The Queensland Literary Awards celebrate and promote outstanding Australian writers.

Congratulations to the winners of the 2023 Queensland Literary Awards!&nbsp;

Thank you to this year's judges for their time and expertise.

Full shelf of shortlisted books, 2023 Queensland Literary Awards

Queensland Literary Awards

People at the Queensland Literary Awards after party.

The Queensland Memory Awards are given annually by the Library Board of Queensland to recognise the achievement of excellence in research and the contribution of new knowledge to Queensland’s history. Supported by the Queensland Library Foundation.

The Queensland Memory Awards aim to recognise outstanding contributions made to advance our understanding of Queensland's history and heritage.

A/Professor Anna Johnston accepting the 2022 John Oxley Library
Honorary Fellowship.

Queensland Memory Awards

The black&amp;write! Writing and Editing Project consists of an annual Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Writing Fellowship competition and Editing Internships.

black&amp;write! is a groundbreaking national project dedicated to nurturing and empowering First Nations writers and editors through our prestigious Indigenous writing fellowships and editing internships. As innovators in Australia, we have fostered meaningful collaborations with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander authors and editors since 2011.

Indigenous authors we have supported in their careers include Dakota Feirer, Jacob Gallagher, Susie Anderson, Tylissa Elisara, Carl Merrison,&nbsp;Lystra Rose,&nbsp;Nardi Simpson,&nbsp;Claire G. Coleman,&nbsp;Alison Whittaker,&nbsp;Jannali Jones,&nbsp;Jane Harrison,&nbsp;Jared Thomas,&nbsp;Tristan Savage,&nbsp;Teagan Chilcott,&nbsp;Sue McPherson,&nbsp;Ali Cobby Eckermann,&nbsp;Tori-Jay Mordey and Jillian Boyd.

2021 black&write! team | photography credit Joe Ruckli 

Indigenous writing fellowships and editing internships

The Young Writers Award or YWA is an annual $2,000 short story competition open to Queenslanders aged 18 to 25.

Awards and fellowships

Queensland Literary Awards

Queensland Memory Awards

Indigenous writing fellowships and editing internships

Young Writers Award