2021 Queensland Literary Awards
Call for nominations
Published book awards and prizes:
Queensland Premier’s Award for a work of State Significance - $25,000
Fiction Book Award - $15,000
Non-Fiction Book Award - $15,000
Griffith University Young Adult Book Award - $15,000
Children’s Book Award - $15,000
University of Southern Queensland Steele Rudd Award for a Short Story Collection - $15,000
Judith Wright Calanthe Award for a Poetry Collection - $15,000
The Courier-Mail People’s Choice Queensland Book of the Year Award - $10,000
Nominations close at 5pm AEST on Friday 30 April 2021.
A $50 (incl GST) entry fee applies per entry. A $10 Early Bird discount is available for nominations received in March. Some fee-exemptions may be available to eligible authors.
Development awards are also on offer including the David Unaipon Award and Glendower Award for unpublished manuscripts, and opportunities for Queensland writers only - three Queensland Writers Fellowships and two Queensland Premier’s Young Publishers and Writers Awards.
Development awards and prizes:
Queensland Writers Fellowships x 3 - $19,500 each
David Unaipon Award for an Emerging Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander Writer - $15,000
Glendower Award for an Emerging Queensland Writer - $15,000
Queensland Premier’s Young Publishers and Writers Awards x 2 - $12,500 each
Nominations close at 5pm AEST on Friday 30 April 2021.
There is no fee to apply to development awards.