The shortlisted authors and novels in each category are as follows:

Western Australian Writer’s Fellowship ($60,000)

Lucy Dougan

Alan Fyfe

Kylie Howarth

Laurie Steed

Emma Young

Premier’s Prize for Book of the Year ($15,000)

A Better Place (Stephen Daisley, Text)

Cellnight: A verse novel (John Kinsella, Transit Lounge)

The Memory of Trees (Viki Cramer, T&H)

Operation Hurricane (Paul Grace, Hachette)

What’s for Dinner? (Jill Griffiths, T&H) 

Premier’s Prize for an Emerging Writer ($15,000)

I Am the Mau and Other Stories (Chemutai Glasheen, Fremantle Press)

The Map of William (Michael Thomas, Fremantle Press)

Old Boy (Georgia Tree, Fremantle Press)

Salt River Road (Molly Schmidt, Fremantle Press)

The Things We Live With (Gemma Nisbet, Upswell)

Premier’s Prize for Children’s Book of the Year ($15,000)

City of Light (Julia Lawrinson, illus by Heather Potter & Mark Jackson, Wild Dog)

The Eerie Excavation: An Alice England mystery (Ash Harrier, Pantera)

A Friend for George (Gabriel Evans, Puffin)

Our Country: Where history happened (Mark Greenwood, illus by Frané Lessac, Walker Books)

Scout and the Rescue Dogs (Dianne Wolfer, Walker Books)

Daisy Utemorrah Award for Unpublished Indigenous Junior and YA Fiction ($15,000 and a publishing contract with Magabala)

Stephen Hagan for ‘Acacia: 6 Eyes on Yesterday’

Maureen Glover for ‘Brothers in Arms’

Elise Thornthwaite for ‘Underneath the Surface’

Marly and Linda Wells for ‘Dusty Tracks’.

The WA Premier's Literary Awards honour outstanding WA writing, while the Daisy Utemorrah Award is available to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander persons living in Australia.