# Victorian Premier's Unpublished Manuscript Award

The Victorian Premier's Unpublished Manuscript Award is a literary award for an unpublished manuscript. It can be entered by any author from the Australian State of Victoria that has not published a project based on fiction.
The Award was established by the State Library of Australia in 2003. In 2011 administration of the Victorian Premier's Literary Awards changed to the Wheeler Centre. As of 2017 is valued at A$15,000.

## Winners and shortlists

Victorian Premier's Unpublished Manuscript Award winners and shortlists :
| Year | Author | Title | Result |
| 2003 | Carrie Tiffany | Everyman's Rules for Scientific Living | Winner |
| 2004 | Angela Savage | Thai Died | Winner |
| 2005 | Peter Barry | I Hate Martin Amis et al. | Winner |
| 2006 | Andrew Hutchinson | Rohypnol | Winner |
| 2007 | Nick Gadd | The Ghost Writer | Winner |
| 2008 | Mandy Maroney | Going Finish | Winner |
| 2008 | Daniel Ducrou | Conditions of Return | Shortlist |
| 2008 | Robert Power | In Search of the Blue Tiger | Shortlist |
| 2009 | Amy Espeseth | Sufficient Grace | Winner |
| 2009 | Catherine Harris | Like Being a Wife | Shortlist |
| 2009 | Lisa Jacobson | The Sunlit Zone | Shortlist |
| 2010 | Peggy Frew | House of Sticks | Winner |
| 2010 | Andrew Nette | Cambodia Darkness and Light | Shortlist |
| 2010 | Michelle Aung Thin | Winsome of Rangoon (published as The Monsoon Bride) | Shortlist |
| 2012 | Graeme Simsion | The Rosie Project | Winner |
| 2012 | Rose Mulready | The Day We Lost The Moon | Shortlist |
| 2012 | Stephen Samuel | Strange Eventful History | Shortlist |
| 2012 | Clive Wansbrough | The Twoway Boy | Honorable mention |
| 2013 | Maxine Beneba Clarke | Foreign Soil | Winner |
| 2013 | Naomi Bailey | A Field Guide to Birdwatching in Bad Weather | Shortlist |
| 2013 | Emily Bitto | The Strays | Shortlist |
| 2013 | Kirsten Alexander | Dreams | Commended |
| 2013 | Beverly Almeida | Hijrotic | Commended |
| 2013 | Matt Davies | Fire and Icecream | Commended |
| 2013 | Leah De Forest | The Borrowed River | Commended |
| 2013 | Vince Leigh | Baroque Days | Commended |
| 2013 | Stuart McCullough | Goodsir | Commended |
| 2014 | Miles Allinson | Fever of Animals | Winner |
| 2014 | Jennifer Down | Our Magic Hour | Shortlist |
| 2014 | JM Green | Good Money | Shortlist |
| 2014 | Jane Abbott | Watershed | Commended |
| 2014 | Caitlin Crowley | Headland | Commended |
| 2014 | Zoe Morrison | Some Thoughts on Music and Freedom (published as Music and Freedom) | Commended |
| 2014 | Victoria Osborne | Man of Clay | Commended |
| 2014 | Genevieve Poetka | Winter Traffic | Commended |
| 2014 | Yannick Thoraval | The Current | Commended |
| 2015 | Jane Harper | The Dry | Winner |
| 2015 | Jim McIntyre | Nikolai the Perfect | Shortlist |
| 2015 | Michelle Wright | Fine | Shortlist |
| 2015 | Lucinda Berg | The Kafka Papers: The Revised Memoirs of Max Brod | Commended |
| 2015 | Alice Bishop | A Constant Hum | Commended |
| 2015 | Chris Mooney-Singh | Foreign Madam and the White Yogi | Commended |
| 2015 | Kerry Munnery | Unhomely Places | Commended |
| 2015 | Imbi Neeme | The Hidden Drawer | Commended |
| 2016 | Melanie Cheng | Australia Day | Winner |
| 2016 | Jay Carmichael | Ironbark | Shortlist |
| 2016 | Susan Johnston | Wildgirl | Shortlist |
| 2016 | Jacquie Byron | Trouble Sleeping | Commended |
| 2016 | Chris Quigley | Failed Manhood | Commended |
| 2016 | Mark Brandi | To Skin a Rabbit (published as Wimmera) | Commended |
| 2017 | Christian White | Decay Theory | Winner |
| 2017 | Kaz Kilmore-Barrymore | Truth Untold | Shortlist |
| 2017 | Laura Stortenbeker | Low Light | Shortlist |
| 2017 | Terry Donnelly | Hey Luna and Other Stories | Commended |
| 2017 | R. W. R. McDonald | The Nancys | Commended |
| 2019 | Victoria Hannan | Kokomo | Winner |
| 2019 | John Byron | Wedding Cake Island | Shortlist |
| 2019 | Wayne Marshall | Frontier Sport | Shortlist |
| 2020 | Rhett Davis | Hovering | Winner |
| 2020 | Allee Richards | In Real Life | Shortlist |
| 2020 | Emily Spurr | A Million Things | Shortlist |
| 2021 | André Dao | Anam | Winner |
| 2021 | Neela Janakiramanan | On A Knife's Edge | Shortlist |
| 2021 | Jessica Zhan Mei Yu | But the Girl | Shortlist |
| 2021 | J.R. Burgmann | Children of Tomorrow | Commended |
| 2021 | Patrick Hunn | Goblins | Commended |
| 2021 | Kylie Mirmohamadi | The Guest House | Commended |
| 2022 | Keshe Chow | Fauna of Mirrors | Winner |
| 2022 | Abbey Lay | Lead Us Not | Finalist |
| 2022 | Nina Wan | The Albatross | Finalist |
| 2022 | C. J. Garrow | Orangutan Ballet | Commended |
| 2022 | Elliot J. Han | The Echoes of George Street | Commended |
| 2022 | Soja Pitt | Strange Intersections | Commended |
| 2023 | Mick Cummins | One Divine Night | Winner |
| 2023 | Amy Brown | Stillwater | Shortlist |
| 2023 | Ruby Todd | Bright Objects | Shortlist |
| 2024 | Hayley Elliott-Ryan | Garbage | Shortlist |
| 2024 | N. J. Madden | Laughing River | Shortlist |
| 2024 | Rachel Morton | Panajachel | Winner |
| 2025 | Lauren K. Williams | Every Stolen Moment | Shortlist |
| 2025 | Kat Capel | Heavy Petting | Shortlist |
| 2025 | Chris Ames | I Made This Just for You | Shortlist |