Express Media and Hachette Australia have announced the winners of the 2025 Hachette Australia Prize for Young Writers.
The winners, selected from 15 shortlisted pieces, are:
Fiction
Abigail Koh (WA) for “persephone”
Non-fiction
Georgina Lewis (NSW) for “A Tolerance for the Middle”
Poetry
Jiayi Fang (NSW) for “The Kingdom of Small Things”.
The prize, formerly known as the John Marsden Prize, is open to all Australian secondary school–aged students.
“This year, we received an incredibly high calibre of entries from talented young writers across Australia,” said the organisers. “The prize aims to ignite passion for creative writing and poetry in the minds of Australia’s secondary school students and to encourage them to pursue writing and publishing opportunities inside and outside of the classroom.”
Each winner receives $500 courtesy of Hachette Australia, publication of their work on the Express Media website, and a book pack courtesy of Hachette Australia. Their names and an acknowledgement will be printed in youth literary journal Voiceworks.
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