PRIZE FOR FICTION
- An Exciting and Vivid Inner Life by Paul Dalla Rosa
- Cold Enough for Snow by Jessica Au
- Salonika Burning by Gail Jones
- The Lovers by Yumna Kassab
- The Signal Line by Brendan Colley
- This Devastating Fever by Sophie Cunningham
PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION
- Childhood by Shannon Burns
- Indelible City by Louisa Lim
- Our Members be Unlimited by Sam Wallman
- People Who Lunch by Sally Olds
- Root & Branch by Eda Gunaydin
- The Uncaged Sky by Kylie Moore-Gilbert
PRIZE FOR INDIGENOUS WRITING
- Astronomy: Sky Country by Karlie Noon and Krystal De Napoli
- Harvest Lingo by Lionel Fogarty
- Tell Me Again by Amy Thunig
- The Upwelling by Lystra Rose
PRIZE FOR POETRY
- At the Altar of Touch by Gavin Yuan Gao
- Clean by Scott-Patrick Mitchell
- Fugitive by Simon Tedeschi
PRIZE FOR WRITING FOR YOUNG ADULTS
- The Tree of Ecstasy and Unbearable Sadness by Matt Ottley
- We Who Hunt the Hollow by Kate Murray
- Where You Left Us by Rhiannon Wilde
PRIZE FOR AN UNPUBLISHED MANUSCRIPT
- Bright Objects by Ruby Todd
- One Divine Night by Mick Cummins
- Stillwater by Amy Brown
PRIZE FOR DRAMA
- Golden Blood by Merlynn Tan
- The Return by John Harvey
- Whitefella Yella Tree by Dylan Van Den Berg
The winners of the main suite of awards – fiction, non-fiction, drama, poetry, writing for young adults and the prize for Indigenous writing – each receive $25,000. The winner of the Prize for an Unpublished Manuscript receives $15,000. The category winners will be announced early next year, and will go on to contest the overall Victorian Prize for Literature, worth an additional $100,000. Visit the Wheeler Centre website for more information.
