
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.