2008 Adelaide Festival Winners

• SA Premier's Award
  Urban Myths: 210 Poems by John Tranter
  
  
• Award for Children's Literature
  Don't Call Me Ishmael by Michael Gerard Bauer
  
  
• Award for Fiction
  The Ballad of Desmond Kale by Roger McDonald
  
  
• Award for Innovation
  Someone Else: Fictional Essays by John Hughes
  
  
• Award for Non-fiction
  Sunrise West by Jacob G Rosenberg
  
  
• John Bray Poetry Award
  Urban Myths: 210 Poems by John Tranter
  
  
• Jill Blewett Playwright's Award for the Creative Development of a play script by a South Australian emerging writer
  Merger - art, life and the other thing by Duncan Graham
  
  
• Award for an Unpublished Manuscript by a SA writer to be published by Wakefield Press
  The Second Fouling Mark by Stephen Orr
  
  
• Barbara Hanrahan Fellowship
  Steve Evans
  
  
• Carclew Fellowship
  Rosanne Hawke