Victorian Premier's Literary AwardShortlist

Given by Wheeler Centre

Other Names: C. J. Dennis Prize for Poetry, Vance Palmer Prize for Fiction, Victoria Premier's Literary Award, Victorian Premier's Prize for Writing for Young Adults
189 Works / 191 Items 0 Books
The Vance Palmer Prize for Fiction is a component of the annual Victorian Premier's Literary Award and is valued at A$30,000. Most Australian state premiers present annual Australian literary show more awards to promote Australian writing in all its forms. The award is named after Vance Palme show less
Stages:
All, Winner (143), Shortlist (191), Nominee (65), No Stage (1)
Categories:
Years:
All, 2024 (21), 2023 (4), 2022 (1), 2021 (15), 2020 (13), 2019 (17), 2018 (14), 2017 (13), 2016 (12), 2015 (6), 2014 (20), 2012 (14), 2011 (14), 2010 (4), 2009 (4), 2008 (2), 2007 (2), 2006 (3), 2005 (2), 2004 (2), 2003 (2), 2002 (2), 1998 (1), 1997 (1), 1996 (1), 1995 (1)
Announced:
February 2: Winner2024 Recent
January 19: Shortlist2024 Recent

Shortlist 191

WorkCategoryYear
It's the sound of the thing by Maxine Beneba ClarkeAlan Marshall Award for Children's Literature2024
Ghost Book by Remy LaiAlan Marshall Award for Children's Literature2024
Who’s Afraid of the Light? by Anna McGregorAlan Marshall Award for Children's Literature2024
Close to the Subject: Selected Works by Daniel BrowningIndigenous Writing2024
Firelight by John MorrisseyIndigenous Writing2024
Loaded by Christos TsiolkasLouis Esson Prize for Drama2024
Fat Girl Dancing by Kris KneenNettie Palmer Prize for Australian Nonfiction2024
The Palestine Laboratory: How Israel Exports the Technology of Occupation Around the World by Antony LoewensteinNettie Palmer Prize for Australian Nonfiction2024
Killing for Country: A Family Story by David MarrNettie Palmer Prize for Australian Nonfiction2024
Flawed Hero: Truth, Lies and War Crimes by Chris MastersNettie Palmer Prize for Australian Nonfiction2024
Cruel Care: A History of Children at Our Borders by Jordana SilversteinNettie Palmer Prize for Australian Nonfiction2024
Chinese Fish by Grace YeePoetry2024
Only Sound Remains by Hossein AsgariVance Palmer Prize for Fiction2024
Serengotti by Eugen BaconVance Palmer Prize for Fiction2024
Wall by Jen CraigVance Palmer Prize for Fiction2024
Edenglassie by Melissa LucashenkoVance Palmer Prize for Fiction2024
Stone Yard Devotional by Charlotte WoodVance Palmer Prize for Fiction2024
But the Girl by Jessica Zhan Mei YuVance Palmer Prize for Fiction2024
The Quiet and the Loud by Helena FoxYoung Adults2024
We Could Be Something by Will KostakisYoung Adults2024
A Hunger of Thorns by Lili WilkinsonYoung Adults2024
The Signal Line by Brendan ColleyVance Palmer Prize for Fiction2023
This Devastating Fever by Sophie CunninghamVance Palmer Prize for Fiction2023
The Lovers by Yumna KassabVance Palmer Prize for Fiction2023
An Exciting and Vivid Inner Life by Paul Dalla RosaVance Palmer Prize for Fiction2023
After Story by Larissa BehrendtVance Palmer Prize for Fiction2022
Kindred by Kirli SaundersIndigenous Writing2021
Song of the Crocodile by Nardi SimpsonIndigenous Writing2021
Where The Fruit Falls by Karen WyldIndigenous Writing2021
Show Me Where it Hurts : Living with Invisible Illness by Kylie MaslenNettie Palmer Prize for Australian Nonfiction2021
Witness by Louise MilliganNettie Palmer Prize for Australian Nonfiction2021
Songlines: The Power and Promise by Margo NealeNettie Palmer Prize for Australian Nonfiction2021
Blueberries by Ellena SavageNettie Palmer Prize for Australian Nonfiction2021
Ask me about the future by Rebecca JessenPoetry2021
Throat by Ellen van NeervenPoetry2021
The Animals in That Country by Laura Jean McKayVance Palmer Prize for Fiction2021
The Living Sea of Waking Dreams by Richard FlanaganVance Palmer Prize for Fiction2021
Our Shadows by Gail JonesVance Palmer Prize for Fiction2021
The Coconut Children by Vivian PhamVance Palmer Prize for Fiction2021
The F team by Rawah ArjaYoung Adults2021
Where We Begin by Christie NiemanYoung Adults2021
Songspirals: Sharing women's wisdom of Country through songlines by Gay'wu Group of WomenNettie Palmer Prize for Australian Nonfiction2020
The Girls by Chloe HigginsNettie Palmer Prize for Australian Nonfiction2020
See What You Made Me Do: Power, Control and Domestic Violence by Jess HillNettie Palmer Prize for Australian Nonfiction2020
Future Histories: What Ada Lovelace, Tom Paine, and the Paris Commune Can Teach Us About Digital Technology by Lizzie O'SheaNettie Palmer Prize for Australian Nonfiction2020
Tell Me Why: The Story of My Life and My Music by Archie RoachNettie Palmer Prize for Australian Nonfiction2020
Yuiquimbiang by Louise CrispPoetry2020
Birth plan by L. K. HoltPoetry2020
The House of Youssef by Yumna KassabVance Palmer Prize for Fiction2020
Act of Grace by Anna KrienVance Palmer Prize for Fiction2020
Simpson Returns by Wayne MacauleyVance Palmer Prize for Fiction2020
The Yield by Tara June WinchVance Palmer Prize for Fiction2020
Invisible Boys by Holden SheppardYoung Adults2020
This Is How We Change the Ending by Vikki WakefieldYoung Adults2020
Common People by Tony BirchIndigenous Writing2019
Too Much Lip by Melissa LucashenkoIndigenous Writing2019
Blakwork by Alison WhittakerIndigenous Writing2019
Staying : a memoir by Jessie ColeNettie Palmer Prize for Australian Nonfiction2019
The Arsonist by Chloe HooperNettie Palmer Prize for Australian Nonfiction2019
Eggshell Skull by Bri LeeNettie Palmer Prize for Australian Nonfiction2019
Miss Ex-Yugoslavia: A Memoir by Sofija StefanovicNettie Palmer Prize for Australian Nonfiction2019
Axiomatic by Maria TumarkinNettie Palmer Prize for Australian Nonfiction2019
Flood Damages by Eunice AndradaPoetry2019
Milk teeth by Rae WhitePoetry2019
Flames by Robbie ArnottVance Palmer Prize for Fiction2019
Ironbark by Jay CarmichaelVance Palmer Prize for Fiction2019
The Fireflies of Autumn: And Other Tales of San Ginese by Moreno GiovannoniVance Palmer Prize for Fiction2019
The Death of Noah Glass by Gail JonesVance Palmer Prize for Fiction2019
Too Much Lip by Melissa LucashenkoVance Palmer Prize for Fiction2019
Between Us by Clare AtkinsYoung Adults2019
Amelia Westlake by Erin GoughYoung Adults2019
The Museum of Words: a memoir of language, writing, and mortality by Georgia BlainNettie Palmer Prize for Australian Nonfiction2018
Anesthesia: The Gift of Oblivion and the Mystery of Consciousness by Kate Cole-AdamsNettie Palmer Prize for Australian Nonfiction2018
For a Girl: A True Story of Secrets, Motherhood and Hope by Mary-Rose MacCollNettie Palmer Prize for Australian Nonfiction2018
No Way But This: in search of Paul Robeson by Jeff SparrowNettie Palmer Prize for Australian Nonfiction2018
Tracker: Stories of Tracker Tilmouth by Alexis WrightNettie Palmer Prize for Australian Nonfiction2018
The metronome by Jennifer MaidenPoetry2018
Redactor by Eddie PatersonPoetry2018
A New England Affair by Steven CarrollVance Palmer Prize for Fiction2018
The Life to Come by Michelle De KretserVance Palmer Prize for Fiction2018
The Choke by Sofie LagunaVance Palmer Prize for Fiction2018
The Restorer by Michael SalaVance Palmer Prize for Fiction2018
Taboo by Kim ScottVance Palmer Prize for Fiction2018
Ida by Alison EvansYoung Adults2018
Because of you by Pip HarryYoung Adults2018
Songs of a War Boy by Deng Thiak AdutNettie Palmer Prize for Australian Nonfiction2017
The Hate Race by Maxine Beneba ClarkeNettie Palmer Prize for Australian Nonfiction2017
The Killing Season Uncut by Sarah FergusonNettie Palmer Prize for Australian Nonfiction2017
Position doubtful : mapping landscapes and memories by Kim MahoodNettie Palmer Prize for Australian Nonfiction2017
The fighter : a true story by Arnold ZableNettie Palmer Prize for Australian Nonfiction2017
Painting Red Orchids by Eileen ChongPoetry2017
The Healing Party by Micheline LeeVance Palmer Prize for Fiction2017
Wood Green by Sean RabinVance Palmer Prize for Fiction2017
Waiting by Philip SalomVance Palmer Prize for Fiction2017
The Rules of Backyard Cricket by Jock SerongVance Palmer Prize for Fiction2017
The Love of a Bad Man by Laura Elizabeth WoollettVance Palmer Prize for Fiction2017
The Bone Sparrow by Zana FraillonYoung Adults2017
The Other Side of Summer by Emily GaleYoung Adults2017
Inside my mother by Ali Cobby EckermannIndigenous Writing2016
Heat and Light (David Unaipon Award Winners Series) by Ellen van NeervenIndigenous Writing2016
Fever of animals by Miles AllinsonVance Palmer Prize for Fiction2016
Six bedrooms by Tegan Bennett DaylightVance Palmer Prize for Fiction2016
The Other Side of the World by Stephanie BishopVance Palmer Prize for Fiction2016
Clade by James BradleyVance Palmer Prize for Fiction2016
Forever young by Steven CarrollVance Palmer Prize for Fiction2016
The Mothers by Rod JonesVance Palmer Prize for Fiction2016
Black Rock White City by A. S. PatrićVance Palmer Prize for Fiction2016
The Natural Way of Things by Charlotte WoodVance Palmer Prize for Fiction2016
A Single Stone by Meg McKinlayYoung Adults2016
Sister Heart by Sally MorganYoung Adults2016
Only the Animals: Stories by Ceridwen DoveyVance Palmer Prize for Fiction2015
Golden Boys by Sonya HartnettVance Palmer Prize for Fiction2015
The Snow Kimono by Mark HenshawVance Palmer Prize for Fiction2015
Demons by Wayne MacauleyVance Palmer Prize for Fiction2015
Razorhurst by Justine LarbalestierYoung Adults2015
The Cracks in the Kingdom by Jaclyn MoriartyYoung Adults2015
The Promise by Tony BirchIndigenous Writing2014
Mogwie Idan: Stories of the land by Lionel George FogartyIndigenous Writing2014
Dark Emu by Bruce PascoeIndigenous Writing2014
Calypso Summer by Jared ThomasIndigenous Writing2014
The Swan Book by Alexis WrightIndigenous Writing2014
White Beech: The Rainforest Years by Germaine GreerNettie Palmer Prize for Australian Nonfiction2014
On Warne by Gideon HaighNettie Palmer Prize for Australian Nonfiction2014
Gardens of fire : an investigative memoir by Robert KennyNettie Palmer Prize for Australian Nonfiction2014
Boy, Lost by Kristina OlssonNettie Palmer Prize for Australian Nonfiction2014
Madeleine: A Life of Madeleine St John by Helen TrincaNettie Palmer Prize for Australian Nonfiction2014
Traditional Healers of the Central DesertNettie Palmer Prize for Australian Nonfiction2014
Travelling Through The Family by Brendan RyanPoetry2014
Autoethnographic by Michael BrennanPoetry2014
Questions of Travel by Michelle De KretserVance Palmer Prize for Fiction2014
The Narrow Road to the Deep North by Richard FlanaganVance Palmer Prize for Fiction2014
Burial Rites by Hannah KentVance Palmer Prize for Fiction2014
Eyrie by Tim WintonVance Palmer Prize for Fiction2014
The Swan Book by Alexis WrightVance Palmer Prize for Fiction2014
Friday Brown by Vikki WakefieldYoung Adults2014
Wildlife by Fiona WoodYoung Adults2014
1835: The Founding of Melbourne & the Conquest of Australia by James BoyceNettie Palmer Prize for Australian Nonfiction2012
Adelaide by Kerryn GoldsworthyNettie Palmer Prize for Australian Nonfiction2012
The Hall of Uselessness by Simon LeysNettie Palmer Prize for Australian Nonfiction2012
True North: The Story of Mary and Elizabeth Durack by Brenda NiallNettie Palmer Prize for Australian Nonfiction2012
Her Father's Daughter by Alice PungNettie Palmer Prize for Australian Nonfiction2012
Vishvarupa by Michelle CahillPoetry2012
Southern Barbarians by John MateerPoetry2012
All That I Am by Anna FunderVance Palmer Prize for Fiction2012
The Cook by Wayne MacauleyVance Palmer Prize for Fiction2012
Cold Light by Frank MoorhouseVance Palmer Prize for Fiction2012
A History of Books by Gerald MurnaneVance Palmer Prize for Fiction2012
Mateship With Birds by Carrie TiffanyVance Palmer Prize for Fiction2012
The Shiny Guys by Doug MacLeodYoung Adults2012
All I Ever Wanted by Vikki WakefieldYoung Adults2012
Good Living Street: Portrait of a Patron Family, Vienna 1900 by Tim BonyhadyNettie Palmer Prize for Australian Nonfiction2011
My Blood's Country: A Journey Through the Landscape that Inspired Judith Wright's Poetry by Fiona CappNettie Palmer Prize for Australian Nonfiction2011
Delusions of Gender: How Our Minds, Society, and Neurosexism Create Difference by Cordelia FineNettie Palmer Prize for Australian Nonfiction2011
Private Empire by Stephen FosterNettie Palmer Prize for Australian Nonfiction2011
Into the Woods by Anna KrienNettie Palmer Prize for Australian Nonfiction2011
This Floating World by Libby HartPoetry2011
Swallow by Claire PotterPoetry2011
Five Bells by Gail JonesVance Palmer Prize for Fiction2011
When Colts Ran by Roger McDonaldVance Palmer Prize for Fiction2011
The Amateur Science of Love by Craig SherborneVance Palmer Prize for Fiction2011
Bright and Distant Shores by Dominic SmithVance Palmer Prize for Fiction2011
The Roving Party by Rohan WilsonVance Palmer Prize for Fiction2011
Graffiti Moon by Cath CrowleyYoung Adults2011
The life of a teenage body-snatcher by Doug MacLeodYoung Adults2011
Parrot and Olivier in America by Peter CareyVance Palmer Prize for Fiction2010
The Bath Fugues by Brian CastroVance Palmer Prize for Fiction2010
Summertime: Scenes from Provincial Life by J. M. CoetzeeVance Palmer Prize for Fiction2010
Jasper Jones by Craig SilveyVance Palmer Prize for Fiction2010
The Pages by Murray BailVance Palmer Prize for Fiction2009
Dog Boy by Eva HornungVance Palmer Prize for Fiction2009
The Boat by Nam LeVance Palmer Prize for Fiction2009
Breath by Tim WintonVance Palmer Prize for Fiction2009
Diary of a Bad Year by J. M. CoetzeeVance Palmer Prize for Fiction2008
The Lost Dog by Michelle de KretserVance Palmer Prize for Fiction2008
The Time We Have Taken by Steven CarrollVance Palmer Prize for Fiction2007
Feather Man by Rhyll McMasterVance Palmer Prize for Fiction2007
Slow Man by J. M. CoetzeeVance Palmer Prize for Fiction2006
The Secret River by Kate GrenvilleVance Palmer Prize for Fiction2006
Everyman's Rules for Scientific Living by Carrie TiffanyVance Palmer Prize for Fiction2006
Sixty Lights by Gail JonesVance Palmer Prize for Fiction2005
Affection: There is No Cure by Ian TownsendVance Palmer Prize for Fiction2005
Elizabeth Costello by J. M. CoetzeeVance Palmer Prize for Fiction2004
A Private Man by Malcolm KnoxVance Palmer Prize for Fiction2004
Of a Boy by Sonya HartnettVance Palmer Prize for Fiction2003
The Hamilton Case by Michelle de KretserVance Palmer Prize for Fiction2003
A Child's Book of True Crime by Chloe HooperVance Palmer Prize for Fiction2002
The Architect: A Tale by John ScottVance Palmer Prize for Fiction2002
Lovesong by Elizabeth JolleyVance Palmer Prize for Fiction1998
Before I Wake by John A. ScottVance Palmer Prize for Fiction1997
Queen Kat, Carmel & St Jude Get A Life by Maureen McCarthySchaeffer Pen Prize for Young Adults1996
The Riders by Tim WintonVance Palmer Prize for Fiction1995

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The Vance Palmer Prize for Fiction is a component of the annual Victorian Premier's Literary Award and is valued at A$30,000. Most Australian state premiers present annual Australian literary awards to promote Australian writing in all its forms. The award is named after Vance Palmer (English, Member-written)
The Nettie Palmer Prize for Non-Fiction is a component of the annual Victorian Premier's Literary Award and is valued at A$30,000. (English, Member-written)

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