Miles Franklin Literary Award
The longlist for the 2026 Miles Franklin Literary Award has been announced.
Longlisted titles for the $60,000 prize are:
- Discipline (Randa Abdel-Fattah, University of Queensland Press)
- I Want Everything (Dominic Amerena, Summit Books) *
- Salt Upon the Water (Lyn Dickens, Wakefield Press) *
- Tenderfoot (Toni Jordan, Hachette)
- First Name Second Name (Steve MinOn, University of Queensland Press)
- My Heart at Evening (Konrad Muller, Evercreech Editions)
- Fierceland (Omar Musa, Penguin Random House Australia)
- Little World (Josephine Rowe, Black Inc.)
- Elegy, Southwest (Madeleine Watts, Ultimo Press)
- You Must Remember This (Sean Wilson, Affirm Press).
This year’s shortlist will be announced in June with the winner announcement to follow in August.
The 2025 Miles Franklin Literary Award winner was Siang Lu for his novel Ghost Cities * (University of Queensland Press).
More information about the award is available on award trustee Perpetual Limited’s website.
Books marked * have been reviewed by QRC. Click on the title to read our review.