The John Hinde Award for Excellence in Science-Fiction Writing was established to encourage, reward and foster creativity in the development and showcasing of Australian science-fiction writing for film, television, web series and interactive media.
Funded by a bequest from the late Australian film critic John Hinde, the award offers $10,000 in prize money to be shared among winning writers.
Entries to the 2025 John Hinde Award have now closed. Winners will be announced at an industry event in July.
Produced Category Winners
2024 – Space Nova by Charlotte Rose Hamlyn
2023 – Monolith by Lucy Campbell
2021 – Space Nova by Thomas Duncan-Watt
2020 – The Commons by Shelley Birse
2019 – Eleven Eleven by Lucas Taylor
2017 – The Death and Life of Otto Bloom by Cris Jones
2016 – Cleverman by Michael Miller
2015 – Arrowhead by Jesse O’Brien
2014 – Predestination by Michael Spierig and Peter Spierig
2013 – Exchange Student Zero by Shayne Armstrong, Bruce Kane and Shane Kraus
2011 – Panic at Rock Island by Matt Ford
2010 – Primevil Evolved by Anthony Mullins
2009 – K9: The Fall of the House of Gryffen by Shayne Armstrong and Shane Kraus
2008 – Dogstar by Doug McLeod
Unproduced Category Winners
2024 – You Can Survive A Rip Current by Stephanie Westwood
2021 – Kin by Thomas Atkin
2020 – Untethered by David Petersen
2019 – Cowtown by Steve Mitchell
2018 – Pig by Georgina Love
2017 – Awake by Catherine McMullen
2016 – Red to Blue by Graeme Burfoot
2015 – Mary, Mary by Penelope Chai and Adam Spellicy
2014 – Min Min by Simon Butters
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