Nominations for 2025 Awards open 3 March.&nbsp;Celebrating exceptional authors from across Australia.

The Queensland Literary Awards showcase outstanding authors from across Australia, celebrating emerging and established authors across a range of genres. State Library of Queensland is proud to manage the Awards in collaboration with sponsors, the literary community, and industry partners.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;

The Queensland Literary Awards are supported by the Queensland Government through Arts Queensland and State Library of Queensland, sponsors, grants, and philanthropic donations through the Queensland Library Foundation.&nbsp;

Queensland Literary Awards

Recognising the achievement of excellence in research and the contribution of new knowledge to Queensland’s history.

Queensland Memory Awards

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

Empowering First Nations writers and editors.

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 whose careers we've supported 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.

Indigenous writing fellowships and editing internships

2021 black&write! team | photography credit Joe Ruckli 

Annual short story competition open to Queenslanders aged 18 to 25.

Young Writers Award 

Celebrate, revitalise, and innovate First Nations languages.

<h3>Create. Connect. Revive Language.&nbsp;</h3>

Indigenous Languages Creative Arts Residency

After the Flood IIII (ongoing series), 2024, Megan Cope, Biennale of Sydney, UNSW Galleries, NSW. Acrylic and ink, military maps, cotton rag mounted on board. 3m x 2m (comprised of 8 x 750mm x 1000mm panels). Image courtesy of the artist and Milani Gallery, Brisbane.



Since 1987, the Queensland Library Foundation has supported State Library, raising funds to inspire through knowledge, stories, and creativity.

Awards and fellowships

Queensland Library Foundation