The John Hinde Award for Excellence in Science-Fiction Writing

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.

The John Hinde Award will open again for entries in 2026.

Read about the 2025 award-winners here.

Produced Category Winners

2025 – Zero by Jesse Laurie

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

2025 – Tiny Places by Charlie Milne

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