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2025 Tasmanian Literary Award Winners Announced 6PM tonight!
Tasmanian Literary Awards 2025!
With $125,000 in prize money spread across 7 awards, 21 judges have painstakingly waded through the selections on offer, and Minister for the Arts, Madeleine Ogilvie is ready to celebrate this communal festival of words. “The Tasmanian Literary Awards send a strong message that words matter. The awards demonstrate that words have power and meaning, and that literature deserves to be celebrated, not as a luxury, but as an essential element of a diverse and vibrant society.”
- Aboriginal Writer’s Fellowship, Nunami Sculthorpe-Green
- Margaret Scott Tasmanian Young Writer’s Fellowship, Lars Rogers
- Minister for the Arts’ Prize for Books for Young Readers and Children, Digger Digs Down by Johanna Bell, illustrated by Huni Melissa Bolliger (University of Queensland Press, 2024)
- Premier’s Prize for Fiction, Heartsease by Kate Kruimink (Pan Macmillan Australia, 2024)
- Premier’s Prize for Non-fiction, Graft by Maggie MacKellar (Penguin Random House, 2023)
- Tim Thorne Prize for Poetry, say, a river by Pam Schindler (Ginninderra Press, 2023)
- University of Tasmania Prize (supported by the University of Tasmania), Department of the Vanishing by Johanna Bell
- Minister for the Arts’ Prize for Books for Young Readers and Children – People’s Choice Award, Amazing Animal Journeys by Jennifer Cossins (Lothian Children’s Books, 2022)
- Premier’s Prize for Fiction – People’s Choice Award, The Angry Women’s Choir by Meg Bignell (Penguin Random House, 2022)
- Premier’s Prize for Non-fiction – People’s Choice Award, Graft by Maggie MacKellar (Penguin Random House, 2023)
- Tim Thorne Prize for Poetry – People’s Choice Award, Ways to Say Goodbye by Anne Kellas (Liquid Amber Press, 2023)
For more information on the winners, shortlists, longlists and judges’ comments, visit https://www.arts.tas.gov.au/