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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 | ||
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | Shortlist | |||
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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 | |||
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | |||
| 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 | ||
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | Swell | |||
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | Yenda | |||
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | Noble Intentions | |||
| Premier's Prize for Writing for Children | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Catch a Falling Star | Winner | |
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | Alex and the Alpacas Save the World | Shortlist | ||
| Script error: No such module "Sort"., illustrated by Leila Rudge | Let me Sleep, Sheep! | |||
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "Sort". | |||
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | Violet and Nothing |
2020s
| Year | Category | Writer | Title | Publisher | Result |
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| 2020[18][19] | Western Australian Writer's Fellowship | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Winner | ||
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | Shortlist | ||||
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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 | |||
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | Shortlist | ||||
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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 | |||
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | Where Do the Stars Go? | Fremantle Press | |||
| 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 |
References
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