Longlist, finalists & winners

nib longlist

The 2025 Mark & Evette Moran Nib Literary Award longlist will be announced in early August.

Finalists will be announced in September. Each will receive the Alex Buzo Shortlist Prize ($1,500) and is eligible for the Nib People’s Choice Prize, awarded by popular vote.

Winners of the Nib People's Choice Prize and $40,000 Mark & Evette Moran Nib Literary Award will be announced at a public event on 9 November 2025.

Alex Buzo Shortlist Prize
Max Dupain
(Helen Ennis, 4th Estate, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers)
Black Witness (Amy McQuire, University of Queensland Press)
Mean Streak (Rick Morton, 4th Estate, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers)
Cactus Pear for My Beloved (Samah Sabawi, Penguin)
Clever Men (Martin Thomas, Allen & Unwin)
I Am Nannertgarrook (Tasma Walton, Bundyi, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Australia)

Longlist
View the 2025 longlist here.

Mark & Evette Moran Nib Literary Award & Nib People’s Choice Prize
Winners of these categories will be announced 6 November 2025.

Mark & Evette Moran Nib Literary Award
Edenglassie (Melissa Lucashenko, UQP)

Nib People’s Choice Prize
Book of Life (Deborah Conway, Allen & Unwin)

Alex Buzo Shortlist Prize
Reaching Through Time (Shauna Bostock, Allen & Unwin)
Book of Life (Deborah Conway, Allen & Unwin)
Donald Horne (Ryan Cropp, La Trobe University Press)
Wifedom (Anna Funder, Hamish Hamilton)
Edenglassie (Melissa Lucashenko, UQP)
What the Trees See (Dave Witty, Monash University Publishing)

Read more about the 2024 Prize winners.

View the 2024 longlist here.


Mark & Evette Moran Nib Literary Award

An Intimate History of Evolution (Alison Bashford, Allen Lane)

Nib People’s Choice Prize
The Age of Seeds (Fiona McMillan-Webster, Thames & Hudson Australia)

Alex Buzo Shortlist Prize
Anam (André Dao, Hamish Hamilton)
Emperors in Lilliput (Jim Davidson, The Miegunyah Press)
Life So Full of Promise (Ross McMullin, Scribe Publications)
Shirley Hazzard: A Writing Life by (Brigitta Oluba, Virago)

For enquiries about this award, email nibaward@waverley.nsw.gov.au.

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