Tuesday, 24 May 2022
The longlist for the 2022 Miles Franklin Literary Award, worth $60,000, has been announced. The 12 longlisted novels are: The Other Half of You (Michael Mohammed Ahmad, Hachette) After Story...

Monday, 23 May 2022
The shortlists for the 2022 Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIA) have been announced. The shortlisted books in each category are: General fiction book of the year When Things Are Alive...

Monday, 23 May 2022
Fijian writer Mary Rokonadravu has won the 2022 Commonwealth Short Story Prize in the Pacific category for her story 'The Nightwatch', described by Pacific region judge, Wiradjuri writer, poet and...

Monday, 23 May 2022
Shifting Grounds: Deep histories of Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland (Lucy Mackintosh, Bridget Williams Books) and Vandemonians: The repressed history of colonial Victoria (Janet McCalman, Miegunyah Press) have jointly won the 2022...

Tuesday, 17 May 2022
A Place Near Eden by Melbourne writer Nell Pierce has won this year’s $20,000 Australian/Vogel’s Literary Award, for an unpublished manuscript by an author under the age of 35. Described...

Tuesday, 17 May 2022
The winners of the 2022 New South Wales Premier’s Literary Awards have been announced. Safdar Ahmed’s graphic novel Still Alive: Notes from Australia’s immigration detention system (Twelve Panels Press) was...

Monday, 16 May 2022
Australia-based author Jacqueline Bublitz has been shortlisted for the Gold Dagger, awarded to the best crime novel originally written in English by an author of any nationality, in the UK...

Monday, 16 May 2022
Text Publishing and the New Zealand Society of Authors Te Puni Kaituhi O Aotearoa (PEN NZ Inc) have announced the shortlist for the 2022 Michael Gifkins Prize for an unpublished...

Thursday, 12 May 2022
The winners of the 2022 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards have been announced. The NZ$60,000 Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize for Fiction, Aotearoa New Zealand's richest writing prize, went to Wellington...

Monday, 9 May 2022
The shortlists for the 2021 Western Australian Premier’s Book Awards have been announced. The shortlisted books in each category are: Premier’s Prize for an Emerging Writer ($15,000) Debesa (Cindy Solonec, Magabala)...

Friday, 6 May 2022
The Institute of Professional Editors (IPEd) has announced Geelong-based writer, editor, researcher and trainer Renée Otmar as the winner of the the 2022 Janet Mackenzie Medal for services to editing....

Tuesday, 3 May 2022
Sydney-based classical musician Simon Tedeschi has won the 2022 Calibre Essay Prize for his essay ‘This Woman My Grandmother’. Tedeschi, whose debut Fugitive, will be published by Upswell this month,...

Monday, 2 May 2022
Overland has announced the winners of the 2021 Judith Wright Poetry Prize and Neilma Sidney Short Story Prize. Writer, bookseller and co-founder of Vre Books Ender Baskan won the $6000...

Monday, 2 May 2022
The Sydney Morning Herald (SMH) has announced the Best Young Australian Novelists for 2022. The writers and their novels, all debuts, are: Ella Baxter for New Animal (A&U) Michael Burrows for Where the Line Breaks (Fremantle...

Wednesday, 27 April 2022
Australian Poetry has announced Audrey Molloy's The Important Things (Gallery Press) as the winner of the 2021 Anne Elder Award for a first book of poetry. According to the 2021 prize...

Wednesday, 27 April 2022
Several Australia-based authors have been longlisted for the UK Crime Writers' Association's (CWA) 2022 Dagger Awards. Jacqueline Bublitz has been longlisted for the Gold Dagger for best novel for her...

Wednesday, 20 April 2022
The shortlist for the 2021 Overland Judith Wright Poetry Prize for new and emerging poets has been announced. The eight shortlisted poems are: ‘are you ready poem’ by Ender Baskan...

Tuesday, 19 April 2022
The shortlists for the 70th Australian Book Design Awards, presented by the Australian Book Designers Association (ABDA), have been announced. Shortlists include: Best designed commercial fiction cover Catch Us the...

Thursday, 7 April 2022
The finalists for the 2021 Aurealis Awards, presented for science fiction, fantasy and horror writing in Australia, have been announced. Among the finalists are: Best horror novel The Bridge (J...

Tuesday, 5 April 2022
The shortlists for the 2022 New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards have been announced. The shortlisted titles in each category are: Christina Stead Prize for Fiction ($40,000) Dark as Last...

Tuesday, 5 April 2022
Yuwaalaraay storyteller, performer and author Nardi Simpson has been selected as the Copyright Agency-University of Technology Sydney (UTS) New Writer in Residence for 2022. Simpson is the author of Song...