Canada and New Zealand began signing treaties with their respective First Nations people centuries ago. Why is Australia so far behind? Treaty offers an opportunity for everyone who calls Victoria ...

The Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards (VPLAs) were inaugurated by the Victorian Government in 1985 to honour literary achievement by Australian writers. Administered by The Wheeler Centre on behalf ...

rock flight is a book-length poem that, over seven chapters, follows a personal and historical narrative to compose an understated yet powerful allegory of Palestine’s occupation. The poem uses ...

Title: A Very Secret Trade Author: Cassandra Pybus Publisher: Allen & Unwin Shortlist: Non-Fiction In the 19th century, collectors and museum curators in Europe were fascinated by the antipodean ...

In 1998, an apparently ordinary Australian man is arrested and charged with a series of brutal murders of backpackers along a highway. The news shocks the nation, bringing both horror and resolution ...

Judges’ report Completing her monumental ‘Democracy’ trilogy, Clare Wright’s Näku Dhäruk tells the story of the Yirrkala Bark Petitions, the first traditional documents to be recognised by the ...

The 2025 Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards are proudly supported by the Victorian Government through the Community Support Fund and Creative Victoria.

The 2025 Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards are proudly supported by the Victorian Government through the Community Support Fund and Creative Victoria.

Judges’ report Ghost Cities by Siang Lu is a brilliantly inventive novel that defies categorisation, blending mythology, satire, and surrealism into a narrative as sprawling and strange as the titular ...

The Medusa Situation joins the Greek goddess Hera and her Olympian family as they accept their forced divine retirement and live out their immortality in the Aussie suburbs. Their once exciting, ...

Judges’ report Wyld again proves her genius at crafting a story that explores the long shadows that past behaviours cast on the present, this time via a couple in London, Hannah and Max, and Hannah’s ...

The 2025 Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards are proudly supported by the Victorian Government through the Community Support Fund and Creative Victoria.