# Queensland Literary Awards

The Queensland Literary Awards is an awards program established in 2012 by the Queensland literary community, funded by sponsors and administered by the State Library of Queensland. Like the former Queensland Premier's Literary Awards, the QLAs celebrate and promote outstanding Australian writing. The awards aim to seek out, recognize and nurture great talent in Australian writing. They draw national and international attention to some of our best writers and to Queensland's recognition of outstanding Australian literature and publishing.
These awards have a focus on supporting new writing through the Emerging Queensland Writer – Manuscript Award and Unpublished Indigenous writer – David Unaipon Award. "They give local writers and new writers something to aspire to."

## History

The Queensland Literary Awards was established by a not-for-profit association of passionate Queensland volunteers and advocates for literature, in response to Queensland Premier Campbell Newman disestablishing the Queensland Premier's Literary Awards in 2012.
In 2012 and 2013 the program was run by a volunteer workforce. Following consultation with the QLA Inc. governing committee, 2014 saw the management of the QLA transition to State Library of Queensland (SLQ). While SLQ took on a leadership role in delivering the program, the aim was to continue to build on the existing collaborative model where the community and writing sector partners are key stakeholders.
The original Premier's awards were established by Peter Beattie, the then Premier of Queensland in 1998 and first awarded in 1999.

## Award categories

There are currently twelve award categories including:
* Queensland Premier's Award for a work of State Significance
* Queensland Premier's Young Publishers and Writers Award
* Queensland Writers Fellowships
* The University of Queensland Fiction Book Award
* The University of Queensland Non-Fiction Book Award
* Young Adult Book Award
* Children's Book Award
* University of Southern Queensland Steele Rudd Award for a Short Story Collection
* Judith Wright Calanthe Award for a Poetry Collection
* David Unaipon Award for an Emerging Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Writer
* Glendower Award for an Emerging Queensland Writer
* The Courier-Mail People's Choice Queensland Book of the Year

## Judging

The awards are judged by independent panels of writers, critics, journalists, academics and booksellers. They are presented to works the judges determine possess the highest literary merit.

## Winners
### 2024

The shortlist was announced on 1 August 2024. Winners were announced on 5 September 2024.
List of 2024 Queensland Literary Awards Recipients :
| Category | Author | Title | Result |
| Queensland Premier's Award for a Work of State Significance | Melissa Lucashenko | Edenglassie | Winner |
| Queensland Premier's Award for a Work of State Significance | Graham Akhurst | Borderland | Finalist |
| Queensland Premier's Award for a Work of State Significance | Kris Kneen | Fat Girl Dancing | Finalist |
| Queensland Premier's Award for a Work of State Significance | J. M. Tolcher | Poof | Finalist |
| Queensland Premier's Award for a Work of State Significance | Ellen van Neerven | Personal Score: Sport, Culture, Identity | Finalist |
| The University of Queensland Non-Fiction Book Award | Abbas El-Zein | Bullet, Paper, Rock: A Memoir of Words and Wars | Winner |
| The University of Queensland Non-Fiction Book Award | James Bradley | Deep Water: The World In the Ocean | Finalist |
| The University of Queensland Non-Fiction Book Award | Bonny Cassidy | Monument | Finalist |
| The University of Queensland Non-Fiction Book Award | Antony Loewenstein | The Palestine Laboratory: How Israel Exports the Technology of Occupation Around the World | Finalist |
| The University of Queensland Non-Fiction Book Award | Ellen van Neerven | Personal Score: Sport, Culture, Identity | Finalist |
| The University of Queensland Fiction Book Award | Sharlene Allsopp | The Great Undoing | Winner |
| The University of Queensland Fiction Book Award | Katherine Brabon | Body Friend | Finalist |
| The University of Queensland Fiction Book Award | Yumna Kassab | Politica | Finalist |
| The University of Queensland Fiction Book Award | Siang Lu | Ghost Cities | Finalist |
| The University of Queensland Fiction Book Award | Melissa Lucashenko | Edenglassie | Finalist |
| Young Adult Book Award | sydney khoo | The Spider and Her Demons | Winner |
| Young Adult Book Award | Graham Akhurst | Borderland | Finalist |
| Young Adult Book Award | Barry Jonsberg | Smoke & Mirrors | Finalist |
| Young Adult Book Award | Will Kostakis | We Could Be Something | Finalist |
| Young Adult Book Award | Ann Liang | I Hope This Doesn't Find You | Finalist |
| Children's Book Award | Karen Comer | Sunshine on Vinegar Street | Winner |
| Children's Book Award | Trace Balla | Leaf-light | Finalist |
| Children's Book Award | Peter Carnavas | Leo and Ralph | Finalist |
| Children's Book Award | Jaclyn Moriarty, illustrated by Kelly Canby | The Impossible Secret of Lillian Velvet | Finalist |
| Children's Book Award | Blake Nuto | When You're a Boy | Finalist |
| Steele Rudd Award for a Short Story Collection | John Morrissey | Firelight | Winner |
| Steele Rudd Award for a Short Story Collection | David Cohen | The Terrible Event | Finalist |
| Steele Rudd Award for a Short Story Collection | Magdalena McGuire | Born For You | Finalist |
| Steele Rudd Award for a Short Story Collection | Laura Jean McKay | Gunflower | Finalist |
| Steele Rudd Award for a Short Story Collection | John Richards | The Gorgon Flower | Finalist |
| Judith Wright Calanthe Award for a Poetry Collection | L. K. Holt | Three Books | Winner |
| Judith Wright Calanthe Award for a Poetry Collection | Manisha Anjali | Naag Mountain | Finalist |
| Judith Wright Calanthe Award for a Poetry Collection | Jarad Bruinstroop | Reliefs | Finalist |
| Judith Wright Calanthe Award for a Poetry Collection | Mitchell Welch | Vehicular Man | Finalist |
| Judith Wright Calanthe Award for a Poetry Collection | Petra White | That Galloping Horse | Finalist |
| The Courier-Mail People's Choice Queensland Book of the Year Award | Carly-Jay Metcalfe | Breath | Winner |
| The Courier-Mail People's Choice Queensland Book of the Year Award | Sharlene Allsopp | The Great Undoing | Finalist |
| The Courier-Mail People's Choice Queensland Book of the Year Award | Melissa Ashley | The Naturalist of Amsterdam | Finalist |
| The Courier-Mail People's Choice Queensland Book of the Year Award | Wendy Cooper | The Bird Art of William T. Cooper | Finalist |
| The Courier-Mail People's Choice Queensland Book of the Year Award | Anna Jacobson | How to Knit a Human | Finalist |
| The Courier-Mail People's Choice Queensland Book of the Year Award | Grantlee Kieza | The Remarkable Mrs Reibey | Finalist |
| The Courier-Mail People's Choice Queensland Book of the Year Award | Siang Lu | Ghost Cities | Finalist |
| The Courier-Mail People's Choice Queensland Book of the Year Award | Anna McGahan | Immaculate | Finalist |
| David Unaipon Award for an Emerging Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander Writer | Dominic Guerrera | Native Rage | Winner |
| David Unaipon Award for an Emerging Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander Writer | Chella Goldwin | Politics | Finalist |
| David Unaipon Award for an Emerging Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander Writer | Lulu Houdini | River Page | Finalist |
| Queensland Writers Fellowships | Jarad Bruinstroop | "For the Duration" | Winner |
| Queensland Writers Fellowships | Sarah Kanake | "Lazarus; or, The Whale" | Winner |
| Queensland Writers Fellowships | Cheryl Leavy | "Mudhunda—Song Country" | Winner |
| Glendower Award for Emerging Queensland Author | Emily Lighezzolo | Life Drawing | Winner |
| Glendower Award for Emerging Queensland Author | Myles McGuire | Tender Age | Finalist |
| Glendower Award for Emerging Queensland Author | Nicky Peelgrane | EndGain | Finalist |
| Glendower Award for Emerging Queensland Author | Lillian Telford | Lovesick | Finalist |
| Queensland Premier’s Young Publishers and Writers Award | Gavin Yuan Gao | Gavin Yuan Gao | Winner |
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| Queensland Premier’s Young Publishers and Writers Award | Wallea Eaglehawk | Wallea Eaglehawk | Finalist |

### 2023

The winners were announced on 6 September 2023.
List of 2023 Queensland Literary Awards Recipients :
| Category | Author | Title | Result |
| Queensland Premier's Award for a Work of State Significance | Sarah Holland-Batt | The Jaguar | Winner |
| Queensland Premier's Award for a Work of State Significance | Debra Dank | We Come with This Place | Finalist |
| Queensland Premier's Award for a Work of State Significance | Kate Foster | The Bravest Word | Finalist |
| Queensland Premier's Award for a Work of State Significance | Sally Piper | Bone Memories | Finalist |
| Queensland Premier's Award for a Work of State Significance | Alexis Wright | Praiseworthy | Finalist |
| The Courier-Mail People's Choice Queensland Book of the Year Award | Sita Walker | The God of No Good | Winner |
| The Courier-Mail People's Choice Queensland Book of the Year Award | Debra Dank | We Come with This Place | Finalist |
| The Courier-Mail People's Choice Queensland Book of the Year Award | Veronica Lando | The Whispering | Finalist |
| The Courier-Mail People's Choice Queensland Book of the Year Award | Kate Morton | Homecoming | Finalist |
| The Courier-Mail People's Choice Queensland Book of the Year Award | Sally Piper | Bone Memories | Finalist |
| The Courier-Mail People's Choice Queensland Book of the Year Award | Holly Ringland | The Seven Skins of Esther Wilding | Finalist |
| The Courier-Mail People's Choice Queensland Book of the Year Award | Marion Stell | The Bodyline Fix | Finalist |
| The Courier-Mail People's Choice Queensland Book of the Year Award | Penny van Oosterzee | Cloud Land | Finalist |
| The University of Queensland Fiction Book Award | Alexis Wright | Praiseworthy | Winner |
| The University of Queensland Fiction Book Award | Geraldine Brooks | Horse | Finalist |
| The University of Queensland Fiction Book Award | Fiona McFarlane | The Sun Walks Down | Finalist |
| The University of Queensland Fiction Book Award | Michael Meehan | An Ungrateful Instrument | Finalist |
| The University of Queensland Fiction Book Award | Shaun Prescott | Bon and Lesley | Finalist |
| The University of Queensland Non-Fiction Book Award | Debra Dank | We Come With This Place | Winner |
| The University of Queensland Non-Fiction Book Award | Joëlle Gergis | Humanity’s Moment | Finalist |
| The University of Queensland Non-Fiction Book Award | Louisa Lim | Indelible City | Finalist |
| The University of Queensland Non-Fiction Book Award | Anna Spargo-Ryan | A Kind of Magic | Finalist |
| The University of Queensland Non-Fiction Book Award | Sam Wallman | Our Members Be Unlimited | Finalist |
| Judith Wright Calanthe Award for a Poetry Collection | Lionel Fogarty | Harvest Lingo | Winner |
| Judith Wright Calanthe Award for a Poetry Collection | Michael Farrell | Googlecholia | Finalist |
| Judith Wright Calanthe Award for a Poetry Collection | Autumn Royal | The Drama Student | Finalist |
| Judith Wright Calanthe Award for a Poetry Collection | Simon Tedeschi | Fugitive | Finalist |
| Judith Wright Calanthe Award for a Poetry Collection | Rae White | Exactly As I Am | Finalist |
| University of Southern Queensland Steele Rudd Award for a Short Story Collection | Katerina Gibson | Women I Know | Winner |
| University of Southern Queensland Steele Rudd Award for a Short Story Collection | Paul Dalla Rosa | An Exciting and Vivid Inner Life | Finalist |
| University of Southern Queensland Steele Rudd Award for a Short Story Collection | Else Fitzgerald | Everything Feels Like the End of the World | Finalist |
| University of Southern Queensland Steele Rudd Award for a Short Story Collection | Chris Flynn | Here Be Leviathans | Finalist |
| Griffith University Young Adult Book Award | Biffy James | Completely Normal (and Other Lies) | Winner |
| Griffith University Young Adult Book Award | Helena Fox | The Quiet and the Loud | Finalist |
| Griffith University Young Adult Book Award | Nina Kenwood | Unnecessary Drama | Finalist |
| Griffith University Young Adult Book Award | Ann Liang | If You Could See the Sun | Finalist |
| Griffith University Young Adult Book Award | Jared Thomas | My Spare Heart | Finalist |
| Children's Book Award | Katrina Nannestad | Waiting for the Storks | Winner |
| Children's Book Award | Zana Fraillon | The Way of Dog | Finalist |
| Children's Book Award | Bob Graham | Jigsaw: A Puzzle in the Post | Finalist |
| Children's Book Award | Hakea Hustler, Carl Merrison & Samantha Campbell | My Deadly Boots | Finalist |
| Children's Book Award | Gabrielle Wang | Zadie Ma and the Dog Who Chased the Moon | Finalist |
| Queensland Premier's Young Publishers and Writers Award | Jasmin McGaughey | Jasmin McGaughey | Winner |
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| Queensland Premier's Young Publishers and Writers Award | Myles McGuire | Myles McGuire | Finalist |
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| Queensland Writers Fellowships | Al Campbell | Door 64 | Winner |
| Queensland Writers Fellowships | B. R. Dionysius | The Eromanga Sea | Winner |
| Queensland Writers Fellowships | Melanie Saward | The Next Chapter | Winner |
| Glendower Award for Emerging Queensland Author | Steve MinOn | First Name, Second Name | Winner |
| Glendower Award for Emerging Queensland Author | Fernanda Dahlstrom | The See-Saw | Finalist |
| Glendower Award for Emerging Queensland Author | Sandra Minke | Treasure | Finalist |
| Glendower Award for Emerging Queensland Author | Margot Shave | Exchange Me | Finalist |
| David Unaipon Award for an Emerging Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Writer | Maria van Neerven | To Give Them a Voice | Winner |
| David Unaipon Award for an Emerging Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Writer | Lulu Houdini | guniimara | Finalist |
| David Unaipon Award for an Emerging Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Writer | Brooke Scobie | Always and Again | Finalist |

### 2022

The winners were announced on 8 September 2022.
List of 2022 Queensland Literary Awards Recipients :
| Category | Author | Title | Result |
| Queensland Premier's Award for a Work of State Significance | Quentin Beresford | Wounded Country: The Murray-Darling Basin – a contested history | Winner |
| Queensland Premier's Award for a Work of State Significance | Sara El Sayed | Muddy People | Finalist |
| Queensland Premier's Award for a Work of State Significance | Mirandi Riwoe | The Burnished Sun | Finalist |
| Queensland Premier's Award for a Work of State Significance | John Shobbrook | Operation Jungle | Finalist |
| Queensland Premier's Award for a Work of State Significance | Chelsea Watego | Another Day in the Colony | Finalist |
| The Courier-Mail People's Choice Queensland Book of the Year Award | Chelsea Watego | Another Day in the Colony | Winner |
| The Courier-Mail People's Choice Queensland Book of the Year Award | Ed Ayres | Whole Notes | Finalist |
| The Courier-Mail People's Choice Queensland Book of the Year Award | Al Campbell | The Keepers | Finalist |
| The Courier-Mail People's Choice Queensland Book of the Year Award | Sara El Sayed | Muddy People | Finalist |
| The Courier-Mail People's Choice Queensland Book of the Year Award | Anita Heiss | Bila Yarrudhanggalangdhuray | Finalist |
| The Courier-Mail People's Choice Queensland Book of the Year Award | Krissy Kneen | The Three Burials of Lotty Kneen | Finalist |
| The Courier-Mail People's Choice Queensland Book of the Year Award | Nicolas Rothwell | Red Heaven | Finalist |
| The Courier-Mail People's Choice Queensland Book of the Year Award | Dime Sheppard | Crime Writer | Finalist |
| The University of Queensland Fiction Book Award | Michael Mohammed Ahmad | The Other Half of You | Winner |
| The University of Queensland Fiction Book Award | Jessica Au | Cold Enough for Snow | Finalist |
| The University of Queensland Fiction Book Award | Mandy Beaumont | The Furies | Finalist |
| The University of Queensland Fiction Book Award | Al Campbell | The Keepers | Finalist |
| The University of Queensland Fiction Book Award | Yumna Kassab | Australiana | Finalist |
| The University of Queensland Non-Fiction Book Award | Claire G. Coleman | Lies, Damned Lies | Winner |
| The University of Queensland Non-Fiction Book Award | Sara El Sayed | Muddy People | Finalist |
| The University of Queensland Non-Fiction Book Award | Amani Haydar | The Mother Wound | Finalist |
| The University of Queensland Non-Fiction Book Award | Krissy Kneen | The Three Burials of Lotty Kneen | |
| The University of Queensland Non-Fiction Book Award | Chelsea Watego | Another Day in the Colony | |
| Judith Wright Calanthe Award for a Poetry Collection | Pam Brown | Stasis Shuffle | Winner |
| Judith Wright Calanthe Award for a Poetry Collection | Eunice Andrada | TAKE CARE | Finalist |
| Judith Wright Calanthe Award for a Poetry Collection | Dan Disney | accelerations & inertias | Finalist |
| Judith Wright Calanthe Award for a Poetry Collection | Gavin Yuan Gao | At the Altar of Touch | Finalist |
| Judith Wright Calanthe Award for a Poetry Collection | Ann Vickery | Bees Do Both: An antagonist’s carepack | Finalist |
| University of Southern Queensland Steele Rudd Award for a Short Story Collection | Tony Birch | Dark as Last Night | Winner |
| University of Southern Queensland Steele Rudd Award for a Short Story Collection | Merlinda Bobis | The Kindness of Birds | Finalist |
| University of Southern Queensland Steele Rudd Award for a Short Story Collection | Mirandi Riwoe | The Burnished Sun | Finalist |
| University of Southern Queensland Steele Rudd Award for a Short Story Collection | Fiona Robertson | If You’re Happy | Finalist |
| University of Southern Queensland Steele Rudd Award for a Short Story Collection | Su-May Tan | Lake Malibu and Other Stories | Finalist |
| Griffith University Young Adult Book Award | Felicity Castagna | Girls in Boys’ Cars | Winner |
| Griffith University Young Adult Book Award | Brian Falkner | Katipo Joe: Wolf’s lair | Finalist |
| Griffith University Young Adult Book Award | Michael Hyde | Morrison and Mr Moore | Finalist |
| Griffith University Young Adult Book Award | Kay Kerr | Social Queue | Finalist |
| Griffith University Young Adult Book Award | Carly Nugent | Sugar | Finalist |
| Children's Book Award | Kunyi June Anne McInerney | Kunyi | Winner |
| Children's Book Award | Peter Carnavas | My Brother Ben | Finalist |
| Children's Book Award | Shirley Marr | A Glasshouse of Stars | Finalist |
| Children's Book Award | Sandhya Parappukkaran, illus by Michelle Pereira | The Boy Who Tried to Shrink His Name | Finalist |
| Children's Book Award | Corey Tutt, illus by Blak Douglas | The First Scientists | Finalist |
| Queensland Premier's Young Publishers and Writers Award | Rebecca Cheers and Marilena Hewitt | Rebecca Cheers and Marilena Hewitt | Winner |
| Queensland Writers Fellowships | Melissa Ashley, Geneve Flynn and Mary-Rose MacColl | Melissa Ashley, Geneve Flynn and Mary-Rose MacColl | Winner |
| Glendower Award for Emerging Queensland Author | Yen-Rong Wong | Things Left Unsaid | Winner |
| Glendower Award for Emerging Queensland Author | John Richards | The Interventions | Finalist |
| Glendower Award for Emerging Queensland Author | A E Macleod | Do you like the artist Georgia O’Keeffe? | Finalist |
| Glendower Award for Emerging Queensland Author | Emily Winter | Sunshowers | Finalist |
| David Unaipon Award for an Emerging Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Writer | Mykaela Saunders | Always Will Be – stories of Goori sovereignty, from the future(s) of the Tweed | Winner |
| David Unaipon Award for an Emerging Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Writer | Edoardo Crismani | Finding Billy Brown | Finalist |
| David Unaipon Award for an Emerging Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Writer | Julie-Ann ‘Garrimaa’ Moore | Wawun, Judulu and The Big Storm | Finalist |
| David Unaipon Award for an Emerging Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Writer | Rick Slager | Untitled | Finalist |
| David Unaipon Award for an Emerging Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Writer | Aunty Joan Tranter | Unplanned Journey: A personal account of one Indigenous woman’s life | Finalist |

### 2021

The winners were announced on 9 September 2021.
List of 2021 Queensland Literary Awards Recipients :
| Category | Author | Title | Result |
| Queensland Premier's Award for a Work of State Significance | Fiona Foley | Biting the Clouds: A Badtjala perspective on the Aboriginals Protection and Restriction of the Sale of Opium Act, 1897 | Winner |
| Queensland Premier's Award for a Work of State Significance | Lech Blaine | Car Crash | Finalist |
| Queensland Premier's Award for a Work of State Significance | Laura Elvery | Ordinary Matter | Finalist |
| Queensland Premier's Award for a Work of State Significance | Pattie Lees with Adam C Lees | A Question of Colour | Finalist |
| Queensland Premier's Award for a Work of State Significance | Jaya Savige | Change Machine | Finalist |
| The Courier-Mail People's Choice Queensland Book of the Year Award | Mary Li | Mary’s Last Dance: The untold story of the wife of Mao’s Last Dancer | Winner |
| The Courier-Mail People's Choice Queensland Book of the Year Award | Trent Dalton | All Our Shimmering Skies | Finalist |
| The Courier-Mail People's Choice Queensland Book of the Year Award | Sandra Hogan | With My Little Eye | Finalist |
| The Courier-Mail People's Choice Queensland Book of the Year Award | Kathleen Jennings | Flyaway | Finalist |
| The Courier-Mail People's Choice Queensland Book of the Year Award | Susan Johnson | From Where I Fell | Finalist |
| The Courier-Mail People's Choice Queensland Book of the Year Award | Grantlee Kieza | Banks | Finalist |
| The Courier-Mail People's Choice Queensland Book of the Year Award | Pattie Lees with Adam C Lees | A Question of Colour: My journey to belonging | Finalist |
| The Courier-Mail People's Choice Queensland Book of the Year Award | A G Slatter | All the Murmuring Bones | Finalist |
| The University of Queensland Fiction Book Award | Nardi Simpson | Song of the Crocodile | Winner |
| The University of Queensland Fiction Book Award | Kavita Bedford | Friends & Dark Shapes | Finalist |
| The University of Queensland Fiction Book Award | S L Lim | Revenge | Finalist |
| The University of Queensland Fiction Book Award | Amanda Lohrey | The Labyrinth | Finalist |
| The University of Queensland Fiction Book Award | Charlotte McConaghy | Migrations | Finalist |
| The University of Queensland Non-Fiction Book Award | Luke Stegemann | Amnesia Road: Landscape, violence and memory | Winner |
| The University of Queensland Non-Fiction Book Award | Lech Blaine | Car Crash | Finalist |
| The University of Queensland Non-Fiction Book Award | Eleanor Hogan | Into the Loneliness | Finalist |
| The University of Queensland Non-Fiction Book Award | Henry Reynolds | Truth-Telling | Finalist |
| The University of Queensland Non-Fiction Book Award | Marian Wilkinson | The Carbon Club | Finalist |
| Judith Wright Calanthe Award for a Poetry Collection | Ouyang Yu | Terminally Poetic | Winner |
| Judith Wright Calanthe Award for a Poetry Collection | Evelyn Araluen | Dropbear | Finalist |
| Judith Wright Calanthe Award for a Poetry Collection | Benjamin Dodds | Airplane Baby Banana Blanket | Finalist |
| Judith Wright Calanthe Award for a Poetry Collection | Jaya Savige | Change Machine | Finalist |
| Judith Wright Calanthe Award for a Poetry Collection | Elfie Shiosaki | Homecoming | Finalist |
| University of Southern Queensland Steele Rudd Award for a Short Story Collection | Laura Elvery | Ordinary Matter | Winner |
| University of Southern Queensland Steele Rudd Award for a Short Story Collection | Melissa Manning | Smokehouse | Finalist |
| University of Southern Queensland Steele Rudd Award for a Short Story Collection | Elizabeth Tan | Smart Ovens for Lonely People | Finalist |
| University of Southern Queensland Steele Rudd Award for a Short Story Collection | Adam Thompson | Born Into This | Finalist |
| University of Southern Queensland Steele Rudd Award for a Short Story Collection | Barry Lee Thompson | Broken Rules and Other Stories | Finalist |
| Griffith University Young Adult Book Award | Cath Moore | Metal Fish, Falling Snow | Winner |
| Griffith University Young Adult Book Award | Davina Bell | The End of the World is Bigger Than Love | Finalist |
| Griffith University Young Adult Book Award | Rebecca Lim | Tiger Daughter | Finalist |
| Griffith University Young Adult Book Award | Gary Lonesborough | The Boy From the Mish | Finalist |
| Griffith University Young Adult Book Award | Lili Wilkinson | The Erasure Initiative | Finalist |
| Griffith University Children's Book Award | Kirli Saunders & Dub Leffler | Bindi | Winner |
| Griffith University Children's Book Award | Sami Bayly | The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Dangerous Animals | Finalist |
| Griffith University Children's Book Award | Meg McKinlay, illus by Matt Ottley | How to Make a Bird | Finalist |
| Griffith University Children's Book Award | Jaclyn Moriarty, illus by Kelly Canby | The Stolen Prince of Cloudburst | Finalist |
| Griffith University Children's Book Award | Katrina Nannestad, illus by Martina Heiduczek | We Are Wolves | Finalist |
| Queensland Premier's Young Publishers and Writers Award | Allanah Hunt and Ellen Wengert | Allanah Hunt and Ellen Wengert | Winner |
| Queensland Writers Fellowships | Tabitha Bird, Ella Jeffery, and Kali Napier | Tabitha Bird, Ella Jeffery, and Kali Napier | Winner |
| Glendower Award for Emerging Queensland Author | Siang Lu | The Whitewash | Winner |
| Glendower Award for Emerging Queensland Author | Jason Gent | On the Exhale | Finalist |
| Glendower Award for Emerging Queensland Author | Natalie Sprite | The Luminous Heart | Finalist |
| Glendower Award for Emerging Queensland Author | Lillian Telford | It’s Chemical | Finalist |
| David Unaipon Award for an Emerging Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Writer | Ngankiburka-mekauwe (Senior Woman of Water) Georgina Williams | Mekauwe=Tears Volume #1 Poems (Notes For Song) 1970–2020 | Winner |
| David Unaipon Award for an Emerging Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Writer | Chella Goldwin | Politiks | Finalist |

### 2020

The winners were announced on 4 September 2020.
List of 2020 Queensland Literary Awards Recipients :
| Category | Author | Title | Result |
| Queensland Premier's Award for a Work of State Significance | Joe Gorman | Heartland: How Rugby League Explains Queensland | Winner |
| Queensland Premier's Award for a Work of State Significance | Melanie Myers | Meet Me at Lennon’s | Finalist |
| Queensland Premier's Award for a Work of State Significance | Mirandi Riwoe | Stone Sky Gold Mountain | Finalist |
| Queensland Premier's Award for a Work of State Significance | Jessica White | Hearing Maud | Finalist |
| The Courier-Mail People's Choice Queensland Book of the Year Award | Tabitha Bird | A Lifetime of Impossible Days | Winner |
| The Courier-Mail People's Choice Queensland Book of the Year Award | Phil Brown | The Kowloon Kid | Finalist |
| The Courier-Mail People's Choice Queensland Book of the Year Award | Margaret Cook | A River with a City Problem | Finalist |
| The Courier-Mail People's Choice Queensland Book of the Year Award | Darryl Jones | Feeding the Birds at Your Table | Finalist |
| The Courier-Mail People's Choice Queensland Book of the Year Award | Melanie Myers | Meet Me at Lennon's | Finalist |
| The Courier-Mail People's Choice Queensland Book of the Year Award | Amanda Niehaus | The Breeding Season | Finalist |
| The Courier-Mail People's Choice Queensland Book of the Year Award | Mirandi Riwoe | Stone Sky Gold Mountain | Finalist |
| The Courier-Mail People's Choice Queensland Book of the Year Award | Jessica White | Hearing Maud | Finalist |
| The University of Queensland Fiction Book Award | Mirandi Riwoe | Stone Sky Gold Mountain | Winner |
| The University of Queensland Fiction Book Award | Anna Krien | Act of Grace | Finalist |
| The University of Queensland Fiction Book Award | Philip Salom | The Returns | Finalist |
| The University of Queensland Fiction Book Award | Ronnie Scott | The Adversary | Finalist |
| The University of Queensland Fiction Book Award | Tara June Winch | The Yield | Finalist |
| The University of Queensland Non-Fiction Book Award | Helen Ennis | Olive Cotton: A Life in Photography | Winner |
| The University of Queensland Non-Fiction Book Award | James Dunk | Bedlam at Botany Bay | Finalist |
| The University of Queensland Non-Fiction Book Award | Brenda Niall | Friends and Rivals | Finalist |
| The University of Queensland Non-Fiction Book Award | Cassandra Pybus | Truganini: Journey Through the Apocalypse | Finalist |
| The University of Queensland Non-Fiction Book Award | Arnold Zable | The Watermill | Finalist |
| Judith Wright Calanthe Award for a Poetry Collection | П. O. | Heide | Winner |
| Judith Wright Calanthe Award for a Poetry Collection | Peter Boyle | Enfolded in the Wings of a Great Darkness | Finalist |
| Judith Wright Calanthe Award for a Poetry Collection | Stuart Cooke | Lyre | Finalist |
| Judith Wright Calanthe Award for a Poetry Collection | Ellen van Neerven | Throat | Finalist |
| Judith Wright Calanthe Award for a Poetry Collection | Charmaine Papertalk Green | Nganajungu Yagu | Finalist |
| University of Southern Queensland Steele Rudd Award for a Short Story Collection | Joey Bui | Lucky Ticket | Winner |
| University of Southern Queensland Steele Rudd Award for a Short Story Collection | Alice Bishop | A Constant Hum | Finalist |
| University of Southern Queensland Steele Rudd Award for a Short Story Collection | Yumna Kassab | The House of Youssef | Finalist |
| University of Southern Queensland Steele Rudd Award for a Short Story Collection | Sean O’Beirne | A Couple of Things Before the End | Finalist |
| University of Southern Queensland Steele Rudd Award for a Short Story Collection | Josephine Rowe | Here Until August | Finalist |
| Griffith University Young Adult Book Award | Lisa Fuller | Ghost Bird | Winner |
| Griffith University Young Adult Book Award | Sarah Epstein | Deep Water | Finalist |
| Griffith University Young Adult Book Award | Eliza Henry-Jones | How to Grow a Family Tree | Finalist |
| Griffith University Young Adult Book Award | Nina Kenwood | It Sounded Better in My Head | Finalist |
| Griffith University Young Adult Book Award | Vikki Wakefield | This Is How We Change the Ending | Finalist |
| Griffith University Children's Book Award | Penny Tangey | As Fast As I Can | Winner |
| Griffith University Children's Book Award | Tristan Bancks | Detention | Finalist |
| Griffith University Children's Book Award | Tamsin Janu | Winston and the Wondrous Wooba Gymnastics Club | Finalist |
| Griffith University Children's Book Award | Jess McGeachin | Fly | Finalist |
| Griffith University Children's Book Award | Caroline Magerl | Nop | Finalist |
| Queensland Premier's Young Publishers and Writers Award | Zenobia Frost and Yen-Rong Wong | Zenobia Frost and Yen-Rong Wong | Winner |
| Queensland Writers Fellowships | Sara El Sayed, Anna Jacobson and Amanda Niehaus | Sara El Sayed, Anna Jacobson and Amanda Niehaus | Winner |
| Glendower Award for Emerging Queensland Author | Fiona Robertson | If You're Happy | Winner |
| Glendower Award for Emerging Queensland Author | Bianca Millroy | The Solitary Light | Finalist |
| Glendower Award for Emerging Queensland Author | Jonathan O’Brien | Daddy & Other Father Figures | Finalist |
| Glendower Award for Emerging Queensland Author | Jenny Ruge | Without a Word | Finalist |
| Glendower Award for Emerging Queensland Author | Siall Waterbright | As We Knew It | Finalist |
| David Unaipon Award for an Emerging Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Writer | Jazz Money | The Space Between the Paperbark | Winner |
| David Unaipon Award for an Emerging Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Writer | Boyd Quakawoot | Valley of Cane and Crows | Finalist |
| David Unaipon Award for an Emerging Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Writer | Mykaela Saunders | Last Rites of Spring | Finalist |
| David Unaipon Award for an Emerging Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Writer | Melanie Saward | Burn | Finalist |

### 2019

The winners were announced on 12 November 2019.
List of 2019 Queensland Literary Awards Recipients :
| Category | Author | Title | Result |
| Queensland Premier's Award for a Work of State Significance | Melissa Lucashenko | Too Much Lip | Winner |
| Queensland Premier's Award for a Work of State Significance | Matthew Condon | The Night Dragon | Finalist |
| Queensland Premier's Award for a Work of State Significance | Trent Dalton | Boy Swallows Universe | Finalist |
| Queensland Premier's Award for a Work of State Significance | Jake Goetz | meditations with passing water | Finalist |
| Queensland Premier's Award for a Work of State Significance | Krissy Kneen | Wintering | Finalist |
| The Courier-Mail People's Choice Queensland Book of the Year Award | Lindsay Simpson | Adani, Following Its Dirty Footsteps: A Personal Story | Winner |
| The Courier-Mail People's Choice Queensland Book of the Year Award | Toni Risson | Brisbane’s Greek Cafes: A Million Malted Milks | Finalist |
| The Courier-Mail People's Choice Queensland Book of the Year Award | Trent Dalton | Boy Swallows Universe | Finalist |
| The Courier-Mail People's Choice Queensland Book of the Year Award | James Halford | Requiem with Yellow Butterflies: A Memoir | Finalist |
| The Courier-Mail People's Choice Queensland Book of the Year Award | Krissy Kneen | Wintering | Finalist |
| The Courier-Mail People's Choice Queensland Book of the Year Award | Melissa Lucashenko | Too Much Lip | Finalist |
| The Courier-Mail People's Choice Queensland Book of the Year Award | Rick Searle | Charles Ulm | Finalist |
| The Courier-Mail People's Choice Queensland Book of the Year Award | Rohan Wilson | Daughter of Bad Times | Finalist |
| University of Queensland Fiction Book Award | Carrie Tiffany | Exploded View | Winner |
| University of Queensland Fiction Book Award | Nigel Featherstone | Bodies of Men | Finalist |
| University of Queensland Fiction Book Award | Melissa Lucashenko | Too Much Lip | Finalist |
| University of Queensland Fiction Book Award | Kristina Olsson | Shell | Finalist |
| University of Queensland Fiction Book Award | Rohan Wilson | Daughter of Bad Times | Finalist |
| University of Queensland Non-Fiction Book Award | Mary Hoban | An Unconventional Wife: The Life of Julia Sorell Arnold | Winner |
| University of Queensland Non-Fiction Book Award | Alice Gorman | Dr Space Junk vs The Universe: Archaeology and the future | Finalist |
| University of Queensland Non-Fiction Book Award | Stuart Kells | Shakespeare’s Library: Unlocking the greatest mystery in literature | Finalist |
| University of Queensland Non-Fiction Book Award | Harry Saddler | The Eastern Curlew | Finalist |
| University of Queensland Non-Fiction Book Award | Christina Thompson | Sea People: The puzzle of Polynesia | Finalist |
| University of Southern Queensland History Book Award | Mary Hoban | An Unconventional Wife: The Life of Julia Sorell Arnold | Winner |
| University of Southern Queensland History Book Award | Judith Brett | From Secret Ballot to Democracy Sausage: How Australia got compulsory voting | Finalist |
| University of Southern Queensland History Book Award | Kate Legge | Kindred: A Cradle Mountain love story | Finalist |
| University of Southern Queensland History Book Award | Elizabeth Malcolm and Dianne Hall | A New History of the Irish in Australia | Finalist |
| University of Southern Queensland History Book Award | Clare Wright | You Daughters of Freedom: The Australians who won the vote and inspired the world | Finalist |
| State Library of Queensland Poetry Collection – Judith Wright Calanthe Award | Alison Whittaker | Blakwork | Winner |
| State Library of Queensland Poetry Collection – Judith Wright Calanthe Award | Liam Ferney | Hot Take | Finalist |
| State Library of Queensland Poetry Collection – Judith Wright Calanthe Award | Keri Glastonbury | Newcastle Sonnet | Finalist |
| State Library of Queensland Poetry Collection – Judith Wright Calanthe Award | Marjon Mossammaparast | That Sight | Finalist |
| State Library of Queensland Poetry Collection – Judith Wright Calanthe Award | Omar Sakr | The Lost Arabs | Finalist |
| University of Southern Queensland Australian Short Story Collection – Steele Rudd Award | Debra Adelaide | Zebra: And Other Stories | Winner |
| University of Southern Queensland Australian Short Story Collection – Steele Rudd Award | Robert Drewe | The True Colour of the Sea | Finalist |
| University of Southern Queensland Australian Short Story Collection – Steele Rudd Award | Ryan O’Neill | The Drover’s Wives | Finalist |
| Griffith University Young Adult Book Award | Karen Foxlee | Lenny’s Book of Everything | Winner |
| Griffith University Young Adult Book Award | Sarah Epstein | Small Spaces | Finalist |
| Griffith University Young Adult Book Award | Helena Fox | How it Feels to Float | Finalist |
| Griffith University Young Adult Book Award | Steven Herrick | The Bogan Mondrian | Finalist |
| Griffith University Young Adult Book Award | Ambelin Kwaymullina and Ezekiel Kwaymullina | Catching Teller Crow | Finalist |
| Griffith University Children's Book Award | Jaclyn Moriarty | The Slightly Alarming Tale of the Whispering Wars | Winner |
| Griffith University Children's Book Award | Lorraine Marwood | Leave Taking | Finalist |
| Griffith University Children's Book Award | Carl Merrison and Hakea Hustler | Black Cockatoo | Finalist |
| Griffith University Children's Book Award | Emily Rodda | His Name was Walter | Finalist |
| Griffith University Children's Book Award | Margaret Wild and Mandy Ord | Chalk Boy | Finalist |
| Queensland Premier's Young Publishers and Writers Awards | Ella Jeffery and Ellen van Neerven | Ella Jeffery and Ellen van Neerven | Winner |
| Queensland Writers Fellowships | Claire Christian, Sarah Holland-Batt and Emily O'Grady | Claire Christian, Sarah Holland-Batt and Emily O'Grady | Winner |
| Glendower Award for Emerging Queensland Author for unpublished manuscript | Rhiannon Ratcliffe Wilde | Henry Hamlet’s Heart | Winner |
| Glendower Award for Emerging Queensland Author for unpublished manuscript | Sue Goldstiver | Little Birds | Finalist |
| Glendower Award for Emerging Queensland Author for unpublished manuscript | Karen Hollands | The Still Point of Being | Finalist |
| Glendower Award for Emerging Queensland Author for unpublished manuscript | Jack Lio | Apparitions | Finalist |
| Unpublished Indigenous Writer – David Unaipon Award | Not awarded. | Not awarded. | Not awarded. |
| QUT Digital Literature Award | Mez Breeze | V[R]ignettes | Winner |
| QUT Digital Literature Award | Eda Gunaydin | Gothic Body, in Two Parts | Finalist |
| QUT Digital Literature Award | Benjamin Laird | Psychometric Researches | Finalist |
| QUT Digital Literature Award | C B Mako and M J Flamiano | ITERATION – Part 3/Chapter 3 | Finalist |
| QUT Digital Literature Award | Jason Nelson | The Wonders of Lost Trajectories | Finalist |

### 2018

List of 2018 Queensland Literary Awards Recipients :
| Category | Author | Title | Result |
| Queensland Premier's Award for a Work of State Significance | Jackie Ryan | We'll Show the World: Expo 88 | Winner |
| Queensland Premier's Award for a Work of State Significance | Benjamin Allmon and David Kelly | The Saltwater Story | Finalist |
| Queensland Premier's Award for a Work of State Significance | Anna Broinowski | Please Explain | Finalist |
| Queensland Premier's Award for a Work of State Significance | Barbara Miller | White Woman Black Heart: Journey Home to Old Mapoon | Finalist |
| Queensland Premier's Award for a Work of State Significance | Beth Wilson | Brisbane Houses with Garden | Finalist |
| The Courier Mail People's Choice Queensland Book of the Year Award – Brisbane Houses with Gardens, Beth Wilson | Beth Wilson | Brisbane Houses with Gardens | Winner |
| The Courier Mail People's Choice Queensland Book of the Year Award – Brisbane Houses with Gardens, Beth Wilson | Venero Armanno | Burning Down | Finalist |
| The Courier Mail People's Choice Queensland Book of the Year Award – Brisbane Houses with Gardens, Beth Wilson | Eddie Ayres | Danger Music | Finalist |
| The Courier Mail People's Choice Queensland Book of the Year Award – Brisbane Houses with Gardens, Beth Wilson | Ben Hobson | To Become a Whale | Finalist |
| The Courier Mail People's Choice Queensland Book of the Year Award – Brisbane Houses with Gardens, Beth Wilson | Emily O'Grady | The Yellow House | Finalist |
| The Courier Mail People's Choice Queensland Book of the Year Award – Brisbane Houses with Gardens, Beth Wilson | Holly Ringland | The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart | Finalist |
| The Courier Mail People's Choice Queensland Book of the Year Award – Brisbane Houses with Gardens, Beth Wilson | Jackie Ryan | We'll Show the World: Expo 88 | Finalist |
| The Courier Mail People's Choice Queensland Book of the Year Award – Brisbane Houses with Gardens, Beth Wilson | Charlie Veron | A Life Underwater | Finalist |
| University of Queensland Fiction Book Award | Kim Scott | Taboo | Winner |
| University of Queensland Fiction Book Award | Robbie Arnott | Flames | Finalist |
| University of Queensland Fiction Book Award | Shokoofeh Azar | The Enlightenment of the Greengage Tree | Finalist |
| University of Queensland Fiction Book Award | Mirandi Riwoe | The Fish Girl | Finalist |
| University of Queensland Fiction Book Award | Tim Winton | The Shepherd's Hut | Finalist |
| University of Queensland Non-Fiction Book Award | Alexis Wright | Tracker | Winner |
| University of Queensland Non-Fiction Book Award | Judith Brett | The Enigmatic Mr Deakin | Finalist |
| University of Queensland Non-Fiction Book Award | Phillipa McGuinness | The Year Everything Changed: 2001 | Finalist |
| University of Queensland Non-Fiction Book Award | Charles Massy | Call of the Reed Warbler: A New Agriculture — A New Earth | Finalist |
| University of Queensland Non-Fiction Book Award | Michael Pembroke | Korea: Where the American Century Began | Finalist |
| University of Southern Queensland History Book Award | Jackie Ryan | We'll Show the World: Expo 88 | Winner |
| University of Southern Queensland History Book Award | Judith Brett | The Enigmatic Mr Deakin | Finalist |
| University of Southern Queensland History Book Award | Billy Griffiths | Deep Time Dreaming: Uncovering Ancient Australia | Finalist |
| University of Southern Queensland History Book Award | Jayne Persian | Beautiful Balts: From Displaced Persons to New Australians | Finalist |
| University of Southern Queensland History Book Award | Christina Twomey | The Battle Within: POWs in Postwar Australia | Finalist |
| State Library of Queensland Poetry Collection – Judith Wright Calanthe Award | Michael Farrell | I Love Poetry | Winner |
| State Library of Queensland Poetry Collection – Judith Wright Calanthe Award | Pam Brown | click here for what we do | Finalist |
| State Library of Queensland Poetry Collection – Judith Wright Calanthe Award | Bonny Cassidy | Chatelaine | Finalist |
| State Library of Queensland Poetry Collection – Judith Wright Calanthe Award | Oscar Schwartz | The Honeymoon Stage | Finalist |
| State Library of Queensland Poetry Collection – Judith Wright Calanthe Award | Bella Li | Lost Lake | Finalist |
| University of Southern Queensland Australian Short Story Collection – Steele Rudd Award | Jennifer Down | Pulse Points | Winner |
| University of Southern Queensland Australian Short Story Collection – Steele Rudd Award | Claire Aman | Bird Country | Finalist |
| University of Southern Queensland Australian Short Story Collection – Steele Rudd Award | Tony Birch | Common People | Finalist |
| University of Southern Queensland Australian Short Story Collection – Steele Rudd Award | Stephanie Buckle | Habits of Silence | Finalist |
| University of Southern Queensland Australian Short Story Collection – Steele Rudd Award | Laura Elvery | Trick of the Light | Finalist |
| Griffith University Young Adult Book Award | Cally Black | In the Dark Spaces | Winner |
| Griffith University Young Adult Book Award | Victoria Carless | The Dream Walker | Finalist |
| Griffith University Young Adult Book Award | Scot Gardner | Sparrow | Finalist |
| Griffith University Young Adult Book Award | Erin Gough | Amelia Westlake | Finalist |
| Griffith University Young Adult Book Award | Pip Harry | Because of You | Finalist |
| Griffith University Children's Book Award | Peter Carnavas | The Elephant | Winner |
| Griffith University Children's Book Award | Sarah Brennan, illustrated by Jane Tanner | The Storm Whale | Finalist |
| Griffith University Children's Book Award | Jane Godwin, illustrated by Anna Walker | Go Go and the Silver Shoes | Finalist |
| Griffith University Children's Book Award | Emily Rodda | The Shop at Hoopers Bend | Finalist |
| Griffith University Children's Book Award | Anne Spudvilas | Swan Lake | Finalist |
| Queensland Premier's Young Publishers and Writers Awards | Anna Jacobson and Bri Lee | Anna Jacobson and Bri Lee | Winner |
| Queensland Writers Fellowships | Michael Gerard Bauer, Jackie Ryan and Laura Elvery | Michael Gerard Bauer, Jackie Ryan and Laura Elvery | Winner |
| Glendower Award for Emerging Queensland Author for unpublished manuscript | Melanie Myers | Garrison Town | Winner |
| Glendower Award for Emerging Queensland Author for unpublished manuscript | Karen Herschell | fate, revenge and chipburgers | Finalist |
| Glendower Award for Emerging Queensland Author for unpublished manuscript | Laura Kenny | On Either Side | Finalist |
| Glendower Award for Emerging Queensland Author for unpublished manuscript | Christopher Przewloka | Hidebound | Finalist |
| Unpublished Indigenous Writer – David Unaipon Award | Kirstie Parker | The Making of Ruby Champion | Winner |
| Unpublished Indigenous Writer – David Unaipon Award | Melanie Saward | Why Worry Now | Finalist |
| Unpublished Indigenous Writer – David Unaipon Award | Wendy Somerville | Jilba's Song | Finalist |
| Unpublished Indigenous Writer – David Unaipon Award | Waiata Telfer | Song — The Story of a Girl, a Bird and a Teapot | Finalist |
| Unpublished Indigenous Writer – David Unaipon Award | Teila Watson | Destinations Past Present Future: Diving Through Timelines | Finalist |
| QUT Digital Literature Award | David Thomas Henry Wright, with Chris Arnold | Little Emperor Syndrome | Winner |
| QUT Digital Literature Award | Mez Breeze | Our Cupidity Coda | Finalist |
| QUT Digital Literature Award | Mez Breeze | A Place Called Ormalcy | Finalist |
| QUT Digital Literature Award | Benjamin Laird | Core Values | Finalist |

### 2017

List of 2017 Queensland Literary Awards Recipients :
| Category | Author | Title | Result |
| Queensland Premier's Award for a Work of State Significance | Bill Wilkie | The Daintree Blockade: The Battle for Australia's Tropical Rainforests | Winner |
| Queensland Premier's Award for a Work of State Significance | Matthew Condon | Little Fish Are Sweet | Finalist |
| Queensland Premier's Award for a Work of State Significance | Mary-Rose MacColl | For a Girl | Finalist |
| Queensland Premier's Award for a Work of State Significance | Cathy McLennan | Saltwater | Finalist |
| The Courier Mail People's Choice Queensland Book of the Year Award | Cathy McLennan | Saltwater | Winner |
| The Courier Mail People's Choice Queensland Book of the Year Award | Melissa Ashley | The Birdman's Wife | Finalist |
| The Courier Mail People's Choice Queensland Book of the Year Award | Nick Earls | Vancouver | Finalist |
| The Courier Mail People's Choice Queensland Book of the Year Award | Richard Fidler | Ghost Empire | Finalist |
| The Courier Mail People's Choice Queensland Book of the Year Award | Ashley Hay | A Hundred Small Lessons | Finalist |
| The Courier Mail People's Choice Queensland Book of the Year Award | Anita Heiss | Barbed Wire and Cherry Blossoms | Finalist |
| The Courier Mail People's Choice Queensland Book of the Year Award | Joan Isaacs | To Prey and To Silence | Finalist |
| The Courier Mail People's Choice Queensland Book of the Year Award | Mary-Rose MacColl | For a Girl | Finalist |
| University of Queensland Fiction Book Award | Melissa Ashley | The Birdman's Wife | Winner |
| University of Queensland Fiction Book Award | Nick Earls | Vancouver | Finalist |
| University of Queensland Fiction Book Award | Ashley Hay | A Hundred Small Lessons | Finalist |
| University of Queensland Fiction Book Award | Hannah Kent | The Good People | Finalist |
| University of Queensland Fiction Book Award | Heather Rose | The Museum of Modern Love | Finalist |
| University of Queensland Non-Fiction Book Award | Cathy McLennan | Saltwater | Winner |
| University of Queensland Non-Fiction Book Award | Deng Adut and Ben Mckelvey | Songs of a War Boy | Finalist |
| University of Queensland Non-Fiction Book Award | Richard Fidler | Ghost Empire | Finalist |
| University of Queensland Non-Fiction Book Award | Mary-Rose MacColl | For a Girl | Finalist |
| University of Queensland Non-Fiction Book Award | Kim Mahood | Position Doubtful | Finalist |
| University of Southern Queensland History Book Award | Rebe Taylor | Into the Heart of Tasmania: A Search for Human Antiquity | Winner |
| University of Southern Queensland History Book Award | Rebecca Ananian-Welsh | The Tim Carmody Affair: Australia's Greatest Judicial Crisis | Finalist |
| University of Southern Queensland History Book Award | Andrew Lynch | Appleby | Finalist |
| University of Southern Queensland History Book Award | Paul Irish | Hidden in Plain View: The Aboriginal people of coastal Sydney | Finalist |
| University of Southern Queensland History Book Award | John Murphy | Evatt: A life | Finalist |
| State Library of Queensland Poetry Collection | Antigone Kefala | Judith Wright Calanthe Award – Fragments | Winner |
| State Library of Queensland Poetry Collection | Jordie Albiston | Euclid's Dog | Finalist |
| State Library of Queensland Poetry Collection | Carmen Leigh Keates | Meteorites | Finalist |
| State Library of Queensland Poetry Collection | Cassie Lewis | The Blue Decodes | Finalist |
| State Library of Queensland Poetry Collection | Omar Sakr | These Wild Houses | Finalist |
| University of Southern Queensland Australian Short Story Collection – Steele Rudd Award | Kyra Giorgi | The Circle and the Equator | Winner |
| University of Southern Queensland Australian Short Story Collection – Steele Rudd Award | Michelle Cahill | Letter to Pessoa | Finalist |
| University of Southern Queensland Australian Short Story Collection – Steele Rudd Award | Kyra Giorgi | The Circle and the Equator | Finalist |
| University of Southern Queensland Australian Short Story Collection – Steele Rudd Award | Tara June Winch | After the Carnage | Finalist |
| Griffith University Young Adult Book Award | Cath Crowley | Words in Deep Blue | Winner |
| Griffith University Young Adult Book Award | Simon Butters | The Hounded | Finalist |
| Griffith University Young Adult Book Award | Zana Fraillon | The Bone Sparrow | Finalist |
| Griffith University Young Adult Book Award | Mark Smith | The Road to Winter | Finalist |
| Griffith University Young Adult Book Award | Richard Yaxley | This is My Song | Finalist |
| Griffith University Children's Book Award | Lisa Shanahan | The Grand, Genius Summer of Henry Hoobler | Winner |
| Griffith University Children's Book Award | Gus Gordon | Somewhere Else | Finalist |
| Griffith University Children's Book Award | Paul Jennings | A Different Dog | Finalist |
| Griffith University Children's Book Award | Bren MacDibble | How to Bee | Finalist |
| Griffith University Children's Book Award | Wendy Orr | Dragonfly Song | Finalist |
| Queensland Premier's Young Publishers and Writers Awards | Lech Blaine and Mindy Gill | Lech Blaine and Mindy Gill | Winner |
| Queensland Writers Fellowships | Mirandi Riwoe, Zenobia Frost and Linda Neil | Mirandi Riwoe, Zenobia Frost and Linda Neil | Winner |
| Emerging Queensland Author – Manuscript Award | Janet Lee | The Killing of Louisa | Winner |
| Emerging Queensland Author – Manuscript Award | Anna Jacobson | How to Knit a Human | Finalist |
| Emerging Queensland Author – Manuscript Award | Ben Marshall | The Gimp | Finalist |
| Emerging Queensland Author – Manuscript Award | Siall Waterbright | The Coming | Finalist |
| Unpublished Indigenous Writer – David Unaipon Award | Lisa Fuller | Mirrored Pieces | Winner |
| Unpublished Indigenous Writer – David Unaipon Award | Alicia Farmer | Mai Stori | Finalist |
| QUT Digital Literature Award | Jason Nelson | Nine Billion Branches | Winner |
| QUT Digital Literature Award | Mez Breeze | Inanimate Alice: Perpetual Nomads (Beta) | Finalist |
| QUT Digital Literature Award | Pascalle Burton | Generation Loss | Finalist |
| QUT Digital Literature Award | David Thomas Henry Wright | Paige and Power | Finalist |
| QUT Digital Literature Award | Marianna Shek | Limerence | Finalist |

### 2016

List of 2016 Queensland Literary Awards Recipients :
| Category | Author | Title | Result |
| Queensland Premier's Award for a Work of State Significance | Lesley and Tammy Williams | Not Just Black and White | Winner |
| Queensland Premier's Award for a Work of State Significance | Nadia Buick and Madeleine King | Remotely Fashionable: A Story of Subtropical Style | Finalist |
| Queensland Premier's Award for a Work of State Significance | Matthew Condon | All Fall Down | Finalist |
| Queensland Premier's Award for a Work of State Significance | Elspeth Muir | Wasted: A Story of Alcohol, Grief and a Death in Brisbane | Finalist |
| Queensland Premier's Award for a Work of State Significance | P.J. Parker | The Long Goodbye | Finalist |
| The Courier Mail People's Choice Queensland Book of the Year Award | Mary-Rose MacColl | Swimming Home | Winner |
| The Courier Mail People's Choice Queensland Book of the Year Award | Trent Jamieson | Day Boy | Finalist |
| The Courier Mail People's Choice Queensland Book of the Year Award | Susan Johnson | The Landing | Finalist |
| The Courier Mail People's Choice Queensland Book of the Year Award | Cass Moriarty | The Promise Seed | Finalist |
| The Courier Mail People's Choice Queensland Book of the Year Award | Nadia Buick and Madeleine Kin | Remotely Fashionable: A Story of Subtropical Style | Finalist |
| The Courier Mail People's Choice Queensland Book of the Year Award | Matt Condon | All Fall Down | Finalist |
| The Courier Mail People's Choice Queensland Book of the Year Award | Elspeth Muir | Wasted: A Story of Alcohol, Grief and a Death in Brisbane | Finalist |
| The Courier Mail People's Choice Queensland Book of the Year Award | Cory Taylor | Dying: A Memoir | Finalist |
| University of Queensland Fiction Book Award | Georgia Blain | Between a Wolf and a Dog | Winner |
| University of Queensland Fiction Book Award | Tony Birch | Ghost River | Finalist |
| University of Queensland Fiction Book Award | David Dye | The Midnight Watch | Finalist |
| University of Queensland Fiction Book Award | Patrick Holland | One | Finalist |
| University of Queensland Fiction Book Award | Charlotte Wood | The Natural Way of Thing | Finalist |
| University of Queensland Non-Fiction Book Award | Fiona Wright | Small Acts of Disappearance: Essays on Hunger | Winner |
| University of Queensland Non-Fiction Book Award | Madeline Gleeson | Offshore: Behind the Wire on Manus and Nauru | Finalist |
| University of Queensland Non-Fiction Book Award | Stan Grant | Talking to My Country | Finalist |
| University of Queensland Non-Fiction Book Award | Drusilla Modjeska | Second Half First | Finalist |
| University of Queensland Non-Fiction Book Award | Tim Winton | Island Home | Finalist |
| University of Southern Queensland History Book Award | Julia Martínez and Adrian Vickers | The Pearl Frontier: Indonesian Labour and Indigenous Encounters in Australia’s Northern Trading Network | Winner |
| University of Southern Queensland History Book Award | Vicken Babkenien and Peter Stanley | Armenia, Australia and the Great War | Finalist |
| University of Southern Queensland History Book Award | Stuart Macintyre | Australia’s Boldest Experiment | Finalist |
| University of Southern Queensland History Book Award | Jeff Maynard | Unseen Anzac | Finalist |
| University of Southern Queensland History Book Award | John Newton | The oldest foods on earth | Finalist |
| University of Southern Queensland History Book Award | Garry Wotherspoon | Gay Sydney | Finalist |
| State Library of Queensland Poetry Collection – Judith Wright Calanthe Award | David Musgrave | Anatomy of Voice | Winner |
| State Library of Queensland Poetry Collection – Judith Wright Calanthe Award | Joel Deane | Year of the Wasp | Finalist |
| State Library of Queensland Poetry Collection – Judith Wright Calanthe Award | Liam Ferney | Content | Finalist |
| State Library of Queensland Poetry Collection – Judith Wright Calanthe Award | Sarah Holland-Batt | The Hazards | Finalist |
| State Library of Queensland Poetry Collection – Judith Wright Calanthe Award | Chloe Wilson | Not Fox Nor Axe | Finalist |
| University of Southern Queensland Australian Short Story Collection – Steele Rudd Award | Elizabeth Harrower | A Few Days in the Country and other stories | Winner |
| University of Southern Queensland Australian Short Story Collection – Steele Rudd Award | Fiona McFarlane | The High Places | Winner |
| University of Southern Queensland Australian Short Story Collection – Steele Rudd Award | Tegan Bennett Daylight | Six Bedrooms | Finalist |
| University of Southern Queensland Australian Short Story Collection – Steele Rudd Award | Sonja Dechian | An Astronaut’s Life | Finalist |
| University of Southern Queensland Australian Short Story Collection – Steele Rudd Award | Julie Koh | Portable Curiosities | Finalist |
| Griffith University Young Adult Book Award | David Metzenthen | Dreaming the Enemy | Winner |
| Griffith University Young Adult Book Award | Will Kostakis | The Sidekicks | Finalist |
| Griffith University Young Adult Book Award | Glenda Millard | The Stars at October Bend | Finalist |
| Griffith University Young Adult Book Award | James Roy and Noël Zihabamwe | One Thousand Hills | Finalist |
| Griffith University Young Adult Book Award | Claire Zorn | One Would Think the Deep | Finalist |
| Griffith University Children's Book Award | Julie Hunt (author) and Dale Newman (illustrator) | KidGlovz | Winner |
| Griffith University Children's Book Award | Lucy Estela and Matt Ottley | Suri’s Wall | Finalist |
| Griffith University Children's Book Award | Bob Graham | How the Sun Got to Coco’s House | Finalist |
| Griffith University Children's Book Award | Libby Hathorn and Gaye Chapman | Incredibilia | Finalist |
| Griffith University Children's Book Award | Chris McKimmie | Me, Teddy | Finalist |
| Queensland Premier's Young Publishers and Writers Awards | Emily Craven and Michelle Law | Emily Craven and Michelle Law | Winner |
| Emerging Queensland Author – Manuscript Award | Not awarded. | Not awarded. | Not awarded. |
| Unpublished Indigenous Writer – David Unaipon Award | Paul Collis | Dancing Home | Winner |
| Unpublished Indigenous Writer – David Unaipon Award | Yvonne Weldon | 67 Days | Finalist |
| Unpublished Indigenous Writer – David Unaipon Award | B.A. (Boyd) Quakawoot | Song of Jessica | Finalist |

### 2015

List of 2015 Queensland Literary Awards Recipients :
| Category | Author | Title | Result |
| Queensland Premier's Award for a Work of State Significance | Libby Connors | Warrior | Winner |
| Queensland Premier's Award for a Work of State Significance | Ellen van Neerven | Heat and Light | Finalist |
| Queensland Premier's Award for a Work of State Significance | Zoe Boccabella | Joe’s Fruit Shop and Milk Bar | Finalist |
| Queensland Premier's Award for a Work of State Significance | Mark Bahnisch | Queensland: Everything you ever wanted to know but were afraid to ask | Finalist |
| Queensland Premier's Award for a Work of State Significance | Anna Bligh | Through the Wall: Reflections on Leadership, Love and Survival | Finalist |
| The Courier Mail People's Choice Queensland Book of the Year Award | John Ahern | On the road...with the kids | Winner |
| The Courier Mail People's Choice Queensland Book of the Year Award | Nick Earls | Analogue Men | Finalist |
| The Courier Mail People's Choice Queensland Book of the Year Award | Mary Lou Simpson | From Convict to Politician | Finalist |
| The Courier Mail People's Choice Queensland Book of the Year Award | Zoe Boccabella | Joe’s Fruit Shop and Milk Bar | Finalist |
| The Courier Mail People's Choice Queensland Book of the Year Award | Patrick Holland | Navigatio | Finalist |
| The Courier Mail People's Choice Queensland Book of the Year Award | Inga Simpson | Nest | Finalist |
| The Courier Mail People's Choice Queensland Book of the Year Award | Kári Gíslason | The Ash Burner | Finalist |
| The Courier Mail People's Choice Queensland Book of the Year Award | David Murray | The Murder of Allison Baden-Clay | Finalist |
| University of Queensland Fiction Book Award | Joan London | The Golden Age | Winner |
| University of Queensland Fiction Book Award | Amanda Lohrey | A Short History of Richard Kline | Finalist |
| University of Queensland Fiction Book Award | Mark Henshaw | The Snow Kimono | Finalist |
| University of Queensland Fiction Book Award | Malcolm Knox | The Wonder Lover | Finalist |
| University of Queensland Fiction Book Award | Rohan Wilson | To Name Those Lost | Finalist |
| University of Queensland Non-Fiction Book Award | Don Watson | The Bush: Travels in the Heart of Australia | Winner |
| University of Queensland Non-Fiction Book Award | Brenda Niall | Mannix | Finalist |
| University of Queensland Non-Fiction Book Award | Anne Manne | The Life of I: The New Culture of Narcissism | Finalist |
| University of Queensland Non-Fiction Book Award | Annabel Crabb | The Wife Drought | Finalist |
| University of Queensland Non-Fiction Book Award | Karen Lamb | Thea Astley: Inventing Her Own Weather | Finalist |
| University of Southern Queensland History Book Award | Carolyn Holbrook | ANZAC, The Unauthorised Biography | Winner |
| University of Southern Queensland History Book Award | Angela Woollacott | Settler Society in the Australian Colonies: Self-Government and Imperial Culture | Finalist |
| University of Southern Queensland History Book Award | Christine Kenneally | The Invisible History of the Human Race | Finalist |
| University of Southern Queensland History Book Award | Agnieszka Sobocinska | Visiting the Neighbours: Australians in Asia | Finalist |
| University of Southern Queensland History Book Award | Sophie Cunningham | Warning: The Story of Cyclone Tracy | Finalist |
| State Library of Queensland Poetry Collection – Judith Wright Calanthe Award | Les Murray | Waiting for the Past | Winner |
| State Library of Queensland Poetry Collection – Judith Wright Calanthe Award | Susan Bradley Smith | Beds For All Who Come | Finalist |
| State Library of Queensland Poetry Collection – Judith Wright Calanthe Award | Robert Adamson | Net Needle | Finalist |
| State Library of Queensland Poetry Collection – Judith Wright Calanthe Award | David Brooks | Open House | Finalist |
| State Library of Queensland Poetry Collection – Judith Wright Calanthe Award | Lucy Dougan | The Guardians | Finalist |
| Australian Short Story Collection – Steele Rudd Award | Christos Tsiolkas | Merciless Gods | Winner |
| Australian Short Story Collection – Steele Rudd Award | Nic Low | Arms Race and Other Stories | Finalist |
| Australian Short Story Collection – Steele Rudd Award | Nick Jose | Bapo | Finalist |
| Australian Short Story Collection – Steele Rudd Award | Ellen van Neerven | Heat and Light | Finalist |
| Australian Short Story Collection – Steele Rudd Award | J.M. Coetzee | Three Stories | Finalist |
| Griffith University Young Adult Book Award | John Larkin | The Pause | Winner |
| Griffith University Young Adult Book Award | Darren Groth | Are you Seeing Me? | Finalist |
| Griffith University Young Adult Book Award | Justine Larbalestier | Razorhurst | Finalist |
| Griffith University Young Adult Book Award | Diana Sweeney | The Minnow | Finalist |
| Griffith University Young Adult Book Award | Jeri Kroll | Vanishing Point | Finalist |
| Children's Book Award | Meg McKinlay | A Single Stone | Winner |
| Children's Book Award | Tasmin Janu | Figgy in the World | Finalist |
| Children's Book Award | David Mackintosh | Lucky | Finalist |
| Children's Book Award | Nick Earls | New Boy | Finalist |
| Children's Book Award | Rebecca Young & Matt Ottley | Teacup | Finalist |
| Queensland Premier's Young Publishers and Writers Awards | Megan McGrath and Rebecca Jessen | Megan McGrath and Rebecca Jessen | Winner |
| Emerging Queensland Author – Manuscript Award | Elizabeth Kasmer | Aurora | Winner |
| Emerging Queensland Author – Manuscript Award | Imogen Smith | Araluen | Finalist |
| Emerging Queensland Author – Manuscript Award | K W George | Sargasso | Finalist |
| Emerging Queensland Author – Manuscript Award | Kate Elkington | Wool Spin Burn | Finalist |
| Unpublished Indigenous Writer – David Unaipon Award | Andrew Booth | The First Octoroon or Report of an Experimental Child | Winner |
| Unpublished Indigenous Writer – David Unaipon Award | Mayrah Yarraga Dreise | Social Consciousness Series | Finalist |
| Unpublished Indigenous Writer – David Unaipon Award | Patricia Lees with Adam C. Lees | A Question of Colour | Finalist |

### 2014

List of 2014 Queensland Literary Awards Recipients :
| Category | Author | Title | Result |
| The Courier Mail People's Choice Queensland Book of the Year Award | Kellee Slater | How to do a Liver Transplant: Stories from my Surgical Life | Winner |
| The Courier Mail People's Choice Queensland Book of the Year Award | T. M. Clark | My Brother, But One | Finalist |
| The Courier Mail People's Choice Queensland Book of the Year Award | Frances Whiting | Walking on Trampolines | Finalist |
| The Courier Mail People's Choice Queensland Book of the Year Award | Catherine Titasey | My Island Homicide | Finalist |
| The Courier Mail People's Choice Queensland Book of the Year Award | Sally Breen | Atomic City | Finalist |
| The Courier Mail People's Choice Queensland Book of the Year Award | Matthew Condon | Jacks and Jokers | Finalist |
| The Courier Mail People's Choice Queensland Book of the Year Award | Deb Drummond and Janis Teunis | Lingering Doubts: Going Inside Brisbane's Arcade Murder | Finalist |
| The Courier Mail People's Choice Queensland Book of the Year Award | Keelen Mailman | The Power of Bones | Finalist |
| University of Queensland Fiction Book Award | Richard Flanagan | The Narrow Road to the Deep North | Winner |
| University of Queensland Fiction Book Award | Fiona Capp | Gotland | Finalist |
| University of Queensland Fiction Book Award | Alex Miller | Coal Creek | Finalist |
| University of Queensland Fiction Book Award | Tim Winton | Eyrie | Finalist |
| University of Queensland Fiction Book Award | Evie Wyld | All the Birds, Singing | Finalist |
| University of Queensland Non-Fiction Book Award | Paul Ham | 1914: The Year the World Ended | Winner |
| University of Queensland Non-Fiction Book Award | Steve Bisley | Stillways | Finalist |
| University of Queensland Non-Fiction Book Award | Iain McCalman | The Reef | Finalist |
| University of Queensland Non-Fiction Book Award | Penny Olsen | An Eye for Nature: The Life and Art of William T. Cooper | Finalist |
| University of Queensland Non-Fiction Book Award | Janis Sheldrick | Nature's Line: George Goyder, surveyor, environmentalist, visionary | Finalist |
| University of Southern Queensland History Book Award | Joan Beaumont | Broken Nation | Winner |
| University of Southern Queensland History Book Award | Nicholas Clements | The Black War: Fear, Sex and Resistance in Tasmania | Finalist |
| University of Southern Queensland History Book Award | Iain McCalman | The Reef | Finalist |
| University of Southern Queensland History Book Award | Bruce Pascoe | Black Emu | Finalist |
| University of Southern Queensland History Book Award | Henry Reynolds | The Forgotten War | Finalist |
| University of Southern Queensland History Book Award | Clare Wright | The Forgotten Rebels of Eureka | Finalist |
| State Library of Queensland Poetry Collection – Judith Wright Calanthe Award | David Malouf | Earth Hour | Winner |
| State Library of Queensland Poetry Collection – Judith Wright Calanthe Award | Judith Beveridge | Devadatta’s Poems | Finalist |
| State Library of Queensland Poetry Collection – Judith Wright Calanthe Award | Rachael Briggs | Free Logic | Finalist |
| State Library of Queensland Poetry Collection – Judith Wright Calanthe Award | Liam Ferney | Boom | Finalist |
| State Library of Queensland Poetry Collection – Judith Wright Calanthe Award | Anthony Lawrence | Signal Flare | Finalist |
| Australian Short Story Collection – Steele Rudd Award | Ceridwen Dovey | Only the Animals | Winner |
| Australian Short Story Collection – Steele Rudd Award | Debra Adelaide | Letter to George Clooney | Finalist |
| Australian Short Story Collection – Steele Rudd Award | Tony Birch | The Promise | Finalist |
| Australian Short Story Collection – Steele Rudd Award | Luke Carman | An Elegant Young Man | Finalist |
| Australian Short Story Collection – Steele Rudd Award | Laura Jean McKay | Holiday in Cambodia | Finalist |
| Griffith University Young Adult Book Award | Jaclyn Moriarty | The Cracks in the Kingdom | Winner |
| Griffith University Young Adult Book Award | A.J. Betts | Zac and Mia | Finalist |
| Griffith University Young Adult Book Award | Felicity Castagna | The Incredible Here and Now | Finalist |
| Griffith University Young Adult Book Award | Kate Hendrick | The Accident | Finalist |
| Griffith University Young Adult Book Award | David Metzenthen | Tigerfish | Finalist |
| Children's Book Award | Jackie French | Refuge | Winner |
| Children's Book Award | Shaun Tan | Rules of Summer | Winner |
| Children's Book Award | Pamela Rushby | The Ratcatcher's Daughter | Finalist |
| Children's Book Award | Claire Saxby and Graham Byrne | Nature Storybooks: Big Red Kangaroo | Finalist |
| Children's Book Award | Samantha Wheeler | Smooch and Rose | Finalist |
| Emerging Queensland Author – Manuscript Award | Cathy McLennan | We Come From Saltwater People | Winner |
| Emerging Queensland Author – Manuscript Award | Leanne Nolan | Open Cut | Finalist |
| Emerging Queensland Author – Manuscript Award | Julie Kearney | 3 for a Wedding, 4 for Death | Finalist |
| Unpublished Indigenous Writer – David Unaipon Award | Lesley & Tammy Williams | It’s Not Just Black and White | Winner |

### 2013

List of 2013 Queensland Literary Awards Recipients :
| Category | Author | Title | Result |
| The Courier Mail People's Choice Queensland Book of the Year Award | Kate Morton | The Secret Keeper | Winner |
| The Courier Mail People's Choice Queensland Book of the Year Award | Susan Johnson | My Hundred Lovers | Finalist |
| The Courier Mail People's Choice Queensland Book of the Year Award | Melissa Lucashenko | Mullumbimby | Finalist |
| The Courier Mail People's Choice Queensland Book of the Year Award | Jamie Callister | The Man Who Invented Vegemite | Finalist |
| The Courier Mail People's Choice Queensland Book of the Year Award | Matthew Condon | Three Crooked Kings | Finalist |
| The Courier Mail People's Choice Queensland Book of the Year Award | Kristina Olsson | Boy, Lost | Finalist |
| Deloitte Fiction Book Award | Melissa Lucashenko | Mullumbimby | Winner |
| Deloitte Fiction Book Award | Murray Bail | The Voyage | Finalist |
| Deloitte Fiction Book Award | Susan Johnson | My Hundred Lovers | Finalist |
| Deloitte Fiction Book Award | Christopher Koch | Lost Voices | Finalist |
| University of Queensland Non-Fiction Book Award | Kristina Olsson | Boy, Lost | Winner |
| University of Queensland Non-Fiction Book Award | Richard Gill | Give Me Excess of It | Finalist |
| University of Queensland Non-Fiction Book Award | Paul Ham | Sandakan | Finalist |
| University of Queensland Non-Fiction Book Award | Jenny Hocking | Gough Whitlam: His Time | Finalist |
| University of Queensland Non-Fiction Book Award | Kate Richard | Madness: A Memoir | Finalist |
| University of Southern Queensland History Book Award | Jane Lydon | The Flash of Recognition | Winner |
| University of Southern Queensland History Book Award | Alison Alexander | The Ambitions of Jane Franklin | Finalist |
| University of Southern Queensland History Book Award | David Day | Antarctica: A Biography | Finalist |
| University of Southern Queensland History Book Award | Walter Hamilton | Children of the Occupation | Finalist |
| University of Southern Queensland History Book Award | Lawrence Bamblett | Our Stories are Our Survival | Finalist |
| State Library of Queensland Poetry Collection – Judith Wright Calanthe Award | John Kinsella | Jam Tree Gully | Winner |
| State Library of Queensland Poetry Collection – Judith Wright Calanthe Award | Stephen Edgar | Eldershaw | Finalist |
| State Library of Queensland Poetry Collection – Judith Wright Calanthe Award | Paul Hetherington | Haunted Rooms | Finalist |
| State Library of Queensland Poetry Collection – Judith Wright Calanthe Award | Jennifer Maiden | Liquid Nitrogen | Finalist |
| State Library of Queensland Poetry Collection – Judith Wright Calanthe Award | Alan Wearne | Prepare the Cabin for Landing | Finalist |
| Australian Short Story Collection – Steele Rudd Award | Cate Kennedy | Like a House on Fire | Winner |
| Australian Short Story Collection – Steele Rudd Award | Susan Midalia | An Unknown Sky | Finalist |
| Australian Short Story Collection – Steele Rudd Award | Jennifer Mills | The Rest is Weight | Finalist |
| Australian Short Story Collection – Steele Rudd Award | A S Patric | Las Vegas for Vegans | Finalist |
| Australian Short Story Collection – Steele Rudd Award | Chris Somerville | We Are Not the Same Anymore | Finalist |
| Griffith University Young Adult Book Award | Jaclyn Moriarty | A Corner of White | Winner |
| Griffith University Young Adult Book Award | Andrew McGahan | Ship Kings: The Voyage of the Unquiet Ice | Finalist |
| Griffith University Young Adult Book Award | Maureen McCarthy | The Convent | Finalist |
| Griffith University Young Adult Book Award | Vikki Wakefield | Friday Brown | Finalist |
| Griffith University Young Adult Book Award | Fiona Wood | Wildlife | Finalist |
| Children's Book Award | Narelle Oliver | Don't Let a Spoonbill in the Kitchen! | Winner |
| Children's Book Award | Jackie French | Pennies for Hitler | Finalist |
| Children's Book Award | Jane Godwin | Today We Have No Plans | Finalist |
| Children's Book Award | Steven Herrick | Pookie Aleera is Not My Boyfriend | Finalist |
| Children's Book Award | Margaret Wild | The Treasure Box | Finalist |
| Gadens Feature Film Script Award | Craig Monahan and Alison Nisselle | Healing | Winner |
| Emerging Queensland Author – Manuscript Award | Rebecca Jessen | Gap | Winner |
| Emerging Queensland Author – Manuscript Award | Jarryd Luke | Cockscrew Section | Finalist |
| Emerging Queensland Author – Manuscript Award | Cass Moriarty | The Promise Seed | Finalist |
| Unpublished Indigenous Writer – David Unaipon Award | Ellen van Neerven | Heat and Light | Winner |
| Unpublished Indigenous Writer – David Unaipon Award | Martin Doyle | Sugar Shed Road | Finalist |
| Unpublished Indigenous Writer – David Unaipon Award | Adrian Stanley | Could Be Worse | Finalist |
| Unpublished Indigenous Writer – David Unaipon Award | Ellen van Neerven | Hard | Finalist |
| Unpublished Indigenous Writer – David Unaipon Award | Dorothy Williams-Kemp | My Journey that May Never End | Finalist |

### 2012

List of 2012 Queensland Literary Awards Recipients :
| Category | Author | Title | Result |
| Fiction Book Award | Frank Moorhouse | Cold Light | Winner |
| Fiction Book Award | Peter Carey | The Chemistry of Tears | Finalist |
| Fiction Book Award | Anna Funder | All That I am | Finalist |
| Fiction Book Award | Kate Grenville | Sarah Thornhill | Finalist |
| Fiction Book Award | Alex Miller | Autumn Laing | Finalist |
| Non-Fiction Book Award | Robin De Crespigny | The People Smuggler | Winner |
| Non-Fiction Book Award | Jane Gleeson-White | Double Entry | Finalist |
| Non-Fiction Book Award | Patrick Holland | Riding the Trains in Japan | Finalist |
| Non-Fiction Book Award | William McInnes & Sarah Watt | Worse Things Happen at Sea | Finalist |
| Non-Fiction Book Award | Alice Pung | Her Father's Daughter | Finalist |
| History Book Award | Bill Gammage | The Biggest Estate on Earth: How Aborigines Made Australia | Winner |
| History Book Award | Robyn Arianrhod | Seduced by Logic | Finalist |
| History Book Award | James Boyce | 1835: The Founding of Melbourne and the Conquest of Australia | Finalist |
| History Book Award | Nicole Moore | The Censor's Library | Finalist |
| Literary or Media Work Advancing Public Debate – Harry Williams Award | George Megalogenis | The Australian Moment: How We Were Made For These Times | Winner |
| Literary or Media Work Advancing Public Debate – Harry Williams Award | Paul Cleary | Too Much Luck: The Mining Boom and Australia's Future | Finalist |
| Literary or Media Work Advancing Public Debate – Harry Williams Award | Michael Weley | There Goes the Neighbourhood | Finalist |
| Science Writers Award | Rob Brooks | Sex, Genes & Rock 'n' Roll | Winner |
| Science Writers Award | Robyn Arianrhod | Seduced by Logic | Finalist |
| Science Writers Award | Frank Bowden | Gone Viral | Finalist |
| Science Writers Award | Richard Smith | Australia: The Time Traveller’s Guide | Finalist |
| Poetry Collection – Judith Wright Calanthe Award | Peter Rose | Crimson Crop | Winner |
| Poetry Collection – Judith Wright Calanthe Award | Anthony Lawrence | The Welfare of My Enemy | Finalist |
| Poetry Collection – Judith Wright Calanthe Award | David McCooey | Outside | Finalist |
| Poetry Collection – Judith Wright Calanthe Award | Rhyll McMaster | Late Night Shopping | Finalist |
| Poetry Collection – Judith Wright Calanthe Award | Simon West | The Yellow Gum’s Conversion | Finalist |
| Australian Short Story Collection – Steele Rudd Award | Janette Turner Hospital | Turbulence | Winner |
| Australian Short Story Collection – Steele Rudd Award | Rodney Hall | Silence | Finalist |
| Australian Short Story Collection – Steele Rudd Award | Marion Halligan | Shooting the Fox | Finalist |
| Australian Short Story Collection – Steele Rudd Award | John Kinsella | In the Shade of the Shady Tree | Finalist |
| Australian Short Story Collection – Steele Rudd Award | Ryan O’Neill | The Weight of a Human Heart | Finalist |
| Young Adult Book Award | Neil Grant | The Ink Bridge | Winner |
| Young Adult Book Award | Kirsty Eagar | Night Beach | Finalist |
| Young Adult Book Award | Judith Clarke | Three Summers | Finalist |
| Young Adult Book Award | Margo Lanagan | Sea Hearts | Finalist |
| Young Adult Book Award | Vikki Wakefield | All I Ever Wanted | Finalist |
| Children's Book Award | Briony Stewart | Kumiko and the Shadow Catchers | Winner |
| Children's Book Award | Pamela Rushby | The Horses Didn’t Come Home | Finalist |
| Children's Book Award | John Flanagan | Brotherband 1: The Outcasts | Finalist |
| Children's Book Award | Libby Gleeson & Freya Blackwood | Look a Book! | Finalist |
| Children's Book Award | Elizabeth Honey | Ten Blue Wrens | Finalist |
| Film Script Award | Louise Fox | Dead Europe | Winner |
| Film Script Award | Miro Bilbra | Being Venice | Finalist |
| Film Script Award | Shane Armstrong & S P Krauss | Rarer Monsters | Finalist |
| Film Script Award | Brendan Cowell | Save Your Legs | Finalist |
| Emerging Queensland Author – Manuscript Award | Catherine Titasey | Island of the Unexpected | Winner |
| Emerging Queensland Author – Manuscript Award | Aaron Smibert | Scratches on the Surface | Finalist |
| Emerging Queensland Author – Manuscript Award | Luke Thomas | Home Mechanics | Finalist |
| Emerging Queensland Author – Manuscript Award | Ariella Van Luyn | Hidden Objects | Finalist |
| Unpublished Indigenous Writer – David Unaipon Award | Siv Parker | Story | Winner |
| Unpublished Indigenous Writer – David Unaipon Award | Ellen van Neerven-Currie | Hard | Finalist |
| Unpublished Indigenous Writer – David Unaipon Award | Dorothy Williams-Kemp | My Journey that May Never End | Finalist |
| Drama Script (Stage) Award | Angela Betzien | War Crimes | Winner |
| Drama Script (Stage) Award | Wayne Blair | Bloodland | Finalist |
| Drama Script (Stage) Award | Patricia Cornelius | Taxi | Finalist |
| Drama Script (Stage) Award | Rita Kalnejais | Baby Teeth | Finalist |
| Drama Script (Stage) Award | Lally Katz | A Golem Story | Finalist |
| Television Script Award | Sue Smith | Mabo | Winner |
| Television Script Award | Blake Ayshford | The Straits: ‘Yawor – My Lovely’, episode 3 | Finalist |
| Television Script Award | Brendan Cowell | The Slap: ‘Harry’, episode 3 | Finalist |
| Television Script Award | Anthony Mullins | Strange Calls: ‘Phantom’, episode 3 | Finalist |
| Television Script Award | Liz Doran | Dance Academy: ‘The Prix de Fonteyn’, episode 24 | Finalist |