South Australian Literary Awards

The Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature were created by the Government of South Australia in 1986 and awarded during Writers' Week as part of the Adelaide Festival. From 2024, the awards are renamed the South Australian Literary Awards (a name in line with its interstate equivalents), and the awards ceremony takes place in the Mortlock Chamber of the SLSA towards the end of the year, away from the festival season. ==Description==

The Premier's Award is the richest prize, worth , and awarded for the best overall published work which has already won an award in one of the other categories. There is a total prize pool of , which is distributed 11 categories, including the Premier's Award. There are six national and five South Australian categories. Other national awards, worth each as of 2024, are the Fiction Award, Children's Literature Award, Young Adult Fiction Award, John Bray Poetry Award, and the Non-Fiction Award. South Australian awards and fellowships are the Jill Blewett Playwright's Award, the Arts South Australia/Wakefield Press Unpublished Manuscript Award, the Barbara Hanrahan Fellowship, the Max Fatchen Fellowship (in honour of Adelaide author and journalist Max Fatchen), and the Tangkanungku Pintyanthi Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Fellowship. Applications for each year's awards are open until mid-December of the preceding year. The awards are jointly funded by the SA government and the Libraries Board of South Australia. ==National awards==

Premier's Award Winners: • 2022 The Yield by Tara June Winch • 2024 Childhood by Shannon Burns Fiction Award Winners: • 2018 Dragonfly Song by Wendy Orr • 2020 Nevermoor: The Trials of Morrigan Crow by Jessica Townsend (Lothian) • 2024 Scar town by Tristan Bancks Winners: • 1986 Selected Poems – 1963–1983 by Robert Gray (Angus & Robertson) • 1988 The Daylight Moon by Les Murray (Angus & Robertson) • 1990 Bone Scan by Gwen Harwood (Angus & Robertson) • 1992 Last Poems by Vincent Buckley (McPhee Gribble) • 1994 Between Glances by Andrew Lansdown (Fremantle Arts Centre Press) • 1996 The Silo: A Pastoral Symphony by John Kinsella (Fremantle Arts Centre Press) • 1998 The Blue Cloud of Crying by Peter Boyle (Hale & Ironmonger) • 2000 The Harbour by Dimitris Tsaloumas (University of Queensland Press) • 2002 Around Here by Cath Kenneally (Wakefield Press) • 2004 Wild Surmise by Dorothy Porter (Picador) • 2006 Totem by Luke Davies (Allen and Unwin) • 2008 Urban Myths: 210 Poems by John Tranter (University of Queensland Press) • 2010 The Other Way Out by Bronwyn Lea (Giramondo poets) • 2012 Taller When Prone by Les Murray (Black Inc) • 2014 The Sunlit Zone by Lisa Jacobson (Five Islands Press) • 2016 Waiting for the Past by Les Murray • 2018 Missing Up by Pam Brown • 2020 Archival-Poetics by Natalie Harkin (Vagabond) • 2022 Fifteeners by Jordie Albiston • 2024 At the altar of touch, by Gavin Yuan Gao Non-Fiction Award Winners: • 1986 A History of Prince Alfred College by R M Gibbs (Peacock Publications) • 1988 The Myriad Faces of War by Trevor Wilson (Polity/Blackwells) • 1990 Satura by John Bray (Wakefield Press) • 1992 Patrick White – A Life by David Marr (Random House Australia) • 1994 Sort of a Place Like Home: Remembering the Moore River Native Settlement by Susan Maushart (Fremantle Arts Centre Press) • 1996 The Future Eaters by Tim Flannery (Reed Books) • 1998 Claiming a Continent: A History of Australia by David Day (HarperCollins) • 2000 ''Throw'im Way Leg: An Adventure'' by Tim Flannery (Text Publishing) • 2002 Leviathan: The Unauthorised Biography of Sydney by John Birmingham (Random House Australia) • 2004 Unearthed: The Aboriginal Tasmanians of Kangaroo Island by Rebe Taylor (Wakefield Press) • 2006 Velocity by Mandy Sayer (Vintage Books) • 2008 Sunrise West by Jacob G Rosenberg (Brandl & Schlesinger) • 2010 Stella Miles Franklin by Jill Roe (Fourth Estate / HarperCollins) • 2012 An Eye for Eternity: The Life of Manning Clark by Mark McKenna • 2014 Madness: A Memoir by Kate Richards • 2016 What Days Are For by Robert Dessaix • 2018 The Boy Behind the Curtain by Tim Winton • 2020 The Bible in Australia by Meredith Lake (NewSouth) • 2022 Olive Cotton: A Life in Photography by Helen Ennis • 2024 Childhood by Shannon Burns ==South Australian awards & fellowships==

Jill Blewett Playwright's Award (Offered 1992− ) Winners: renamed Max Fatchen Fellowship from 2014, in honour of children's writer Max Fatchen, who died in 2012. • 2014 Helen Dinmore (writing as Catherine Norton) • 2016 Marianne Musgrove • 2018 Danielle Clode • 2020 Sally Heinrich • 2022 Poppy Nwosu • 2024 The children of Elphinstone, by James A Cooper Tangkanungku Pintyanthi Fellowship (Offered 2014– ; full name Tangkanungku Pintyanthi Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Fellowship) Winners: • 2014 Ali Cobby Eckermann for Hopes Crossing • 2016 Ali Cobby Eckermann for Too Afraid to Cry • 2018 Edoardo Crismani • 2022 Karen Wyld • 2024 Monologues, poems and ramblings for you, them, us… and me… by Alexis West ==Historic awards==

Innovation award (Offered 2004–2010) Winners: • 2004 The Eastern Slope Chronicle by Ouyang Yu (Brandl and Schlesinger) • 2006 by MTC Cronin (Shearsman Books) • 2008 Someone Else: Fictional Essays by John Hughes (Giramondo Publishing) • 2010 Barley Patch by Gerald Murnane (Giramondo Publishing) The Mayne Award for Multimedia Formerly the Faulding Award for Multimedia (offered 1998 to 2004). Winners: • 1998 FlightPaths: Writing Journeys by Julie Clarke, Rob Finlayson, Tom Gibson, Denise Higgins, Bernie Jannsen, Nazid Kimmie and Adrian Marshall • 2000 Carrier by Melinda Rackham (www.subtle.net/carrier) • 2002 Poems in a Flash @ The Stalking Tongue website Jayne Fenton Keane and David Keane (www.poetinresidence.com) • 2004 Concatenation by Geniwate == See also ==