2001 Winners
The overall winner was Tim Winton's Dirt Music
- Fiction: Tim Winton Dirt Music (Picador)
- Poetry: Dorothy Hewett Halfway up the Mountain (Fremantle Arts Centre)
- Non-fiction:
- John Bailey (writer) The White Divers of Broome (Macmillan)
- Jan Gothard Blue China: Single Female Migration to Colonial Australia (Melbourne University)
- Children's book: Deborah Lisson The Yankee Whaler (Scholastic)
- Writing for Young Adults: Julia Lawrinson Obsession (Fremantle Arts Centre)
- Script: Sally Riley & Archie Weller Confessions of a Headhunter
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