Queensland Literary Award Winners

Congratulations to the 2022 Queensland Literary Awards winners and finalists! Find out more about the QLA's. To Shop the books online visit the Library Shop

Queensland Premier's Award for a work of State Significance

WINNER
Wounded Country
by Quentin Beresford

Queensland Premier’s Young Publishers and Writers Award

WINNERS
Rebecca Cheers and Marilena Hewit

Queensland Writers Fellowships

WINNERS
'The Celebrated Bodies of Anna Morandi' by Melissa Ashley
'The Red Dowager: All Debts Must be Repaid’ by Geneve Flynn
‘In These Mountains’ by Mary-Rose MacColl

The University of Queensland Fiction Book Award

WINNER
The Other Half of You
by Michael Mohammed Ahmad

The University of Queensland Non-Fiction Book Award

WINNER
Lies, Damned Lies   
by Claire G. Coleman

Children’s Book Award

WINNER
Kunyi
by Kunyi June Anne McInerney 

Griffith University Young Adult Book Award

WINNER
Girls in Boys' Cars 
by Felicity Castagna 

University of Southern Queensland Steele Rudd Award for a Short Story Collection

WINNER
Dark as Last Night 
by Tony Birch   

Judith Wright Calanthe Award for a Poetry Collection

WINNER
Stasis Shuffle 
by Pam Brown    

David Unaipon Award for an Emerging Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander Writer

WINNER
‘Always Will Be – stories of Goori sovereignty, from the future(s) of the Tweed’
by Mykaela Saunders

Glendower Award for an Emerging Queensland Writer

WINNER
'Things Left Unsaid'           
by Yen-Rong Wong

The Courier-Mail People’s Choice Queensland Book of the Year Award

WINNER
Another Day in the Colony 
by Chelsea Watego