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Comic Arts Awards of Australia winners announced

Monday, 2 December 2024
The winners of the 2024 Comic Arts Awards of Australia have been announced. The recipients in each category are: Gold Ledger Deadsheet (Benji Bajorek, self published) Eventually Everything Connects (Sarah Firth, A&U)...

Funder wins Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger

Monday, 2 December 2024
Anna Funder has won the Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger in the nonfiction category for the French translation of Wifedom: Mrs Orwell’s Invisible Life (Hamish Hamilton). The book was translated to French...

Blake-Beckett Trust Scholarship 2024 shortlist announced

Thursday, 28 November 2024
The Australian Society of Authors (ASA) has announced the shortlist for the 2024 Blake-Beckett Trust Scholarship. The shortlisted authors and their works are: Meg Caddy for ‘Dross Magic’, which ‘reimagines...

Lucashenko wins 2024 Nib Literary Award

Thursday, 28 November 2024
Melissa Lucashenko has won the Waverley Council’s 2024 Mark and Evette Moran Nib Literary Award, worth $40,000, for her novel Edenglassie (UQP). The judging panel, comprising publisher Julia Carlomagno, poet Jamie...

Bavyka awarded 2025 Peter Blazey Fellowship

Thursday, 28 November 2024
Writer, visual artist, museum worker and community organiser Ju Bavyka has won the 2025 Peter Blazey Fellowship. Bavyka will use the fellowship to work on their debut work ‘Just a...

McGuire wins 2024 Richell Prize

Thursday, 28 November 2024
Myles McGuire has won the 2024 Richell Prize for Emerging Writers for his story Stroke. Prize judges, who selected the manuscript from a shortlist of seven, were ‘impressed by McGuire’s...

Taylor wins first prize in 2024 Scarlet Stiletto Awards

Monday, 25 November 2024
Sisters in Crime Australia announced the winners of the 2024 Scarlet Stiletto Awards at an event in South Melbourne on Saturday night. Newcastle author Nikki Lee Taylor won the $2000...

‘The Ministry of Time’ named Dymocks Book of the Year

Monday, 25 November 2024
Kaliane Bradley’s novel, The Ministry of Time (Sceptre), has been named the 2024 Dymocks Book of the Year. On accepting the award, Bradley said: ‘There isn’t a vote of confidence...

‘Praiseworthy’ longlisted for Climate Fiction Prize

Monday, 25 November 2024
Alexis Wright’s Praiseworthy (Giramondo) has been longlisted for the inaugural Climate Fiction Prize. Chair of judges Madeleine Bunting said Praiseworthy ‘makes you giddy, plunging you into a distinctive form of...

New England Illustration Prize 2024 winners announced

Thursday, 21 November 2024
The New England Writers’ Centre has announced the winners of this year’s New England Illustration Prize for Children’s Picture Book Publishing. The winners of the 2024 award are: First prize...

‘Leading Wellbeing’ wins book of the year at the Australian Business Book Awards

Thursday, 21 November 2024
The winners of the 2024 Australian Business Book Awards have been announced. The winners are: Book of the year Leading Wellbeing (Fleur Heazlewood, Major Street) Communications and sales Self-Promotion Without...

‘Flawed Hero’ wins 2024 Australian Political Book of the Year

Thursday, 21 November 2024
Chris Masters has won the 2024 Australian Political Book of the Year Award for the book Flawed Hero: Truth, Lies and War Crimes (A&U). Prize judges said Flawed Hero ‘addresses...

Flanagan wins 2024 Baillie Gifford Prize for Nonfiction

Wednesday, 20 November 2024
In the UK, Question 7 by Australian author Richard Flanagan (Knopf) has won the 2024 Baillie Gifford Prize for Nonfiction, worth £50,000 (A$96,097), becoming the first author to win both this...

‘Nuked’ wins 2024 Walkley Book Award

Wednesday, 20 November 2024
Andrew Fowler has won the 2024 Walkley Book Award for Nuked: The Submarine Fiasco that Sank Australia’s Sovereignty (MUP). Walkley judges said: ‘Andrew Fowler’s razor-sharp analysis uses extensive research and interviews...

Jones receives Creative Australia Award for Lifetime Achievement in Literature

Monday, 18 November 2024
Gail Jones has won the Creative Australia Award for Lifetime Achievement in Literature, ‘recognising her impressive body of work and her ongoing mentoring of young writers’. The award ‘acknowledges the...

Wright, Tiffany 2024 Melbourne Prize winners

Thursday, 14 November 2024
Alexis Wright has won the $60,000 Melbourne Prize for Literature, and Carrie Tiffany has won the $10,000 Writers Prize. A member of the Waanyi Nation of the Southern Highlands of...

Storylines Notable Book Award 2024 winners

Thursday, 14 November 2024
Storylines Children’s Literature Trust Te Whare Waituhi Tamariki o Aotearoa has announced the 2024 Storylines Notable Book Award winners. This year’s winners are: Te Reo Māori A Ariā me te...

Saleh and Treloar joint winers of 2024 Barbara Jefferis Award

Thursday, 14 November 2024
Australian Society of Authors (ASA) has announced joint winners for the 2024 Barbara Jefferis Award: Sara M Saleh for Songs for the Dead and the Living (Affirm) and Lucy Treloar...

Smith wins 2024 Nakata Brophy Prize

Monday, 11 November 2024
Overland has announced that Yasmin Smith is the winner the 2024 Nakata Brophy Prize for Young Indigenous Writers. Smith receives a $5000 cash prize, as well as an optional writing...

2025 MIRROR Mentorship recipients announced

Monday, 11 November 2024
Think+DO Tank Foundation and Scribble Books have announced the winners of the 2025 MIRROR Mentorship program for emerging bilingual writers and illustrators in children’s literature. The winners are: Leila Frijat...

Stewart wins 2024 Bragg Prize

Thursday, 7 November 2024
Cameron Stewart has won the 2024 UNSW Press Bragg Prize for Science Writing for the essay ‘Heroes of Zero’. ‘Heroes of Zero’ introduces readers to research by Michelle Haber and...

State Library of NSW 2024 fellowships announced

Wednesday, 6 November 2024
The State Library of NSW (SLNSW) has announced the recipients of its 2024 research fellowships, worth a total of $186,000 across eight categories, on the 50th anniversary of its research...

Creative Australia Elevate funding recipients announced

Wednesday, 6 November 2024
Creative Australia has announced a new round of recipients of its Elevate: First Nations Storytelling and Literature career development funding program. The recipients—each receiving a $10,000 grant—are: Tahnee Carter Vivienne...