2024 Prime Minister’s Literary Awards shortlists

Find out the shortlisted titles of the Prime Minister's Literary Awards across six categories.
Prime Minister's Literary Awards. The eyes and nose of a boy is seen through the circular fold up pages of a book.

This morning (15 August) Creative Australia has revealed the shortlists for the 2024 Prime Minister’s Literary Awards, the richest literary prize in the nation. The awards celebrate the talents of emerging and established Australian writers, illustrators, poets and historians.  

There were 533 entries submitted this year across six literary categories: fiction, non-fiction, young adult literature, children’s literature, poetry and Australian history.  

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Thuy On is the Reviews and Literary Editor of ArtsHub and an arts journalist, critic and poet who’s written for a range of publications including The Guardian, The Saturday Paper, Sydney Review of Books, The Australian, The Age/SMH and Australian Book Review. She was the Books Editor of The Big Issue for 8 years and a former Melbourne theatre critic correspondent for The Australian. She has three collections of poetry published by the University of Western Australian Press (UWAP): Turbulence (2020), Decadence (2022) and Essence (2025). Threads: @thuy_on123 Instagram: poemsbythuy