NSW Premier’s Literary Awards

The Christina Stead Prize for Fiction

The Christina Stead Prize ($40,000) is offered for a book of fiction – for a novel or a collection of stories.

Ghost River by Tony Birch

Locust Girl. A Lovesong by Merlinda Bobis

Clade by James Bradley

The Life of Houses by Lisa Gorton

A Guide to Berlin by Gail Jones

The World Without Us by Mireille Juchau

 

The People’s Choice Award

The judges of the 2016 Christina Stead Prize for Fiction have selected six novels for the shortlist. Now you can have your say. Click here for the voting page.

Voting for the People’s Choice Award closes at midnight, 8 May 2016.

The Douglas Stewart Prize for Non-Fiction

The Douglas Stewart Prize ($40,000) is for a prose work other than a work of fiction.

The Nashos’ War: Australia’s National Servicemen and Vietnam by Mark Dapin

One Life: My Mother’s Story by Kate Grenville

Across the Seas: Australia’s Response to Refugees: A History by Klaus Neumann

Reckoning: A Memoir by Magda Szubanski

Island Home by Tim Winton

Small Acts of Disappearance by Fiona Wright

More can be read about these shortlisted books here.

The Ethel Turner Prize for Young People’s Literature

The Ethel Turner Prize ($30,000) is offered for a work of fiction, non-fiction or poetry written for young people of secondary school level. If books contain original illustrations which are integral to the success of the book, the judges may determine that the award be shared by the writer/s and the illustrator.

Battlesaurus: Rampage at Waterloo by Brian Falkner

Freedom Ride by Sue Lawson

Laurinda by Alice Pung

Welcome to Orphancorp by Marlee Jane Ward

The Peony Lantern by Frances Watts

The Guy, the Girl, the Artist and his Ex by Gabrielle Williams

More can be read about these shortlisted titles here.

 

The Indigenous Writer’s Prize

The Indigenous Writers Prize ($30,000) is offered biennially and will first be awarded in 2016. The prize is intended to acknowledge the contribution made to Australian literary culture by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander writers.  The prize is open to those who are of Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander descent, who identify as Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islanders, and who are accepted as such by the communities in which they live.

Ghost River by Tony BirchInside My Mother by Alice Cobby EckermannDirty Words by Natalie HarkinDark Emu by Bruce Pascoe

Heat and Light by Ellen van Neerven

Not Just Black and White by Lesley Williams and Tammy Williams

More about these titles here.

The Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry

The Kenneth Slessor Prize ($30,000) is offered to a poet for a book of collected poems or for a single poem of substantial length published in book form.

brush by Joanne Burns

Eelahroo (Long Ago) Nyah (Looking) Möbö-Möbö (Future) by Lionel G. Fogarty

The Hazards by Sarah Holland-Batt

terra bravura by Meredith Wattison

Not Fox Nor Axe by Chloe Wilson

Fainting with Freedom by Ouyang Yu

More can be read about each shortlisted collection here.

 

The Multicultural NSW Award

This award is sponsored wholly by Multicultural NSW ($20,000) and is offered to the writer of a book (fiction or non-fiction), play, poetry, music drama or script which is deemed by the judges to have both:

• made a significant contribution to Australian literature, theatre, film, radio or television in its portrayal of the interaction of Australia’s diverse cultures, and
• canvassed issues arising from the Australian immigration and migrant settlement experience.

Shining: The Story of a Lucky Man by Abdi Aden & Robert Hillman

The Other Side of the World by Stephanie Bishop

The Principal, Episode 1 by Kristen Dunphy

Good Muslim Boy by Osamah Sami

We Are Here by Cat Thao Nguyen

Vera: My Story by Vera Wasowski & Robert Hillman

Read more here.

The Nick Enright Prize for Playwriting

The Nick Enright Prize ($30,000) is offered for a play or a work of music drama given its first production in Australia between 1 October 2014 and 30 September 2015. The production may be given by a professional or amateur theatre company, but it must involve a season of several performances before a general audience.

Boys Will Be Boys by Melissa Bubnic

Broken by Mary Anne Butler

The Bleeding Tree by Angus Cerini

Battle of Waterloo by Kylie Coolwell

Hello, Goodbye & Happy Birthday by Roslyn Oades

More about these plays here.

 

The Patricia Wrightson Prize for Children’s Literature

The Patricia Wrightson Prize ($30,000) is offered for a work of fiction, non-fiction or poetry written for children up to secondary school level. Books containing the work of more than four authors, including anthologies, are not eligible for nomination. AS with the Ethel Turner Prize, if books contain original illustrations which are integral to the success of the book, the judges may determine that the award be shared by the writer/s and the illustrator.

Tea and Sugar Christmas by Jane Jolly & Robert Ingpen

A Single Stone by Meg McKinlay

Molly and Pim and the Millions of Stars by Martine Murray

The Greatest Gatsby: A Visual Book of Grammar by Tohby Riddle

Flight by Nadia Wheatley & Armin Greder

Teacup by Rebecca Young & Matt Ottley

Read more about these children’s books here.

 

The UTS Glenda Adams Award for New Writing

The UTS Glenda Adams Award ($5,000) looks for outstanding new literary talent and is for a published book of fiction written by an author who has not previously published a book-length work of narrative fiction or narrative non-fiction.  This award is sponsored wholly by the University of Technology, Sydney.

Fever of Animals by Miles Allinson

An Astronaut’s Life by Sonja Dechian

Relativity by Antonia Hayes

In the Quiet by Eliza Henry-Jones

When There’s Nowhere Else to Run by Murray Middleton

Hot Little Hands by Abigail Ulman

More can be read about each of the shortlisted books here.

 

Winners for the 2016 Awards will be announced on Monday 16 May 2016.