Prime Minister's Literary Awards shortlists 2025

Creative Australia has announced the titles shortlisted for the 2025 Prime Minister’s Literary Awards.

Young adult 

Anomaly (Emma Lord, Affirm)
The Anti-Racism Kit: A Guide for High School Students (Jinyoung Kim & Sabina Patawaran, HGCP)
The Invocations (Krystal Sutherland, Penguin)
My Family and Other Suspects (Kate Emery, A&U Children’s)
Thunderhead (Sophie Beer, A&U Children’s).

Children’s literature 

A Leaf Called Greaf (Kelly Canby, Fremantle)
Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About the Tooth Fairy (And Some Things You Didn’t) (Briony Stewart, Lothian)
Leo and Ralph (Peter Carnavas, UQP)
Raymangirrbuy dhawu, When I was a little girl (Kylie Gatjawarrawuy Mununggurr, Magabala)
We Live in a Bus (Dave Petzold, T&H)