Victorian Premier's Unpublished Manuscript Award

Winners and Shortlisted by year

• 2020 Winner: Rhett Davis — Hovering. Shortlisted: Emily Spurr — A Million Things; Allee Richards — In Real Life
• 2019 Winner: Victoria Hannan — Kokomo. Shortlisted: John Byron — Wedding Cake Island; Wayne Marshall — Frontier Sport
• 2017 Winner: Christian White — Decay Theory. Shortlisted: Kaz Kilmore-Barrymore — Truth Untold; Laura Stortenbeker — Low Light. Commended: Terry Donnelly — Hey Luna and Other Stories; R.W.R. McDonald — The Nancys.
• 2016 Winner: Melanie Cheng — Australia Day. Shortlisted: Jay Carmichael — Ironbark; Susan Johnston — Wildgirl. Commended: Jacquie Byron — Trouble Sleeping; Chris Quigley — Failed Manhood; Mark Brandi — To Skin a Rabbit.
• 2015 Winner: Jane Harper — The Dry. Shortlisted: Jim McIntyre — Nikolai the Perfect; Michelle Wright — Fine. Commended: Alice Bishop — A Constant Hum; Lucinda Berg — The Kafka Papers: the Revised Memoirs of Max Brod; Kerry Munnery — Unhomely Places; Chris Mooney-Singh — Foreign Madam and the White Yogi; Imbi Neeme — The Hidden Drawer.
• 2014 Winner: Miles Allinson – Fever of Animals. Shortlisted: Jennifer Down – Our Magic Hour; JM Green – Good Money. Commended: Jane Abbott – Watershed; Caitlin Crowley – Headland; Genevieve Poetka – Winter Traffic; Zoe Morrison – Some Thoughts on Music and Freedom, Victoria Osborne – Man of Clay; Yannick Thoraval – The Current.
• 2013 Winner: Maxine Beneba Clarke – Foreign Soil. Shortlisted: Naomi Bailey – A Field Guide to Birdwatching in Bad Weather; Emily Bitto – The Strays, Highly Commended: Kirsten Alexander– Dreams; Beverly Almeida– Hijrotic; Matt Davies– Fire and Icecream; Leah De Forest– The Borrowed River; Vince Leigh– Baroque Days; Stuart McCullough– Goodsir
• 2012 Winner: Graeme Simsion — The Rosie Project. Shortlisted: Rose Mulready — The Day We Lost The Moon; Stephen Samuel — Strange Eventful History. Honorable Mention: Clive Wansbrough — The Twoway Boy.
• 2011: No award due to change in timing.
• 2010 Winner: Peggy Frew — House of Sticks. Shortlisted: Michelle Aung Thin — Winsome of Rangoon ; Andrew Nette — Cambodia Darkness and Light.
• 2009 Winner: Amy Espeseth — Sufficient Grace. Shortlisted: Catherine Harris — Like Being a Wife; Lisa Jacobson — The Sunlit Zone.
• 2008 Winner: Mandy Maroney — Going Finish. Shortlisted: Daniel Ducrou — Conditions of Return; Robert Power — In Search of the Blue Tiger.
• 2007 Winner: Nick Gadd — The Ghost Writer.
• 2006 Winner: Andrew Hutchinson — Rohypnol.
• 2005 Winner: Peter Barry — I Hate Martin Amis et al.
• 2004 Winner: Angela Savage — Thai Died.
• 2003 Winner: Carrie Tiffany — Everyman's Rules for Scientific Living.