In September 2021 the Tasmanian Government announced that the awards had been renamed the Tasmanian Literary Awards, would only be open to writers living in Tasmania.
The six new categories are:[1] Awarded for the best book with Tasmanian content.
Since 2013 the University of Tasmania Prize has been awarded for the best new unpublished literary work by an emerging Tasmanian writer.
Awarded to a young writer and sponsored by philanthropists.
In its first year it was open to writers under 35, but for 2017 the age was lowered to under 30.