The Australian Prime Minister's Literary Awards (PMLA) were announced at the end of 2007 by the incoming First Rudd ministry following the 2007 election. They are administered by the Minister for the Arts.[1]
The awards were designed as "a new initiative celebrating the contribution of Australian literature to the nation's cultural and intellectual life." The awards are held annually and initially provided a tax-free prize of A$100,000 in each category, making it Australia's richest literary award in total. In 2011, the prize money was split into $80,000 for each category winner and $5,000 for up to four short-listed entries. The award was initially given in four categories – fiction, non-fiction, young adult and children's fiction – as selected by three judging panels. In 2012, a poetry category was added and the former Prime Minister's Prize for Australian History was incorporated into the award. To be eligible, writers "must be a citizen or permanent resident of Australia."[2]
For the inaugural 2008 awards, six Australians were appointed by the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and the Arts to the judging panels: three each for the fiction and non-fiction awards.[3] The final decisions on the shortlist and winners for the awards was made by Prime Minister (Kevin Rudd) based on the judging panels' recommendations.
Two new award categories were announced on 30 March 2010: "young adults' fiction" and "children's fiction." The prize for both new awards was also $100,000; its entries were judged by one judging panel.
Entries for the 2011 awards opened in January 2011 and an annual timetable was implemented: the shortlist was announced in late May and winners in early July. The awards were restructured to provide greater recognition for shortlisted authors. In each category, the winning book was awarded $80,000; $5,000 was awarded to up to four shortlisted titles. The eligibility criteria were extended to include e-books, and wordless picture books were eligible in the children's fiction category. The panellists from 2010 were returned for 2011.[4]
In 2012, a new award for poetry was announced and the Prize for Australian History was incorporated.[5]
Year | Fiction | Non-fiction | Young adult fiction | Children's fiction | Poetry | Australian history | |
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2008[6] | The Zookeeper's War by Steven Conte | Ochre and Rust: Artefacts and Encounters on Australian Frontiers by Philip Jones | NA | NA | NA | NA | |
2009[7] [8] | The Boat by Nam Le | House of Exile: The Life and Times of Heinrich Mann, and Nelly-Kroeger Mann by Evelyn Juers, and Drawing the Global Colour Line by Marilyn Lake and Henry Reynolds | NA | NA | NA | NA | |
2010[9] [10] | Dog Boy by Eva Hornung[11] | The Colony: A History of Early Sydney by Grace Karskens | Confessions of a Liar, Thief and Failed Sex God by Bill Condon | Star Jumps by Lorraine Marwood | NA | NA | |
2011 | Traitor by Stephen Daisley | The Hard Light of Day by Rod Moss | Graffiti Moon by Cath Crowley | Shake a Leg by Boori Monty Pryor and Jan Ormerod | NA | NA | |
2012[12] | Foal's Bread by Gillian Mears | An Eye for Eternity: The Life of Manning Clark by Mark McKenna | When We Were Two by Robert Newton | Goodnight, Mice!, written by Frances Watts and illustrated by Judy Watson | Interferon Psalms by Luke Davies | The Biggest Estate on Earth by Bill Gammage | |
2013[13] | Questions of Travel by Michelle de Kretser | The Australian Moment by George Megalogenis | Fog a Dox by Bruce Pascoe | Red by Libby Gleeson | Jam Tree Gully: Poems by John Kinsella | Farewell, Dear People by Ross McMullin | |
2014[14] | A World of Other People by Steven Carroll, andThe Narrow Road to the Deep North by Richard Flanagan[15] | Moving Among Strangers by Gabrielle Carey, and Madeleine: A Life of Madeleine St John by Helen Trinca | The Incredible Here and Now by Felicity Castagna | Silver Buttons by Bob Graham | Drag Down to Unlock or Place an Emergency Call by Melinda Smith | Broken Nation: Australians in the Great War by Joan Beaumont, and Australia's Secret War: How Unionists Sabotaged Our Troops in World War II by Hal G.P. Colebatch | |
2015[16] | The Golden Age by Joan London | John Olsen: An Artist's Life by Darleen Bungey, and Wild Bleak Bohemia: Marcus Clarke, Adam Lindsay Gordon and Henry Kendall by Michael Wilding | The Protected by Claire Zorn | One Minute's Silence by David Metzenthen and illustrated by Michael Camilleri | Poems 1957–2013 by Geoffrey Lehmann | Charles Bean by Ross Coulthart, and The Spy Catchers – The Official History of ASIO Vol 1 by David Horner | |
2016 | The Life of Houses by Lisa Gorton and The Natural Way of Things by Charlotte Wood | On Stalin's Team: The Years of Living Dangerously in Soviet Politics by Sheila Fitzpatrick, and Thea Astley: Inventing her own Weather by Karen Lamb | A Single Stone by Meg McKinlay | Sister Heart by Sally Morgan | The Hazards by Sarah Holland-Batt | The Story of Australia's People. The Rise and Fall of Ancient Australia by Geoffrey Blainey, and Let My People Go: The untold story of Australia and the Soviet Jews 1959–89 by Sam Lipski and Suzanne D Rutland | |
2017 | Their Brilliant Careers by Ryan O'Neill | Quicksilver by Nicolas Rothwell | Words in Deep Blue by Cath Crowley | Home in the Rain by Bob Graham, and Dragonfly Song by Wendy Orr | Headwaters by Anthony Lawrence | Atomic Thunder: The Maralinga Story by Elizabeth Tynan | |
2018[17] [18] [19] | Border Districts by Gerald Murnane | Asia's Reckoning by Richard McGregor | This Is My Song by Richard Yaxley | Pea Pod Lullaby by Glenda Millard and Stephen Michael King | Blindness and Rage: A Phantasmagoria by Brian Castro | John Curtin's War: The coming of war in the Pacific, and reinventing Australia, volume 1 by John Edwards | |
2019[20] [21] | The Death of Noah Glass by Gail Jones | The Bible in Australia: A Cultural History by Meredith Lake | The Things That Will Not Stand by Michael Gerard Bauer | His Name Was Walter by Emily Rodda | Sun Music: New and Selected Poems by Judith Beveridge | Half the Perfect World: Writers, Dreamers and Drifters on Hydra, 1955–1964 by Paul Genoni and Tanya Dalziell | |
2020[22] [23] [24] | The Yield by Tara June Winch | Songspirals: Sharing Women's Wisdom of Country through Songlines by Gay'Wu Group of Womenand Sea People: The Puzzle of Polynesia by Christina Thompson | How It Feels to Float by Helena Fox | Cooee Mittigar: A Song on Darug Songlines by Jasmine Seymour and Leanne Mulgo Watson (illustrator) | The Lost Arabs by Omar Sakr | Meeting the Waylo: Aboriginal Encounters in the Archipelago by Tiffany Shellam | |
2021[25] [26] [27] | The Labyrinth by Amanda Lohrey | The Stranger Artist: Life at the edge of Kimberley painting by Quentin Sprague | Metal Fish, Falling Snow by Cath Moore | Fly on the Wall by Remy Lai and How to Make a Bird by Meg McKinlay and Matt Ottley (illustrator) | The Strangest Place: New and selected poems by Stephen Edgar | People of the River: Lost worlds of early Australia by Grace Karskens | |
2022[28] [29] | Red Heaven by Nicolas Rothwell | Rogue Forces: An Explosive Insiders’ Account of Australian SAS War Crimes in Afghanistan by Mark Willacy | The Gaps by Leanne Hall | Mina and the Whole Wide World by Sherryl Clark and Briony Stewart (illustrator) | Human Looking by Andy Jackson | Semut: The Untold Story of a Secret Australian Operation in WWII Borneo by Christine Helliwell | |
2023[30] | Cold Enough for Snow by Jessica Au | My Father and Other Animals by Sam Vincent | The Greatest Thing by Sarah Winifred Searle | Open Your Heart to Country by Jasmine Seymour | At the Altar of Touch by Gavin Yuan Gao | Unmaking Angas Downs by Shannyn Palmer |
2012 | Winner | [32] | ||
---|---|---|---|---|
1835: The Founding of Melbourne and the Conquest of Australia | Finalist | [33] | ||
Breaking the Sheep's Back | ||||
Indifferent Inclusion: Aboriginal people and the Australian Nation | ||||
Renegade Films Australia | Immigration Nation: The Secret History of Us | |||
2013 | Farewell, dear people | Winner | ||
Finalist | ||||
Sandakan | ||||
Gough Whitlam | ||||
2014 | Broken Nation: Australians in the Great War | Winner | ||
Australia's Secret War: How Unionists Sabotaged Our Troops in World War II | ||||
First Victory 1914 | Finalist | [34] | ||
Arthur Phillip: Sailor, Mercenary, Governor, Spy | ||||
2015 | Charles Bean | Winner | ||
Finalist | ||||
Descent into Hell | ||||
Menzies at War | ||||
2016 | Winner | [35] | ||
and Suzanne D Rutland | Let My People Go: The untold story of Australia and the Soviet Jews 1959–89 | |||
and Valerie Munt | Red Professor: The Cold War Life of Fred Rose | Finalist | [36] | |
Ned Kelly: A Lawless Life | ||||
2017 | Atomic Thunder: The Maralinga Story | Winner | ||
Finalist | ||||
Valian for Truth: The Life of Chester Wilmot, War Correspondent | ||||
Evatt: A Life | ||||
A Handful of Sand: The Gurindji Struggle, After the Walk-off | ||||
2018 | John Curtin's War: The coming of war in the Pacific, and reinventing Australia, Volume 1 | Winner | ||
Beautiful Balts: From Displaced Persons to New Australians | Finalist | [37] | ||
Hidden in Plain View: The Aboriginal People of Coastal Sydney | ||||
Indigenous and Other Australians Since 1901 | ||||
2019 | Winner | |||
Dancing in Shadows: Histories of Nyungar Performance | Finalist | |||
Deep Time Dreaming: Uncovering Ancient Australia | ||||
You Daughters of Freedom: The Australians Who Won the Vote and Inspired the World | [38] | |||
2020 | Meeting the Waylo: Aboriginal Encounters in the Archipelago | Winner | ||
From Secret Ballot to Democracy Sausage: How Australia Got Compulsory Voting | Finalist | [39] | ||
and Peter Davies | Sludge: Disaster on Victoria's Goldfields | |||
Progressive New World: How Settler Colonialism and Transpacific Exchange Shaped American Reform | ||||
2021 | People of the River: Lost worlds of early Australia | Winner | ||
Pathfinders: A history of Aboriginal trackers in NSW | Finalist | [40] | ||
Ceremony Men: Making Ethnography and the Return of the Strehlow Collection | ||||
Representing Australian Aboriginal Music and Dance 1930-1970 | ||||
2022 | Semut: The Untold Story of a Secret Australian Operation in WWII Borneo | Winner | ||
White Russians, Red Peril: A Cold War History of Migration to Australia | Finalist | [41] | ||
Return to Uluru | ||||
Harlem Nights: The Secret History of Australia's Jazz Age | ||||
and Keryn Walshe | Farmers or Hunter-Gatherers? The Dark Emu Debate | |||
2023 | Unmaking Angas Downs: Myth and history on a Central Australian pastoral station | Winner | ||
Elizabeth and John: The Macarthurs of Elizabeth Farm | Finalist | [42] | ||
Justice in Kelly Country: The story of the cop who hunted Australia’s most notorious bushrangers | ||||
Saving the Reef: The human story behind one of Australia’s greatest environmental treasures | ||||
Black Lives, White Law: Locked up and locked out in Australia | ||||
2024 | Ryan Cropp | Donald Horne: A Life in the Lucky Country | Finalist | [43] |
Rose Ellis | Bee Miles | |||
Kate Fullagar | Bennelong and Phillip: A History Unravelled | |||
David Marr | Killing for Country: A Family Story | |||
Alecia Simmonds | Courting: An Intimate History of Love and the Law |
2010 | Star Jumps | Winner | ||
---|---|---|---|---|
Cicada Summer | Finalist | [44] | ||
, illus. by Andrew Joyner | ||||
, illus. by Terry Denton | Just Macbeth! | |||
Mr Chicken Goes to Paris | ||||
Running with the Horses | ||||
, illus. by Sally Rippin | Mannie and the Long Brave Day | |||
Tensy Farlow and the Home for Mislaid Children | ||||
, illus. by Freya Blackwood | Harry and Hopper | |||
2011 | and Jan Ormerod | Shake a Leg | Winner | |
Why I Love Australia | Finalist | [45] | ||
Flyaway | ||||
Now | ||||
April Underhill, Tooth Fairy | ||||
2012 | , illus. by Judy Watson | Goodnight, Mice! | Winner | |
Evangeline, The Wish Keeper's Helper | Finalist | |||
Father's Day | ||||
, illus. by Lucia Masciullo | Come Down, Cat! | |||
2013 | Red | Winner | ||
, illus. by Andrew Joyner | What's the Matter, Aunty May? | Finalist | [46] | |
, illus. by Anna Walker | Today We Have No Plans | |||
2014 | Silver Buttons | Winner | ||
Song for a Scarlet Runner | Finalist | |||
My Life as an Alphabet | ||||
Kissed by the Moon | ||||
Rules of Summer | ||||
2015 | , illus. by Michael Camilleri | One Minute's Silence | Winner | |
Two Wolves | Finalist | |||
, illus. by Annie White | My Dad is a Bear | |||
, illus. by Freya Blackwood | My Two Blankets | |||
Withering-by-Sea | ||||
2016 | Sister Heart | Winner | ||
Adelaide's Secret World | Finalist | |||
and Freya Blackwood | Perfect | |||
Mr Huff | ||||
2017 | Home in the Rain | Winner | ||
Dragonfly Song | [47] | |||
, illus. by Jonathan Bentley | Blue Sky, Yellow Kite | Finalist | ||
, illus. by Oliver Huxley | My Brother | |||
Figgy and the President | ||||
2018 | and Stephen Michael King | Pea Pod Lullaby | Winner | |
and Phil Lesnie | Feathers | Finalist | ||
Figgy Takes the City | ||||
and Binny Talib | Hark, It's Me, Ruby Lee! | |||
and Jane Tanner | Storm Whale | |||
2019 | His Name Was Walter | Winner | ||
, illus. by Ronak Taher | Sonam and the Silence | Finalist | ||
, illus. by Freya Blackwood | ||||
, illus. by Matt Ottley | ||||
Waiting for Chicken Smith | ||||
2020 | , illus. by Leanne Mulgo Watson | Cooee Mittigar: A Song on Darug Songlines | Winner | |
, illus. by Johanna Bell | Cheeky Dogs: To Lake Nash and Back | Finalist | ||
One Careless Night | ||||
Winter of the White Bear | ||||
Catch a Falling Star | ||||
2021 | Fly on the Wall | Winner | ||
How to Make a Bird | ||||
, illus. by Kelly Canby | Finalist | |||
2022 | , illus. by Briony Stewart | Mina and the Whole Wide World | Winner | |
Finalist | ||||
Common Wealth | ||||
Dragon Skin | ||||
, illus. by Astred Hicks | Exit Through the Gift Shop | |||
2023 | Open Your Heart to Country | Winner | ||
and Yandaarra | The Dunggiirr Brothers and the Caring Song of the Whale | Finalist | ||
Zadie Ma and the Dog Who Chased the Moon | ||||
, illus. by Maxine Beneba Clarke | 11 Words for Love | |||
My Strange Shrinking Parents | ||||
2024 | Jared Field, illus. by Jeremy Worrall | Etta and the Shadow Taboo | Finalist | |
Remy Lai | Ghost Book | |||
Rebecca Lim | Two Sparrowhawks in a Lonely Sky | |||
Alice Pung, illus. by Sher Rill Ng | Millie Mak the Maker | |||
Violet Wadrill, Topsy Dodd Ngarnjal, Leah Leaman, Cecelia Edwards, Cassandra Algy, Felicity Meakins, Briony Barr & Gregory Crocetti | Tamarra: A Story of Termites on Gurindji Country |
2008 | Winner | |||
---|---|---|---|---|
Sorry | Finalist | [48] | ||
Burning In | ||||
Jamaica | ||||
El Dorado | ||||
2009 | Winner | [49] | ||
Finalist | ||||
People of the Book | ||||
Wanting | ||||
Everything I Knew | ||||
One Foot Wrong | ||||
2010 | Dog Boy | Winner | ||
Summertime | Finalist | |||
Ransom | ||||
Lovesong | ||||
As the Earth Turns Silver | ||||
2011 | Traitor | Winner | ||
Notorious | Finalist | |||
When Colts Ran | ||||
Glissando | ||||
That Deadman Dance | ||||
2012 | Foal's Bread | Winner | ||
All That I Am | Finalist | [50] | ||
Sarah Thornhill | ||||
Forecast: Turbulence | ||||
Autumn Laing | ||||
2013 | Questions of Travel | Winner | ||
Floundering | Finalist | |||
Lost Voices | ||||
Mateship with Birds | ||||
2014 | Winner | |||
[51] | ||||
The Night Guest | Finalist | |||
Coal Creek | ||||
Belomor | ||||
2015 | Winner | |||
Amnesia | Finalist | |||
In Certain Circles | ||||
Golden Boys | ||||
To Name Those Lost | ||||
2016 | Winner | |||
Forever Young | Finalist | |||
Quicksand | ||||
2017 | Their Brilliant Careers | Winner | ||
Finalist | ||||
Waiting | ||||
Extinctions | ||||
2018 | Border Districts | Winner | ||
Finalist | [52] | |||
First Person | ||||
Taboo | ||||
2019 | Winner | |||
Finalist | ||||
Too Much Lip | [53] | |||
Saudade | ||||
Beautiful Revolutionary | ||||
2020 | Winner | |||
Finalist | ||||
Exploded View | ||||
Wolfe Island | ||||
2021 | The Labyrinth | Winner | ||
Finalist | ||||
In the Time of Foxes | ||||
Lucky's | ||||
The Bass Rock | ||||
2022 | Red Heaven | Winner | ||
Dark as Last Night | Finalist | |||
Devotion | ||||
Night Blue | ||||
2023 | Cold Enough for Snow | Winner | ||
The Sun Walks Down | Finalist | |||
Losing Face | ||||
Other Houses | ||||
The Lovers | ||||
2024 | André Dao | Anam | Finalist | |
Kate Grenville | Restless Dolly Maunder | |||
Melissa Lucashenko | Edenglassie | |||
Catherine McNamara | The Carnal Fugues | |||
Charlotte Wood | Stone Yard Devotional |
2008 | Ochre and Rust: Artefacts and Encounters on Australian Frontiers | Winner | ||
---|---|---|---|---|
Napoleon: The Path to Power, 1769–1799 | Finalist | |||
with Robert Hillman | My Life as a Traitor | |||
Shakespeare's Wife | ||||
Cultural Amnesia: Notes in the Margin of My Time | ||||
2009 | House of Exile: The Life and Times of Heinrich Mann and Nelly-Kroeger Mann | Winner | ||
and Henry Reynolds | Drawing the Global Colour Line | |||
Van Diemen's Land | Finalist | |||
Doing Life: A Biography of Elizabeth Jolley | ||||
Gough Whitlam: A Moment in History | ||||
American Journeys | ||||
2010 | Winner | |||
Finalist | ||||
Strange Places: A Memoir of Mental Illness | ||||
2011 | Winner | |||
Sydney | Finalist | |||
How To Make Gravy | ||||
Claude Lévi-Strauss: The Poet in the Laboratory | ||||
2012 | Winner | |||
Finalist | ||||
Michael Kirby Paradoxes and Principles | ||||
Kinglake-350 | ||||
When Horse Became Saw | ||||
2013 | Winner | |||
Bradman's War | Finalist | |||
Uncommon Soldier | ||||
Plein Airs and Graces | ||||
Bold Palates | ||||
2014 | Moving Among Strangers | Winner | ||
Madeleine: A Life of Madeleine St John | ||||
Finalist | ||||
Citizen Emperor | ||||
Rendezvous with Destiny | ||||
2015 | John Olsen: An Artist's Life | Winner | ||
Private Bill | Finalist | |||
Encountering the Pacific: In the Age of Enlightenment | ||||
Wild Bleak Bohemia: Marcus Clarke, Adam Lindsay Gordon and Henry Kendall | ||||
2016 | On Stalin's Team: The Years of Living Dangerously in Soviet Politics | Winner | ||
Thea Astley: Inventing her own Weather | ||||
Tom Roberts and the Art of Portraiture | Finalist | |||
Second Half First | ||||
Island Home | ||||
2017 | Quicksilver | Winner | ||
Mick: A Life of Randolph Stow | Finalist | |||
Our Man Elsewhere: In Search of Alan Moorehead | ||||
2018 | Asia's Reckoning | Winner | ||
Mischka's War: A European Odyssey of the 1940s | Finalist | |||
No Front Line: Australia's Special Forces at War in Afghanistan | ||||
and Jessica Halloran | Unbreakable | |||
2019 | and Tanya Dalziell | Half the Perfect World: Writers, Dreamers and Drifters on Hydra, 1955–1964 | Winner | |
Finalist | ||||
Rusted Off: Why Country Australia Is Fed Up | ||||
Axiomatic | [54] | |||
2020 | Gay'Wu Group of Women | Songspirals: Sharing Women's Wisdom of Country through Songlines | Winner | |
Sea People: The Puzzle of Polynesia | ||||
Finalist | ||||
See What You Made Me Do | ||||
Hearing Maud: A Journey for a Voice | ||||
2021 | Winner | |||
Flight Lines: Across the Globe on a Journey with the Astonishing Ultramarathon Birds | Finalist | |||
Truganini: Journey Through the Apocalypse | ||||
2022 | Rogue Forces: An Explosive Insiders' Account of Australian SAS War Crimes in Afghanistan | Winner | ||
Title Fight: How the Yindjibarndi Battled and Defeated a Mining Giant | Finalist | |||
The Case That Stopped a Nation: The Archibald Prize controversy of 1944 | ||||
Puff Piece | ||||
Another Day in the Colony | ||||
2023 | My Father and Other Animals: How I took on the family farm | Winner | ||
Shirley Hazzard: A writing life | Finalist | |||
We Come With This Place | ||||
Indelible City: Dispossession and defiance in Hong Kong | ||||
A World in a Shell: Snail stories for a time of extinctions | ||||
2024 | Daniel Browning | Close to the Subject: Selected Works | Finalist | |
Sarah Firth | Eventually Everything Connects | |||
Maggie MacKellar | Graft: Motherhood, Family and a Year on the Land | |||
Alex Miller | A Kind of Confession | |||
Harry Saddler | A Clear Flowing Yarra |
2012 | Interferon Psalms | Winner | ||
---|---|---|---|---|
Ashes in the Air | Finalist | |||
Armour | ||||
Southern Barbarians | ||||
New and Selected Poems | ||||
2013 | Jam Tree Gully: Poems | Winner | ||
Burning Rice | Finalist | |||
Liquid Nitrogen | ||||
Crimson Crop | ||||
2014 | Drag Down to Unlock or Place an Emergency Call | Winner | ||
Tempo | Finalist | |||
Eldershaw | ||||
1953 | ||||
Chains of Snow | ||||
2015 | Poems 1957–2013 | Winner | ||
Devadatta's Poems | Finalist | |||
Exhibits of the Sun | ||||
Earth Hour | ||||
Towards the Equator: New & Selected Poems | ||||
2016 | Winner | |||
Net Needle | Finalist | |||
Cocky's Joy | ||||
Waiting for the Past | ||||
2017 | Headwaters | Winner | ||
Painting Red Orchids | Finalist | [55] | ||
Year of the Wasp | ||||
Content | ||||
Fragments | ||||
2018 | Blindness and Rage: A Phantasmagoria | Winner | ||
Archipelago | Finalist | |||
Chatelaine | ||||
Domestic Interior | ||||
Transparencies | ||||
2019 | Sun Music: New and Selected Poems | Winner | ||
Click Here For What We Do | Finalist | |||
Newcastle Sonnets | ||||
Viva the Real | ||||
BlakWork | ||||
2020 | Winner | [56] | ||
П. O. | Heide | Finalist | ||
Empirical | ||||
Birth Plan | ||||
2021 | Winner | |||
Homer Street | Finalist | |||
Change Machine | ||||
Shorter Lives | ||||
Nothing to Declare | ||||
2022 | Human Looking | Winner | ||
Fifteeners | Finalist | |||
Dancing with Stephen Hawking | ||||
Fish Work | ||||
Homecoming | ||||
2023 | At the Altar of Touch | Winner | ||
Harvest Lingo | Finalist | |||
Exactly As I Am | ||||
The Jaguar | ||||
Clean | ||||
2024 | Luke Beesley | In the Photograph | Finalist | |
Amy Crutchfield | The Cyprian | |||
Ali Cobby Eckermann | She Is the Earth | |||
Jennifer Maiden | Golden Bridge: New Poems | |||
Autumn Royal | The Drama Student |
2010 | Confessions of a Liar, Thief and Failed Sex God | Winner | ||
---|---|---|---|---|
Stolen | Finalist | |||
Swerve | ||||
Jarvis 24 | ||||
Beatle Meets Destiny | ||||
2011 | Graffiti Moon | Winner | ||
Good Oil | Finalist | |||
About a Girl | ||||
2012 | When We Were Two | Winner | ||
Finalist | ||||
Being Here | ||||
Pan's Whisper | ||||
Alaska | ||||
2013 | Fog a Dox | Winner | ||
Everything Left Unsaid | Finalist | |||
Grace Beside Me | ||||
Friday Brown | ||||
2014 | Winner | |||
Pureheart | Finalist | |||
Girl Defective | ||||
Life in Outer Space | ||||
2015 | Winner | |||
Are You Seeing Me? | Finalist | |||
Tigers on the Beach | ||||
2016 | Winner | |||
Becoming Kirrali Lewis | Finalist | |||
and Jay Kristoff | Illuminae: The Illuminae Files_01 | |||
In Between Days | ||||
Green Valentine | ||||
2017 | Words in Deep Blue | Winner | ||
Finalist | ||||
Forgetting Foster | ||||
One Would Think Deep | ||||
2018 | This Is My Song | Winner | ||
Living on Hope Street | Finalist | |||
My Lovely Frankie | ||||
Ruben | ||||
2019 | Winner | |||
Between Us | Finalist | |||
Lenny's Book of Everything | ||||
Cicada | ||||
2020 | How It Feels to Float | Winner | ||
Finalist | ||||
When the Ground Is Hard | ||||
This Is How We Change the Ending | ||||
2021 | Metal Fish, Falling Snow | Winner | ||
Finalist | ||||
When Rain Turns to Snow | ||||
Loner | ||||
2022 | Winner | |||
Still Alive: Notes from Australia's Immigration Detention System | Finalist | |||
100 Remarkable Feats of Xander Maz | ||||
Tiger Daughter | ||||
Tell Me Why (For Young Adults) | ||||
2023 | The Greatest Thing | Winner | ||
Sugar | Finalist | |||
Ask No Questions | ||||
The Upwelling | ||||
What We All Saw | ||||
2024 | Karen Comer | Grace Notes | Finalist | |
Melissa Kang & Yumi Stynes | Welcome to Sex | |||
Will Kostakis | We Could Be Something | |||
Gary Lonesborough | We Didn't Think It Through | |||
Lili Wilkinson | A Hunger of Thorns |