Ethel Turner Prize for Young People’s Literature

Erin Gough is the author of two novels for young adults; The Flywheel, which won the Ampersand Prize; and Amelia Westlake, winner of the Readings Young Adult Book Prize and the Ethel Turner Prize for Young People's Literature. Her books have been published in Australia, New Zealand, Germany, Canada and the United States.

Will Kostakis is a journalist and author. After releasing his first novel at nineteen, his second, The First Third, won the 2014 Gold Inky Award. It was also shortlisted for the Children’s Book Council of Australia Book of the Year and Australian Prime Minister’s Literary awards, among others.

The Sidekicks was his third novel for young adults, shortlisted for the Ethel Turner Prize in 2017, and his American debut. Most recently, Will has applied his trademark style to the fantasy genre, with Monuments and its sequel, Rebel Gods. An advocate for young readers and writers, Will promotes reading and writing in high schools around the country. He was awarded the 2020 Maurice Saxby Award by the School Library Association of New South Wales for service to children’s and young adult literature.

Sean Williams is a multi-award-winning, New York Times best-selling author for readers of all ages. His work includes series, novels, short stories and poems that have been translated into multiple languages for readers around the world.

His most recent novels Impossible Music and Her Perilous Mansion were nominated for the Ethel Turner Prize for Young People’s Literature and the Patricia Wrightson Prize for Children’s Literature respectively. Both are Children’s Book Council of Australia Notable Books.