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Development awards are also on offer including the David Unaipon Award and Glendower Award for unpublished manuscripts, and opportunities for Queensland writers only - three Queensland Writers Fellowships and two Queensland Premier’s Young Publishers and Writers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. 

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