NSW Literary Awards

The NSW Literary Awards are the richest and longest running state-based literary awards in Australia and cover all genres of writing.

A total of $360,000 in prize money is on offer across 14 prize categories in 2025.

The categories offered for the 2025 award are:

• Christina Stead Prize for Fiction ($40,000)
• Douglas Stewart Prize for Non-Fiction ($40,000)
• Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry ($30,000)
• Patricia Wrightson Prize for Children’s Literature ($30,000)
• Ethel Turner Prize for Young People’s Literature ($30,000)
• Nick Enright Prize for Playwriting ($30,000)
• Betty Roland Prize for Scriptwriting ($30,000)
• Multicultural NSW Award ($30,000)
• Indigenous Writers’ Prize ($30,000)
• Translation Prize ($30,000) 
• UTS Glenda Adams Award for New Writing ($10,000)
• University of Sydney People’s Choice Award ($10,000) 
• Book of the Year ($10,000) 
• Special Award ($10,000) 

All works must have been first published, performed, screened or broadcast and made publicly available between 1 October 2023 and 30 September 2024. The exception is works being entered for the biennial NSW Translation Prize; these works must have first been published and made publicly available between 1 October 2022 and 30 September 2024.