Wiradjuri author Tara June Winch won the fiction prize for her novel The Yield . Songspirals: Sharing women s wisdom of Country through songlines by the Gay wu Group of Women was the joint winner of the non-fiction prize alongside Sea People: The Puzzle of Polynesia by Christina Thompson. Cooee Mittigar: A story on Darug Songlines by Jasmine Seymour, illustrated by Leanne Mulgo Watson won the Children s Literature prize.
The $80,000 fiction prize is the latest accolade for Ms Winch, who has also taken out the NSW Premier s Literary Awards Book of the Year, the Christina Stead Prize for Fiction and the Miles Franklin Literary Award.