The Queensland Premier's Literary Awards were a set of literary awards in Australia that began in 1999 and ended in 2012. These awards were among the most generous in Australia, offering $225,000 in total prize money across 14 categories, with some categories giving up to $25,000. When the awards were created, they included existing awards such as the Steele Rudd Award for the best Australian collection of new short fiction and the David Unaipon Award for unpublished Indigenous writing.

The awards were started by Peter Beattie, who was the Premier of Queensland at the time, in 1999. They were ended by Premier Campbell Newman after he won the 2012 Queensland state election.

In response, members of the Queensland writing community created the Queensland Literary Awards to continue the tradition in some way. The judging groups remained mostly the same, and the University of Queensland Press agreed to continue publishing winners of the Emerging Queensland Author Manuscript Award and the Unpublished Indigenous Writer, David Unaipon Award.