The 2019 awards are open and offer a total prize pool of $253,500.
There are ten national prizes for outstanding books by Australian writers, illustrators and creators. This includes the $25,000 Queensland Premier’s Award for a work of State Significance which highlights a uniquely Queensland story. Nominations are now closed.
There are two unpublished manuscripts awards – the Glendower Award for an Emerging Queensland Writer and the David Unaipon Award for an Emerging Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander Writer. Nominations close 30 June 2019 and there is no fee to apply.
There are development awards for Queensland writers – two Queensland Premier’s Young Publishers and Writers Awards and three Queensland Writers Fellowships. Nominations close 30 June 2019 and there is no fee to apply.
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Awards and prizes
Unpublished manuscript and development awards – nominations open until 30 June
- Queensland Writers Fellowships – $19,500
- David Unaipon Award for an Emerging Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander Writer – $15,000
- Glendower Award for an Emerging Queensland Writer – $15,000
- Queensland Premier’s Young Publishers and Writers Awards – $12,500
Published book awards – nominations for the published book award categories are now closed
- Queensland Premier’s Award for a work of State Significance – $25,000
- The University of Queensland Fiction Book Award – $15,000
- The University of Queensland Non-Fiction Book Award – $15,000
- Griffith University Young Adult Book Award – $15,000
- Griffith University Children’s Book Award – $15,000
- QUT Digital Literature Award – $15,000
- University of Southern Queensland History Book Award – $10,000
- University of Southern Queensland Steele Rudd Award for a Short Story Collection – $10,000
- Judith Wright Calanthe Award for a Poetry Collection – $10,000
- The Courier-Mail People’s Choice Queensland Book of the Year Award – $10,000