Victorian Premier's Prize for Writing for Young Adults
The Victorian Premier's Prize for Writing for Young Adults, formerly known as the Victorian Premier's Prize for Young Adult Fiction, is a prize category in the annual Victorian Premier's Literary Award. As of 2011 it has an enumeration of A$25,000. The winner of this category prize vies with 4 other category winners for overall Victorian Prize for Literature valued at an additional A$100,000.
From inception in 1999 to 2010, the award was administered by the State Library of Australia and known as the Victorian Premier's Prize for Young Adult Fiction. In 2011 stewardship changed to the Wheeler Centre where the prize was re-launched with a new name, rules and prize amount. According to the State Library of Australia, "This prize [was] offered for a published work of fiction or collection of short stories written for a readership between the ages of 13 and 18. Publishers may consider submitting books that are appropriate to young adult readers but not published under a young adult imprint. Literary merit is the major judging criterion. In the case of illustrated books, the additional criterion of literary and artistic unity is considered."[1]
Blue ribbon (
) = winner.
- 2011[2]
- Doug MacLeod, The Life of a Teenage Body-Snatcher
- Cath Crowley, Graffiti Moon
Cassandra Golds, The Three Loves of Persimmon
- 2012[3]
- Vikki Wakefield, All I Ever Wanted
- John Larkin, The Shadow Girl
- Doug MacLeod, The Shiny Guys
- 2013 Presented in January 2014 (see 2014 entry) for books published in 2013.
- 2014[4]
- Vikki Wakefield, Friday Brown
- Fiona Wood, Wildlife
- Barry Jonsberg, My Life as an Alphabet
- 2015[5]
- Jaclyn Moriarty, The Cracks in the Mountain
- Claire Zorn, The Protected
- Justine Larbalestier, Razorhurst
- 2016[6]
- Meg McKinlay, A Single Stone
- Sally Morgan, Sister Heart
- , Welcome to Orphancorp
- 2017[7]
- Randa Abdel-Fattah, When Michael Met Mina
- Zana Fraillon, The Bone Sparrow
- , The Other Side of Summer
- 2018[8]
- , Living on Hope Street
- Alison Evans, Ida
- , Because of You
- 2019[9]
- Erin Gough, Amelia Westlake
- Clare Atkins, Between Us
- Ambelin Kwaymullina and Ezekiel Kwaymullina, Catching Teller Crow
- 2020[10]
- Helena Fox, How It Feels to Float[11]
- Holden Sheppard, Invisible Boys
- Vikki Wakefield, This is How We Change the Ending
- 2021[12]
- Rawah Arja, The F Team
- Cath Moore, Metal Fish, Falling Snow[13]
- Christie Nieman, Where We Begin
- 2022[14]
- Felicity Castagna, Girls in Boys’ Cars[15]
- Leanne Hall, The Gaps
- Rebecca Lim, Tiger Daughter
Victorian Premier's Prize for Young Adult Fiction[]
- 2010: Raw Blue by [16]
- 2009: Something in the World Called Love by Sue Saliba (Penguin)[17]
- 2008: Tomorrow All Will Be Beautiful by Brigid Lowry (Allen & Unwin)[18]
- 2007: Notes from the Teenage Underground by Simmone Howell (Pan Macmillan)[19]
- 2006: Theodora's Gift by Ursula Dubosarsky (Viking/Penguin)[20]
- 2005: So Yesterday by Scott Westerfeld (Penguin)[21]
- 2004: Black Juice by Margo Lanagan (Allen & Unwin)[22]
- 2003: Wildlight: A journey by David Metzenthen (Penguin)[23]
- 2002: Njunjul the Sun by Meme McDonald and Boori Monty Pryor[1]
- 2001: Touch Me by James Moloney[1]
- 2000: Killing Aurora by Helen Barnes[1]
- 1999: Deadly, Unna? by Phillip Gwynne[24]
References[]
- ^ a b c d "Prize for Young Adult Fiction, Premier's Literary Awards, State Library of Victoria". www2.slv.vic.gov.au. Archived from the original on 2016-03-29. Retrieved 2021-03-19.
- ^ "Victorian Premier's Literary Awards 2011". Victorian Premier's Literary Awards. 2011. Retrieved January 29, 2014.
- ^ "21 big names. One big decision. Start reading". Victorian Premier's Literary Awards. 2012. Retrieved January 29, 2014.
- ^ "Victorian Premier's Literary Awards 2014". Victorian Premier's Literary Awards. 2014. Retrieved January 29, 2014.
- ^ "Victorian Premier's Literary Awards 2015". The Wheeler Centre. Retrieved 1 May 2018.
- ^ "Victorian Premier's Literary Awards 2016". The Wheeler Centre. Retrieved 1 May 2018.
- ^ "Victorian Premier's Literary Awards 2017". The Wheeler Centre. Retrieved 1 May 2018.
- ^ "Victorian Premier's Literary Awards 2018". The Wheeler Centre. Retrieved 1 May 2018.
- ^ "Victorian Premier's Literary Awards 2019 shortlists announced". Books+Publishing. 2018-12-12. Retrieved 2018-12-12.
- ^ "2020 Victorian Premier's Literary Awards shortlists announced". Books+Publishing. 2019-12-02. Retrieved 2019-12-02.
- ^ "Victorian Premier's Literary Awards 2020". The Wheeler Centre. Retrieved 2020-01-31.
- ^ "Victorian Premier's Literary Awards 2021 shortlists announced". Books+Publishing. 2020-12-08. Retrieved 2020-12-08.
- ^ "Victorian Premier's Literary Awards 2021". The Wheeler Centre. Retrieved 2021-02-01.
- ^ "VPLAs 2022 shortlists announced". Books+Publishing. 2021-12-07. Retrieved 2021-12-07.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ "Gorrie wins 2022 Victorian Prize for Literature". Books+Publishing. 2022-02-04. Retrieved 2022-02-04.
- ^ "Victorian Premier's Literary Awards 2011: 2010 Winners & Shortlists". Victorian Premier's Literary Awards. 2010. Retrieved January 29, 2014.
- ^ Prize for Young Adult Fiction - 2009 Winner
- ^ Prize for Young Adult Fiction - 2008 Winner
- ^ Prize for Young Adult Fiction - 2007 Winner
- ^ Prize for Young Adult Fiction - 2006 Winner
- ^ Prize for Young Adult Fiction - 2005 Winner
- ^ Prize for Young Adult Fiction - 2004 Winner
- ^ Prize for Young Adult Fiction - 2003 Winner
- ^ Phillip Gwynne webpage
- Victorian Premier's Literary Awards
- Young adult literature awards