The winners of the 2025 Western Australian Premier’s Book Awards were announced this evening at the State Library of Western Australia, sharing a prize pool of $120,000.
Alan Fyfe was the winner of Book of the Year, sponsored by Writing WA, for his debut poetry collection G-d, Sleep, and Chaos, which also won Poetry Book of the Year.
It was Fyfe’s third consecutive year being shortlisted and his first time taking home a prize.
The judging panel described the book as ‘bold, fearless and purposeful’ and recommended it as engaging read that is grounded in location and cultural moments.
The annual awards, administered and hosted by the State Library, honour the creativity and achievements of authors, illustrators and publishers who tell the story of Western Australia.
The winners of the 2025 Western Australian Premier’s Book Awards are:
- Book of the Year, sponsored by Writing WA: G-d, Sleep, and Chaos by Alan Fyfe (Gazebo);
- Children’s 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’s Search for Justice by Gerard McCann (Fremantle Press);
- Fiction Book of the Year: Shadows of Winter Robins by Louise Wolhuter (Ultimo Press);
- Emerging Writer: Matiaby Emily Tsokos Purtill (UWA Publishing); and
- Daisy Utemorrah Award for Unpublished Indigenous Junior and Young Adult Writing: Beau Windon for Jax Paperweight and the Neon Starway
