Western Australian Premier's Book Awards

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The Western Australian Premier's Book Awards is an annual book award provided by the Government of Western Australia, and managed by the State Library of Western Australia.

History and format

Annual literary awards were inaugurated by the Western Australian Government in 1982 to honour and celebrate the literary achievements of Western Australian writers. Until 1990 the Western Australian Premier's Book Awards were called the WA Week Literary Awards.[1] The title of the award refers to the year of publication, rather than the year in which the awards were announced e.g.the 2011 awards for works published that year were announced in 2012. This changed to the award year in 2023.

The categories included poetry, non-fiction, fiction, Western Australian history, children's book, YA fiction, scripts and digital narrative. There was also a Premier's Prize, which was awarded to an overall winner.

The Barnett government downgraded the awards from an annual event to a biennial one much to the disappointment of the WA arts sector.[2][3]

The McGowan government reinstated the annual award format in 2018. There were four categories – the Western Australian Writer's Fellowship (valued at $60,000), the Premier's Prize for Writing for Children ($15,000), the Premier's Prize for an Emerging Writer ($15,000) and the Daisy Utemorrah Award for Indigenous Authors ($15,000 and publishing contract with Magabala Books).[4][5] A fifth award was added in 2023, the Premier's Prize for Book of the Year ($15,000).[6]

There have been calls for the awards to be restored to their previous levels as there are currently no categories for established poets and non-fiction writers.[7]

In 2025 four new categories were introduced for fiction, nonfiction, poetry and young adult. Also new is the Book of the Year to be chosen from the category winners.[8]

Honorees

1990s

Year Category Author Title Publisher
1994[9] Children's Books Script error: No such module "Sort". and Peter Kendall Rosa's Famous Elbow Fremantle Arts Centre Press
Fiction Script error: No such module "Sort". Letter to Constantine Fremantle Arts Centre Press
Historical & Critical Studies Script error: No such module "Sort". The Encyclopaedia of Aboriginal Australia Aboriginal Studies Press
Poetry Script error: No such module "Sort". Peninsula Fremantle Arts Centre Press
Premier's Prize Script error: No such module "Sort". Peninsula Fremantle Arts Centre Press
Script Script error: No such module "Sort". Meekatharra Black Swan Theatre Company
Special Award Script error: No such module "Sort". Summer Shorts Fremantle Arts Centre Press
1995 Children's & Young Adult's Books Script error: No such module "Sort". Radical Take-offs Allen & Unwin
Fiction Script error: No such module "Sort". Script error: No such module "Sort". Fremantle Arts Centre Press
Historical & Critical Studies Script error: No such module "Sort". Searching for the Snowy Allen & Unwin
Poetry Script error: No such module "Sort". Sandstone University of Queensland Press
Premier's Prize Script error: No such module "Sort". Radical Take-offs Allen & Unwin
Script Script error: No such module "Sort". Whispering Demons Perth Theatre Company
Special Award Script error: No such module "Sort". and Barbara Rowland Plants of the Perth Coast and Islands University of Western Australia Press
1996 Overall Script error: No such module "Sort". and Howard Pedersen Resistance: Jandamarra and the Bunuba Magabala Books
Children & Young Adult's Books Script error: No such module "Sort". Idjhil University of Western Australia Press
Fiction Script error: No such module "Sort". Script error: No such module "Sort". Fremantle Arts Centre Press
Script error: No such module "Sort". City of Light Fremantle Arts Centre Press
Historical & Critical Studies Script error: No such module "Sort". and Howard Pedersen Resistance: Jandamarra and the Bunuba Magabala Books
Poetry Script error: No such module "Sort". Collected Poems Fremantle Arts Centre Press
Script Award Script error: No such module "Sort". Culture Clash Rosenbaum Whitbread
Special Award Script error: No such module "Sort". Script error: No such module "Sort". CIS Cardigan Street Publishers
1997 Overall Script error: No such module "Sort". Fetish Lives Fremantle Arts Centre Press
Script error: No such module "Sort". Script error: No such module "Sort". Pan Macmillan Australia
Children & Young Adult's Books Script error: No such module "Sort". Script error: No such module "Sort". Mammoth (Reed Books)
Fiction Script error: No such module "Sort". Fetish Lives Fremantle Arts Centre Press
Script error: No such module "Sort". Script error: No such module "Sort". Pan Macmillan Australia
Historical & Critical Studies Script error: No such module "Sort". Carpet of Silver: The Wreck of the Zuytdorp University of Western Australia Press
Poetry Script error: No such module "Sort". Script error: No such module "Sort". Victor Publishing
Script Award Script error: No such module "Sort". and Andrew Ross Merry-Go-Round-In -the Sea Black Swan Theatre
Special Award Songs of Strength: Sixteen Women Talk About Cancer Women's Cancer Group (Macmillan)
1998 Overall Script error: No such module "Sort". Pomegranate Season Fremantle Arts Centre Press
Children's book Script error: No such module "Sort". and Jimmy Pike Desert Dog Magabala Books
Fiction Script error: No such module "Sort". Going Inland Fremantle Arts Centre
Historical & Critical Studies Script error: No such module "Sort". and Paul Omaji Our State of Mind: Racial Planning and the Stolen Generations Fremantle Arts Centre Press
Poetry Script error: No such module "Sort". Script error: No such module "Sort". Brandl & Schlesinger
Script error: No such module "Sort". Script error: No such module "Sort". Fremantle Arts Centre Press
Script Award Script error: No such module "Sort". Milk and Honey Perth Theatre Company
Writing for Young Adults Script error: No such module "Sort". Red Hugh Lothian
1999 Children's book Script error: No such module "Sort". Showtime: Over 75 Ways to Put on a Show Dorling Kindersley
Fiction Script error: No such module "Sort". Benang: From the Heart Fremantle Arts Centre Press
Script error: No such module "Sort". Benang: From the Heart Fremantle Arts Centre Press
Historical & Critical Studies Script error: No such module "Sort". Broken Lives Stellar Publishing
Poetry Script error: No such module "Sort". Script error: No such module "Sort". Fremantle Arts Centre Press
Special Award Script error: No such module "Sort"., Larry Mitchell, and Alison Wright Abrolhos Islands Conversations Fremantle Arts Centre Press
Writing for Young Adults Script error: No such module "Sort". Scooterboy Hodder Headline

2000s

Year Category Author Title Publisher
2000 Overall Script error: No such module "Sort". Into the Wadi Fremantle Arts Centre
Children's book Script error: No such module "Sort". Zarconi's Magic Flying Fish Allen & Unwin
Fiction Script error: No such module "Sort". Script error: No such module "Sort". Pan Macmillan
Non-fiction Script error: No such module "Sort". Script error: No such module "Sort". Viking
Non-fiction Script error: No such module "Sort". Into the Wadi Fremantle Arts Centre
Poetry Script error: No such module "Sort". Parochial Fremantle Arts Centre
Writing for Young Adults Script error: No such module "Sort". Script error: No such module "Sort". University of Queensland Press
2001 Overall Script error: No such module "Sort". Dirt Music Picador
Children's book Script error: No such module "Sort". Script error: No such module "Sort". Scholastic
Fiction Script error: No such module "Sort". Dirt Music Picador
Non-fiction Script error: No such module "Sort". Blue China: Single Female Migration to Colonial Australia Melbourne University Publishing
Non-fiction Script error: No such module "Sort". Script error: No such module "Sort". Macmillan
Poetry Script error: No such module "Sort". Halfway up the Mountain Fremantle Arts Centre
Script Script error: No such module "Sort". and Archie Weller Confessions of a Headhunter
Writing for Young Adults Script error: No such module "Sort". Obsession Fremantle Arts Centre
2002 Overall Script error: No such module "Sort". Mussolini Edward Arnold
Children's book Script error: No such module "Sort". and Frané Lessac Script error: No such module "Sort". Cygnet/University of Western Australia
Fiction Script error: No such module "Sort". Black Mirror Picador
Non-fiction Script error: No such module "Sort". Mussolini Edward Arnold
Non-fiction Walmajarri storytellers, ed. Joyce Hudson, Pat Lowe, and Eirlys Richards Out of the Desert: Stories from the Walmajarri Exodus Magabala Books
Poetry Script error: No such module "Sort". Going Feral Fremantle Arts Centre
Script Script error: No such module "Sort". Bench
Writing for Young Adults Script error: No such module "Sort". Feeling the Heat Penguin
2003 Overall Script error: No such module "Sort". Last Cab to Darwin Pork Chop Productions/Black Swan Theatre Company
Children's book Script error: No such module "Sort". Script error: No such module "Sort". Cygnet/University of Western Australia
Fiction Script error: No such module "Sort". Script error: No such module "Sort". Vintage
Non-fiction Script error: No such module "Sort". Old Fremantle University of Western Australia Press
Non-fiction Script error: No such module "Sort". Shadow Lines Fremantle Arts Centre
Poetry Script error: No such module "Sort". Peripheral Light Fremantle Arts Centre
Script Script error: No such module "Sort". Last Cab to Darwin Pork Chop Productions/Black Swan Theatre Company
Writing for Young Adults Script error: No such module "Sort". Nights in the Sun Penguin
2004 Overall Script error: No such module "Sort". Sixty Lights
Children's book Script error: No such module "Sort". and Grace Fielding Script error: No such module "Sort". Magabala Books
Fiction Script error: No such module "Sort". Sixty Lights Random House Australia
Non-fiction Script error: No such module "Sort". Conversations with the Constitution University of New South Wales
Non-fiction Script error: No such module "Sort". Redbill: From Pearls to Peace: The Life and Times of a Remarkable Lugger Fremantle Arts Centre
Poetry Script error: No such module "Sort". Against Certain Capture Five Islands Press
Script Script error: No such module "Sort". Yandy Black Swan Theatre Company
Western Australian History Script error: No such module "Sort". Behind the Play West Australian Football Commission
Writing for Young Adults Script error: No such module "Sort". Fireshadow University of Queensland
2005 Overall Script error: No such module "Sort"., Peter Johnson, and Yuwali Cleared Out: First Contact in the Western Desert
Children's book Script error: No such module "Sort". Where's Stripey? Stunned Emu Press
Fiction Script error: No such module "Sort". Everyman's Rules for Scientific Living Picador
Non-fiction Script error: No such module "Sort". and Stephen D Hopper Soul of the Desert Fremantle Arts Centre
Non-fiction Script error: No such module "Sort". Mussolini's Italy: Life Under the Dictatorship 1915-1945 Allen Lane/Penguin
Poetry Script error: No such module "Sort". Script error: No such module "Sort". Salt Publishing
Script Script error: No such module "Sort". Last Train to Freo Sue Taylor Media
Western Australian History Script error: No such module "Sort"., Peter Johnson, and Yuwali Cleared Out: First Contact in the Western Desert Aboriginal Studies Press
Writing for Young Adults Script error: No such module "Sort". Script error: No such module "Sort". Allen & Unwin
2006 Overall Script error: No such module "Sort". Script error: No such module "Sort".
Children's book Script error: No such module "Sort". Script error: No such module "Sort". Hachette Livre Australia
Fiction Script error: No such module "Sort". Script error: No such module "Sort". Pan Macmillan Australia
Non-fiction Script error: No such module "Sort". Rob Riley: An Aboriginal Leader's Quest for Justice Aboriginal Studies Press
Nonfiction Script error: No such module "Sort". Arthur Tange: Last of the Mandarins Allen & Unwin
Poetry Script error: No such module "Sort". All the Time in the World Salt Publishing
Script Script error: No such module "Sort". Sardines Tropic Sun Theatre Queensland
Western Australian History Script error: No such module "Sort". Script error: No such module "Sort". University of Western Australia Press
Writing for Young Adults Script error: No such module "Sort". Destroying Avalon Fremantle Arts Centre Press
2007[10] Overall Script error: No such module "Sort". and Robert Ingpen Ziba Came on a Boat
Children's book Script error: No such module "Sort". and Robert Ingpen Ziba Came on a Boat Viking Press
Fiction Script error: No such module "Sort". Other Country Allen & Unwin
History Section Script error: No such module "Sort". Bobbie Oliver and Patrick Bertola: The History of the Westrail Midland Railway Workshops University of Western Australia Press
Non-fiction Script error: No such module "Sort". Sir Ronald Wilson: A Matter of Conscience University of Western Australia Press
Poetry Script error: No such module "Sort". Script error: No such module "Sort". Connor Court Publishing
Script Script error: No such module "Sort". and Jimmy the Exploder Script error: No such module "Sort". Black Balloon Film Productions
Western Australian History Script error: No such module "Sort". Cottesloe: A Town of Distinction Town of Cottesloe
Writing for Young Adults Script error: No such module "Sort". Love Is a UFO Pan Macmillan Australia
2008[11] Overall Script error: No such module "Sort". Script error: No such module "Sort".
Children's book Script error: No such module "Sort". How to Heal a Broken Wing
Fiction Script error: No such module "Sort". Wanting
Non-fiction Script error: No such module "Sort". Script error: No such module "Sort".
Poetry Script error: No such module "Sort". Script error: No such module "Sort".
Script Script error: No such module "Sort". Script error: No such module "Sort".
Western Australian History Script error: No such module "Sort". Doing Life: A biography of Elizabeth Jolley
Writing for Young Adults Script error: No such module "Sort". Tales from Outer Suburbia
2009[11] Overall Script error: No such module "Sort". South Solitary
Children's book Script error: No such module "Sort". and Freya Blackwood Harry & Hopper
Fiction Script error: No such module "Sort". Jasper Jones
Fiction Script error: No such module "Sort". Summertime
Non-fiction Script error: No such module "Sort". Darwin's Armada
Poetry Script error: No such module "Sort". Fire Season
Script Script error: No such module "Sort". South Solitary
Western Australian History Script error: No such module "Sort". Paupers: Poor Relief & Poor Houses
Writing for Young Adults Script error: No such module "Sort". Liar

2010s

Year Category Author Title Result
2010[12] Overall Script error: No such module "Sort". That Deadman Dance Winner
Children's book Script error: No such module "Sort". and Rhian Nest James Toppling Winner
Digital Narrative Script error: No such module "Sort". Script error: No such module "Sort". Winner
Fiction Script error: No such module "Sort". That Deadman Dance Winner
Non-fiction Script error: No such module "Sort". Script error: No such module "Sort". Winner
People's Choice Script error: No such module "Sort". Utopian Man Winner
Poetry Script error: No such module "Sort". Fire Diary Winner
Script Script error: No such module "Sort". Gwen in Purgatory Winner
Western Australian History Script error: No such module "Sort". Vite Italiane, Italian Lives in Western Australia Winner
Writing for Young Adults Script error: No such module "Sort". Happy as Larry Winner
Script error: No such module "Sort". Anonymity Jones Winner
2011[13] Overall Script error: No such module "Sort". Justice: A History of the Aboriginal Legal Service of Western Australia Winner
Children's book Script error: No such module "Sort". and Sonia Martinez Sam, Grace and the Shipwreck Winner
Digital Narrative Script error: No such module "Sort". Machine Man Winner
Fiction Script error: No such module "Sort". All That I Am Winner
Non-fiction Script error: No such module "Sort". Her Father's Daughter Winner
People's Choice Script error: No such module "Sort". All That I Am Winner
Poetry Script error: No such module "Sort". Script error: No such module "Sort". Winner
Script Script error: No such module "Sort". and Ellen Fontana Cloudstreet: The Screenplay Winner
Western Australian History Script error: No such module "Sort". Justice: A History of the Aboriginal Legal Service of Western Australia Winner
Writing for Young Adults Script error: No such module "Sort". Only Ever Always Winner
2012 Overall Script error: No such module "Sort". Questions of Travel Winner
Children's book Script error: No such module "Sort". Australian Backyard Naturalist Winner
Script error: No such module "Sort". Pookie Aleera Is Not My Boyfriend Winner
Digital Narrative Script error: No such module "Sort". My Planets Reunion Memoir Winner
Fiction Script error: No such module "Sort". Questions of Travel Winner
Non-fiction Script error: No such module "Sort". Exile: The Lives and Hopes of Werner Pelz Winner
People's Choice Script error: No such module "Sort". Script error: No such module "Sort". Winner
Poetry Script error: No such module "Sort". Cumulus Winner
Script Script error: No such module "Sort". Script error: No such module "Sort". Winner
Western Australian History Aboriginal Studies Press Kurlumarniny: We come from the Desert Winner
Writing for Young Adults Script error: No such module "Sort". Sea Hearts Winner
2014[14] Overall Script error: No such module "Sort". Script error: No such module "Sort". Winner
Children's book Script error: No such module "Sort". and Andrew Joyner Script error: No such module "Sort". Winner
Script error: No such module "Sort". and Brian Simmonds Light Horse Boy Winner
Digital Narrative Script error: No such module "Sort". AUTHENTIC IN ALL CAPS Winner
Emerging Writer's Award Script error: No such module "Sort". Letters to the End of Love Winner
Fiction Script error: No such module "Sort". Script error: No such module "Sort". Winner
Non-fiction Script error: No such module "Sort". Boy, Lost: A Family Memoir Winner
People's Choice Script error: No such module "Sort". Eyrie Winner
Poetry Script error: No such module "Sort". Six Different Windows Winner
Script Script error: No such module "Sort". Script error: No such module "Sort". Winner
Western Australian History Script error: No such module "Sort". Kerry Stokes: Self-Made Man Winner
Writing for Young Adults Script error: No such module "Sort". Alex as Well Winner
2016[15] Overall Script error: No such module "Sort". This House of Grief Winner
Children's Books Script error: No such module "Sort"., illustrated by Stephen Michael King Script error: No such module "Sort". Winner
Digital Narrative Script error: No such module "Sort". Timelord Dreaming Winner
Fiction Script error: No such module "Sort". Script error: No such module "Sort". Winner
Non-fiction Script error: No such module "Sort". This House of Grief Winner
People's Choice Award Script error: No such module "Sort". Fever of Animals Winner
Poetry Script error: No such module "Sort". Script error: No such module "Sort". Winner
Script Script error: No such module "Sort". Dust Winner
Western Australian Emerging Writers Award Script error: No such module "Sort". Lost and Found Winner
Western Australian History Script error: No such module "Sort". Running Out? Water in WA Winner
Young Adult Script error: No such module "Sort". Script error: No such module "Sort". Winner
2018[16] Daisy Utemorrah Award for Indigenous Authors Script error: No such module "Sort". Mother Speaks Winner
Premier's Prize for an Emerging Writer Script error: No such module "Sort". Script error: No such module "Sort". Winner
Premier's Prize for Writing for Children Script error: No such module "Sort". Script error: No such module "Sort". Winner
Western Australian Writer's Fellowship Script error: No such module "Sort". Winner
2019[17][5] Western Australian Writers Hall of Fame Script error: No such module "Sort". Winner
Western Australian Writer's Fellowship Script error: No such module "Sort". Winner
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Premier's Prize for an Emerging Writer Script error: No such module "Sort". Invisible Boys Winner
Script error: No such module "Sort". Fabulous Lives Shortlist
Script error: No such module "Sort". Rapture's Roadway
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Script error: No such module "Sort". Wombat, Mudlark and Other Stories
Daisy Utemorrah Award for Indigenous Authors Script error: No such module "Sort". Our Matriarchs Matter Winner
Script error: No such module "Sort". 18 Comments Shortlist
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Premier's Prize for Writing for Children Script error: No such module "Sort". Catch a Falling Star Winner
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Script error: No such module "Sort"., illustrated by Leila Rudge Let me Sleep, Sheep!
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2020s

Year Category Writer Title Publisher Result
2020[18][19] Western Australian Writer's Fellowship Script error: No such module "Sort". Winner
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Premier's Prize for an Emerging Writer Script error: No such module "Sort". Fathoms: The World in the Whale Scribe Winner
Script error: No such module "Sort". Father of the Lost Boys Fremantle Press Shortlist
Script error: No such module "Sort". and Adam C. Lees Script error: No such module "Sort". Magabala Books
Script error: No such module "Sort". We Can't Say We Didn't Know ABC Books
Script error: No such module "Sort". Script error: No such module "Sort". Pan Macmillan Australia
Daisy Utemorrah Award for Indigenous Authors Script error: No such module "Sort". and Hakea Hustler Dirran Winner
Script error: No such module "Sort". Home Is Calling Shortlist
Premier's Prize for Writing for Children Script error: No such module "Sort"., illustrated by Matt Ottley How to Make a Bird Winner
Script error: No such module "Sort". Littlelight Fremantle Press Shortlist
Script error: No such module "Sort". Shirley Purdie: My Story, Ngaginybe Jarragbe Magabala Books
Script error: No such module "Sort". Across The Risen Sea Allen & Unwin
Script error: No such module "Sort". Willy-willy Wagtail: Tales from the Bush Mob Magabala Books
2021[20][21] Western Australian Writers Hall of Fame Script error: No such module "Sort". Winner
Western Australian Writer's Fellowship Script error: No such module "Sort". Winner
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Premier's Prize for an Emerging Writer Script error: No such module "Sort". Homecoming Magabala Books Winner
Script error: No such module "Sort". Debesa Magabala Books Shortlist
Script error: No such module "Sort". Eye of a Rook Fremantle Press
Script error: No such module "Sort". Locust Summer Fremantle Press
Script error: No such module "Sort". Vociferate Fremantle Press
Daisy Utemorrah Award for Unpublished Indigenous Junior and YA Writing Script error: No such module "Sort". Robert Runs Winner
Script error: No such module "Sort". Jack Trials: Whistling Spider Shortlist
Script error: No such module "Sort". That One Summer
Premier's Prize for Writing for Children Script error: No such module "Sort". Script error: No such module "Sort". Puffin Winner
Script error: No such module "Sort". One Thousand Snapshots Shawline Shortlist
Script error: No such module "Sort". Stellarphant Fremantle Press
Script error: No such module "Sort". and Denis Knight Wednesday Weeks and the Tower of Shadows Lothian
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2023[22][23] Western Australian Writer's Fellowship Tracy Ryan Winner
Carolyn Wadley Dowley Shortlist
Madison Godfrey
Michael Trant
Norman Jorgensen
Premier's Prize for Book of the Year Nathan Hobby The Red Witch: A Biography of Katharine Susannah Prichard Melbourne University Publishing Winner
Robert Drewe Nimblefoot Penguin Random House
Joe Fox The Shield and the Spear: the Kimberley Land Council Magabala Books
Louise Helfgott Thistledown Seed: A Memoir Brandl & Schlesinger
Scott-Patrick Mitchell Clean Upswell Publishing
Premier's Prize for an Emerging Writer Josh Kemp Banjawarn UWA Publishing Winner
Alan Fyfe T Transit Lounge Shortlist
Thomas Simpson Bone Picker Ginninderra Press
Vivien Stuart Acacia House self-published
Madeline Te Whiu The Assassin Thief New Dawn Publishing
Daisy Utemorrah Award for Unpublished Indigenous Junior and YA Fiction Jared Thomas Uncle Xbox (Book 2) - Getting Dusty Winner
Kristie Harris A Queen's Glory Shortlist
Kim Morrison The Ultimate AGD
Premier's Prize for Children's Book of the Year Leonard Cronin (Chris Nixon, illustrator) Wild Australian Life Allen & Unwin Winner
Moira Court Lion Is That You Fremantle Press Shortlist
Zana Fraillon and Script error: No such module "Sort". The Raven's Song Allen & Unwin
Script error: No such module "Sort". Owl and Star Fremantle Press
Judith Vun Price and Jacqui Vun Nenek Tata and the Mangrove Menace Crotchet Quaver noteworthy publications
2024[24][25] Western Australian Writer's Fellowship Kylie Howarth Winner
Lucy Dougan Shortlist
Alan Fyfe
Laurie Steed
Emma Young
Premier's Prize for Book of the Year Stephen Daisley A Better Place Text Winner
John Kinsella Cellnight: A Verse Novel Transit Lounge Shortlist
Viki Cramer The Memory of Trees Thames & Hudson
Paul Grace Operation Hurricane Hachette
Jill Griffiths What's for Dinner? Thames & Hudson
Premier's Prize for an Emerging Writer Michael Thomas The Map of William Fremantle Press Winner
Chemutai Glasheen I Am the Mau and Other Stories Fremantle Press Shortlist
Georgia Tree Old Boy Fremantle Press
Molly Schmidt Salt River Road Fremantle Press
Gemma Nisbet The Things We Live With Upswell
Daisy Utemorrah Award for Unpublished Indigenous Junior and YA Fiction Marly and Linda Wells "Dusty Tracks" Winner
Stephen Hagan "Acacia: 6 Eyes on Yesterday" Shortlist
Maureen Glover "Brothers in Arms"
Elise Thornthwaite "Underneath the Surface"
Premier's Prize for Children's Book of the Year Dianne Wolfer Scout and the Rescue Dogs Walker Books Winner
Julia Lawrinson (Heather Potter & Mark Jackson, illustrators) City of Light Wild Dog Shortlist
Ash Harrier The Eerie Excavation: An Alice England mystery Pantera
Gabriel Evans A Friend for George Puffin
Mark Greenwood (Frané Lessac, illustrator) Our Country: Where History Happened Walker Books
2025[8] Book of the Year selected from the category winners
Fiction Book of the Year Annie Raser-Rowland Once Gratton Street Shortlist
Sarah Winifred Searle A Home in Her Gestault
Alexander Thorpe Death Holds the Key Fremantle
David Whish-Wilson Cutler Fremantle
Louise Wolhuter Shadows of Winter Robins Ultimo
Nonfiction Book of the Year Wayne Bergmann & Madelaine Dickie Some People Want to Shoot Me Fremantle Shortlist
Paul Hardisty In Hot Water: Inside the battle to save the Great Barrier Reef Affirm
Julia Lawrinson How to Avoid a Happy Life Fremantle
Gerard McCann Anatomy of a Secret Fremantle
Tracy Westerman Jilya UQP
Poetry Book of the Year Nandi Chinna and Anne Poelina Tossed Up by the Beak of a Cormorant Fremantle Shortlist
Alan Fyfe G-d, Sleep, and Chaos Gazebo
Chris Palazzolo Personal Logistics Fremantle
Emerging Writer Katherine Allum The Skeleton House Fremantle Press Shortlist
Shaeden Berry Down the Rabbit Hole Echo Books
Daniel Juckes The Moment of the Essay: Australian Letters and the Personal Essay University of Western Australia Press
Khin Myint Fragile Creatures: A Memoir Black Inc.
Emily Tsokos Purtill Matia University of Western Australia Press
Daisy Utemorrah Award for Unpublished Indigenous Junior and YA Fiction Krista Dunstan " Noble Intentions " Shortlist
Jannali Jones " The Takeback Heist "
Beau Windon " Jax Paperweight and the Neon Starway "
Children's Book of the Year Kelly Canby A Leaf Called Greaf Fremantle Shortlist
Jenny Davis Courage be my Friend Fremantle
Juluwarlu Group, illustrated by Juluwarlu Art Group & Alex Mankiewicz When the World Was Soft Allen & Unwin
Bren MacDibble The Apprentice Witnesser Allen & Unwin
Renée Treml Goodnight, Joeys Puffin
Young Adult Book of the Year Kate Emery My Family and Other Suspects Allen & Unwin Shortlist
Donna Hughes Trackers Currency
Ambelin Kwaymullina Liar’s Test Text
Karleah Olson A Wreck of Seabirds Fremantle
Scott Wilson & Molly Hunt, illustrated by Chris Wood Dreamwalker #1 Gestalt

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