NSW Community and Regional History Prize

Last updated:  02 April 2024
Submissions open

The New South Wales Community and Regional History Prize ($15,000) is for a major work of non-fiction that makes a significant contribution to understanding of any aspect of the history of New South Wales.

2024

Submissions open

About the award

The New South Wales Community and Regional History Prize ($15,000) is for a major work of non-fiction, published in book or eBook form, that makes a significant contribution to understanding of any aspect of the history of New South Wales, including community, regional, urban, institutional or local histories. Books which do not relate to NSW are ineligible for this prize.

Past winners

2021

Landscapes of our Hearts
    Winner
Landscapes of Our Hearts: Reconciling People and Environment
Thames & Hudson Australia

2020

Book cover Surviving New England
    Winner
Surviving New England
Nēwara Aboriginal Corporation

2019

cover image of cage of ghosts book
    Winner
Cage of Ghosts
Jon Rhodes

2018

book cover image of hidden in plain view
    Winner
Hidden in Plain View
NewSouth Publishing

2017

Front cover Stories from the Sandstone
    Winner
Stories from the Sandstone
Arbon Publishing

Award Information

$15,000

For more information, please contact the Awards team.

awards@sl.nsw.gov.au

Phone: (02) 9273 1767, or alternatively (02) 9273 1770.