Queensland Literary Awards

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Queensland Literary Awards
Location Brisbane
Country Australia
First awarded4 September 2012 (2012-09-04)
Website www.qldliteraryawards.org.au

The Queensland Literary Awards is an awards program established in 2012 by the Queensland literary community, funded by sponsors and administered by the State Library of Queensland. Like the former Queensland Premier's Literary Awards, the QLAs celebrate and promote outstanding Australian writing. The awards aim to seek out, recognize and nurture great talent in Australian writing. They draw national and international attention to some of our best writers and to Queensland's recognition of outstanding Australian literature and publishing.

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These awards have a focus on supporting new writing through the Emerging Queensland Writer – Manuscript Award and Unpublished Indigenous writer – David Unaipon Award. "They give local writers and new writers something to aspire to." [1]

History

The Queensland Literary Awards was established by a not-for-profit association of passionate Queensland volunteers and advocates for literature, in response to Queensland Premier Campbell Newman disestablishing the Queensland Premier's Literary Awards in 2012. [2]

In 2012 and 2013 the program was run by a volunteer workforce. Following consultation with the QLA Inc. governing committee, 2014 saw the management of the QLA transition to State Library of Queensland (SLQ). While SLQ took on a leadership role in delivering the program, the aim was to continue to build on the existing collaborative model where the community and writing sector partners are key stakeholders.

The original Premier's awards were established by Peter Beattie, the then Premier of Queensland in 1998 and first awarded in 1999. [3]

Award categories

There are currently twelve award categories including:

Judging

The awards are judged by independent panels of writers, critics, journalists, academics and booksellers. They are presented to works the judges determine possess the highest literary merit.

Winners

2024

The shortlist was announced on 1 August 2024. [4] Winners were announced on 5 September 2024. [5]

List of 2024 Queensland Literary Awards Recipients
CategoryAuthorTitleResult
Queensland Premier's Award for a Work of State Significance Melissa Lucashenko Edenglassie Winner
Graham AkhurstBorderland  Finalist
Kris KneenFat Girl Dancing
J. M. TolcherPoof
Ellen van Neerven Personal Score: Sport, Culture, Identity
The University of Queensland Non-Fiction Book Award Abbas El-Zein Bullet, Paper, Rock: A Memoir of Words and WarsWinner
James Bradley Deep Water: The World In the OceanFinalist
Bonny CassidyMonument
Antony Loewenstein The Palestine Laboratory: How Israel Exports the Technology of Occupation Around the World
Ellen van Neerven Personal Score: Sport, Culture, Identity
The University of Queensland Fiction Book AwardSharlene AllsoppThe Great UndoingWinner
Katherine BrabonBody FriendFinalist
Yumna Kassab Politica
Siang LuGhost Cities
Melissa Lucashenko Edenglassie
Young Adult Book Awardsydney khooThe Spider and Her DemonsWinner
Graham AkhurstBorderlandFinalist
Barry Jonsberg Smoke & Mirrors
Will Kostakis We Could Be Something
Ann Liang I Hope This Doesn't Find You
Children's Book AwardKaren ComerSunshine on Vinegar StreetWinner
Trace Balla Leaf-lightFinalist
Peter CarnavasLeo and Ralph
Jaclyn Moriarty, illustrated by Kelly CanbyThe Impossible Secret of Lillian Velvet
Blake NutoWhen You're a Boy
Steele Rudd Award for a Short Story CollectionJohn MorrisseyFirelightWinner
David CohenThe Terrible EventFinalist
Magdalena McGuireBorn For You
Laura Jean McKay Gunflower
John RichardsThe Gorgon Flower
Judith Wright Calanthe Award for a Poetry CollectionL. K. HoltThree BooksWinner
Manisha AnjaliNaag MountainFinalist
Jarad BruinstroopReliefs
Mitchell WelchVehicular Man
Petra White That Galloping Horse
The Courier-Mail People's Choice Queensland Book of the Year AwardCarly-Jay MetcalfeBreathWinner
Sharlene AllsoppThe Great UndoingFinalist
Melissa Ashley The Naturalist of Amsterdam
Wendy CooperThe Bird Art of William T. Cooper
Anna JacobsonHow to Knit a Human
Grantlee KiezaThe Remarkable Mrs Reibey
Siang LuGhost Cities
Anna McGahanImmaculate
David Unaipon Award for an Emerging Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander WriterDominic GuerreraNative RageWinner
Chella GoldwinPoliticsFinalist
Lulu HoudiniRiver Page
Queensland Writers FellowshipsJarad Bruinstroop"For the Duration"Winner
Sarah Kanake"Lazarus; or, The Whale"
Cheryl Leavy"Mudhunda—Song Country"
Glendower Award for Emerging Queensland AuthorEmily LighezzoloLife DrawingWinner
Myles McGuireTender AgeFinalist
Nicky PeelgraneEndGain
Lillian TelfordLovesick
Queensland Premier’s Young Publishers and Writers AwardGavin Yuan Gao  Winner
Myles McGuire  
Wallea EaglehawkFinalist

2023

The winners were announced on 6 September 2023. [6]

List of 2023 Queensland Literary Awards Recipients
CategoryAuthorTitleResult
Queensland Premier's Award for a Work of State Significance Sarah Holland-Batt The JaguarWinner
Debra Dank We Come with This PlaceFinalist
Kate FosterThe Bravest Word
Sally PiperBone Memories
Alexis Wright Praiseworthy
The Courier-Mail People's Choice Queensland Book of the Year AwardSita WalkerThe God of No GoodWinner
Debra Dank We Come with This PlaceFinalist
Veronica LandoThe Whispering
Kate Morton Homecoming
Sally PiperBone Memories
Holly Ringland The Seven Skins of Esther Wilding
Marion StellThe Bodyline Fix
Penny van OosterzeeCloud Land
The University of Queensland Fiction Book Award Alexis Wright Praiseworthy Winner
Geraldine Brooks HorseFinalist
Fiona McFarlane The Sun Walks Down
Michael MeehanAn Ungrateful Instrument
Shaun PrescottBon and Lesley
The University of Queensland Non-Fiction Book Award Debra Dank We Come With This PlaceWinner
Joëlle Gergis Humanity’s MomentFinalist
Louisa Lim Indelible City
Anna Spargo-Ryan A Kind of Magic
Sam Wallman Our Members Be Unlimited
Judith Wright Calanthe Award for a Poetry Collection Lionel Fogarty Harvest LingoWinner
Michael Farrell GooglecholiaFinalist
Autumn RoyalThe Drama Student
Simon Tedeschi Fugitive
Rae White Exactly As I Am
University of Southern Queensland Steele Rudd Award for a Short Story CollectionKaterina GibsonWomen I KnowWinner
Paul Dalla RosaAn Exciting and Vivid Inner LifeFinalist
Else FitzgeraldEverything Feels Like the End of the World
Chris Flynn Here Be Leviathans
Griffith University Young Adult Book AwardBiffy JamesCompletely Normal (and Other Lies)Winner
Helena FoxThe Quiet and the LoudFinalist
Nina KenwoodUnnecessary Drama
Ann LiangIf You Could See the Sun
Jared Thomas My Spare Heart
Children's Book Award Katrina Nannestad Waiting for the StorksWinner
Zana Fraillon The Way of DogFinalist
Bob Graham Jigsaw: A Puzzle in the Post
Hakea Hustler, Carl Merrison & Samantha CampbellMy Deadly Boots
Gabrielle Wang Zadie Ma and the Dog Who Chased the Moon
Queensland Premier's Young Publishers and Writers AwardJasmin McGaugheyWinner
Jonathan O'Brien
Myles McGuireFinalist
Alex Philp
Sean West
Queensland Writers FellowshipsAl CampbellDoor 64Winner
B. R. Dionysius The Eromanga Sea
Melanie SawardThe Next Chapter
Glendower Award for Emerging Queensland AuthorSteve MinOnFirst Name, Second NameWinner
Fernanda DahlstromThe See-SawFinalist
Sandra MinkeTreasure
Margot ShaveExchange Me
David Unaipon Award for an Emerging Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait WriterMaria van NeervenTo Give Them a VoiceWinner
Lulu HoudiniguniimaraFinalist
Brooke Scobie  Always and Again

2022

The winners were announced on 8 September 2022. [7] [8]

List of 2022 Queensland Literary Awards Recipients
CategoryAuthorTitleResult
Queensland Premier's Award for a Work of State SignificanceQuentin BeresfordWounded Country: The Murray-Darling Basin – a contested historyWinner
Sara El SayedMuddy PeopleFinalist
Mirandi Riwoe The Burnished Sun
John ShobbrookOperation Jungle
Chelsea Watego Another Day in the Colony
The Courier-Mail People's Choice Queensland Book of the Year Award Chelsea Watego Another Day in the ColonyWinner
Ed Ayres Whole NotesFinalist
Al CampbellThe Keepers
Sara El SayedMuddy People
Anita Heiss Bila Yarrudhanggalangdhuray
Krissy Kneen The Three Burials of Lotty Kneen
Nicolas Rothwell Red Heaven
Dime SheppardCrime Writer
The University of Queensland Fiction Book Award Michael Mohammed Ahmad The Other Half of YouWinner
Jessica Au Cold Enough for SnowFinalist
Mandy BeaumontThe Furies
Al CampbellThe Keepers
Yumna Kassab Australiana
The University of Queensland Non-Fiction Book Award Claire G. Coleman Lies, Damned LiesWinner
Sara El SayedMuddy PeopleFinalist
Amani HaydarThe Mother Wound
Krissy Kneen The Three Burials of Lotty Kneen
Chelsea Watego Another Day in the Colony
Judith Wright Calanthe Award for a Poetry Collection Pam Brown Stasis ShuffleWinner
Eunice AndradaTAKE CAREFinalist
Dan Disneyaccelerations & inertias
Gavin Yuan GaoAt the Altar of Touch
Ann VickeryBees Do Both: An antagonist’s carepack
University of Southern Queensland Steele Rudd Award for a Short Story Collection Tony Birch Dark as Last NightWinner
Merlinda Bobis The Kindness of BirdsFinalist
Mirandi Riwoe The Burnished Sun
Fiona RobertsonIf You’re Happy
Su-May TanLake Malibu and Other Stories
Griffith University Young Adult Book Award Felicity Castagna Girls in Boys’ CarsWinner
Brian Falkner Katipo Joe: Wolf’s lairFinalist
Michael HydeMorrison and Mr Moore
Kay KerrSocial Queue
Carly NugentSugar
Children's Book AwardKunyi June Anne McInerneyKunyiWinner
Peter CarnavasMy Brother BenFinalist
Shirley MarrA Glasshouse of Stars
Sandhya Parappukkaran, illus by Michelle PereiraThe Boy Who Tried to Shrink His Name
Corey Tutt, illus by Blak Douglas The First Scientists
Queensland Premier's Young Publishers and Writers AwardRebecca Cheers and Marilena HewittWinner
Queensland Writers Fellowships Melissa Ashley, Geneve Flynn and Mary-Rose MacColl Winner
Glendower Award for Emerging Queensland AuthorYen-Rong WongThings Left UnsaidWinner
John RichardsThe InterventionsFinalist
A E MacleodDo you like the artist Georgia O’Keeffe?
Emily WinterSunshowers
David Unaipon Award for an Emerging Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait WriterMykaela SaundersAlways Will Be – stories of Goori sovereignty, from the future(s) of the TweedWinner
Edoardo CrismaniFinding Billy BrownFinalist
Julie-Ann ‘Garrimaa’ MooreWawun, Judulu and The Big Storm
Rick SlagerUntitled
Aunty Joan TranterUnplanned Journey: A personal account of one Indigenous woman’s life

2021

The winners were announced on 9 September 2021. [9]

List of 2021 Queensland Literary Awards Recipients
CategoryAuthorTitleResult
Queensland Premier's Award for a Work of State Significance Fiona Foley Biting the Clouds: A Badtjala perspective on the Aboriginals Protection and Restriction of the Sale of Opium Act, 1897Winner
Lech BlaineCar CrashFinalist
Laura Elvery Ordinary Matter
Pattie Lees with Adam C LeesA Question of Colour
Jaya Savige Change Machine
The Courier-Mail People's Choice Queensland Book of the Year AwardMary LiMary’s Last Dance: The untold story of the wife of Mao’s Last DancerWinner
Trent Dalton All Our Shimmering SkiesFinalist
Sandra HoganWith My Little Eye
Kathleen JenningsFlyaway
Susan Johnson From Where I Fell
Grantlee KiezaBanks
Pattie Lees with Adam C LeesA Question of Colour: My journey to belonging
A G SlatterAll the Murmuring Bones
The University of Queensland Fiction Book Award Nardi Simpson Song of the CrocodileWinner
Kavita BedfordFriends & Dark ShapesFinalist
S L LimRevenge
Amanda Lohrey The Labyrinth
Charlotte McConaghyMigrations
The University of Queensland Non-Fiction Book AwardLuke StegemannAmnesia Road: Landscape, violence and memoryWinner
Lech BlaineCar CrashFinalist
Eleanor HoganInto the Loneliness
Henry Reynolds Truth-Telling
Marian Wilkinson The Carbon Club
Judith Wright Calanthe Award for a Poetry Collection Ouyang Yu Terminally PoeticWinner
Evelyn Araluen DropbearFinalist
Benjamin DoddsAirplane Baby Banana Blanket
Jaya Savige Change Machine
Elfie Shiosaki Homecoming
University of Southern Queensland Steele Rudd Award for a Short Story Collection Laura Elvery Ordinary MatterWinner
Melissa ManningSmokehouseFinalist
Elizabeth TanSmart Ovens for Lonely People
Adam ThompsonBorn Into This
Barry Lee ThompsonBroken Rules and Other Stories
Griffith University Young Adult Book AwardCath MooreMetal Fish, Falling SnowWinner
Davina Bell The End of the World is Bigger Than LoveFinalist
Rebecca LimTiger Daughter
Gary LonesboroughThe Boy From the Mish
Lili Wilkinson The Erasure Initiative
Griffith University Children's Book Award Kirli Saunders & Dub LefflerBindiWinner
Sami BaylyThe Illustrated Encyclopedia of Dangerous AnimalsFinalist
Meg McKinlay, illus by Matt OttleyHow to Make a Bird
Jaclyn Moriarty, illus by Kelly CanbyThe Stolen Prince of Cloudburst
Katrina Nannestad, illus by Martina HeiduczekWe Are Wolves
Queensland Premier's Young Publishers and Writers AwardAllanah Hunt and Ellen WengertWinner
Queensland Writers FellowshipsTabitha Bird, Ella Jeffery, and Kali NapierWinner
Glendower Award for Emerging Queensland AuthorSiang LuThe WhitewashWinner
Jason GentOn the ExhaleFinalist
Natalie SpriteThe Luminous Heart
Lillian TelfordIt’s Chemical
David Unaipon Award for an Emerging Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait WriterNgankiburka-mekauwe (Senior Woman of Water) Georgina WilliamsMekauwe=Tears Volume #1 Poems (Notes For Song) 1970–2020Winner
Chella GoldwinPolitiksFinalist

2020

The winners were announced on 4 September 2020. [10]

List of 2020 Queensland Literary Awards Recipients
CategoryAuthorTitleResult
Queensland Premier's Award for a Work of State SignificanceJoe GormanHeartland: How Rugby League Explains QueenslandWinner
Melanie MyersMeet Me at Lennon’sFinalist
Mirandi Riwoe Stone Sky Gold Mountain
Jessica WhiteHearing Maud
The Courier-Mail People's Choice Queensland Book of the Year AwardTabitha BirdA Lifetime of Impossible DaysWinner
Phil BrownThe Kowloon KidFinalist
Margaret CookA River with a City Problem
Darryl JonesFeeding the Birds at Your Table
Melanie MyersMeet Me at Lennon's
Amanda NiehausThe Breeding Season
Mirandi Riwoe Stone Sky Gold Mountain
Jessica WhiteHearing Maud
The University of Queensland Fiction Book Award Mirandi Riwoe Stone Sky Gold MountainWinner
Anna Krien Act of GraceFinalist
Philip Salom The Returns
Ronnie ScottThe Adversary
Tara June Winch The Yield
The University of Queensland Non-Fiction Book AwardHelen EnnisOlive Cotton: A Life in PhotographyWinner
James DunkBedlam at Botany BayFinalist
Brenda Niall Friends and Rivals
Cassandra Pybus Truganini
Arnold Zable The Watermill
Judith Wright Calanthe Award for a Poetry Collection П. O. HeideWinner
Peter Boyle Enfolded in the Wings of a Great DarknessFinalist
Stuart CookeLyre
Ellen van Neerven Throat
Charmaine Papertalk Green Nganajungu Yagu
University of Southern Queensland Steele Rudd Award for a Short Story CollectionJoey BuiLucky TicketWinner
Alice BishopA Constant HumFinalist
Yumna Kassab The House of Youssef
Sean O’BeirneA Couple of Things Before the End
Josephine RoweHere Until August
Griffith University Young Adult Book AwardLisa FullerGhost BirdWinner
Sarah EpsteinDeep WaterFinalist
Eliza Henry-JonesHow to Grow a Family Tree
Nina KenwoodIt Sounded Better in My Head
Vikki Wakefield This Is How We Change the Ending
Griffith University Children's Book AwardPenny TangeyAs Fast As I CanWinner
Tristan Bancks DetentionFinalist
Tamsin JanuWinston and the Wondrous Wooba Gymnastics Club
Jess McGeachinFly
Caroline MagerlNop
Queensland Premier's Young Publishers and Writers Award Zenobia Frost and Yen-Rong WongWinner
Queensland Writers FellowshipsSara El Sayed, Anna Jacobson and Amanda NiehausWinner
Glendower Award for Emerging Queensland AuthorFiona RobertsonIf You're HappyWinner
Bianca MillroyThe Solitary LightFinalist
Jonathan O’BrienDaddy & Other Father Figures
Jenny RugeWithout a Word
Siall WaterbrightAs We Knew It
David Unaipon Award for an Emerging Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait WriterJazz MoneyThe Space Between the PaperbarkWinner
Boyd QuakawootValley of Cane and CrowsFinalist
Mykaela SaundersLast Rites of Spring
Melanie SawardBurn

2019

The winners were announced on 12 November 2019. [11]

List of 2019 Queensland Literary Awards Recipients
CategoryAuthorTitleResult
Queensland Premier's Award for a Work of State Significance Melissa Lucashenko Too Much Lip Winner
Matthew Condon The Night DragonFinalist
Trent Dalton Boy Swallows Universe
Jake Goetzmeditations with passing water
Krissy Kneen Wintering
The Courier-Mail People's Choice Queensland Book of the Year Award Lindsay Simpson Adani, Following Its Dirty Footsteps: A Personal StoryWinner
Toni RissonBrisbane’s Greek Cafes: A Million Malted MilksFinalist
Trent Dalton Boy Swallows Universe
James HalfordRequiem with Yellow Butterflies: A Memoir
Krissy Kneen Wintering
Melissa Lucashenko Too Much Lip
Rick SearleCharles Ulm
Rohan Wilson Daughter of Bad Times
University of Queensland Fiction Book Award Carrie Tiffany Exploded ViewWinner
Nigel FeatherstoneBodies of MenFinalist
Melissa Lucashenko Too Much Lip
Kristina Olsson Shell
Rohan Wilson Daughter of Bad Times
University of Queensland Non-Fiction Book AwardMary HobanAn Unconventional Wife: The Life of Julia Sorell ArnoldWinner
Alice Gorman Dr Space Junk vs The Universe: Archaeology and the futureFinalist
Stuart KellsShakespeare’s Library: Unlocking the greatest mystery in literature
Harry SaddlerThe Eastern Curlew
Christina Thompson Sea People: The puzzle of Polynesia
University of Southern Queensland History Book AwardMary HobanAn Unconventional Wife: The Life of Julia Sorell ArnoldWinner
Judith Brett From Secret Ballot to Democracy Sausage: How Australia got compulsory votingFinalist
Kate LeggeKindred: A Cradle Mountain love story
Elizabeth Malcolm and Dianne HallA New History of the Irish in Australia
Clare Wright You Daughters of Freedom: The Australians who won the vote and inspired the world
State Library of Queensland Poetry Collection – Judith Wright Calanthe Award Alison Whittaker BlakworkWinner
Liam FerneyHot TakeFinalist
Keri GlastonburyNewcastle Sonnet
Marjon MossammaparastThat Sight
Omar Sakr The Lost Arabs
University of Southern Queensland Australian Short Story Collection – Steele Rudd Award Debra Adelaide Zebra: And Other StoriesWinner
Robert Drewe The True Colour of the SeaFinalist
Ryan O’NeillThe Drover’s Wives
Griffith University Young Adult Book Award Karen Foxlee Lenny’s Book of EverythingWinner
Sarah EpsteinSmall SpacesFinalist
Helena FoxHow it Feels to Float
Steven Herrick The Bogan Mondrian
Ambelin Kwaymullina and Ezekiel KwaymullinaCatching Teller Crow
Griffith University Children's Book Award Jaclyn Moriarty The Slightly Alarming Tale of the Whispering WarsWinner
Lorraine MarwoodLeave TakingFinalist
Carl Merrison and Hakea HustlerBlack Cockatoo
Emily Rodda His Name was Walter
Margaret Wild and Mandy Ord Chalk Boy
Queensland Premier's Young Publishers and Writers AwardsElla Jeffery and Ellen van Neerven Winner
Queensland Writers FellowshipsClaire Christian, Sarah Holland-Batt and Emily O'GradyWinner
Glendower Award for Emerging Queensland Author for unpublished manuscriptRhiannon Ratcliffe WildeHenry Hamlet’s HeartWinner
Sue GoldstiverLittle BirdsFinalist
Karen HollandsThe Still Point of Being
Jack LioApparitions
Unpublished Indigenous Writer – David Unaipon AwardNot awarded.
QUT Digital Literature Award Mez Breeze V[R]ignettesWinner
Eda GunaydinGothic Body, in Two PartsFinalist
Benjamin LairdPsychometric Researches
C B Mako and M J FlamianoITERATION – Part 3/Chapter 3
Jason NelsonThe Wonders of Lost Trajectories

2018

List of 2018 Queensland Literary Awards Recipients [12]
CategoryAuthorTitleResult
Queensland Premier's Award for a Work of State SignificanceJackie RyanWe'll Show the World: Expo 88Winner
Benjamin Allmon and David KellyThe Saltwater StoryFinalist
Anna Broinowski Please Explain
Barbara MillerWhite Woman Black Heart: Journey Home to Old Mapoon
Beth WilsonBrisbane Houses with Garden
The Courier Mail People's Choice Queensland Book of the Year Award – Brisbane Houses with Gardens, Beth WilsonBeth WilsonBrisbane Houses with GardensWinner
Venero ArmannoBurning DownFinalist
Eddie Ayres Danger Music
Ben HobsonTo Become a Whale
Emily O'GradyThe Yellow House
Holly Ringland The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart
Jackie RyanWe'll Show the World: Expo 88
Charlie Veron A Life Underwater
University of Queensland Fiction Book Award Kim Scott TabooWinner
Robbie Arnott FlamesFinalist
Shokoofeh Azar The Enlightenment of the Greengage Tree
Mirandi Riwoe The Fish Girl
Tim Winton The Shepherd's Hut
University of Queensland Non-Fiction Book Award Alexis Wright TrackerWinner
Judith Brett   The Enigmatic Mr DeakinFinalist
Phillipa McGuinnessThe Year Everything Changed: 2001
Charles MassyCall of the Reed Warbler: A New Agriculture — A New Earth
Michael PembrokeKorea: Where the American Century Began
University of Southern Queensland History Book AwardJackie RyanWe'll Show the World: Expo 88Winner
Judith Brett The Enigmatic Mr DeakinFinalist
Billy Griffiths Deep Time Dreaming: Uncovering Ancient Australia
Jayne PersianBeautiful Balts: From Displaced Persons to New Australians
Christina Twomey The Battle Within: POWs in Postwar Australia
State Library of Queensland Poetry Collection – Judith Wright Calanthe Award Michael Farrell I Love PoetryWinner
Pam Brown click here for what we doFinalist
Bonny CassidyChatelaine
Oscar SchwartzThe Honeymoon Stage
Bella Li  Lost Lake
University of Southern Queensland Australian Short Story Collection – Steele Rudd Award Jennifer Down Pulse PointsWinner
Claire Aman   Bird CountryFinalist
Tony Birch Common People
Stephanie BuckleHabits of Silence
Laura Elvery Trick of the Light
Griffith University Young Adult Book Award Cally Black In the Dark SpacesWinner
Victoria CarlessThe Dream WalkerFinalist
Scot Gardner Sparrow
Erin GoughAmelia Westlake
Pip HarryBecause of You
Griffith University Children's Book AwardPeter CarnavasThe ElephantWinner
Sarah Brennan, illustrated by Jane Tanner The Storm WhaleFinalist
Jane Godwin, illustrated by Anna Walker       Go Go and the Silver Shoes
Emily Rodda The Shop at Hoopers Bend
Anne Spudvilas  Swan Lake
Queensland Premier's Young Publishers and Writers AwardsAnna Jacobson and Bri Lee Winner
Queensland Writers Fellowships Michael Gerard Bauer, Jackie Ryan and Laura ElveryWinner
Glendower Award for Emerging Queensland Author for unpublished manuscriptMelanie MyersGarrison TownWinner
Karen Herschell     fate, revenge and chipburgersFinalist
Laura Kenny       On Either Side
Christopher Przewloka   Hidebound
Unpublished Indigenous Writer – David Unaipon Award Kirstie Parker The Making of Ruby ChampionWinner
Melanie SawardWhy Worry NowFinalist
Wendy Somerville           Jilba's Song
Waiata TelferSong — The Story of a Girl, a Bird and a Teapot
Teila WatsonDestinations Past Present Future: Diving Through Timelines
QUT Digital Literature AwardDavid Thomas Henry Wright, with Chris ArnoldLittle Emperor SyndromeWinner
Mez BreezeOur Cupidity CodaFinalist
Mez BreezeA Place Called Ormalcy
Benjamin LairdCore Values

2017

List of 2017 Queensland Literary Awards Recipients [13]
CategoryAuthorTitleResult
Queensland Premier's Award for a Work of State SignificanceBill WilkieThe Daintree Blockade: The Battle for Australia's Tropical RainforestsWinner
Matthew Condon Little Fish Are SweetFinalist
Mary-Rose MacColl For a Girl
Cathy McLennanSaltwater
The Courier Mail People's Choice Queensland Book of the Year AwardCathy McLennanSaltwaterWinner
Melissa Ashley The Birdman's WifeFinalist
Nick Earls Vancouver
Richard Fidler Ghost Empire
Ashley Hay A Hundred Small Lessons
Anita Heiss Barbed Wire and Cherry Blossoms
Joan IsaacsTo Prey and To Silence
Mary-Rose MacColl For a Girl
University of Queensland Fiction Book Award Melissa Ashley The Birdman's WifeWinner
Nick Earls VancouverFinalist
Ashley Hay A Hundred Small Lessons
Hannah Kent The Good People
Heather Rose The Museum of Modern Love
University of Queensland Non-Fiction Book AwardCathy McLennanSaltwaterWinner
Deng Adut and Ben MckelveySongs of a War BoyFinalist
Richard Fidler Ghost Empire
Mary-Rose MacColl For a Girl
Kim Mahood Position Doubtful
University of Southern Queensland History Book Award Rebe Taylor Into the Heart of Tasmania: A Search for Human AntiquityWinner
Rebecca Ananian-WelshThe Tim Carmody Affair: Australia's Greatest Judicial CrisisFinalist
Andrew LynchAppleby
Paul IrishHidden in Plain View: The Aboriginal people of coastal Sydney
John MurphyEvatt: A life
State Library of Queensland Poetry Collection Antigone Kefala Judith Wright Calanthe Award – FragmentsWinner
Jordie Albiston Euclid's DogFinalist
Carmen Leigh KeatesMeteorites
Cassie LewisThe Blue Decodes
Omar Sakr These Wild Houses
University of Southern Queensland Australian Short Story Collection – Steele Rudd Award Kyra Giorgi The Circle and the EquatorWinner
Michelle CahillLetter to PessoaFinalist
Kyra Giorgi The Circle and the Equator
Tara June Winch After the Carnage
Griffith University Young Adult Book Award Cath Crowley Words in Deep BlueWinner
Simon ButtersThe HoundedFinalist
Zana Fraillon The Bone Sparrow
Mark SmithThe Road to Winter
Richard YaxleyThis is My Song
Griffith University Children's Book AwardLisa ShanahanThe Grand, Genius Summer of Henry HooblerWinner
Gus Gordon Somewhere ElseFinalist
Paul Jennings A Different Dog
Bren MacDibble How to Bee
Wendy Orr Dragonfly Song
Queensland Premier's Young Publishers and Writers AwardsLech Blaine and Mindy GillWinner
Queensland Writers Fellowships Mirandi Riwoe, Zenobia Frost and Linda NeilWinner
Emerging Queensland Author – Manuscript AwardJanet LeeThe Killing of LouisaWinner
Anna JacobsonHow to Knit a HumanFinalist
Ben Marshall  The Gimp
Siall WaterbrightThe Coming
Unpublished Indigenous Writer – David Unaipon AwardLisa FullerMirrored PiecesWinner
Alicia FarmerMai StoriFinalist
QUT Digital Literature Award Jason Nelson Nine Billion BranchesWinner
Mez Breeze Inanimate Alice: Perpetual Nomads (Beta)Finalist
Pascalle BurtonGeneration Loss
David Thomas Henry WrightPaige and Power
Marianna ShekLimerence

2016

List of 2016 Queensland Literary Awards Recipients [14]
CategoryAuthorTitleResult
Queensland Premier's Award for a Work of State SignificanceLesley and Tammy WilliamsNot Just Black and WhiteWinner
Nadia Buick and Madeleine KingRemotely Fashionable: A Story of Subtropical StyleFinalist
Matthew Condon All Fall Down
Elspeth MuirWasted: A Story of Alcohol, Grief and a Death in Brisbane
P.J. ParkerThe Long Goodbye
The Courier Mail People's Choice Queensland Book of the Year Award Mary-Rose MacColl Swimming HomeWinner
Trent JamiesonDay BoyFinalist
Susan Johnson The Landing
Cass MoriartyThe Promise Seed
Nadia Buick and Madeleine KinRemotely Fashionable: A Story of Subtropical Style
Matt Condon All Fall Down
Elspeth MuirWasted: A Story of Alcohol, Grief and a Death in Brisbane
Cory Taylor Dying: A Memoir
University of Queensland Fiction Book Award Georgia Blain Between a Wolf and a DogWinner
Tony Birch Ghost RiverFinalist
David DyeThe Midnight Watch
Patrick HollandOne
Charlotte Wood The Natural Way of Thing
University of Queensland Non-Fiction Book Award Fiona Wright Small Acts of Disappearance: Essays on HungerWinner
Madeline GleesonOffshore: Behind the Wire on Manus and NauruFinalist
Stan Grant Talking to My Country
Drusilla Modjeska Second Half First
Tim Winton Island Home
University of Southern Queensland History Book AwardJulia Martínez and Adrian Vickers The Pearl Frontier: Indonesian Labour and Indigenous Encounters in Australia’s Northern Trading NetworkWinner
Vicken Babkenien and Peter StanleyArmenia, Australia and the Great WarFinalist
Stuart Macintyre Australia’s Boldest Experiment
Jeff MaynardUnseen Anzac
John NewtonThe oldest foods on earth
Garry WotherspoonGay Sydney
State Library of Queensland Poetry Collection – Judith Wright Calanthe Award David Musgrave Anatomy of VoiceWinner
Joel DeaneYear of the WaspFinalist
Liam FerneyContent
Sarah Holland-Batt The Hazards
Chloe WilsonNot Fox Nor Axe
University of Southern Queensland Australian Short Story Collection – Steele Rudd Award Elizabeth Harrower A Few Days in the Country and other storiesWinner
Fiona McFarlane The High Places
Tegan Bennett Daylight Six BedroomsFinalist
Sonja DechianAn Astronaut’s Life
Julie KohPortable Curiosities
Griffith University Young Adult Book Award David Metzenthen Dreaming the EnemyWinner
Will KostakisThe SidekicksFinalist
Glenda MillardThe Stars at October Bend
James Roy and Noël ZihabamweOne Thousand Hills
Claire Zorn One Would Think the Deep
Griffith University Children's Book AwardJulie Hunt (author) and Dale Newman (illustrator)KidGlovzWinner
Lucy Estela and Matt OttleySuri’s WallFinalist
Bob GrahamHow the Sun Got to Coco’s House
Libby Hathorn and Gaye ChapmanIncredibilia
Chris McKimmieMe, Teddy
Queensland Premier's Young Publishers and Writers AwardsEmily Craven and Michelle LawWinner
Emerging Queensland Author – Manuscript AwardNot awarded.
Unpublished Indigenous Writer – David Unaipon AwardPaul CollisDancing HomeWinner
Yvonne Weldon  67 DaysFinalist
B.A. (Boyd) QuakawootSong of Jessica

2015

List of 2015 Queensland Literary Awards Recipients [15]
CategoryAuthorTitleResult
Queensland Premier's Award for a Work of State Significance Libby Connors WarriorWinner
Ellen van Neerven Heat and LightFinalist
Zoe BoccabellaJoe’s Fruit Shop and Milk Bar
Mark BahnischQueensland: Everything you ever wanted to know but were afraid to ask
Anna Bligh Through the Wall: Reflections on Leadership, Love and Survival
The Courier Mail People's Choice Queensland Book of the Year AwardJohn AhernOn the road...with the kidsWinner
Nick Earls Analogue MenFinalist
Mary Lou SimpsonFrom Convict to Politician
Zoe BoccabellaJoe’s Fruit Shop and Milk Bar
Patrick HollandNavigatio
Inga SimpsonNest
Kari GislasonThe Ash Burner
David MurrayThe Murder of Allison Baden-Clay
University of Queensland Fiction Book Award Joan London The Golden Age Winner
Amanda Lohrey A Short History of Richard KlineFinalist
Mark HenshawThe Snow Kimono
Malcolm Knox The Wonder Lover
Rohan WilsonTo Name Those Lost
University of Queensland Non-Fiction Book Award Don Watson The Bush: Travels in the Heart of AustraliaWinner
Brenda Niall MannixFinalist
Anne Manne The Life of I: The New Culture of Narcissism
Annabel Crabb The Wife Drought
Karen LambThea Astley: Inventing Her Own Weather
University of Southern Queensland History Book AwardCarolyn HolbrookANZAC, The Unauthorised BiographyWinner
Angela Woollacott Settler Society in the Australian Colonies: Self-Government and Imperial CultureFinalist
Christine Kenneally The Invisible History of the Human Race
Agnieszka SobocinskaVisiting the Neighbours: Australians in Asia
Sophie CunninghamWarning: The Story of Cyclone Tracy
State Library of Queensland Poetry Collection – Judith Wright Calanthe Award Les Murray Waiting for the PastWinner
Susan Bradley SmithBeds For All Who ComeFinalist
Robert Adamson Net Needle
David BrooksOpen House
Lucy Dougan The Guardians
Australian Short Story Collection – Steele Rudd Award Christos Tsiolkas Merciless GodsWinner
Nic LowArms Race and Other StoriesFinalist
Nick JoseBapo
Ellen van Neerven Heat and Light
J.M. Coetzee Three Stories
Griffith University Young Adult Book Award John Larkin The PauseWinner
Darren GrothAre you Seeing Me?Finalist
Justine Larbalestier Razorhurst
Diana SweeneyThe Minnow
Jeri KrollVanishing Point
Children's Book Award Meg McKinlay A Single StoneWinner
Tasmin JanuFiggy in the WorldFinalist
David MackintoshLucky
Nick Earls New Boy
Rebecca Young & Matt OttleyTeacup
Queensland Premier's Young Publishers and Writers AwardsMegan McGrath and Rebecca JessenWinner
Emerging Queensland Author – Manuscript AwardElizabeth KasmerAuroraWinner
Imogen SmithAraluenFinalist
K W GeorgeSargasso
Kate ElkingtonWool Spin Burn
Unpublished Indigenous Writer – David Unaipon AwardAndrew BoothThe First Octoroon or Report of an Experimental ChildWinner
Mayrah Yarraga DreiseSocial Consciousness SeriesFinalist
Patricia Lees with Adam C. LeesA Question of Colour

2014

List of 2014 Queensland Literary Awards Recipients [16]
CategoryAuthorTitleResult
The Courier Mail People's Choice Queensland Book of the Year AwardKellee SlaterHow to do a Liver Transplant: Stories from my Surgical LifeWinner
T. M. ClarkMy Brother, But OneFinalist
Frances WhitingWalking on Trampolines
Catherine TitaseyMy Island Homicide
Sally BreenAtomic City
Matthew Condon Jacks and Jokers
Deb Drummond and Janis TeunisLingering Doubts: Going Inside Brisbane's Arcade Murder
Keelen MailmanThe Power of Bones
University of Queensland Fiction Book Award Richard Flanagan The Narrow Road to the Deep North Winner
Fiona CappGotlandFinalist
Alex Miller Coal Creek
Tim Winton Eyrie
Evie Wyld All the Birds, Singing
University of Queensland Non-Fiction Book Award Paul Ham 1914: The Year the World EndedWinner
Steve Bisley StillwaysFinalist
Iain McCalman The Reef
Penny Olsen An Eye for Nature: The Life and Art of William T. Cooper
Janis SheldrickNature's Line: George Goyder, surveyor, environmentalist, visionary
University of Southern Queensland History Book Award Joan Beaumont Broken NationWinner
Nicholas ClementsThe Black War: Fear, Sex and Resistance in TasmaniaFinalist
Iain McCalman The Reef
Bruce Pascoe Black Emu
Henry Reynolds The Forgotten War
Clare Wright The Forgotten Rebels of Eureka
State Library of Queensland Poetry Collection – Judith Wright Calanthe Award David Malouf Earth HourWinner
Judith Beveridge Devadatta’s PoemsFinalist
Rachael BriggsFree Logic
Liam FerneyBoom
Anthony LawrenceSignal Flare
Australian Short Story Collection – Steele Rudd Award Ceridwen Dovey Only the AnimalsWinner
Debra Adelaide Letter to George ClooneyFinalist
Tony Birch The Promise
Luke Carman An Elegant Young Man
Laura Jean McKay Holiday in Cambodia
Griffith University Young Adult Book Award Jaclyn Moriarty The Cracks in the KingdomWinner
A.J. BettsZac and MiaFinalist
Felicity Castagna The Incredible Here and Now
Kate HendrickThe Accident
David MetzenthenTigerfish
Children's Book Award Jackie French RefugeWinner
Shaun Tan Rules of Summer
Pamela RushbyThe Ratcatcher's DaughterFinalist
Claire Saxby and Graham ByrneNature Storybooks: Big Red Kangaroo
Samantha WheelerSmooch and Rose
Emerging Queensland Author – Manuscript AwardCathy McLennanWe Come From Saltwater PeopleWinner
Leanne NolanOpen CutFinalist
Julie Kearney3 for a Wedding, 4 for Death
Unpublished Indigenous Writer – David Unaipon AwardLesley & Tammy WilliamsIt’s Not Just Black and WhiteWinner

2013

List of 2013 Queensland Literary Awards Recipients [17]
CategoryAuthorTitleResult
The Courier Mail People's Choice Queensland Book of the Year Award Kate Morton The Secret KeeperWinner
Susan Johnson My Hundred LoversFinalist
Melissa Lucashenko Mullumbimby
Jamie CallisterThe Man Who Invented Vegemite
Matthew Condon Three Crooked Kings
Kristina Olsson Boy, Lost
Deloitte Fiction Book Award Melissa Lucashenko Mullumbimby Winner
Murray Bail The VoyageFinalist
Susan Johnson My Hundred Lovers
Christopher Koch Lost Voices
University of Queensland Non-Fiction Book Award Kristina Olsson Boy, LostWinner
Richard Gill Give Me Excess of ItFinalist
Paul Ham Sandakan
Jenny Hocking Gough Whitlam: His Time
Kate RichardMadness: A Memoir
University of Southern Queensland History Book AwardJane LydonThe Flash of RecognitionWinner
Alison AlexanderThe Ambitions of Jane FranklinFinalist
David Day Antarctica: A Biography
Walter HamiltonChildren of the Occupation
Lawrence BamblettOur Stories are Our Survival
State Library of Queensland Poetry Collection – Judith Wright Calanthe Award John Kinsella Jam Tree GullyWinner
Stephen Edgar EldershawFinalist
Paul Hetherington Haunted Rooms
Jennifer Maiden Liquid Nitrogen
Alan Wearne Prepare the Cabin for Landing
Australian Short Story Collection – Steele Rudd Award Cate Kennedy Like a House on FireWinner
Susan MidaliaAn Unknown SkyFinalist
Jennifer MillsThe Rest is Weight
A S Patric Las Vegas for Vegans
Chris SomervilleWe Are Not the Same Anymore
Griffith University Young Adult Book Award Jaclyn Moriarty A Corner of WhiteWinner
Andrew McGahan Ship Kings: The Voyage of the Unquiet IceFinalist
Maureen McCarthy The Convent
Vikki Wakefield Friday Brown
Fiona Wood Wildlife
Children's Book Award Narelle Oliver Don't Let a Spoonbill in the Kitchen!Winner
Jackie French Pennies for HitlerFinalist
Jane Godwin Today We Have No Plans
Steven Herrick Pookie Aleera is Not My Boyfriend
Margaret Wild The Treasure Box
Gadens Feature Film Script AwardCraig Monahan and Alison NisselleHealingWinner
Emerging Queensland Author – Manuscript AwardRebecca JessenGapWinner
Jarryd LukeCockscrew SectionFinalist
Cass MoriartyThe Promise Seed
Unpublished Indigenous Writer – David Unaipon Award Ellen van Neerven Heat and LightWinner
Martin DoyleSugar Shed RoadFinalist
Adrian StanleyCould Be Worse
Ellen van Neerven Hard
Dorothy Williams-KempMy Journey that May Never End

2012

List of 2012 Queensland Literary Awards Recipients [18]
CategoryAuthorTitleResult
Fiction Book Award Frank Moorhouse Cold Light Winner
Peter Carey The Chemistry of TearsFinalist
Anna Funder All That I am
Kate Grenville Sarah Thornhill
Alex Miller Autumn Laing
Non-Fiction Book AwardRobin De CrespignyThe People SmugglerWinner
Jane Gleeson-WhiteDouble EntryFinalist
Patrick Holland Riding the Trains in Japan
William McInnes & Sarah Watt Worse Things Happen at Sea
Alice Pung Her Father's Daughter
History Book Award Bill Gammage The Biggest Estate on Earth: How Aborigines Made AustraliaWinner
Robyn Arianrhod Seduced by LogicFinalist
James Boyce 1835: The Founding of Melbourne and the Conquest of Australia
Nicole MooreThe Censor's Library
Literary or Media Work Advancing Public Debate – Harry Williams Award George Megalogenis The Australian Moment: How We Were Made For These TimesWinner
Paul ClearyToo Much Luck: The Mining Boom and Australia's FutureFinalist
Michael WeleyThere Goes the Neighbourhood
Science Writers AwardRob BrooksSex, Genes & Rock 'n' RollWinner
Robyn ArianrhodSeduced by LogicFinalist
Frank BowdenGone Viral
Richard SmithAustralia: The Time Traveller’s Guide
Poetry Collection – Judith Wright Calanthe Award Peter Rose Crimson CropWinner
Anthony LawrenceThe Welfare of My EnemyFinalist
David McCooeyOutside
Rhyll McMasterLate Night Shopping
Simon WestThe Yellow Gum’s Conversion
Australian Short Story Collection – Steele Rudd Award Janette Turner Hospital TurbulenceWinner
Rodney Hall SilenceFinalist
Marion Halligan Shooting the Fox
John Kinsella In the Shade of the Shady Tree
Ryan O’NeillThe Weight of a Human Heart
Young Adult Book AwardNeil GrantThe Ink BridgeWinner
Kirsty EagarNight BeachFinalist
Judith Clarke Three Summers
Margo Lanagan Sea Hearts
Vikki Wakefield All I Ever Wanted
Children's Book Award Briony Stewart Kumiko and the Shadow CatchersWinner
Pamela RushbyThe Horses Didn’t Come HomeFinalist
John Flanagan Brotherband 1: The Outcasts
Libby Gleeson & Freya Blackwood Look a Book!
Elizabeth Honey Ten Blue Wrens
Film Script AwardLouise FoxDead EuropeWinner
Miro BilbraBeing VeniceFinalist
Shane Armstrong & S P KraussRarer Monsters
Brendan Cowell Save Your Legs
Emerging Queensland Author – Manuscript AwardCatherine TitaseyIsland of the UnexpectedWinner
Aaron SmibertScratches on the SurfaceFinalist
Luke ThomasHome Mechanics
Ariella Van LuynHidden Objects
Unpublished Indigenous Writer – David Unaipon AwardSiv ParkerStoryWinner
Ellen van Neerven-CurrieHardFinalist
Dorothy Williams-KempMy Journey that May Never End
Drama Script (Stage) Award Angela Betzien War CrimesWinner
Wayne Blair BloodlandFinalist
Patricia Cornelius Taxi
Rita KalnejaisBaby Teeth
Lally Katz A Golem Story
Television Script Award Sue Smith Mabo Winner
Blake AyshfordThe Straits: ‘Yawor – My Lovely’, episode 3Finalist
Brendan Cowell The Slap: ‘Harry’, episode 3
Anthony MullinsStrange Calls: ‘Phantom’, episode 3
Liz DoranDance Academy: ‘The Prix de Fonteyn’, episode 24

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