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All works published January to September 2025 must be entered by 30 September to be eligible for the regular entry fee.

The fee increase applies to these works from October 1.

The current list of entries is available on our website.

In an effort to ensure panels have sufficient time during the entry period to give due consideration to all entries, from 2025 the entry fee applicable to all long-form work (including novels, graphic novels, anthologies and collections) will be scaled.

Works published between January 1 2025 and September 30 2025 must be entered by September 30 2025 to avoid the entry fee increase applied from October 1 2025. 

Works published in October, November and December will not be subject to the entry fee increase, but early entry is encouraged.

1. Entry forms submitted for long form works (novels, graphic novels, collections and anthologies) between July 2025 and September 30 2025 will incur a $10 entry fee, regardless of 2025 publication month.
2. Entry forms for long form works first published during October, November and December 2025 and entered any time during the entry period to November 30 2025 (final entry date) will incur a $10 entry fee.
3. Entry forms submitted for long form works between October 1 2025 and November 30 2025 (final entry date) but published prior to October 1 2025 will incur a $20 entry fee.

Essentially, works published January-September 2025 but not entered until October/November 2025 will incur the higher fee. 

This is not intended as a punitive measure but is essential to maintain timelines for receipt and judging of entries, and is in line with measures taken by some other national awards such as the Children’s Book Council of Australia’s Book of the Year awards.