Creative Industries Minister Simone McGurk acknowledged not only the talent of the writers but their cultural and creative contribution to the community.<\/p>\n
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\u201cStorytelling is a vital part of our cultural identity, and through these awards we reaffirm the Cook Government\u2019s commitment to supporting creative industries.\u201d Ms McGurk said.<\/p>\n
This year saw new categories for the awards and prizes for Book of the Year and the Daisy Utemorrah Award.<\/p>\n
Funded by Broome-based Indigenous publisher Magabala Books, with support from the Department of Cultural Industries, Tourism and Sport, and Copyright Agency, the Daisy Utemorrah Award is open to Indigenous writers Australia-wide.<\/p>\n
Premier Roger Cook congratulated the award recipients and acknowledged the role writing plays in our community.<\/p>\n
\u201cCongratulations to the winners whose work demonstrates the power of storytelling to reflect, challenge and enrich our understanding of the world,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Winners shared a prize pool of $120,000.<\/p>\n
Premier\u2019s Book Awards 2025 winners: Book of the Year, sponsored by Writing WA: G-d, Sleep, and Chaos by Alan Fyfe (Gazebo)Children\u2019s Book of the Year: A Leaf Called Greaf by Kelly Canby (Fremantle Press)Young Adult Book of the Year: My Family and Other Suspects by Kate Emery (Allen & Unwin)Poetry Book of the Year: G-d, Sleep, and Chaos by Alan Fyfe (Gazebo)Non-Fiction Book of the Year: Anatomy of a Secret: One Man\u2019s Search for Justice by Gerard McCann (Fremantle Press)Fiction Book of the Year: Shadows of Winter Robins by Louise Wolhuter (Ultimo Press)Emerging Writer: Matia by Emily Tsokos Purtill (UWA Publishing)Daisy Utemorrah Award for Unpublished Indigenous Junior and Young Adult Writing: Beau Windon for Jax Paperweight and the Neon Starway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The best of Western Australian writing was recognised at the Premier\u2019s Book Awards last night. Alan Fyfe won…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":106361,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[64,63,457,134,44,45],"class_list":["post-106360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-books","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-books","tag-entertainment","tag-news","tag-wa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106360\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/106361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}