2022 Victorian Premier’s Award – Takolander and Doyle shortlisted!

 Congratulations to Briohny Doyle and Maria Takolander, who are on the prestigious Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards shortlist for the 2022 award – in Fiction (Briohny) and Poetry (Maria). There are 26 works shortlisted for the 2022 award, Australia’s richest single literary prize.

Winners in each of the award categories will receive $25,000, with one selected for the coveted Victorian Prize for Literature – the most valuable literary recognition in the country with a $100,000 prize.

Alongside these awards is the $15,000 prize for an unpublished manuscript, which has previously uncovered new talent – including literary sensation and now a major film, The Dry by Jane Harper and Victoria Hannan’s Kokomo.

The People’s Choice Award encourages readers to participate in the awards by voting for their favourite book published in 2021, the winner is recognised alongside category accolades and receives a $2,000 prize.

Recipients will be announced and presented with their awards on Thursday, 3 February 2022 at MPavilion.

To view the full shortlist and vote for the People’s Choice Award, visit wheelercentre.com. 

2022 Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards Shortlist below – check the above link to see the highly commended…

The shortlist

Fiction 

  • After Story by Larissa Behrendt (University of Queensland Press)
  • Bodies of Light by Jennifer Down (Text Publishing)
  • Echolalia by Briohny Doyle (Penguin Random House)
  • The Dogs by John Hughes (Upswell Publishing)
  • Smokehouse by Melissa Manning (University of Queensland Press)
  • Permafrost by S.J Norman (University of Queensland Press)

Non-Fiction

Drama

Poetry

Writing for Young Adults

Indigenous Writing

Unpublished Manuscript