2025 Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards
Entries are open for the 2025 Victorian premier’s Literary Awards with the introduction of a new award category, the John Clarke Prize for Humour Writing. The new award expands the total prize pool to $315,000, with The Wheeler Centre providing a further $2000 for the People’s Choice Award. Winners of of the seven main categories – Fiction, Non-Fiction, Drama, Poetry, Award for Indigenous Writing, Children’s Literature and Writing for Young Adults – each receive $25,000.
Entries close 27 September; learn more and enter.