Choice Queensland Book of the Year Award – Another Day in the Colony by Chelsea Watego The University of Queensland Fiction Book Award – The Other Half of You by Michael Mohammed Ahmad The University of Queensland Non-Fiction Book Award – Lies, Damned Lies by Claire G. Coleman Judith Wright Calanthe Award for a Poetry Collection – Stasis Shuffle by Pam Brown University of Southern Queensland Steele Rudd Award for a Short Story Collection – Dark as Last Night by Tony Birch Griffith University Young Adult Book Award – Girls in Boys’ Cars by Felicity Castagna Children's Book Award – Kunyi written and illustrated by Kunyi June Anne McInerney Queensland Premier's Young Publishers and Writers Award – Rebecca Cheers Marilena Hewitt Queensland Writers Fellowships – Melissa Ashley Geneve Flynn Mary-Rose MacColl Glendower Award for Emerging Queensland Author – Yen-Rong Wong, "Things Left Unsaid" David Unaipon Award for an Emerging Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Writer – Mykaela Saunders for "Always Will Be – stories of Goori sovereignty, from the future(s) of the Tweed" 2021 The winners were announced on 9 September 2021: Queensland Premier's Award for a work of State Significance – Biting the Clouds: A Badtjala perspective on the Aboriginals Protection and Restriction of the Sale of Opium Act, 1897 by Fiona Foley The Courier-Mail People's Choice Queensland Book of the Year Award – Mary’s Last Dance: The untold story of the wife of Mao’s Last Dancer by Mary Li The University of Queensland Fiction Book Award – Song of the Crocodile by Nardi Simpson The University of Queensland Non-Fiction Book Award – Amnesia Road: Landscape, violence and memory by Luke Stegemann Judith Wright Calanthe Award for a Poetry Collection – Terminally Poetic by Ouyang Yu University of Southern Queensland Steele Rudd Award for a Short Story Collection – Ordinary Matter by Laura Elvery Griffith University Young Adult Book Award – Metal Fish, Falling Snow by Cath Moore Griffith University Children's Book Award – Bindi written by Kirli Saunders and illustrated by Dub Leffler Queensland Premier's Young Publishers and Writers Award – Allanah Hunt Ellen Wengert Queensland Writers Fellowships – Tabitha Bird for "The Healing Giggle of Wonder" Ella Jeffery for "Split Level" Kali Napier for "Preserving: Stories" Glendower Award for Emerging Queensland Author – Siang Lu, "The Whitewash" David Unaipon Award for an Emerging Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Writer – Ngankiburka-mekauwe (Senior Woman of Water) Georgina Williams for "Mekauwe=Tears