| Anna Jacobson | How to Knit a Human | Finalist | |
| Ben Marshall | The Gimp | ||
| Siall Waterbright | The Coming | ||
| Unpublished Indigenous Writer – David Unaipon Award | Lisa Fuller | Mirrored Pieces | Winner |
| Alicia Farmer | Mai Stori | Finalist | |
| QUT Digital Literature Award | Jason Nelson | Nine Billion Branches | Winner |
| Mez Breeze | Inanimate Alice: Perpetual Nomads (Beta) | Finalist | |
| Pascalle Burton | Generation Loss | ||
| David Thomas Henry Wright | Paige and Power | ||
| Marianna Shek | Limerence | ||
2016
| Category | Author | Title | Result |
|---|---|---|---|
| Queensland Premier's Award for a Work of State Significance | Lesley and Tammy Williams | Not Just Black and White | Winner |
| Nadia Buick and Madeleine King | Remotely Fashionable: A Story of Subtropical Style | Finalist | |
| Matthew Condon | All Fall Down | ||
| Elspeth Muir | Wasted: A Story of Alcohol, Grief and a Death in Brisbane | ||
| P.J. Parker | The Long Goodbye | ||
| The Courier Mail People's Choice Queensland Book of the Year Award | Mary-Rose MacColl | Swimming Home | Winner |
| Trent Jamieson | Day Boy | Finalist | |
| Susan Johnson | The Landing | ||
| Cass Moriarty | The Promise Seed | ||
| Nadia Buick and Madeleine Kin | Remotely Fashionable: A Story of Subtropical Style | ||
| Matt Condon | All Fall Down | ||
| Elspeth Muir | Wasted: A Story of Alcohol, Grief and a Death in Brisbane | ||
| Cory Taylor | Dying: A Memoir | ||
| University of Queensland Fiction Book Award | Georgia Blain | Between a Wolf and a Dog | Winner |
| Tony Birch | Ghost River | Finalist | |
| David Dye | The Midnight Watch | ||
| Patrick Holland | One | ||
| Charlotte Wood | The Natural Way of Thing | ||
| University of Queensland Non-Fiction Book Award | Fiona Wright | Small Acts of Disappearance: Essays on Hunger | Winner |
| Madeline Gleeson | Offshore: Behind the Wire on Manus and Nauru | Finalist | |
| Stan Grant | Talking to My Country | ||
| Drusilla Modjeska | Second Half First | ||
| Tim Winton | Island Home | ||
| University of Southern Queensland History Book Award | Julia Martínez and Adrian Vickers | The Pearl Frontier: Indonesian Labour and Indigenous Encounters in Australia’s Northern Trading Network | Winner |
| Vicken Babkenien and Peter Stanley | Armenia, Australia and the Great War | Finalist | |
| Stuart Macintyre | Australia’s Boldest Experiment | ||
| Jeff Maynard | Unseen Anzac | ||
| John Newton | The oldest foods on earth | ||
| Garry Wotherspoon | Gay Sydney | ||
| State Library of Queensland Poetry Collection – Judith Wright Calanthe Award | David Musgrave | Anatomy of Voice | Winner |
| Joel Deane | Year of the Wasp | Finalist | |
| Liam Ferney | Content | ||
| Sarah Holland-Batt | The Hazards | ||
| Chloe Wilson | Not Fox Nor Axe | ||
| University of Southern Queensland Australian Short Story Collection – Steele Rudd Award | Elizabeth Harrower | A Few Days in the Country and other stories | Winner |
| Fiona McFarlane | The High Places | ||
| Tegan Bennett Daylight | Six Bedrooms | Finalist | |
| Sonja Dechian | An Astronaut’s Life | ||
| Julie Koh | Portable Curiosities | ||
| Griffith University Young Adult Book Award | David Metzenthen | Dreaming the Enemy | Winner |
| Will Kostakis | The Sidekicks | Finalist | |
| Glenda Millard | The Stars at October Bend | ||
| James Roy and Noël Zihabamwe | One Thousand Hills | ||
| Claire Zorn | One Would Think the Deep | ||
| Griffith University Children's Book Award | Julie Hunt (author) and Dale Newman (illustrator) | KidGlovz | Winner |
| Lucy Estela and Matt Ottley | Suri’s Wall | Finalist | |
| Bob Graham | How the Sun Got to Coco’s House | ||
| Libby Hathorn and Gaye Chapman | Incredibilia | ||
| Chris McKimmie | Me, Teddy | ||
| Queensland Premier's Young Publishers and Writers Awards | Emily Craven and Michelle Law | Winner | |
| Emerging Queensland Author – Manuscript Award | Not awarded. | ||
| Unpublished Indigenous Writer – David Unaipon Award | Paul Collis | Dancing Home | Winner |
| Yvonne Weldon | 67 Days | Finalist | |
| B.A. (Boyd) Quakawoot | Song of Jessica | ||
2015
| Category | Author | Title | Result |
|---|---|---|---|
| Queensland Premier's Award for a Work of State Significance | Libby Connors | Warrior | Winner |
| Ellen van Neerven | Heat and Light | Finalist | |
| Zoe Boccabella | Joe’s Fruit Shop and Milk Bar | ||
| Mark Bahnisch | Queensland: Everything you ever wanted to know but were afraid to ask | ||
| Anna Bligh | Through the Wall: Reflections on Leadership, Love and Survival | ||
| The Courier Mail People's Choice Queensland Book of the Year Award | John Ahern | On the road...with the kids | Winner |
| Nick Earls | Analogue Men | Finalist | |
| Mary Lou Simpson | From Convict to Politician | ||
| Zoe Boccabella | Joe’s Fruit Shop and Milk Bar | ||
| Patrick Holland | Navigatio | ||
| Inga Simpson | Nest | ||
| Kari Gislason | The Ash Burner | ||
| David Murray | The Murder of Allison Baden-Clay | ||
| University of Queensland Fiction Book Award | Joan London | The Golden Age | Winner |
| Amanda Lohrey | A Short History of Richard Kline | Finalist | |
| Mark Henshaw | The Snow Kimono | ||
| Malcolm Knox | The Wonder Lover | ||
| Rohan Wilson | To Name Those Lost | ||
| University of Queensland Non-Fiction Book Award | Don Watson | The Bush: Travels in the Heart of Australia | Winner |
| Brenda Niall | Mannix | Finalist | |
| Anne Manne | The Life of I: The New Culture of Narcissism | ||
| Annabel Crabb | The Wife Drought | ||
| Karen Lamb | Thea Astley: Inventing Her Own Weather | ||
| University of Southern Queensland History Book Award | Carolyn Holbrook | ANZAC, The Unauthorised Biography | Winner |
| Angela Woollacott | Settler Society in the Australian Colonies: Self-Government and Imperial Culture | Finalist | |
| Christine Kenneally | The Invisible History of the Human Race | ||
| Agnieszka Sobocinska | Visiting the Neighbours: Australians in Asia | ||
| Sophie Cunningham | Warning: The Story of Cyclone Tracy | ||
| State Library of Queensland Poetry Collection – Judith Wright Calanthe Award | Les Murray | Waiting for the Past | Winner |
| Susan Bradley Smith | Beds For All Who Come | Finalist | |
| Robert Adamson | Net Needle | ||
| David Brooks | Open House | ||
| Lucy Dougan | The Guardians | ||
| Australian Short Story Collection – Steele Rudd Award | Christos Tsiolkas | Merciless Gods | Winner |
| Nic Low | Arms Race and Other Stories | Finalist | |
| Nick Jose | Bapo | ||
| Ellen van Neerven | Heat and Light | ||
| J.M. Coetzee | Three Stories | ||
| Griffith University Young Adult Book Award | John Larkin | The Pause | Winner |
| Darren Groth | Are you Seeing Me? | Finalist | |
| Justine Larbalestier | Razorhurst | ||
| Diana Sweeney | The Minnow | ||
| Jeri Kroll | Vanishing Point | ||
| Children's Book Award | Meg McKinlay | A Single Stone | Winner |
| Tasmin Janu | Figgy in the World | Finalist | |
| David Mackintosh | Lucky | ||
| Nick Earls | New Boy | ||
| Rebecca Young & Matt Ottley | Teacup | ||
| Queensland Premier's Young Publishers and Writers Awards | Megan McGrath and Rebecca Jessen | Winner | |
| Emerging Queensland Author – Manuscript Award | Elizabeth Kasmer | Aurora | Winner |
| Imogen Smith | Araluen | Finalist | |
| K W George | Sargasso | ||
| Kate Elkington | Wool Spin Burn | ||
| Unpublished Indigenous Writer – David Unaipon Award | Andrew Booth | The First Octoroon or Report of an Experimental Child | Winner |
| Mayrah Yarraga Dreise | Social Consciousness Series | Finalist | |
| Patricia Lees with Adam C. Lees | A Question of Colour | ||
2014
| Category | Author | Title | Result |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Courier Mail People's Choice Queensland Book of the Year Award | Kellee Slater | How to do a Liver Transplant: Stories from my Surgical Life | Winner |
| T. M. Clark | My Brother, But One | Finalist | |
| Frances Whiting | Walking on Trampolines | ||
| Catherine Titasey | My Island Homicide | ||
| Sally Breen | Atomic City | ||
| Matthew Condon | Jacks and Jokers | ||
| Deb Drummond and Janis Teunis | Lingering Doubts: Going Inside Brisbane's Arcade Murder | ||
| Keelen Mailman | The Power of Bones | ||
| University of Queensland Fiction Book Award | Richard Flanagan | The Narrow Road to the Deep North | Winner |
| Fiona Capp | Gotland | Finalist | |
| Alex Miller | Coal Creek | ||
| Tim Winton | Eyrie | ||
| Evie Wyld | All the Birds, Singing | ||
| University of Queensland Non-Fiction Book Award | Paul Ham | 1914: The Year the World Ended | Winner |
| Steve Bisley | Stillways | Finalist | |
| Iain McCalman | The Reef | ||
| Penny Olsen | An Eye for Nature: The Life and Art of William T. Cooper | ||
| Janis Sheldrick | Nature's Line: George Goyder, surveyor, environmentalist, visionary | ||
| University of Southern Queensland History Book Award | Joan Beaumont | Broken Nation | Winner |
| Nicholas Clements | The Black War: Fear, Sex and Resistance in Tasmania | Finalist | |
| Iain McCalman | The Reef | ||
| Bruce Pascoe | Black Emu | ||
| Henry Reynolds | The Forgotten War | ||
| Clare Wright | The Forgotten Rebels of Eureka | ||
| State Library of Queensland Poetry Collection – Judith Wright Calanthe Award | David Malouf | Earth Hour | Winner |
| Judith Beveridge | Devadatta’s Poems | Finalist | |
| Rachael Briggs | Free Logic | ||
| Liam Ferney | Boom | ||
| Anthony Lawrence | Signal Flare | ||
| Australian Short Story Collection – Steele Rudd Award | Ceridwen Dovey | Only the Animals | Winner |
| Debra Adelaide | Letter to George Clooney | Finalist | |
| Tony Birch | The Promise | ||
| Luke Carman | An Elegant Young Man | ||
| Laura Jean McKay | Holiday in Cambodia | ||
| Griffith University Young Adult Book Award | Jaclyn Moriarty | The Cracks in the Kingdom | Winner |
| A.J. Betts | Zac and Mia | Finalist | |
| Felicity Castagna | The Incredible Here and Now | ||
| Kate Hendrick | The Accident | ||
| David Metzenthen | Tigerfish | ||
| Children's Book Award | Jackie French | Refuge | Winner |
| Shaun Tan | Rules of Summer | ||
| Pamela Rushby | The Ratcatcher's Daughter | Finalist | |
| Claire Saxby and Graham Byrne | Nature Storybooks: Big Red Kangaroo | ||
| Samantha Wheeler | Smooch and Rose | ||
| Emerging Queensland Author – Manuscript Award | Cathy McLennan | We Come From Saltwater People | Winner |
| Leanne Nolan | Open Cut | Finalist | |
| Julie Kearney | 3 for a Wedding, 4 for Death | ||
| Unpublished Indigenous Writer – David Unaipon Award | Lesley & Tammy Williams | It’s Not Just Black and White | Winner |
2013
| Category | Author | Title | Result |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Courier Mail People's Choice Queensland Book of the Year Award | Kate Morton | The Secret Keeper | Winner |
| Susan Johnson | My Hundred Lovers | Finalist | |
| Melissa Lucashenko | Mullumbimby | ||
| Jamie Callister | The Man Who Invented Vegemite | ||
| Matthew Condon | Three Crooked Kings | ||
| Kristina Olsson | Boy, Lost | ||
| Deloitte Fiction Book Award | Melissa Lucashenko | Mullumbimby | Winner |
| Murray Bail | The Voyage | Finalist | |
| Susan Johnson | My Hundred Lovers | ||
| Christopher Koch | Lost Voices | ||
| University of Queensland Non-Fiction Book Award | Kristina Olsson | Boy, Lost | Winner |
| Richard Gill | Give Me Excess of It | Finalist | |
| Paul Ham | Sandakan | ||
| Jenny Hocking | Gough Whitlam: His Time | ||
| Kate Richard | Madness: A Memoir | ||
| University of Southern Queensland History Book Award | Jane Lydon | The Flash of Recognition | Winner |
| Alison Alexander | The Ambitions of Jane Franklin | Finalist | |
| David Day | Antarctica: A Biography | ||
| Walter Hamilton | Children of the Occupation | ||
| Lawrence Bamblett | Our Stories are Our Survival | ||
| State Library of Queensland Poetry Collection – Judith Wright Calanthe Award | John Kinsella | Jam Tree Gully | Winner |
| Stephen Edgar | Eldershaw | Finalist | |
| Paul Hetherington | Haunted Rooms | ||
| Jennifer Maiden | Liquid Nitrogen | ||
| Alan Wearne | Prepare the Cabin for Landing | ||
| Australian Short Story Collection – Steele Rudd Award | Cate Kennedy | Like a House on Fire | Winner |
| Susan Midalia | An Unknown Sky | Finalist | |
| Jennifer Mills | The Rest is Weight | ||
| A S Patric | Las Vegas for Vegans | ||
| Chris Somerville | We Are Not the Same Anymore | ||
| Griffith University Young Adult Book Award | Jaclyn Moriarty | A Corner of White | Winner |
| Andrew McGahan | Ship Kings: The Voyage of the Unquiet Ice | Finalist | |
| Maureen McCarthy | The Convent | ||
| Vikki Wakefield | Friday Brown | ||
| Fiona Wood | Wildlife | ||
| Children's Book Award | Narelle Oliver | Don't Let a Spoonbill in the Kitchen! | Winner |
| Jackie French | Pennies for Hitler | Finalist | |
| Jane Godwin | Today We Have No Plans | ||
| Steven Herrick | Pookie Aleera is Not My Boyfriend | ||
| Margaret Wild | The Treasure Box | ||
| Gadens Feature Film Script Award | Craig Monahan and Alison Nisselle | Healing | Winner |
| Emerging Queensland Author – Manuscript Award | Rebecca Jessen | Gap | Winner |
| Jarryd Luke | Cockscrew Section | Finalist | |
| Cass Moriarty | The Promise Seed | ||
| Unpublished Indigenous Writer – David Unaipon Award | Ellen van Neerven | Heat and Light | Winner |
| Martin Doyle | Sugar Shed Road | Finalist | |
| Adrian Stanley | Could Be Worse | ||
| Ellen van Neerven | Hard | ||
| Dorothy Williams-Kemp | My Journey that May Never End |
2012
| Category | Author | Title | Result |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fiction Book Award | Frank Moorhouse | Cold Light | Winner |
| Peter Carey | The Chemistry of Tears | Finalist | |
| Anna Funder | All That I am | ||
| Kate Grenville | Sarah Thornhill | ||
| Alex Miller | Autumn Laing | ||
| Non-Fiction Book Award | Robin De Crespigny | The People Smuggler | Winner |
| Jane Gleeson-White | Double Entry | Finalist | |
| Patrick Holland | Riding the Trains in Japan | ||
| William McInnes & Sarah Watt | Worse Things Happen at Sea | ||
| Alice Pung | Her Father's Daughter | ||
| History Book Award | Bill Gammage | The Biggest Estate on Earth: How Aborigines Made Australia | Winner |
| Robyn Arianrhod | Seduced by Logic | Finalist | |
| James Boyce | 1835: The Founding of Melbourne and the Conquest of Australia | ||
| Nicole Moore | The Censor's Library | ||
| Literary or Media Work Advancing Public Debate – Harry Williams Award | George Megalogenis | The Australian Moment: How We Were Made For These Times | Winner |
| Paul Cleary | Too Much Luck: The Mining Boom and Australia's Future | Finalist | |
| Michael Weley | There Goes the Neighbourhood | ||
| Science Writers Award | Rob Brooks | Sex, Genes & Rock 'n' Roll | Winner |
| Robyn Arianrhod | Seduced by Logic | Finalist | |
| Frank Bowden | Gone Viral | ||
| Richard Smith | Australia: The Time Traveller’s Guide | ||
| Poetry Collection – Judith Wright Calanthe Award | Peter Rose | Crimson Crop | Winner |
| Anthony Lawrence | The Welfare of My Enemy | Finalist | |
| David McCooey | Outside | ||
| Rhyll McMaster | Late Night Shopping | ||
| Simon West | The Yellow Gum’s Conversion | ||
| Australian Short Story Collection – Steele Rudd Award | Janette Turner Hospital | Turbulence | Winner |
| Rodney Hall | Silence | Finalist | |
| Marion Halligan | Shooting the Fox | ||
| John Kinsella | In the Shade of the Shady Tree | ||
| Ryan O’Neill | The Weight of a Human Heart | ||
| Young Adult Book Award | Neil Grant | The Ink Bridge | Winner |
| Kirsty Eagar | Night Beach | Finalist | |
| Judith Clarke | Three Summers | ||
| Margo Lanagan | Sea Hearts | ||
| Vikki Wakefield | All I Ever Wanted | ||
| Children's Book Award | Briony Stewart | Kumiko and the Shadow Catchers | Winner |
| Pamela Rushby | The Horses Didn’t Come Home | Finalist | |
| John Flanagan | Brotherband 1: The Outcasts | ||
| Libby Gleeson & Freya Blackwood | Look a Book! | ||
| Elizabeth Honey | Ten Blue Wrens | ||
| Film Script Award | Louise Fox | Dead Europe | Winner |
| Miro Bilbra | Being Venice | Finalist | |
| Shane Armstrong & S P Krauss | Rarer Monsters | ||
| Brendan Cowell | Save Your Legs | ||
| Emerging Queensland Author – Manuscript Award | Catherine Titasey | Island of the Unexpected | Winner |
| Aaron Smibert | Scratches on the Surface | Finalist | |
| Luke Thomas | Home Mechanics | ||
| Ariella Van Luyn | Hidden Objects | ||
| Unpublished Indigenous Writer – David Unaipon Award | Siv Parker | Story | Winner |
| Ellen van Neerven-Currie | Hard | Finalist | |
| Dorothy Williams-Kemp | My Journey that May Never End | ||
| Drama Script (Stage) Award | Angela Betzien | War Crimes | Winner |
| Wayne Blair | Bloodland | Finalist | |
| Patricia Cornelius | Taxi | ||
| Rita Kalnejais | Baby Teeth | ||
| Lally Katz | A Golem Story | ||
| Television Script Award | Sue Smith | Mabo | Winner |
| Blake Ayshford | The Straits: ‘Yawor – My Lovely’, episode 3 | Finalist | |
| Brendan Cowell | The Slap: ‘Harry’, episode 3 | ||
| Anthony Mullins | Strange Calls: ‘Phantom’, episode 3 | ||
| Liz Doran | Dance Academy: ‘The Prix de Fonteyn’, episode 24 |
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