Queensland Literary Awards

Queensland Literary Awards – entries are closed

Judging in this year's Queensland Literary Awards is now underway. We will announce shortlists in August, and winners in September. Please follow us on Twitter and Facebook for updates, or contact us via email at qla@slq.qld.gov.au.

Published book awards and prizes:

Queensland Premier's Award for a work of State Significance – $25,000
The University of Queensland Fiction Book Award – $15,000
The University of Queensland Non-Fiction Book Award – $15,000
Griffith University Young Adult Book Award – $15,000
Griffith University Children’s Book Award – $15,000
University of Southern Queensland Steele Rudd Award for a Short Story Collection – $15,000
Judith Wright Calanthe Award for a Poetry Collection – $15,000
The Courier-Mail People’s Choice Queensland Book of the Year Award – $10,000

About the Queensland Literary Awards

The Queensland Literary Awards celebrate and promote outstanding Australian writers. State Library of Queensland proudly manages the awards in collaboration with sponsors, industry partners and the writing community.

The awards include national prizes for outstanding books by Australian writers, illustrators and creators, two unpublished manuscripts awards – the Glendower Award for an Emerging Queensland Writer and the David Unaipon Award for an Emerging Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander Writer, and development awards for Queensland writers – two Queensland Premier's Young Publishers and Writers Awards and three Queensland Writers Fellowships. Nominations close 30 April 2020 and there is no fee to apply.

Development awards and prizes:

Queensland Writers Fellowships – $19,500
David Unaipon Award for an Emerging Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander Writer – $15,000
Glendower Award for an Emerging Queensland Writer – $15,000
Queensland Premier’s Young Publishers and Writers Awards – $12,500