Victorian Premier's Prize for Writing for Young Adults

The Victorian Premier's Prize for Writing for Young Adults, formerly known as the Victorian Premier's Prize for Young Adult Fiction, is a prize category in the annual Victorian Premier's Literary Award. As of 2011 it has an enumeration of A$25,000. The winner of this category prize vies with 4 other category winners for overall Victorian Prize for Literature valued at an additional A$100,000.

From inception in 1999 to 2010, the award was administered by the State Library of Australia and known as the Victorian Premier's Prize for Young Adult Fiction. In 2011 stewardship changed to the Wheeler Centre where the prize was re-launched with a new name, rules and prize amount. According to the State Library of Australia, "This prize [was] offered for a published work of fiction or collection of short stories written for a readership between the ages of 13 and 18. Publishers may consider submitting books that are appropriate to young adult readers but not published under a young adult imprint. Literary merit is the major judging criterion. In the case of illustrated books, the additional criterion of literary and artistic unity is considered." ^[1]

Blue ribbon () = winner.

• 2011^[2]
  • Doug MacLeod, The Life of a Teenage Body-Snatcher
  • Cath Crowley, Graffiti Moon
  • Cassandra Golds, The Three Loves of Persimmon
• 2012^[3]
  • Vikki Wakefield, All I Ever Wanted
  • John Larkin, The Shadow Girl
  • Doug MacLeod, The Shiny Guys
• 2013 Presented in January 2014 (see 2014 entry) for books published in 2013.
• 2014^[4]
  • Vikki Wakefield, Friday Brown
  • Fiona Wood, Wildlife
  • Barry Jonsberg, My Life as an Alphabet

• 2015^[5]
  • Jaclyn Moriarty, The Cracks in the Mountain
  • Claire Zorn, The Protected
  • Justine Larbalestier, Razorhurst

• 2016^[6]
  • Meg McKinlay, A Single Stone
  • Sally Morgan, Sister Heart
  • Marlee Jane Ward, Welcome to Orphancorp

• 2017^[7]
  • Randa Abdel-Fattah, When Michael Met Mina
  • Zana Fraillon, The Bone Sparrow
  • Emily Gale, The Other Side of Summer

• 2018^[8]
  • Demet Divaroren, Living on Hope Street
  • Alison Evans, Ida
  • Pip Harry, Because of You

Victorian Premier's Prize for Young Adult Fiction

• 2010: Raw Blue by Kirsty Eagar^[9]
• 2009: Something in the World Called Love by Sue Saliba (Penguin)^[10]
• 2008: Tomorrow All Will Be Beautiful by Brigid Lowry (Allen & Unwin)^[11]
• 2007: Notes from the Teenage Underground by Simmone Howell (Pan Macmillan) ^[12]
• 2006: Theodora's Gift by Ursula Dubosarsky (Viking/Penguin)^[13]
• 2005: So Yesterday by Scott Westerfeld (Penguin)^[14]
• 2004: Black Juice by Margo Lanagan (Allen & Unwin)^[15]
• 2003: Wildlight: A journey by David Metzenthen (Penguin)^[16]
• 2002: Njunjul the Sun by Meme McDonald and Boori Monty Pryor^[1]
• 2001: Touch Me by James Moloney^[1]
• 2000: Killing Aurora by Helen Barnes^[1]
• 1999: Deadly, Unna? by Phillip Gwynne^[17]

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