Western Australian Premier's Book Awards - 1998 Shortlist
Fiction | Poetry | Young Adult's Books | Children's Books | Script | Historical & Critical Studies | Special
| The Drowning Dream - Peter Burke |
| On the Edge of Red - Jo Dutton |
| Going Inland - Pat Jacobs |
| Proudflesh - Deborah Robertson |
| The Hunt - John Kinsella |
| New and Selected Poems - Philip Salom |
| These Glimpsed Interiors - Ian Templeman |
| The Gatekeeper's Wife - Fay Zwicky |
| The Big Game - Wendy Jenkins |
| Red Hugh - Deborah Lisson |
| A Dark Winter - Dave Luckett |
| Desert Dog - Pat Lowe & Jimmy Pike |
| The Playground - Shaun Tan |
| Blueback: A Fable For All Ages - Tim Winton |
| The Deep - Tim Winton & Karen Louise |
| My Vicious Angel - Christine Evans |
| Milk and Honey - Ingle Knight |
| King Hit - Geoffrey Narkle & David Milroy |
| Our State of Mind: Racial Planning and the Stolen Generations - Quentin Beresford & Paul Omaji |
| Ripples on a Cosmic Sea - David Blair & Geoff McNamara |
| South of My Days: A Biography of Judith Wright - Veronica Brady |
| Island Nation: A History of Australians and the Sea - Frank Broeze |
| Performance Anxieties: Re-producing Masculinity - David Buchbinder |
| Orphans of the Empire - Alan Gill |
| Women in Early Modern England 1550 - 1720 - Sara Mendelson & Patricia Crawford |
| Dealing with Alcohol : Indigenous usage in Australia, New Zealand and Canada - Sherry Saggers & Dennis Gray |
| A Life on the Ocean Wave - Pamela Statham & Rica Erickson |
| Creating Australia: Changing Australian History - Geoffrey Bolton & Wayne Hudson |
| Broken Bangles - Hanifa Deen |
| The Boab Tree - Pat Lowe |
| Jimmy and Pat Meet the Queen - Pat Lowe & Jimmy Pike |
| Pomegranate Season - Carolyn Polizzotto |
| Karina has Down Syndrome - Cheryl Rogers & Gun Dolva |