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Local authors on Dublin Literary Award 2025 longlist

Thursday, 16 January 2025
Several works by authors from Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand have been longlisted for the 2025 Dublin Literary Award, worth €100,000 (A$165,236). The Australian and Aotearoa New Zealand longlisted titles...

Singleton on 2024 Novel Prize shortlist

Thursday, 16 January 2025
Publishers Fitzcarraldo Editions, Giramondo and New Directions have announced the 2024 shortlist for the Novel Prize. Local author Hollen Singleton is among those shortlisted for the prize, for their novel...

Green wins 2025 Margaret Mahy Medal

Thursday, 16 January 2025
The Storylines Children’s Literature Charitable Trust Te Whare Waituhi Tamariki has announced poet Paula Green as the 2025 recipient of the Storylines Margaret Mahy Medal. Said Publishers Association of New...

Indie Book Awards 2025 shortlists announced

Wednesday, 15 January 2025
The shortlists for the 2025 Indie Book Awards have been announced. The shortlisted titles in each category are: Fiction Dusk (Robbie Arnott, Picador) Cherrywood (Jock Serong, Fourth Estate) The Ledge (Christian White, Affirm)...

Pearce wins PF Rowland Manuscript Development Grant

Tuesday, 14 January 2025
James Cook University's Foundation for Australian Literary Studies has announced Lilian Pearce as the recipient of the second $5000 PF Rowland Manuscript Development Grant. The grant is offered in partnership...

Peter Porter Prize 2025 shortlist announced

Monday, 13 January 2025
The shortlist for the 2025 Australian Book Review (ABR) Peter Porter Poetry Prize has been announced. Shortlisted poems include: ‘The Orphan’ by Sarah Day ‘Hook, Grandmother, Line, Marlin’ by Jennifer Harrison...

Tasmanian Literary Awards 2025 longlists announced

Friday, 10 January 2025
The longlists for the 2025 Tasmanian Literary Awards have been announced. Longlisted titles have been announced in four award categories, worth $25,000 each. The books longlisted in each of these...

Berberovic wins inaugural WestWords Prize

Friday, 10 January 2025
Vahida Berberovic has won the inaugural WestWords Prize for her novel Piggy Tales. Berberovic receives a publication deal with WestWords Books, the adult trade imprint of WestWords. Piggy Tales was chosen...

Osborne-Crowley longlisted for Gordon Burn Prize

Friday, 13 December 2024
In the UK, British–Australian author Lucia Osborne-Crowley has been longlisted for the £10,000 (A$20,011) Gordon Burn Prize. Osborne-Crowley was longlisted for her book The Lasting Harm: Witnessing the Trial of...

Indie Book Awards 2025 longlists announced

Friday, 13 December 2024
The longlist for the 2025 Indie Book Awards has been announced. The longlisted titles in each category are: Fiction Dusk (Robbie Arnott, Picador) Safe Haven (Shankari Chandran, Ultimo) The Valley...

Literature orgs, writers among latest Creative Aus grant recipients

Thursday, 12 December 2024
Literature organisations and writers are among the recipients of the latest round of Creative Australia funding, worth $12 million. Among the successful recipients are: Arts Projects for Organisations Overland magazine...

Juchau wins 2024 Blake-Beckett Trust Scholarship

Thursday, 12 December 2024
The Australian Society of Authors (ASA) has announced Mireille Juchau as recipient of the $35,000 Blake-Beckett Trust Scholarship. Assessors Amal Awad and Kate Ryan said that in Juchau’s autofictional detective...

Inaugural WestWords Prize shortlist announced

Thursday, 12 December 2024
WestWords has announced the shortlist for its inaugural WestWords Prize. The shortlisted writers (and their manuscripts) are: Amy Anshaw-Nye for ‘The Maydown Girls’ Philip Barker for ‘Burning Good Samaritans’ Vahida...

Tu awarded 2025 BR Whiting Studio Residency

Wednesday, 11 December 2024
Jessie Tu has been awarded Creative Australia’s 2025 BR Whiting Studio Residency in Rome. Tu’s debut novel, A Lonely Girl Is a Dangerous Thing (A&U), was named literary fiction book...

Debenham wins 2024 Ampersand Prize

Wednesday, 11 December 2024
Michael Debenham’s Drowning for Beginners has won the 2024 Ampersand Prize for children’s and YA debut fiction. Hardie Grant Children’s Publishing (HGCP) publishing director Marisa Pintado said: ‘Michael’s compulsively readable...

IPEd announces Rosie longlist

Tuesday, 10 December 2024
The Institute of Professional Editors (IPEd) has announced the longlist for the 2025 Rosanne Fitzgibbon Editorial Award, known as the Rosie. Longlisted editors—and their projects—include: Kristy Bushnell (UQP), for Love,...

Johnson wins Australian Fiction Prize

Monday, 9 December 2024
Katherine Johnson has won the inaugural Australian Fiction Prize for her unpublished manuscript A Wild Heart, receiving $20,000 in prize money and a $15,000 advance. ‘A Wild Heart is the story of...

Polari Prizes 2024 winners announced

Wednesday, 4 December 2024
In the UK, the winners of the 2024 Polari Prizes have been announced. The winners in each category are: Polari Book Prize (£2000; A$3908) The Gallopers (Jon Ransom, Muswell Press),...

Ampersand Prize 2024 shortlist announced

Wednesday, 4 December 2024
Hardie Grant Children’s Publishing (HGCP) has announced the shortlist for the 2024 Ampersand Prize. The shortlisted titles are: ‘I Love a Good Murder’ by Rahnia Collins, a YA crime novel...

Pung awarded 2024 Alice Literary Award

Wednesday, 4 December 2024
Alice Pung has won the Alice Literary Award, presented by the Society of Women Writers in Australia. In Pung’s acceptance speech, the author said: ‘What an honour it is, to...

Inaugural Australian Fiction Prize shortlist announced

Wednesday, 4 December 2024
The shortlist for the inaugural Australian Fiction Prize, presented by HarperCollins and the Australian, has been announced. The shortlisted manuscripts, chosen from almost 500 entries, are: ‘Blackswansong’ by Michael Burrows...