Queensland Literary Awards

Australian literary awards

Queensland Literary Awards

Location| Brisbane
Country| Australia
First award| 4 September 2012 (2012-09-04)
Website| www.qldliteraryawards.org.au

The Queensland Literary Awards is an awards program established in 2012 by the Queensland literary community, funded by sponsors and administered by the State Library of Queensland. Like the former Queensland Premier's Literary Awards, the QLAs celebrate and promote outstanding Australian writing. The awards aim to seek out, recognize and nurture great talent in Australian writing. They draw national and international attention to some of our best writers and to Queensland's recognition of outstanding Australian literature and publishing.

These awards have a focus on supporting new writing through the Emerging Queensland Writer – Manuscript Award and Unpublished Indigenous writer – David Unaipon Award. "They give local writers and new writers something to aspire to."[1]

## History

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The Queensland Literary Awards was established by a not-for-profit association of passionate Queensland volunteers and advocates for literature, in response to Queensland Premier Campbell Newman disestablishing the Queensland Premier's Literary Awards in 2012.[2]

In 2012 and 2013 the program was run by a volunteer workforce. Following consultation with the QLA Inc. governing committee, 2014 saw the management of the QLA transition to State Library of Queensland (SLQ). While SLQ took on a leadership role in delivering the program, the aim was to continue to build on the existing collaborative model where the community and writing sector partners are key stakeholders.

The original Premier's awards were established by Peter Beattie, the then Premier of Queensland in 1998 and first awarded in 1999.[3]

## Award categories

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There are currently twelve award categories including:

* Queensland Premier's Award for a work of State Significance
* Queensland Premier's Young Publishers and Writers Award
* Queensland Writers Fellowships
* The University of Queensland Fiction Book Award
* The University of Queensland Non-Fiction Book Award
* Young Adult Book Award
* Children's Book Award
* University of Southern Queensland Steele Rudd Award for a Short Story Collection
* Judith Wright Calanthe Award for a Poetry Collection
* David Unaipon Award for an Emerging Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Writer
* Glendower Award for an Emerging Queensland Writer
* The Courier-Mail People's Choice Queensland Book of the Year

## Judging

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The awards are judged by independent panels of writers, critics, journalists, academics and booksellers. They are presented to works the judges determine possess the highest literary merit.

## Winners

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### 2024

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The shortlist was announced on 1 August 2024.[4] Winners were announced on 5 September 2024.[5]

List of 2024 Queensland Literary Awards Recipients Category  | Author  | Title  | Result

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Queensland Premier's Award for a Work of State Significance  | Melissa Lucashenko | Edenglassie | Winner
Graham Akhurst  | Borderland   | Finalist
Kris Kneen  | Fat Girl Dancing
J. M. Tolcher  | Poof
Ellen van Neerven | Personal Score: Sport, Culture, Identity
The University of Queensland Non-Fiction Book Award  | Abbas El-Zein | Bullet, Paper, Rock: A Memoir of Words and Wars | Winner
James Bradley | Deep Water: The World In the Ocean | Finalist
Bonny Cassidy  | Monument
Antony Loewenstein | The Palestine Laboratory: How Israel Exports the Technology of Occupation Around the World
Ellen van Neerven | Personal Score: Sport, Culture, Identity
The University of Queensland Fiction Book Award  | Sharlene Allsopp  | The Great Undoing | Winner
Katherine Brabon  | Body Friend | Finalist
Yumna Kassab | Politica
Siang Lu  | Ghost Cities
Melissa Lucashenko | Edenglassie
Young Adult Book Award  | sydney khoo  | The Spider and Her Demons | Winner
Graham Akhurst  | Borderland | Finalist
Barry Jonsberg | Smoke & Mirrors
Will Kostakis | We Could Be Something
Ann Liang | I Hope This Doesn't Find You
Children's Book Award  | Karen Comer  | Sunshine on Vinegar Street | Winner
Trace Balla | Leaf-light | Finalist
Peter Carnavas  | Leo and Ralph
Jaclyn Moriarty, illustrated by Kelly Canby  | The Impossible Secret of Lillian Velvet
Blake Nuto  | When You're a Boy
Steele Rudd Award for a Short Story Collection  | John Morrissey  | Firelight | Winner
David Cohen  | The Terrible Event | Finalist
Magdalena McGuire  | Born For You
Laura Jean McKay | Gunflower
John Richards  | The Gorgon Flower
Judith Wright Calanthe Award for a Poetry Collection  | L. K. Holt  | Three Books | Winner
Manisha Anjali  | Naag Mountain | Finalist
Jarad Bruinstroop  | Reliefs
Mitchell Welch  | Vehicular Man
Petra White | That Galloping Horse
The Courier-Mail People's Choice Queensland Book of the Year Award  | Carly-Jay Metcalfe  | Breath | Winner
Sharlene Allsopp  | The Great Undoing | Finalist
Melissa Ashley | The Naturalist of Amsterdam
Wendy Cooper  | The Bird Art of William T. Cooper
Anna Jacobson  | How to Knit a Human
Grantlee Kieza  | The Remarkable Mrs Reibey
Siang Lu  | Ghost Cities
Anna McGahan  | Immaculate
David Unaipon Award for an Emerging Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander Writer  | Dominic Guerrera  | Native Rage | Winner
Chella Goldwin  | Politics | Finalist
Lulu Houdini  | River Page
Queensland Writers Fellowships  | Jarad Bruinstroop  | "For the Duration"  | Winner
Sarah Kanake  | "Lazarus; or, The Whale"
Cheryl Leavy  | "Mudhunda—Song Country"
Glendower Award for Emerging Queensland Author  | Emily Lighezzolo  | Life Drawing | Winner
Myles McGuire  | Tender Age | Finalist
Nicky Peelgrane  | EndGain
Lillian Telford  | Lovesick
Queensland Premier’s Young Publishers and Writers Award  | Gavin Yuan Gao   | Winner
Myles McGuire
Wallea Eaglehawk  | Finalist

### 2023

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The winners were announced on 6 September 2023.[6]

List of 2023 Queensland Literary Awards Recipients Category  | Author  | Title  | Result

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Queensland Premier's Award for a Work of State Significance  | Sarah Holland-Batt | The Jaguar | Winner
Debra Dank | We Come With This Place | Finalist
Kate Foster  | The Bravest Word
Sally Piper  | Bone Memories
Alexis Wright | Praiseworthy
The Courier-Mail People's Choice Queensland Book of the Year Award  | Sita Walker  | The God of No Good | Winner
Debra Dank | We Come With This Place | Finalist
Veronica Lando  | The Whispering
Kate Morton | Homecoming
Sally Piper  | Bone Memories
Holly Ringland | The Seven Skins of Esther Wilding
Marion Stell  | The Bodyline Fix
Penny van Oosterzee  | Cloud Land
The University of Queensland Fiction Book Award  | Alexis Wright | Praiseworthy | Winner
Geraldine Brooks | Horse | Finalist
Fiona McFarlane | The Sun Walks Down
Michael Meehan  | An Ungrateful Instrument
Shaun Prescott  | Bon and Lesley
The University of Queensland Non-Fiction Book Award  | Debra Dank | We Come With This Place | Winner
Joëlle Gergis | Humanity’s Moment | Finalist
Louisa Lim | Indelible City
Anna Spargo-Ryan | A Kind of Magic
Sam Wallman | Our Members Be Unlimited
Judith Wright Calanthe Award for a Poetry Collection  | Lionel Fogarty | Harvest Lingo | Winner
Michael Farrell | Googlecholia | Finalist
Autumn Royal  | The Drama Student
Simon Tedeschi | Fugitive
Rae White | Exactly As I Am
University of Southern Queensland Steele Rudd Award for a Short Story Collection  | Katerina Gibson  | Women I Know | Winner
Paul Dalla Rosa  | An Exciting and Vivid Inner Life | Finalist
Else Fitzgerald  | Everything Feels Like the End of the World
Chris Flynn | Here Be Leviathans
Griffith University Young Adult Book Award  | Biffy James  | Completely Normal (and Other Lies) | Winner
Helena Fox  | The Quiet and the Loud | Finalist
Nina Kenwood  | Unnecessary Drama
Ann Liang  | If You Could See the Sun
Jared Thomas | My Spare Heart
Children's Book Award  | Katrina Nannestad | Waiting for the Storks | Winner
Zana Fraillon | The Way of Dog | Finalist
Bob Graham | Jigsaw: A Puzzle in the Post
Hakea Hustler, Carl Merrison & Samantha Campbell  | My Deadly Boots
Gabrielle Wang | Zadie Ma and the Dog Who Chased the Moon
Queensland Premier's Young Publishers and Writers Award  | Jasmin McGaughey  | Winner
Jonathan O'Brien
Myles McGuire  | Finalist
Alex Philp
Sean West
Queensland Writers Fellowships  | Al Campbell  | Door 64 | Winner
B. R. Dionysius | The Eromanga Sea
Melanie Saward  | The Next Chapter
Glendower Award for Emerging Queensland Author  | Steve MinOn  | First Name, Second Name | Winner
Fernanda Dahlstrom  | The See-Saw | Finalist
Sandra Minke  | Treasure
Margot Shave  | Exchange Me
David Unaipon Award for an Emerging Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Writer  | Maria van Neerven  | To Give Them a Voice | Winner
Lulu Houdini  | guniimara | Finalist
Brooke Scobie   | Always and Again

### 2022

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The winners were announced on 8 September 2022.[7][8]

List of 2022 Queensland Literary Awards Recipients Category  | Author  | Title  | Result

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Queensland Premier's Award for a Work of State Significance  | Quentin Beresford  | Wounded Country: The Murray-Darling Basin – a contested history | Winner
Sara El Sayed  | Muddy People | Finalist
Mirandi Riwoe | The Burnished Sun
John Shobbrook  | Operation Jungle
Chelsea Watego | Another Day in the Colony
The Courier-Mail People's Choice Queensland Book of the Year Award  | Chelsea Watego | Another Day in the Colony | Winner
Ed Ayres | Whole Notes | Finalist
Al Campbell  | The Keepers
Sara El Sayed  | Muddy People
Anita Heiss | Bila Yarrudhanggalangdhuray
Krissy Kneen | The Three Burials of Lotty Kneen
Nicolas Rothwell | Red Heaven
Dime Sheppard  | Crime Writer
The University of Queensland Fiction Book Award  | Michael Mohammed Ahmad | The Other Half of You | Winner
Jessica Au | Cold Enough for Snow | Finalist
Mandy Beaumont  | The Furies
Al Campbell  | The Keepers
Yumna Kassab | Australiana
The University of Queensland Non-Fiction Book Award  | Claire G. Coleman | Lies, Damned Lies | Winner
Sara El Sayed  | Muddy People | Finalist
Amani Haydar  | The Mother Wound
Krissy Kneen | The Three Burials of Lotty Kneen |
Chelsea Watego | Another Day in the Colony |
Judith Wright Calanthe Award for a Poetry Collection  | Pam Brown | Stasis Shuffle | Winner
Eunice Andrada  | Take Care | Finalist
Dan Disney  | accelerations & inertias
Gavin Yuan Gao  | At the Altar of Touch
Ann Vickery  | Bees Do Both: An antagonist’s carepack
University of Southern Queensland Steele Rudd Award for a Short Story Collection  | Tony Birch | Dark as Last Night | Winner
Merlinda Bobis | The Kindness of Birds | Finalist
Mirandi Riwoe | The Burnished Sun
Fiona Robertson  | If You’re Happy
Su-May Tan  | Lake Malibu and Other Stories
Griffith University Young Adult Book Award  | Felicity Castagna | Girls in Boys’ Cars | Winner
Brian Falkner | Katipo Joe: Wolf’s lair | Finalist
Michael Hyde  | Morrison and Mr Moore
Kay Kerr  | Social Queue
Carly Nugent  | Sugar
Children's Book Award  | Kunyi June Anne McInerney  | Kunyi | Winner
Peter Carnavas  | My Brother Ben | Finalist
Shirley Marr  | A Glasshouse of Stars
Sandhya Parappukkaran, illus by Michelle Pereira  | The Boy Who Tried to Shrink His Name
Corey Tutt, illus by Blak Douglas | The First Scientists
Queensland Premier's Young Publishers and Writers Award  | Rebecca Cheers and Marilena Hewitt  | Winner
Queensland Writers Fellowships  | Melissa Ashley, Geneve Flynn and Mary-Rose MacColl | Winner
Glendower Award for Emerging Queensland Author  | Yen-Rong Wong  | Things Left Unsaid | Winner
John Richards  | The Interventions | Finalist
A E Macleod  | Do you like the artist Georgia O’Keeffe?
Emily Winter  | Sunshowers
David Unaipon Award for an Emerging Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Writer  | Mykaela Saunders  | Always Will Be – stories of Goori sovereignty, from the future(s) of the Tweed | Winner
Edoardo Crismani  | Finding Billy Brown | Finalist
Julie-Ann ‘Garrimaa’ Moore  | Wawun, Judulu and The Big Storm
Rick Slager  | Untitled
Aunty Joan Tranter  | Unplanned Journey: A personal account of one Indigenous woman’s life

### 2021

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The winners were announced on 9 September 2021.[9]

List of 2021 Queensland Literary Awards Recipients Category  | Author  | Title  | Result

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Queensland Premier's Award for a Work of State Significance  | Fiona Foley | Biting the Clouds: A Badtjala perspective on the Aboriginals Protection and Restriction of the Sale of Opium Act, 1897 | Winner
Lech Blaine  | Car Crash | Finalist
Laura Elvery | Ordinary Matter
Pattie Lees with Adam C Lees  | A Question of Colour
Jaya Savige | Change Machine
The Courier-Mail People's Choice Queensland Book of the Year Award  | Mary Li  | Mary’s Last Dance: The untold story of the wife of Mao’s Last Dancer | Winner
Trent Dalton | All Our Shimmering Skies | Finalist
Sandra Hogan  | With My Little Eye
Kathleen Jennings  | Flyaway
Susan Johnson | From Where I Fell
Grantlee Kieza  | Banks
Pattie Lees with Adam C Lees  | A Question of Colour: My journey to belonging
A G Slatter  | All the Murmuring Bones
The University of Queensland Fiction Book Award  | Nardi Simpson | Song of the Crocodile | Winner
Kavita Bedford  | Friends & Dark Shapes | Finalist
S L Lim  | Revenge
Amanda Lohrey | The Labyrinth
Charlotte McConaghy  | Migrations
The University of Queensland Non-Fiction Book Award  | Luke Stegemann  | Amnesia Road: Landscape, violence and memory | Winner
Lech Blaine  | Car Crash | Finalist
Eleanor Hogan  | Into the Loneliness
Henry Reynolds | Truth-Telling
Marian Wilkinson | The Carbon Club
Judith Wright Calanthe Award for a Poetry Collection  | Ouyang Yu | Terminally Poetic | Winner
Evelyn Araluen | Dropbear | Finalist
Benjamin Dodds  | Airplane Baby Banana Blanket
Jaya Savige | Change Machine
Elfie Shiosaki | Homecoming
University of Southern Queensland Steele Rudd Award for a Short Story Collection  | Laura Elvery | Ordinary Matter | Winner
Melissa Manning  | Smokehouse | Finalist
Elizabeth Tan  | Smart Ovens for Lonely People
Adam Thompson  | Born Into This
Barry Lee Thompson  | Broken Rules and Other Stories
Griffith University Young Adult Book Award  | Cath Moore  | Metal Fish, Falling Snow | Winner
Davina Bell | The End of the World is Bigger Than Love | Finalist
Rebecca Lim  | Tiger Daughter
Gary Lonesborough  | The Boy From the Mish
Lili Wilkinson | The Erasure Initiative
Griffith University Children's Book Award  | Kirli Saunders & Dub Leffler  | Bindi | Winner
Sami Bayly  | The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Dangerous Animals | Finalist
Meg McKinlay, illus by Matt Ottley  | How to Make a Bird
Jaclyn Moriarty, illus by Kelly Canby  | The Stolen Prince of Cloudburst
Katrina Nannestad, illus by Martina Heiduczek  | We Are Wolves
Queensland Premier's Young Publishers and Writers Award  | Allanah Hunt and Ellen Wengert  | Winner
Queensland Writers Fellowships  | Tabitha Bird, Ella Jeffery, and Kali Napier  | Winner
Glendower Award for Emerging Queensland Author  | Siang Lu  | The Whitewash | Winner
Jason Gent  | On the Exhale | Finalist
Natalie Sprite  | The Luminous Heart
Lillian Telford  | It’s Chemical
David Unaipon Award for an Emerging Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Writer  | Ngankiburka-mekauwe (Senior Woman of Water) Georgina Williams  | Mekauwe=Tears Volume #1 Poems (Notes For Song) 1970–2020 | Winner
Chella Goldwin  | Politiks | Finalist

### 2020

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The winners were announced on 4 September 2020.[10]

List of 2020 Queensland Literary Awards Recipients Category  | Author  | Title  | Result

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Queensland Premier's Award for a Work of State Significance  | Joe Gorman  | Heartland: How Rugby League Explains Queensland | Winner
Melanie Myers  | Meet Me at Lennon’s | Finalist
Mirandi Riwoe | Stone Sky Gold Mountain
Jessica White  | Hearing Maud
The Courier-Mail People's Choice Queensland Book of the Year Award  | Tabitha Bird  | A Lifetime of Impossible Days | Winner
Phil Brown  | The Kowloon Kid | Finalist
Margaret Cook  | A River with a City Problem
Darryl Jones  | Feeding the Birds at Your Table
Melanie Myers  | Meet Me at Lennon's
Amanda Niehaus  | The Breeding Season
Mirandi Riwoe | Stone Sky Gold Mountain
Jessica White  | Hearing Maud
The University of Queensland Fiction Book Award  | Mirandi Riwoe | Stone Sky Gold Mountain | Winner
Anna Krien | Act of Grace | Finalist
Philip Salom | The Returns
Ronnie Scott  | The Adversary
Tara June Winch | The Yield
The University of Queensland Non-Fiction Book Award  | Helen Ennis  | Olive Cotton: A Life in Photography | Winner
James Dunk  | Bedlam at Botany Bay | Finalist
Brenda Niall | Friends and Rivals
Cassandra Pybus | Truganini: Journey Through the Apocalypse
Arnold Zable | The Watermill
Judith Wright Calanthe Award for a Poetry Collection  | П. O. | Heide | Winner
Peter Boyle | Enfolded in the Wings of a Great Darkness | Finalist
Stuart Cooke  | Lyre
Ellen van Neerven | Throat
Charmaine Papertalk Green | Nganajungu Yagu
University of Southern Queensland Steele Rudd Award for a Short Story Collection  | Joey Bui  | Lucky Ticket | Winner
Alice Bishop  | A Constant Hum | Finalist
Yumna Kassab | The House of Youssef
Sean O’Beirne  | A Couple of Things Before the End
Josephine Rowe  | Here Until August
Griffith University Young Adult Book Award  | Lisa Fuller  | Ghost Bird | Winner
Sarah Epstein  | Deep Water | Finalist
Eliza Henry-Jones  | How to Grow a Family Tree
Nina Kenwood  | It Sounded Better in My Head
Vikki Wakefield | This Is How We Change the Ending
Griffith University Children's Book Award  | Penny Tangey  | As Fast As I Can | Winner
Tristan Bancks | Detention | Finalist
Tamsin Janu  | Winston and the Wondrous Wooba Gymnastics Club
Jess McGeachin  | Fly
Caroline Magerl  | Nop
Queensland Premier's Young Publishers and Writers Award  | Zenobia Frost and Yen-Rong Wong  | Winner
Queensland Writers Fellowships  | Sara El Sayed, Anna Jacobson and Amanda Niehaus  | Winner
Glendower Award for Emerging Queensland Author  | Fiona Robertson  | If You're Happy | Winner
Bianca Millroy  | The Solitary Light | Finalist
Jonathan O’Brien  | Daddy & Other Father Figures
Jenny Ruge  | Without a Word
Siall Waterbright  | As We Knew It
David Unaipon Award for an Emerging Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Writer  | Jazz Money  | The Space Between the Paperbark | Winner
Boyd Quakawoot  | Valley of Cane and Crows | Finalist
Mykaela Saunders  | Last Rites of Spring
Melanie Saward  | Burn

### 2019

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The winners were announced on 12 November 2019.[11]

List of 2019 Queensland Literary Awards Recipients Category  | Author  | Title  | Result

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Queensland Premier's Award for a Work of State Significance  | Melissa Lucashenko | Too Much Lip | Winner
Matthew Condon | The Night Dragon | Finalist
Trent Dalton | Boy Swallows Universe
Jake Goetz  | meditations with passing water
Krissy Kneen | Wintering
The Courier-Mail People's Choice Queensland Book of the Year Award  | Lindsay Simpson | Adani, Following Its Dirty Footsteps: A Personal Story | Winner
Toni Risson  | Brisbane’s Greek Cafes: A Million Malted Milks | Finalist
Trent Dalton | Boy Swallows Universe
James Halford  | Requiem with Yellow Butterflies: A Memoir
Krissy Kneen | Wintering
Melissa Lucashenko | Too Much Lip
Rick Searle  | Charles Ulm
Rohan Wilson | Daughter of Bad Times
University of Queensland Fiction Book Award  | Carrie Tiffany | Exploded View | Winner
Nigel Featherstone  | Bodies of Men | Finalist
Melissa Lucashenko | Too Much Lip
Kristina Olsson | Shell
Rohan Wilson | Daughter of Bad Times
University of Queensland Non-Fiction Book Award  | Mary Hoban  | An Unconventional Wife: The Life of Julia Sorell Arnold | Winner
Alice Gorman | Dr Space Junk vs The Universe: Archaeology and the future | Finalist
Stuart Kells  | Shakespeare’s Library: Unlocking the greatest mystery in literature
Harry Saddler  | The Eastern Curlew
Christina Thompson | Sea People: The puzzle of Polynesia
University of Southern Queensland History Book Award  | Mary Hoban  | An Unconventional Wife: The Life of Julia Sorell Arnold | Winner
Judith Brett | From Secret Ballot to Democracy Sausage: How Australia got compulsory voting | Finalist
Kate Legge  | Kindred: A Cradle Mountain love story
Elizabeth Malcolm and Dianne Hall  | A New History of the Irish in Australia
Clare Wright | You Daughters of Freedom: The Australians who won the vote and inspired the world
State Library of Queensland Poetry Collection – Judith Wright Calanthe Award  | Alison Whittaker | Blakwork | Winner
Liam Ferney  | Hot Take | Finalist
Keri Glastonbury  | Newcastle Sonnet
Marjon Mossammaparast  | That Sight
Omar Sakr | The Lost Arabs
University of Southern Queensland Australian Short Story Collection – Steele Rudd Award  | Debra Adelaide | Zebra: And Other Stories | Winner
Robert Drewe | The True Colour of the Sea | Finalist
Ryan O'Neill | The Drover's Wives
Griffith University Young Adult Book Award  | Karen Foxlee | Lenny’s Book of Everything | Winner
Sarah Epstein  | Small Spaces | Finalist
Helena Fox  | How it Feels to Float
Steven Herrick | The Bogan Mondrian
Ambelin Kwaymullina and Ezekiel Kwaymullina  | Catching Teller Crow
Griffith University Children's Book Award  | Jaclyn Moriarty | The Slightly Alarming Tale of the Whispering Wars | Winner
Lorraine Marwood  | Leave Taking | Finalist
Carl Merrison and Hakea Hustler  | Black Cockatoo
Emily Rodda | His Name was Walter
Margaret Wild and Mandy Ord | Chalk Boy
Queensland Premier's Young Publishers and Writers Awards  | Ella Jeffery and Ellen van Neerven | Winner
Queensland Writers Fellowships  | Claire Christian, Sarah Holland-Batt and Emily O'Grady  | Winner
Glendower Award for Emerging Queensland Author for unpublished manuscript  | Rhiannon Ratcliffe Wilde  | Henry Hamlet’s Heart | Winner
Sue Goldstiver  | Little Birds | Finalist
Karen Hollands  | The Still Point of Being
Jack Lio  | Apparitions
Unpublished Indigenous Writer – David Unaipon Award  | Not awarded.
QUT Digital Literature Award  | Mez Breeze | V[R]ignettes | Winner
Eda Gunaydin  | Gothic Body, in Two Parts | Finalist
Benjamin Laird  | Psychometric Researches
C B Mako and M J Flamiano  | ITERATION – Part 3/Chapter 3
Jason Nelson  | The Wonders of Lost Trajectories

### 2018

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List of 2018 Queensland Literary Awards Recipients[12] Category  | Author  | Title  | Result

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Queensland Premier's Award for a Work of State Significance  | Jackie Ryan  | We'll Show the World: Expo 88 | Winner
Benjamin Allmon and David Kelly  | The Saltwater Story | Finalist
Anna Broinowski | Please Explain
Barbara Miller  | White Woman Black Heart: Journey Home to Old Mapoon
Beth Wilson  | Brisbane Houses with Garden
The Courier Mail People's Choice Queensland Book of the Year Award – Brisbane Houses with Gardens, Beth Wilson  | Beth Wilson  | Brisbane Houses with Gardens | Winner
Venero Armanno  | Burning Down | Finalist
Eddie Ayres | Danger Music
Ben Hobson  | To Become a Whale
Emily O'Grady  | The Yellow House
Holly Ringland | The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart
Jackie Ryan  | We'll Show the World: Expo 88
Charlie Veron | A Life Underwater
University of Queensland Fiction Book Award  | Kim Scott | Taboo | Winner
Robbie Arnott | Flames | Finalist
Shokoofeh Azar | The Enlightenment of the Greengage Tree
Mirandi Riwoe | The Fish Girl
Tim Winton | The Shepherd's Hut
University of Queensland Non-Fiction Book Award  | Alexis Wright | Tracker | Winner
Judith Brett    | The Enigmatic Mr Deakin | Finalist
Phillipa McGuinness  | The Year Everything Changed: 2001
Charles Massy  | Call of the Reed Warbler: A New Agriculture — A New Earth
Michael Pembroke  | Korea: Where the American Century Began
University of Southern Queensland History Book Award  | Jackie Ryan  | We'll Show the World: Expo 88 | Winner
Judith Brett | The Enigmatic Mr Deakin | Finalist
Billy Griffiths | Deep Time Dreaming: Uncovering Ancient Australia
Jayne Persian  | Beautiful Balts: From Displaced Persons to New Australians
Christina Twomey | The Battle Within: POWs in Postwar Australia
State Library of Queensland Poetry Collection – Judith Wright Calanthe Award  | Michael Farrell | I Love Poetry | Winner
Pam Brown | click here for what we do | Finalist
Bonny Cassidy  | Chatelaine
Oscar Schwartz  | The Honeymoon Stage
Bella Li   | Lost Lake
University of Southern Queensland Australian Short Story Collection – Steele Rudd Award  | Jennifer Down | Pulse Points | Winner
Claire Aman    | Bird Country | Finalist
Tony Birch | Common People
Stephanie Buckle  | Habits of Silence
Laura Elvery | Trick of the Light
Griffith University Young Adult Book Award  | Cally Black | In the Dark Spaces | Winner
Victoria Carless  | The Dream Walker | Finalist
Scot Gardner | Sparrow
Erin Gough  | Amelia Westlake
Pip Harry  | Because of You
Griffith University Children's Book Award  | Peter Carnavas  | The Elephant | Winner
Sarah Brennan, illustrated by Jane Tanner | The Storm Whale | Finalist
Jane Godwin, illustrated by Anna Walker        | Go Go and the Silver Shoes
Emily Rodda | The Shop at Hoopers Bend
Anne Spudvilas   | Swan Lake
Queensland Premier's Young Publishers and Writers Awards  | Anna Jacobson and Bri Lee | Winner
Queensland Writers Fellowships  | Michael Gerard Bauer, Jackie Ryan and Laura Elvery  | Winner
Glendower Award for Emerging Queensland Author for unpublished manuscript  | Melanie Myers  | Garrison Town | Winner
Karen Herschell      | fate, revenge and chipburgers | Finalist
Laura Kenny        | On Either Side
Christopher Przewloka    | Hidebound
Unpublished Indigenous Writer – David Unaipon Award  | Kirstie Parker | The Making of Ruby Champion | Winner
Melanie Saward  | Why Worry Now | Finalist
Wendy Somerville            | Jilba's Song
Waiata Telfer  | Song — The Story of a Girl, a Bird and a Teapot
Teila Watson  | Destinations Past Present Future: Diving Through Timelines
QUT Digital Literature Award  | David Thomas Henry Wright, with Chris Arnold  | Little Emperor Syndrome | Winner
Mez Breeze  | Our Cupidity Coda | Finalist
Mez Breeze  | A Place Called Ormalcy
Benjamin Laird  | Core Values

### 2017

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List of 2017 Queensland Literary Awards Recipients[13] Category  | Author  | Title  | Result

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Queensland Premier's Award for a Work of State Significance  | Bill Wilkie  | The Daintree Blockade: The Battle for Australia's Tropical Rainforests | Winner
Matthew Condon | Little Fish Are Sweet | Finalist
Mary-Rose MacColl | For a Girl
Cathy McLennan  | Saltwater
The Courier Mail People's Choice Queensland Book of the Year Award  | Cathy McLennan  | Saltwater | Winner
Melissa Ashley | The Birdman's Wife | Finalist
Nick Earls | Vancouver
Richard Fidler | Ghost Empire
Ashley Hay | A Hundred Small Lessons
Anita Heiss | Barbed Wire and Cherry Blossoms
Joan Isaacs  | To Prey and To Silence
Mary-Rose MacColl | For a Girl
University of Queensland Fiction Book Award  | Melissa Ashley | The Birdman's Wife | Winner
Nick Earls | Vancouver | Finalist
Ashley Hay | A Hundred Small Lessons
Hannah Kent | The Good People
Heather Rose | The Museum of Modern Love
University of Queensland Non-Fiction Book Award  | Cathy McLennan  | Saltwater | Winner
Deng Adut and Ben Mckelvey  | Songs of a War Boy | Finalist
Richard Fidler | Ghost Empire
Mary-Rose MacColl | For a Girl
Kim Mahood | Position Doubtful
University of Southern Queensland History Book Award  | Rebe Taylor | Into the Heart of Tasmania: A Search for Human Antiquity | Winner
Rebecca Ananian-Welsh  | The Tim Carmody Affair: Australia's Greatest Judicial Crisis | Finalist
Andrew Lynch  | Appleby
Paul Irish  | Hidden in Plain View: The Aboriginal people of coastal Sydney
John Murphy  | Evatt: A life
State Library of Queensland Poetry Collection  | Antigone Kefala | Judith Wright Calanthe Award – Fragments | Winner
Jordie Albiston | Euclid's Dog | Finalist
Carmen Leigh Keates  | Meteorites
Cassie Lewis  | The Blue Decodes
Omar Sakr | These Wild Houses
University of Southern Queensland Australian Short Story Collection – Steele Rudd Award  | Kyra Giorgi | The Circle and the Equator | Winner
Michelle Cahill  | Letter to Pessoa | Finalist
Kyra Giorgi | The Circle and the Equator
Tara June Winch | After the Carnage
Griffith University Young Adult Book Award  | Cath Crowley | Words in Deep Blue | Winner
Simon Butters  | The Hounded | Finalist
Zana Fraillon | The Bone Sparrow
Mark Smith  | The Road to Winter
Richard Yaxley  | This is My Song
Griffith University Children's Book Award  | Lisa Shanahan  | The Grand, Genius Summer of Henry Hoobler | Winner
Gus Gordon | Somewhere Else | Finalist
Paul Jennings | A Different Dog
Bren MacDibble | How to Bee
Wendy Orr | Dragonfly Song
Queensland Premier's Young Publishers and Writers Awards  | Lech Blaine and Mindy Gill  | Winner
Queensland Writers Fellowships  | Mirandi Riwoe, Zenobia Frost and Linda Neil  | Winner
Emerging Queensland Author – Manuscript Award  | Janet Lee  | The Killing of Louisa | Winner
Anna Jacobson  | How to Knit a Human | Finalist
Ben Marshall   | The Gimp
Siall Waterbright  | The Coming
Unpublished Indigenous Writer – David Unaipon Award  | Lisa Fuller  | Mirrored Pieces | Winner
Alicia Farmer  | Mai Stori | Finalist
QUT Digital Literature Award  | Jason Nelson | Nine Billion Branches | Winner
Mez Breeze | Inanimate Alice: Perpetual Nomads (Beta) | Finalist
Pascalle Burton  | Generation Loss
David Thomas Henry Wright  | Paige and Power
Marianna Shek  | Limerence

### 2016

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List of 2016 Queensland Literary Awards Recipients[14] Category  | Author  | Title  | Result

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Queensland Premier's Award for a Work of State Significance  | Lesley and Tammy Williams  | Not Just Black and White | Winner
Nadia Buick and Madeleine King  | Remotely Fashionable: A Story of Subtropical Style | Finalist
Matthew Condon | All Fall Down
Elspeth Muir  | Wasted: A Story of Alcohol, Grief and a Death in Brisbane
P.J. Parker  | The Long Goodbye
The Courier Mail People's Choice Queensland Book of the Year Award  | Mary-Rose MacColl | Swimming Home | Winner
Trent Jamieson  | Day Boy | Finalist
Susan Johnson | The Landing
Cass Moriarty  | The Promise Seed
Nadia Buick and Madeleine Kin  | Remotely Fashionable: A Story of Subtropical Style
Matt Condon | All Fall Down
Elspeth Muir  | Wasted: A Story of Alcohol, Grief and a Death in Brisbane
Cory Taylor | Dying: A Memoir
University of Queensland Fiction Book Award  | Georgia Blain | Between a Wolf and a Dog | Winner
Tony Birch | Ghost River | Finalist
David Dyer  | The Midnight Watch
Patrick Holland  | One
Charlotte Wood | The Natural Way of Thing
University of Queensland Non-Fiction Book Award  | Fiona Wright | Small Acts of Disappearance: Essays on Hunger | Winner
Madeline Gleeson  | Offshore: Behind the Wire on Manus and Nauru | Finalist
Stan Grant | Talking to My Country
Drusilla Modjeska | Second Half First
Tim Winton | Island Home
University of Southern Queensland History Book Award  | Julia Martínez and Adrian Vickers | The Pearl Frontier: Indonesian Labour and Indigenous Encounters in Australia’s Northern Trading Network | Winner
Vicken Babkenien and Peter Stanley  | Armenia, Australia and the Great War | Finalist
Stuart Macintyre | Australia’s Boldest Experiment
Jeff Maynard | Unseen Anzac
John Newton  | The oldest foods on earth
Garry Wotherspoon  | Gay Sydney
State Library of Queensland Poetry Collection – Judith Wright Calanthe Award  | David Musgrave | Anatomy of Voice | Winner
Joel Deane  | Year of the Wasp | Finalist
Liam Ferney  | Content
Sarah Holland-Batt | The Hazards
Chloe Wilson  | Not Fox Nor Axe
University of Southern Queensland Australian Short Story Collection – Steele Rudd Award  | Elizabeth Harrower | A Few Days in the Country and other stories | Winner
Fiona McFarlane | The High Places
Tegan Bennett Daylight | Six Bedrooms | Finalist
Sonja Dechian  | An Astronaut’s Life
Julie Koh  | Portable Curiosities
Griffith University Young Adult Book Award  | David Metzenthen | Dreaming the Enemy | Winner
Will Kostakis  | The Sidekicks | Finalist
Glenda Millard  | The Stars at October Bend
James Roy and Noël Zihabamwe  | One Thousand Hills
Claire Zorn | One Would Think the Deep
Griffith University Children's Book Award  | Julie Hunt (author) and Dale Newman (illustrator)  | KidGlovz | Winner
Lucy Estela and Matt Ottley  | Suri’s Wall | Finalist
Bob Graham  | How the Sun Got to Coco’s House
Libby Hathorn and Gaye Chapman  | Incredibilia
Chris McKimmie  | Me, Teddy
Queensland Premier's Young Publishers and Writers Awards  | Emily Craven and Michelle Law  | Winner
Emerging Queensland Author – Manuscript Award  | Not awarded.
Unpublished Indigenous Writer – David Unaipon Award  | Paul Collis  | Dancing Home | Winner
Yvonne Weldon   | 67 Days | Finalist
B.A. (Boyd) Quakawoot  | Song of Jessica

### 2015

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List of 2015 Queensland Literary Awards Recipients[15] Category  | Author  | Title  | Result

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Queensland Premier's Award for a Work of State Significance  | Libby Connors | Warrior | Winner
Ellen van Neerven | Heat and Light | Finalist
Zoe Boccabella  | Joe’s Fruit Shop and Milk Bar
Mark Bahnisch  | Queensland: Everything you ever wanted to know but were afraid to ask
Anna Bligh | Through the Wall: Reflections on Leadership, Love and Survival
The Courier Mail People's Choice Queensland Book of the Year Award  | John Ahern  | On the road...with the kids | Winner
Nick Earls | Analogue Men | Finalist
Mary Lou Simpson  | From Convict to Politician
Zoe Boccabella  | Joe’s Fruit Shop and Milk Bar
Patrick Holland  | Navigatio
Inga Simpson  | Nest
Kári Gíslason | The Ash Burner
David Murray  | The Murder of Allison Baden-Clay
University of Queensland Fiction Book Award  | Joan London | The Golden Age | Winner
Amanda Lohrey | A Short History of Richard Kline | Finalist
Mark Henshaw  | The Snow Kimono
Malcolm Knox | The Wonder Lover
Rohan Wilson  | To Name Those Lost
University of Queensland Non-Fiction Book Award  | Don Watson | The Bush: Travels in the Heart of Australia | Winner
Brenda Niall | Mannix | Finalist
Anne Manne | The Life of I: The New Culture of Narcissism
Annabel Crabb | The Wife Drought
Karen Lamb  | Thea Astley: Inventing Her Own Weather
University of Southern Queensland History Book Award  | Carolyn Holbrook  | ANZAC, The Unauthorised Biography | Winner
Angela Woollacott | Settler Society in the Australian Colonies: Self-Government and Imperial Culture | Finalist
Christine Kenneally | The Invisible History of the Human Race
Agnieszka Sobocinska  | Visiting the Neighbours: Australians in Asia
Sophie Cunningham  | Warning: The Story of Cyclone Tracy
State Library of Queensland Poetry Collection – Judith Wright Calanthe Award  | Les Murray | Waiting for the Past | Winner
Susan Bradley Smith  | Beds For All Who Come | Finalist
Robert Adamson | Net Needle
David Brooks  | Open House
Lucy Dougan | The Guardians
Australian Short Story Collection – Steele Rudd Award  | Christos Tsiolkas | Merciless Gods | Winner
Nic Low  | Arms Race and Other Stories | Finalist
Nick Jose  | Bapo
Ellen van Neerven | Heat and Light
J.M. Coetzee | Three Stories
Griffith University Young Adult Book Award  | John Larkin | The Pause | Winner
Darren Groth  | Are you Seeing Me? | Finalist
Justine Larbalestier | Razorhurst
Diana Sweeney  | The Minnow
Jeri Kroll  | Vanishing Point
Children's Book Award  | Meg McKinlay | A Single Stone | Winner
Tasmin Janu  | Figgy in the World | Finalist
David Mackintosh  | Lucky
Nick Earls | New Boy
Rebecca Young & Matt Ottley  | Teacup
Queensland Premier's Young Publishers and Writers Awards  | Megan McGrath and Rebecca Jessen  | Winner
Emerging Queensland Author – Manuscript Award  | Elizabeth Kasmer  | Aurora | Winner
Imogen Smith  | Araluen | Finalist
K W George  | Sargasso
Kate Elkington  | Wool Spin Burn
Unpublished Indigenous Writer – David Unaipon Award  | Andrew Booth  | The First Octoroon or Report of an Experimental Child | Winner
Mayrah Yarraga Dreise  | Social Consciousness Series | Finalist
Patricia Lees with Adam C. Lees  | A Question of Colour

### 2014

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List of 2014 Queensland Literary Awards Recipients[16] Category  | Author  | Title  | Result

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The Courier Mail People's Choice Queensland Book of the Year Award  | Kellee Slater  | How to do a Liver Transplant: Stories from my Surgical Life | Winner
T. M. Clark  | My Brother, But One | Finalist
Frances Whiting  | Walking on Trampolines
Catherine Titasey  | My Island Homicide
Sally Breen  | Atomic City
Matthew Condon | Jacks and Jokers
Deb Drummond and Janis Teunis  | Lingering Doubts: Going Inside Brisbane's Arcade Murder
Keelen Mailman  | The Power of Bones
University of Queensland Fiction Book Award  | Richard Flanagan | The Narrow Road to the Deep North | Winner
Fiona Capp  | Gotland | Finalist
Alex Miller | Coal Creek
Tim Winton | Eyrie
Evie Wyld | All the Birds, Singing
University of Queensland Non-Fiction Book Award  | Paul Ham | 1914: The Year the World Ended | Winner
Steve Bisley | Stillways | Finalist
Iain McCalman | The Reef
Penny Olsen | An Eye for Nature: The Life and Art of William T. Cooper
Janis Sheldrick  | Nature's Line: George Goyder, surveyor, environmentalist, visionary
University of Southern Queensland History Book Award  | Joan Beaumont | Broken Nation | Winner
Nicholas Clements  | The Black War: Fear, Sex and Resistance in Tasmania | Finalist
Iain McCalman | The Reef
Bruce Pascoe | Black Emu
Henry Reynolds | The Forgotten War
Clare Wright | The Forgotten Rebels of Eureka
State Library of Queensland Poetry Collection – Judith Wright Calanthe Award  | David Malouf | Earth Hour | Winner
Judith Beveridge | Devadatta’s Poems | Finalist
Rachael Briggs  | Free Logic
Liam Ferney  | Boom
Anthony Lawrence  | Signal Flare
Australian Short Story Collection – Steele Rudd Award  | Ceridwen Dovey | Only the Animals | Winner
Debra Adelaide | Letter to George Clooney | Finalist
Tony Birch | The Promise
Luke Carman | An Elegant Young Man
Laura Jean McKay | Holiday in Cambodia
Griffith University Young Adult Book Award  | Jaclyn Moriarty | The Cracks in the Kingdom | Winner
A.J. Betts  | Zac and Mia | Finalist
Felicity Castagna | The Incredible Here and Now
Kate Hendrick  | The Accident
David Metzenthen  | Tigerfish
Children's Book Award  | Jackie French | Refuge | Winner
Shaun Tan | Rules of Summer
Pamela Rushby  | The Ratcatcher's Daughter | Finalist
Claire Saxby and Graham Byrne  | Nature Storybooks: Big Red Kangaroo
Samantha Wheeler  | Smooch and Rose
Emerging Queensland Author – Manuscript Award  | Cathy McLennan  | We Come From Saltwater People | Winner
Leanne Nolan  | Open Cut | Finalist
Julie Kearney  | 3 for a Wedding, 4 for Death
Unpublished Indigenous Writer – David Unaipon Award  | Lesley & Tammy Williams  | It’s Not Just Black and White | Winner

### 2013

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List of 2013 Queensland Literary Awards Recipients[17] Category  | Author  | Title  | Result

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The Courier Mail People's Choice Queensland Book of the Year Award  | Kate Morton | The Secret Keeper | Winner
Susan Johnson | My Hundred Lovers | Finalist
Melissa Lucashenko | Mullumbimby
Jamie Callister  | The Man Who Invented Vegemite
Matthew Condon | Three Crooked Kings
Kristina Olsson | Boy, Lost
Deloitte Fiction Book Award  | Melissa Lucashenko | Mullumbimby | Winner
Murray Bail | The Voyage | Finalist
Susan Johnson | My Hundred Lovers
Christopher Koch | Lost Voices
University of Queensland Non-Fiction Book Award  | Kristina Olsson | Boy, Lost | Winner
Richard Gill | Give Me Excess of It | Finalist
Paul Ham | Sandakan
Jenny Hocking | Gough Whitlam: His Time
Kate Richard  | Madness: A Memoir
University of Southern Queensland History Book Award  | Jane Lydon  | The Flash of Recognition | Winner
Alison Alexander  | The Ambitions of Jane Franklin | Finalist
David Day | Antarctica: A Biography
Walter Hamilton  | Children of the Occupation
Lawrence Bamblett  | Our Stories are Our Survival
State Library of Queensland Poetry Collection – Judith Wright Calanthe Award  | John Kinsella | Jam Tree Gully | Winner
Stephen Edgar | Eldershaw | Finalist
Paul Hetherington | Haunted Rooms
Jennifer Maiden | Liquid Nitrogen
Alan Wearne | Prepare the Cabin for Landing
Australian Short Story Collection – Steele Rudd Award  | Cate Kennedy | Like a House on Fire | Winner
Susan Midalia  | An Unknown Sky | Finalist
Jennifer Mills  | The Rest is Weight
A S Patric | Las Vegas for Vegans
Chris Somerville  | We Are Not the Same Anymore
Griffith University Young Adult Book Award  | Jaclyn Moriarty | A Corner of White | Winner
Andrew McGahan | Ship Kings: The Voyage of the Unquiet Ice | Finalist
Maureen McCarthy | The Convent
Vikki Wakefield | Friday Brown
Fiona Wood | Wildlife
Children's Book Award  | Narelle Oliver | Don't Let a Spoonbill in the Kitchen! | Winner
Jackie French | Pennies for Hitler | Finalist
Jane Godwin | Today We Have No Plans
Steven Herrick | Pookie Aleera is Not My Boyfriend
Margaret Wild | The Treasure Box
Gadens Feature Film Script Award  | Craig Monahan and Alison Nisselle  | Healing | Winner
Emerging Queensland Author – Manuscript Award  | Rebecca Jessen  | Gap | Winner
Jarryd Luke  | Cockscrew Section | Finalist
Cass Moriarty  | The Promise Seed
Unpublished Indigenous Writer – David Unaipon Award  | Ellen van Neerven | Heat and Light | Winner
Martin Doyle  | Sugar Shed Road | Finalist
Adrian Stanley  | Could Be Worse
Ellen van Neerven | Hard
Dorothy Williams-Kemp  | My Journey that May Never End

### 2012

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List of 2012 Queensland Literary Awards Recipients[18] Category  | Author  | Title  | Result

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Fiction Book Award  | Frank Moorhouse | Cold Light | Winner
Peter Carey | The Chemistry of Tears | Finalist
Anna Funder | All That I am
Kate Grenville | Sarah Thornhill
Alex Miller | Autumn Laing
Non-Fiction Book Award  | Robin De Crespigny  | The People Smuggler | Winner
Jane Gleeson-White  | Double Entry | Finalist
Patrick Holland | Riding the Trains in Japan
William McInnes & Sarah Watt | Worse Things Happen at Sea
Alice Pung | Her Father's Daughter
History Book Award  | Bill Gammage | The Biggest Estate on Earth: How Aborigines Made Australia | Winner
Robyn Arianrhod | Seduced by Logic | Finalist
James Boyce | 1835: The Founding of Melbourne and the Conquest of Australia
Nicole Moore  | The Censor's Library
Literary or Media Work Advancing Public Debate – Harry Williams Award  | George Megalogenis | The Australian Moment: How We Were Made For These Times | Winner
Paul Cleary  | Too Much Luck: The Mining Boom and Australia's Future  | Finalist
Michael Weley  | There Goes the Neighbourhood
Science Writers Award  | Rob Brooks  | Sex, Genes & Rock 'n' Roll | Winner
Robyn Arianrhod  | Seduced by Logic | Finalist
Frank Bowden  | Gone Viral
Richard Smith  | Australia: The Time Traveller’s Guide
Poetry Collection – Judith Wright Calanthe Award  | Peter Rose | Crimson Crop | Winner
Anthony Lawrence  | The Welfare of My Enemy | Finalist
David McCooey  | Outside
Rhyll McMaster  | Late Night Shopping
Simon West  | The Yellow Gum’s Conversion
Australian Short Story Collection – Steele Rudd Award  | Janette Turner Hospital | Turbulence | Winner
Rodney Hall | Silence | Finalist
Marion Halligan | Shooting the Fox
John Kinsella | In the Shade of the Shady Tree
Ryan O'Neill | The Weight of a Human Heart
Young Adult Book Award  | Neil Grant  | The Ink Bridge | Winner
Kirsty Eagar  | Night Beach | Finalist
Judith Clarke | Three Summers
Margo Lanagan | Sea Hearts
Vikki Wakefield | All I Ever Wanted
Children's Book Award  | Briony Stewart | Kumiko and the Shadow Catchers | Winner
Pamela Rushby  | The Horses Didn’t Come Home | Finalist
John Flanagan | Brotherband 1: The Outcasts
Libby Gleeson & Freya Blackwood | Look a Book!
Elizabeth Honey | Ten Blue Wrens
Film Script Award  | Louise Fox  | Dead Europe | Winner
Miro Bilbra  | Being Venice | Finalist
Shane Armstrong & S P Krauss  | Rarer Monsters
Brendan Cowell | Save Your Legs
Emerging Queensland Author – Manuscript Award  | Catherine Titasey  | Island of the Unexpected | Winner
Aaron Smibert  | Scratches on the Surface | Finalist
Luke Thomas  | Home Mechanics
Ariella Van Luyn  | Hidden Objects
Unpublished Indigenous Writer – David Unaipon Award  | Siv Parker  | Story | Winner
Ellen van Neerven-Currie  | Hard | Finalist
Dorothy Williams-Kemp  | My Journey that May Never End
Drama Script (Stage) Award  | Angela Betzien | War Crimes | Winner
Wayne Blair | Bloodland | Finalist
Patricia Cornelius | Taxi
Rita Kalnejais  | Baby Teeth
Lally Katz | A Golem Story
Television Script Award  | Sue Smith | Mabo | Winner
Blake Ayshford  | The Straits: ‘Yawor – My Lovely’, episode 3 | Finalist
Brendan Cowell | The Slap: ‘Harry’, episode 3
Anthony Mullins  | Strange Calls: ‘Phantom’, episode 3
Liz Doran  | Dance Academy: ‘The Prix de Fonteyn’, episode 24

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## External links

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* State Library of Queensland. History of the Awards (past Queensland Literary Award winners and finalists)
* Queensland Literary Awards (archive)