The Victorian Premier's Literary Awards shortlists 2019

The Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards shortlist for 2019 has now been announced.

The winners of the main suite of awards – fiction, non-fiction, drama, poetry, writing for young adults, and the biennial Prize for Indigenous Writing – each receive $25,000. The winner of the Prize for an Unpublished Manuscript receives $15,000.


PRIZE FOR FICTION

Highly commended:
Pink Mountain on Locust Island by Jamie Marina Lau


PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION

Highly commended:
Deep Time Dreaming: Uncovering Ancient Australia by Billy Griffiths, One Hundred Years of Dirt by Rick Morton, Always Another Country: A Memoir of Exile and Home by Sisonke Msimang, Small Wrongs: How we really say sorry in love, life and law by Kate Rossmanith


PRIZE FOR DRAMA

Highly commended:
Lethal Indifference by Anna Barnes, In the Club by Patricia Cornelius


PRIZE FOR POETRY

Highly commended:
Body of Work by Elena Gomez, Subtraction by Fiona Hile, Blakwork by Alison Whittaker


PRIZE FOR WRITING FOR YOUNG ADULTS

Highly commended:
After the Lights Go Out by Lili Wilkinson, Tin Heart by Shivaun Plozza


PRIZE FOR INDIGENOUS WRITING


PRIZE FOR AN UNPUBLISHED MANUSCRIPT

  • Wedding Cake Island by John Byron
  • Kokomo by Victoria Hannan
  • Frontier Sport by Wayne Marshall

Highly commended:
The Fogging by Luke Horton, This Wasn’t Meant To Be Me by Allee Richards


The winners of the seven award categories will be announced at an awards ceremony on 31 January 2018, and will go on to contest the overall Victorian Prize for Literature, worth an additional $100,000. Please visit the Wheeler Centre website for more information.

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