Past Awards

The winners of the main suite of awards – the prizes for Fiction, Non-Fiction, Drama, Poetry, Award for Indigenous Writing and Writing for Young Adults – each receive $25,000. The winner of the Award for an Unpublished Manuscript receives $15,000.

The winners of the six main suite categories go on to contest the overall Victorian Prize for Literature, worth an additional $100,000. This is the single most valuable literary award in the country.

 

Photo of the winners of the 2022 Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards (left to right): Dylan Van Den Berg, Veronica Gorrie, Rebecca Lim, Felicity Castagna, Maria Takolander, Keshe Chow and Melissa Manning. (Not pictured: Amani Haydar) — Photo: TJ Garvie