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Victorian Literary Awards
YABBA –Young Australian's Best Books Award 2008
- Section 1: Picture Storybook
Uno's Garden by Graeme Base
- Section 2: Fiction - Younger Readers
Just Shocking by Andy Griffiths (illus. by Terry Denton)
- Section 3: Fiction - Older Readers
The Key to Rondo by Emily Rodda
- Section 4: Fiction for Years 7 – 9
Mao's Last Dancer by Li Cunxin
Victorian Premier's Book Awards - 2008
- The Vance Palmer Prize for Fiction
The Spare Room by Helen Garner
- The Nettie Palmer Prize for Non Fiction
The Ferocious Summer: Palmer Penguins and the Warming of Antarctica by Meredith Hooper
- The C J Dennis Prize for Poetry
Press Release by Lisa Gorton
- The Louis Esson Prize for Drama
When the Rain Stops Falling by Andrew Bovell
- The Prize for Young Adult Fiction
Tomorrow All Will Be Beautiful by Brigid Lowry
- The Alfred Deakin Prize for an Essay Advancing Public Debate
Trapped in the Aboriginal Reality Show by Marcia Langton
- The Prize for an Unpublished Manuscript by an Emerging Victorian Writer
Going Finish by Mandy Maroney
- The Grollo Ruzzene Foundation Prize for Writing About Italians in Australia
Head over Heel by Chris Harrison
- The John Curtin Prize for Journalism
Out of Control: The Tragedy of Tasmania’s Forests
- The Prize for a First Book of History
The Lamb Enters the Dreaming: Nathanael Pepper and the Ruptured World
- The Prize for Indigenous Writing
Anonymous Premonition by Yvette Holt
- The Prize for Best Music Theatre Script
The Wild Blue with music, lyrics and book by Anthony Crowley
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