Victorian Premier's Unpublished Manuscript Award

The Victorian Premier's Unpublished Manuscript Award is a literary award for an unpublished manuscript. It can be entered by any author from the Australian State of Victoria that has not published a project based on fiction.

The Award was established by the State Library of Australia in 2003. In 2011 administration of the Victorian Premier's Literary Awards changed to the Wheeler Centre. As of 2017 is valued at A$15,000.[1]

Winners and shortlists

Victorian Premier's Unpublished Manuscript Award winners and shortlists
Year Author Title Result
2003 Carrie Tiffany Everyman's Rules for Scientific Living Winner
2004 Angela Savage Thai Died Winner
2005 Peter Barry I Hate Martin Amis et al. Winner [2]
2006 Andrew Hutchinson Rohypnol Winner [3]
2007 Nick Gadd The Ghost Writer Winner [4]
2008 Mandy Maroney Going Finish Winner
Daniel Ducrou Conditions of Return Shortlist
Robert Power In Search of the Blue Tiger Shortlist
2009 Amy Espeseth Sufficient Grace Winner [5]
Catherine Harris Like Being a Wife Shortlist
Lisa Jacobson The Sunlit Zone Shortlist
2010 Peggy Frew House of Sticks Winner
Andrew Nette Cambodia Darkness and Light Shortlist
Michelle Aung Thin Winsome of Rangoon (published as The Monsoon Bride) Shortlist
2012[a] Graeme Simsion The Rosie Project Winner
Rose Mulready The Day We Lost The Moon Shortlist
Stephen Samuel Strange Eventful History Shortlist
Clive Wansbrough The Twoway Boy Honorable mention
2013 Maxine Beneba Clarke Foreign Soil Winner
Naomi Bailey A Field Guide to Birdwatching in Bad Weather Shortlist
Emily Bitto The Strays Shortlist
Kirsten Alexander Dreams Commended
Beverly Almeida Hijrotic Commended
Matt Davies Fire and Icecream Commended
Leah De Forest The Borrowed River Commended
Vince Leigh Baroque Days Commended
Stuart McCullough Goodsir Commended
2014 Miles Allinson Fever of Animals Winner
Jennifer Down Our Magic Hour Shortlist
JM Green Good Money Shortlist
Jane Abbott Watershed Commended
Caitlin Crowley Headland Commended
Zoe Morrison Some Thoughts on Music and Freedom (published as Music and Freedom) Commended
Victoria Osborne Man of Clay Commended
Genevieve Poetka Winter Traffic Commended
Yannick Thoraval The Current Commended
2015 Jane Harper The Dry Winner [6]
Jim McIntyre Nikolai the Perfect Shortlist [6]
Michelle Wright Fine Shortlist [6]
Lucinda Berg The Kafka Papers: The Revised Memoirs of Max Brod Commended [6]
Alice Bishop A Constant Hum Commended [6]
Chris Mooney-Singh Foreign Madam and the White Yogi Commended [6]
Kerry Munnery Unhomely Places Commended [6]
Imbi Neeme The Hidden Drawer Commended [6]
2016 Melanie Cheng Australia Day Winner [7][8]
Jay Carmichael Ironbark Shortlist
Susan Johnston Wildgirl Shortlist
Jacquie Byron Trouble Sleeping Commended
Chris Quigley Failed Manhood Commended
Mark Brandi To Skin a Rabbit (published as Wimmera) Commended
2017 Christian White Decay Theory Winner
Kaz Kilmore-Barrymore Truth Untold Shortlist
Laura Stortenbeker Low Light Shortlist
Terry Donnelly Hey Luna and Other Stories Commended
R. W. R. McDonald The Nancys Commended
2019 Victoria Hannan Kokomo Winner [9]
John Byron Wedding Cake Island Shortlist [10]
Wayne Marshall Frontier Sport Shortlist [10]
2020 Rhett Davis Hovering Winner [11][12]
Allee Richards In Real Life Shortlist [11][13]
Emily Spurr A Million Things Shortlist [11][13]
2021 André Dao Anam Winner [14][15][16]
Neela Janakiramanan On A Knife's Edge Shortlist [17][18]
Jessica Zhan Mei Yu But the Girl Shortlist [17][18]
J.R. Burgmann Children of Tomorrow Commended [17][18]
Patrick Hunn Goblins Commended [17][18]
Kylie Mirmohamadi The Guest House Commended [17][18]
2022 Keshe Chow Fauna of Mirrors Winner [19][20]
Abbey Lay Lead Us Not Finalist [21]
Nina Wan The Albatross Finalist [21]
C. J. Garrow Orangutan Ballet Commended [21]
Elliot J. Han The Echoes of George Street Commended [21]
Soja Pitt Strange Intersections Commended [21]
2023 Mick Cummins One Divine Night Winner [22][23][24]
Amy Brown Stillwater Shortlist [22][25]
Ruby Todd Bright Objects Shortlist [22][25]
2024 Hayley Elliott-Ryan Garbage Shortlist [26]
N. J. Madden Laughing River Shortlist [26]
Rachel Morton Panajachel Shortlist [26]

Notes

  1. ^ No award was presented in 2011 due to change in timing.

References

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  5. ^ "2009 Victorian Premier's Literary Awards Shortlists - Matilda". www.middlemiss.org. Archived from the original on 2014-02-01. Retrieved 2013-05-17.
  6. ^ a b c d e f g h "Shortlist Announced: 2015 Victorian Premier's Literary Award for an Unpublished Manuscript — the Wheeler Centre". Archived from the original on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2015-05-22.
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