The Miles Franklin Literary Award is an annual literary prize awarded to "a novel which is of the highest literary merit and presents Australian life in any of its phases".

MILES FRANKLIN LONGLIST 2026

Discipline by Randa Abel-Fattah

I Want Everything by Dominic Amerena

Salt Upon the Water - Lyn Dickens

Tenderfoot - Toni Jordan

First Name Second Name - Steve MinOn

My Heart at Evening - Konrad Muller

Fierceland - Omar Musa

Little World - Josephine Rowe

Elegy, Southwest - Madeleine Watts

You Must Remember This - Sean Wilson

The Miles Franklin shortlist for 2026 will be announced in June.

Miles Franklin 2026 Winner will be announced in August.