A total of $360,000 in prize money is on offer across 14 prize categories in 2025.
The categories offered for the 2025 award are:
- Christina Stead Prize for Fiction ($40,000)
- Douglas Stewart Prize for Non-Fiction ($40,000)
- Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry ($30,000)
- Patricia Wrightson Prize for Children’s Literature ($30,000)
- Ethel Turner Prize for Young People’s Literature ($30,000)
- Nick Enright Prize for Playwriting ($30,000)
- Betty Roland Prize for Scriptwriting ($30,000)
- Multicultural NSW Award ($30,000)
- Indigenous Writers’ Prize ($30,000)
- Translation Prize ($30,000)
- UTS Glenda Adams Award for New Writing ($10,000)
- University of Sydney People’s Choice Award ($10,000)
- Book of the Year ($10,000)
- Special Award ($10,000)
All works must have been first published, performed, screened or broadcast and made publicly available between 1 October 2023 and 30 September 2024. The exception is works being entered for the biennial NSW Translation Prize; these works must have first been published and made publicly available between 1 October 2022 and 30 September 2024.
Entries close 5 pm, Thursday 10 October 2024.
Read the Guidelines before entering.
