2025 Queensland Literary Awards winners

Published on 30 September 2025

This year’s winners have been announced. These awards showcase outstanding authors across Australia, celebrating both emerging and established authors across a range of genres.

And the winners are:

• Queensland Premier's Award for a Work of State Significance 

  Black Witness by Amy McQuire

• The University of Queensland Fiction Book Award

  Rapture by Emily Maguire

• The University of Queensland Non-Fiction Book Award

  Näku Dhäruk The Bark Petitions: How the People of Yirrkala Changed the Course of Australian Democracy by Clare Wright

• Young Adult Book Award

  Don’t Let the Forest In by C.G. Drews

• Children's Book Award

  Little Bones by Sandy Bigna

• Judith Wright Calanthe Award for a Poetry Collection

  The Oblong Plot by Chris Andrews

• The Courier-Mail People's Choice Queensland Book of the Year Award
  Nightingale by Laura Elvery

Congratulations to them all!