Fiction

Tony BIRCH : Women & Children
Robbie ARNOTT : Limberlost
Miles ALLINSON : In Moonland
Robbie ARNOTT : The Rain Heron 

Non fiction

Ross McMULLIN : Life So Full of Promise
Kim MAHOOD : Wandering with Intent
Bernadette BRENNAN : Leaping into Waterfalls



James BOYCE : 1835: The Founding of Melbourne & The Conquest Of Australia
Fiona McGREGOR : Indelible
Alex MILLER : Lovesong
Steven AMSTERDAM : Things We Didn't See Coming
Don WATSON : American Journeys
Peter COCHRANE : Colonial Ambition: Foundations of Australian Democracy
Jennifer MAIDEN : Friendly
Gay BILSON : Plenty: Digressions on Food
Luke DAVIES : Totem
Sonya HARTNETT : Of a Boy
Don WATSON : Recollections of a Bleeding Heart: Paul Keating PM
Rosemary DOBSON : Untold Lives and Later Poems
Amy ITTING : Isobel on the Way to the Corner Shop
K.S. INGLIS : Sacred Places: War Memorials in the Australian Landscape
Elliot PERLMAN : Three Dollars
Peter CAREY : Jack Maggs
Thea ASTLEY : The Multiple Effecs of Rainshadow
Tim FLANNERY : The Future Eaters
Peter CAREY : The Unusual Life of Tristan Smith
Elizabeth JOLLEY : The George's Wife
Marion HALLIGAN : Lover's Knots
David MARR : Patrick White : A Life
Gwen HARWOOD : Blessed
Marsden HORDERN : Mariners are Warned: John Lort Stokes and HMA Beagle
Frank MOORHOUSE : Forty Seventeen
Jessica ANDERSON : Stories from the Warm Zone
Joan LONDON : Sister Ships
Peter CAREY : Illywhacker
Nicholas HASLUCK : The Bellarmine Jug
Elizabeth JOLLEY : Mr Scobie's Riddle
David MALOUF : Fly Away Peter
Non décerné
David IRELAND : A Woman of the Future et Murray BAIL : Homsesickness
Roger McDONALD : 1915
Christopher KOCH  : The Year of Living Dangerously
Non décerné
A. D. HOPE : A Late Picking
Thea ASTLEY : A Kindness Cup
David FOSTER : The Pure Land


Fiction (or Imaginative Writing) Award


Gillian MEARS : Foal's Bread
Fiona McGREGOR : Indelible
Alex MILLER : Lovesong
Steven AMSTERDAM : Things We Didn't See Coming
Tim WINTON : Breath
David MALOUF : Every More You Make
Christos TSIOLKAS : Dead Europe
Gail JONES : Sixty Lights
Andrew McGAHAN : The White Earth
Sonya HARTNETT : Of a Boy
Joan LONDON : Gilgamesh
Peter CAREY : True History of the Kelly Gang
Amy WITTING : Isobel on the Way to the Corner Shop
James BRADLEY : The Deep Field
Elliot PERLMAN : Three Dollars
Peter CAREY : Jack Maggs
Thea ASTLEY : The Multiple Effects of Rainshadow
Rod JONES : Billy Sunday
Peter CAREY : The Unusual Life of Tristan Smith
Elizabeth JOLLEY : The George's Wife
Marion HALLIGAN : Lover's Knots
Brian CASTRO : Double-Wolf
Glenda ADAMS : Longleg
Elizabeth JOLLEY : My Father's Moon
Frank MOORHOUSE : Forty Seventeen
Jessica ANDERSON : Stories from the Warm Zone
Joan LONDON : Sister Ships
Peter CAREY : Illywacker
Nicholas HASLUCK : The Bellarmine Jug
Elizabeth JOLLEY : Mr Scobie's Riddle
David MALOUF : Fly Away
Blanche d'ALPUGET : Turtle Beach
David IRELAND : A Woman of the Future et Murray BAIL : Homesickness
Roger McDONALD : 1915
Christopher KOCH : The Year of Living Dangerously
Non décerné
A. D. HOPE : A Late Picking
Thea ASTLEY : A Kindness Cup
David FOSTER : The Pure Land