ALS Gold Medal Longlist announced!

The ALS Gold Medal is awarded annually for an outstanding literary work in the preceding calendar year. The winner receives a gold medal.

The Medal was inaugurated by the Australian Literature Society, which was founded in Melbourne in 1899 and incorporated into the Association for the Study of Australian Literature in 1982. The winner receives a gold medal. ASAL members are invited to propose potential winners to the judging panel and publishers are also invited to nominate titles.

The awarding of the prize is administered and judged by a panel set up by the Association for the Study of Australian Literature. The 2026 Judging panel is comprised of: Paul Sharrad (chair), Michelle Cahill, and Kate Noske, and with many thanks as well to ASAL prizes co-ordinator Monique Rooney.

Congratulations Evelyn, Randa, Natalia, Omar & Safdar for being longlisted!

Nominated UQP Titles:
Randa Abdel Fattah, Discipline (UQP)
Evelyn Araluen, Rot (UQP)
Natalia Figueroa Barroso, Hailstones fell without rain (UQP)
Omar Sakr & Safdar Ahmed, The Nightmare Sequence (UQP)

Read more about the other longlisted titles on the ALS website.