The Queensland Premier's Literary Awards were an Australian suite of literary awards inaugurated in 1999 and disestablished in 2012. It was one of the most generous suites of literary awards within Australia, with $225,000 in prize money across 14 categories with prizes up to $25,000 in some categories. The awards upon their establishment incorporated a number of pre-existing awards including the Steele Rudd Award for the best Australian collection of new short fiction and the David Unaipon Award for unpublished Indigenous writing.

The awards were established by Peter Beattie, the then Premier of Queensland in 1999[1] and abolished by Premier Campbell Newman, shortly after winning the 2012 Queensland state election.[2]

In response, the Queensland writing community established the Queensland Literary Awards to ensure the Awards continued in some form.[3] The judging panels remained largely the same, and University of Queensland Press committed to continue to publish the winners of the Emerging Queensland Author Manuscript Award and the Unpublished Indigenous Writer, David Unaipon Award.[4]

Fiction Book Award

Emerging Queensland Author – Manuscript Award

  • 2011 The Beloved, Annah Faulkner
  • 2010 RPM, Noel Mengel
  • 2009 No Award. The prize was shared between four shortlisted authors: Inga Simpson, Rachel Claire, Chris Somerville and Pamela Douglas. Extracts from the shortlisted works were published in the 09:05 issue of Perilous Adventures: The Writer's Magazine.[5]
  • 2008 Omega Park by Amy Vought Barker
  • 2007 Life in the Bus Lane by Ian Commins
  • 2006 The Anatomy of Wings by Karen Foxlee
  • 2005 The Long Road of the Junkmailer by Patrick Holland
  • 2004 An Accidental Terrorist by Steven Lang
  • 2003 The Kingdom Where Nobody Dies by Kimberley Starr
  • 2002 The Lambing Flat by Nerida Newton
  • 2001 Mama Kuma: One Woman, Two Cultures by Deborah Carlyon
  • 2000 The Bone Flute by Nike Bourke
  • 1999 Shoelaces by Jillian Watkinson

Unpublished Indigenous Writer – The David Unaipon Award

  • 2021 Mekauwe=Tears Volume #1 (Notes For Song) 1970-2020, Ngankiburka-mekauwe (Senior Woman of Water) Georgina Williams
  • 2020 The Space Between the Paperbark, Jazz Money
  • 2018 The Making of Ruby Champion, Kirstie Parker
  • 2017 Mirrored Pieces, Lisa Fuller
  • 2016 Dancing Home, Paul Collis
  • 2015 The First Octoroon or Report of an Experimental Child, Andrew Booth
  • 2014 It’s Not Just Black and White, Lesley and Tammy Williams
  • 2013 Heat and Light, Ellen van Neerven
  • 2011 Mazin Grace, Dylan Coleman[6]
  • 2010 Purple Threads, Jeanine Leane
  • 2009 The Boundary by Nicole Watson
  • 2008 Every Secret Thing by Marie Munkara
  • 2007 Skin Painting by Elizabeth Eileen Hodgson
  • 2006 Me, Antman and Fleabag by Gayle Kennedy
  • 2005 Anonymous Premonition by Yvette Holt
  • 2004 Dust on Waterglass by Tara June Winch (published as Swallow the Air)
  • 2003 Whispers of This Wik Woman by Fiona Doyle
  • 2002 Home by Larissa Behrendt
  • 2001 The Mish by Robert Lowe
  • 2000 Bitin' Back by Vivienne Cleven
  • 1999 Of Muse, Meandering and Midnight by Samuel Wagan Watson
  • 1998 Is That You Ruthie? by Ruth Hegarty
  • 1997 When Darkness Falls by John Bodey
  • 1996 Black Angels Red Blood by Steven McCarthy
  • 1995 Warrigal's Way by Warrigal Anderson
  • 1994 The Sausage Tree by Valda Gee and Rosalie Medcraft
  • 1993 Bridge of Triangles by John Muk Muk Burke
  • 1992 Sweet Water, Stolen Land by Philip McLaren
  • 1991 Broken Dreams by Bill Dodd
  • 1990 Caprice: A Stockman's Daughter by Doris Pilkington Garimara
  • 1989 Holocaust Island by Graeme Dixon

Non-Fiction Book Award

History Book Award – Faculty of Arts, University of Queensland Award

Children's Book Award – Mary Ryan's Award

Young Adult Book Award

Science Writers – Department of State Development, Trade and Innovation Award

  • 2011 Voyage to the Planets – Episodes 1, 2 and 3 – Mars, Jupiter and Saturn, Richard Smith
  • 2010 Catching Cancer, Sonya Pemberton
  • 2009 Pasteur's Gambit: Louis Pasteur, The Australasian Rabbit Plague and a Ten Million Dollar Prize by Stephen Dando-Collins
  • 2008 Why is Uranus Upside Down? (and other Questions about the Universe) by Professor Fred Watson
  • 2007 Crude by Richard Smith
  • 2006 Good Health in the 21st Century by Carole Hungerford
  • 2005 Stem Cells by Elizabeth Finkel
  • 2004 Genius of Junk by Sonya Pemberton

Poetry Collection – Arts Queensland Judith Wright Calanthe Award

Australian Short Story Collection – Arts Queensland Steele Rudd Award

Literary Work Advancing Public Debate – the Harry Williams Award

Film Script – the Pacific Film and Television Commission Award

Television Script – QUT Creative Industries Award

Drama Script (Stage) Award

Encouragement and Development Prize

  • 2005 The Comfort of Figs by Simon Cleary

References

  1. ↑ "QLD Premier's Literary Awards axed"
  2. ↑ "New premier tears up literary awards", 3 April 2012, The Sydney Morning Herald
  3. ↑ "Qld Literary Awards to go ahead, organisers say"
  4. ↑ "The Alternative Queensland Literary Award"
  5. ↑ Perilous Adventures: The Writer's Magazine.
  6. ↑ "Mazin Grace". UQP. Retrieved 13 February 2020.
  7. ↑ "Queensland Literary Awards: 2012 Winners – Literary of Media Work Advancing Public Debate – Harry Williams Award". qldliteraryawards.org.au. Queensland Literary Awards Inc. Retrieved 21 March 2017.
  8. ↑ "Little Fish". AustLit: Discover Australian Stories. Retrieved 20 September 2021.
  9. ↑ Dionysius, Bobbi-Lea (12 August 2013). "Trollop – Queensland Theatre Company". AussieTheatre.com. Retrieved 27 June 2021.
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