2025 Premier’s Book Awards open for entries

The Western Australian Premier’s Book Awards are back for 2025 with a total prize pool of $120,000 and four new categories.

The new genre categories of fiction, non-fiction, poetry and young adult will showcase the work of more Western Australian authors and publishers.

Book of the Year, sponsored by Writing WA, will be a ‘winner of winners’ chosen from the winning category titles.

Each category awards a prize of $15,000:

  • Emerging Western Australian Writer
  • Children’s Book of the Year
  • Young Adult Book of the Year
  • Fiction Book of the Year
  • Non-Fiction Book of the Year
  • Poetry Book of the Year
  • Book of the Year, sponsored by Writing WA
  • Daisy Utemorrah Award for Indigenous Junior and YA Fiction, sponsored by Magabala Books (open Australia-wide).

Entries are now open for books published or self-published in 2024. Entries close 20 February 2025. Visit the SLWA website for more information.

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