Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards 2025
The Wheeler Centre has announced the shortlists for the 2025 Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards.
The shortlisted works in one of the categories are:
Fiction ($25,000)
- The Burrow (Melanie Cheng, Text)
- The Echoes (Evie Wyld, Vintage)
- Highway 13 (Fiona McFarlane, A&U) *
- Host City (David Owen Kelly, Puncher & Wattmann)
- Theory & Practice (Michelle de Kretser, Text)
- Woo Woo (Ella Baxter, A&U)
Highway 13 has been reviewed by QRC. Click on the title to read our review.
The winners in each category, as well as the winner of the overall Victorian Prize for Literature, worth $100,000, will be announced at a ceremony in Melbourne and live-streamed on the Wheeler Centre website on Wednesday 19 March.
More information about the awards and judges’ comments is available on the Wheeler Centre website.