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Miles Franklin Literary Award
2025 Miles Franklin Literary Award
Entries for the 2025 Award are now closed. Register your interest to be notified when the 2026 Award opens.
Submissions and key dates
The Miles Franklin Literary Award is awarded annually. Publishers are required to submit novels on behalf of an author. All works must be in English. Works written by two or more authors are eligible for entry.
Biographies, collections of short stories, children’s books and poetry are not eligible for this award. Judges will not consider any text which has only had internet publication.
Please refer to the Guidelines for key dates and further information on the eligibility and criteria.
| Key dates 2025 Award | |
| 23 September 2024 | Open for entries |
| 8 November 2024 | Entries close |
| 15 May 2025 | Longlist announcement |
| 25 June 2025 | Shortlist announcement |
| 24 July 2025 | Winner announcement |
Donate to the Franklin Support Fund
Perpetual is the Trustee for the Miles Franklin Literary Award Since being established, the Award has distributed over $1.4 million in philanthropic funds to authors.
Those wishing to be part of the Miles Franklin legacy can donate to the Franklin Support Fund to become a friend of the Award, or as Miles would say a “congenial”, and receive special recognition on the Award website and in event collateral. All donations are tax deductable.
Supporting the Miles Franklin literary award
The Copyright Agency’s Cultural Fund has been a proud supporter of the Miles Franklin Award since 2004, granting more than half a million dollars to this premier Australian literary prize. Since 2011, the Cultural Fund has provided $5,000 for each author named on the shortlist.
Learn more about the Copyright Agency
The Copyright Agency is an Australian not-for-profit organisation that has been standing up for creators for more than 40 years. We enable the reuse of copyright-protected words and images in return for fair payment to creators. The Cultural Fund is the philanthropic arm of the Copyright Agency, contributing meaningfully to a wide range of Australian cultural, educational and artistic programs and creators. Through its support it fosters greater understanding and engagement of national culture both locally and internationally. Copyright Agency’s Cultural Fund is a long-time supporter of the Miles Franklin Literary Award, providing $5,000 to each of the finalists and granting more than half a million dollars to this premier Australian literary prize since 2004.
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