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 25,000. The winner of this category prize vies with 4 other category winners for overall Victorian Prize for Literature valued at an additional 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."

Honorees YearAuthorTitleResultRef.2011Winner Graffiti MoonFinalistFinalist2012WinnerFinalist All I Ever WantedFinalist2013Presented in January 2014 (see 2014 entry) for books published in 2013.2014 My Life as an AlphabetWinner Friday BrownFinalist WildlifeFinalist2015Winner RazorhurstFinalistFinalist2016 Welcome to OrphancorpWinnerFinalist Sister HeartFinalist2017 When Michael Met MinaWinnerFinalistFinalist2018 Living on Hope StreetWinner IdaFinalist Because of YouFinalist2019 and Ezekiel Kwaymullina Catching Teller CrowWinner Between UsFinalist Amelia WestlakeFinalist2020 How It Feels to FloatWinner Invisible BoysFinalist This Is How We Change the EndingFinalist2021 Metal Fish, Falling SnowWinnerFinalist Where We BeginFinalist2022 Girls in Boys' CarsWinnerFinalist Tiger DaughterFinalist2023 We Who Hunt the HollowWinnerFinalist Where You Left UsFinalist2024A Hunger of ThornsWinnerThe Quiet and the Loud FinalistWe Could Be Something Finalist2025AnomalyWinnerLiar's TestFinalistSmoke & MirrorsFinalist2026This Stays Between UsWinnerHow to Be NormalFinalistMoonlight and DustFinalist

Victorian Premier's Prize for Young Adult Fiction YearAuthorTitlePublisherRef. 1988 John Marsden So Much to Tell You Walter McVitty Books 1989 Caroline Macdonald The Lake at the End of the World Hodder and Stoughton 1990 Diana Kidd Onion Tears Collins 1991 Gary Crew Strange Objects Heinemann 1992 Eleanor Nilsson The House Guest Viking 1993 Anna Fienberg Ariel, Zed and the Secret of Life Allen and Unwin 1994 Ursula Dubosarsky The White Guinea-Pig Viking Books 1995 Allan Baillie Songman Viking Books 1996 Sonya Hartnett Sleeping Dogs Viking Books 1997 Catherine Jinks Pagan's Scribe Omnibus Books 1998 Judith Clarke Night Train Penguin 1999 Deadly, Unna? Penguin 2000Killing AuroraPenguin 2001Touch MeUniversity of Queensland Press 2002 and Boori Monty PryorNjunjul the SunAllen & Unwin 2003Wildlight: A JourneyPenguin 2004Black JuiceAllen & Unwin 2005So YesterdayPenguin 2006Theodora's GiftViking/Penguin 2007Notes from the Teenage UndergroundPan Macmillan 2008Tomorrow All Will Be BeautifulAllen & Unwin 2009Something in the World Called LovePenguin 2010Raw BluePenguin

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