Canada and New Zealand began signing treaties with their respective First Nations people centuries ago. Why is Australia so far behind? Treaty offers an opportunity for everyone who calls Victoria ...

Gain a new perspective on your creative practice with award-winning author Laura Jean McKay, in this special seminar for writers of all levels. Taking the wrong path and making mistakes – we've all ...

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 ...

Every Stolen Moment opens with a gory discovery: the dead body of the Supreme Court of Victoria’s most conservative and polarising judge, the Honourable Harry Somerton. Chapters alternate between the ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

Introduce your children to the magic of live music with Orchestra Victoria! The water in the Yaba River is low, the country is in a drought, the waterbirds are hungry. Bila the Spoonbill knows he must ...

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, ...

Judges’ report It’s not easy to write about death and grieving, and it’s even harder to write about death and grieving in an absolutely hilarious way, but this book does, and that’s an achievement on ...

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