See the 2020 Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards shortlists!

The shortlists for the 2020 Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards were unveiled yesterday, with authors such as Christos Tsiolkas, Tara June Winch and Archie Roach all making the list.

Like their other state counterparts, the Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards celebrate excellent Australian writing, and were established by the Victorian Government in 1985. Each winner of the award for fiction, non-fiction, drama, poetry, writing for young adults will receive $25,000, while the winner of the Award for an Unpublished Manuscript will receive $15,000.

The winners will be revealed on 30 January, 2020, at the Wheeler Centre in Melbourne. Read on to see all of the nominated books!

Fiction

• The House of Youssef by Yumna Kassab
• Act of Grace by Anna Krien
• Simpson Returns by Wayne Macauley
• Damascus by Christos Tsiolkas
• The Yield by Tara June Winch

Non-Fiction

• Songspirals by the Gay’wu Group of Women
• The Girls by Chloe Higgins
• See What You Made Me Do by Jess Hill
• Future Histories by Lizzie O’Shea
• Tell Me Why by Archie Roach
• Sea People by Christina Thompson

Poetry

• Yuiquimbiang by Louise Crisp
• Nganajungu Yagu by Charmaine Papertalk Green
• Birth Plan by L.K. Holt

Young Adult

• How It Feels to Float by Helena Fox
• Invisible Boys by Holden Sheppard
• This is How We Change the Ending by Vikki Wakefield

Drama

• Them by Samah Sabawi
• Counting and Cracking by S. Shakthidharan & Eamon Flack
• City of Gold by Meyne Wyatt

Prize for an Unpublished Manuscript

• ‘Hovering’ by Rhett Davis
• ‘In Real Life’ by Allee Richards
• ‘A Million Things’ by Emily Spurr.

Congratulations to all of the 2020 Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards shortlistees!

Find out more about the Awards and the Wheeler Centre here

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