The Hope Prize 2025 Winners
First Place – $10,000 AUD
Celeste Mohammed – Plenty Time
Second Place – $2,000 AUD
Johann de Waal – Snow
Third Place – $1,000 AUD (shared)
Cate Kennedy – Eleven Days and One Hour
All prizes awarded together by Readings and The Hope Prize.
The 2025 Hope Prize Shortlist
The following authors were shortlisted for the 2025 Hope Prize. Their stories, alongside the winning entries, will be published by Simon & Schuster Australia in support of our 2025 charity partner, CAMFED.
Nazia Akhtar — The Letter
Ellem Austin — People Like Us
Susanna Elliffe — Patron Saints of Road Kill
Selina Graham — Bog Butter
Elisa Hall — The Blood Pact
Mónica Ibarra Parle — Little Angels
Joshua Kemp — The Last Blue Mallet on Earth
Claire Low — Over My Dead Body
Jeannie Mackenzie — A History of Loss in Fifteen Domestic Objects
Ciera McElroy — Still Life
Ellen McQueen —The Baby Shower
Honni van Rijswijk —The Magpie Season
Ronan Ryan — Ghoul
Trina Saffioti — Never Talking to Island Boys Again
Caroline Söderlund — The Pond Mermaid
Claire Tafoya — Laurel of the Canyon
Heleen Wagemans — The Street of a Thousand Loaves