Readings Prize 2025 winners announced
Readings has announced the winners of the 2025 Readings Prize in each category and the winner of the Gab Williams Prize.
The winning titles are:
New Australian Fiction Prize
- I Want Everything (Dominic Amerena, Summit)
Young Adult Prize
- Aisle Nine (Ian X Cho, HarperCollins)
Children’s Prize
- How to Free a Jinn (Raidah Shah Idil, A&U Children’s)
Gab Williams Prize
- This Dream Will Devour Us (Emma Clancey, A&U Children’s).
Established in 2014, the Readings Prize aims to “support and champion new and outstanding Australian voices”. The winners, selected from shortlists in new Australian fiction, YA and children’s categories, each receive $5000. The Gab Williams Prize is judged by the Readings Teen Advisory Board from the YA shortlist, with the winner receiving $1000.
Last year’s prizes went to Emma Darragh for Thanks for Having Me (Joan) in the new Australian fiction category; Gary Lonesborough for We Didn’t Think It Through (A&U) in the YA category; and Tylissa Elisara and illustrator Dylan Finney, for Wurrtoo: The Wombat Who Fell in Love with the Sky (Lothian) in the children’s category. In 2024, Emily Brewin’s A Way Home (MidnightSun) was the winner of the Gab Williams Prize.
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