QLD entry contribution

Key dates in 2025

• 3 March: entries open
• 22 April: entries close
• 3 March–17 March: $45 (incl GST) per early bird entry
• 18 March–22 April: $55 (incl GST) per entry
• 5 August: shortlist announced
• 5 August–19 August: People’s Choice Award voting  
• 12 September: awards ceremony at State Library of Queensland 

Awards

1. Queensland Premier's Award for a Work of State Significance
2. Queensland Writers Fellowships (x3)
3. Queensland Premier’s Young Publishers and Writers Awards (x2)
4. David Unaipon Award for an Emerging Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander Writer
5. Glendower Award for an Emerging Queensland Writer
6. The University of Queensland Fiction Book Award
7. The University of Queensland Non-Fiction Book Award
8. Children’s Book Award
9. Young Adult Book Award
10. Judith Wright Calanthe Award for a Poetry Collection
11. The Courier-Mail People’s Choice Queensland Book of the Year Award