Express Media and Hachette Australia are excited to announce the winners of the 2025 Hachette Australia Prize for Young Writers – Abigail Koh, Georgina Lewis and Jiayi Fang!
This year, we received an incredibly high calibre of entries from talented young writers across Australia. The fifteen shortlisted pieces each spoke to a unique and honed approach to form and practice, and the three winning pieces will be published on the Express Media website over the next few weeks.
Fiction: Abigail Koh (WA) for ‘persephone.’
Non-fiction: Georgina Lewis (NSW) for ‘A Tolerance for the Middle’
Poetry: Jiayi Fang (NSW) for ‘The Kingdom of Small Things’
Each winner receives $500 courtesy of Hachette Australia, publication of their work on the Express Media website, a book pack courtesy of Hachette Australia, as well as their names and an acknowledgement printed in Voiceworks, Australia’s premier youth literary journal.