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PRIZE FOR AN UNPUBLISHED MANUSCRIPT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 The winner of the Prize for an Unpublished Manuscript receives $15,000.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.