The Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards (VPLAs) were inaugurated by the Victorian Government in 1985 to honour literary achievement by Australian writers. Administered by The Wheeler Centre on behalf ...

The 2025 Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards are proudly supported by the Victorian Government through the Community Support Fund and Creative Victoria.

Come together for a night of great Australian books matched with great Australian beers, in a special event presented in partnership with Tough Guy Book Club. Craft beer meets the art of storytelling ...

Written amid the COVID lockdowns of 2020–21, Jake Goetz’s Holocene Pointbreaks presents a triptych of long poems that link three unique ecologies located on the Countries of the Dharawal and Eora ...

Sam van Zweden is a Melbourne-based fat liberation activist and writer of nonfiction concerned with mental health, memory, food and the body. She is the author of Eating with My Mouth Open, winner of ...

Title: A Very Secret Trade Author: Cassandra Pybus Publisher: Allen & Unwin Shortlist: Non-Fiction In the 19th century, collectors and museum curators in Europe were fascinated by the antipodean ...

rock flight is a book-length poem that, over seven chapters, follows a personal and historical narrative to compose an understated yet powerful allegory of Palestine’s occupation. The poem uses ...

Judges’ report Completing her monumental ‘Democracy’ trilogy, Clare Wright’s Näku Dhäruk tells the story of the Yirrkala Bark Petitions, the first traditional documents to be recognised by the ...

In 1998, an apparently ordinary Australian man is arrested and charged with a series of brutal murders of backpackers along a highway. The news shocks the nation, bringing both horror and resolution ...

The 2025 Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards are proudly supported by the Victorian Government through the Community Support Fund and Creative Victoria.

Judges’ report Ghost Cities by Siang Lu is a brilliantly inventive novel that defies categorisation, blending mythology, satire, and surrealism into a narrative as sprawling and strange as the titular ...

The Medusa Situation joins the Greek goddess Hera and her Olympian family as they accept their forced divine retirement and live out their immortality in the Aussie suburbs. Their once exciting, ...