The Australian/Vogel’s Award for Young Writers

Submission Deadline: 31 May 2023

The Award that has launched the careers of over a hundred Australian authors. Offering prize money of $20,000 plus publication by Allen & Unwin with an advance against royalties

The Award that has launched the careers of over a hundred Australian authors. Offering prize money of $20,000 plus publication by Allen & Unwin with an advance against royalties, the Australian/Vogel’s Award for Young Writers is the most prestigious Australian award for an unpublished manuscript by a writer under the age of thirty-five. The winning manuscript will receive prize money of $20,000 and will be published in 2024 by Allen & Unwin with an advance against royalties. It will sit alongside some of Australia's most successful writers, including Tim Winton, Kate Grenville, Gillian Mears, Rohan Wilson, Andrew McGahan, Belinda Castles, Kristel Thornell and Katherine Brabon.

The Australian/Vogel's Award-winning authors have gone on to win or be shortlisted for other major awards, such as the Miles Franklin Award, the Commonwealth Writers' Prize and the Booker Prize.

---