Winners Announced | 2025 Northern Territory Literary Awards
Library & Archives NT would like to congratulate all winners in the 2025 Northern Territory Literary Awards!
Since 1984, these awards have championed the talent and creativity of Territory writers. This year, over 240 entries were received, with 20 unpublished works shortlisted across 7 categories.
Our winners not only receive prize money, but also an NT Writers' Centre membership and workshop, and a double pass to select shows in Brown's Mart's performance season.
A free publication of the works of winners and finalists is available now at Library & Archives NT in Danala, and will soon be accessible online via Territory Stories.
The winners are:
Brown’s Mart Theatre
Black light – Jada Alberts
Charles Darwin University Creative Non-Fiction Award
Severance and being seen – Alex Eve
Charles Darwin University Essay Award
Rheumatic heart disease: a call to action on preventable, poverty-attributable deaths in the Northern Territory – Sophie Collins
Flash Fiction Award
The important affair of the first male Moneypenny – Roland Bull
Kath Manzie Youth Award
Deserted – Lucy Tinapple
NT Writers’ Centre Poetry Award
In the desert where I live – Meg Mooney
Zip Print Short Story Award
Eternal – Belinda Mawby