Thursday, 21 July 2022
The shortlist for the 2022 Furphy Literary Award has been announced. The winner of the short story competition receives $15,000, making the award one of the richest prizes for a...

Wednesday, 20 July 2022
Jennifer Down has won the 2022 Miles Franklin Literary Award, worth $60,000, for her second novel Bodies of Light (Text). At 31 years old, Down is one of the youngest authors...

Tuesday, 19 July 2022
The finalists for the 2022 Publishers Association of New Zealand (PANZ) Book Design Awards have been announced. Finalists were announced in 10 categories including: Best illustrated book Bill Hammond: Across...

Monday, 18 July 2022
The Copyright Agency has named Jantiena Batt, a deputy principal working within the ACT Education Directorate, as the 2022 Reading Australia Fellow for Teachers of English Literacy. Batt receives a...

Friday, 15 July 2022
Wellington-based poet and student Emma Sidnam has been awarded the 2022 Michael Gifkins Prize for an unpublished manuscript by an Aotearoa New Zealand writer. Chosen from a shortlist of four,...

Thursday, 14 July 2022
The State Library of New South Wales (SLNSW) has announced the shortlist for the $25,000 National Biography Award. The shortlisted books are: Car Crash: A memoir (Lech Blaine, Black Inc.) Home...

Tuesday, 12 July 2022
Griffith Review has announced the recipients of its second annual emerging voices writing competition. The winners of the Long and Short of It competition are: Stephanie Barham Melanie Myers Emily...

Tuesday, 12 July 2022
Kill Your Darlings (KYD) has announced a new creative nonfiction prize. Open exclusively to KYD subscribers, the KYD Creative Nonfiction Essay Prize will be judged by essayist Fiona Wright in...

Monday, 11 July 2022
Writers Victoria has announced the 2022 Writeability fellows. The following five writers with disability were awarded Writeability fellowships: Dorian Sutton for 'The Passenger', a young adult, queer coming-of-age story about...

Tuesday, 5 July 2022
The longlist for the $20,000 Margaret and Colin Roderick Literary Award, administered by the Foundation for Australian Literary Studies (FALS) at James Cook University, has been announced. The longlisted titles...

Tuesday, 5 July 2022
The Australian Literature Society (ALS) Gold Medal has been awarded to Andy Jackson for his book of poetry Human Looking (Giramondo). The judges praised Human Looking, chosen from a shortlist of six, as...

Monday, 4 July 2022
The Australian Crime Writers Association (ACWA) has announced the shortlist for the 2022 Ned Kelly Awards. The shortlisted titles in each category are: Best debut crime fiction Sweet Jimmy (Bryan...

Monday, 4 July 2022
Matilda Bookshop in the Adelaide Hills, in partnership with Writers SA and Ultimo Press, has announced Corrie Hosking as the winner of the inaugural Deep Creek Residency Fellowship for a...

Thursday, 23 June 2022
The winners of the 2022 Chief Minister’s NT Book Awards have been announced. The winners, who each receive $10,000, are: Fiction Return to Dust (Dani Powell, UWAP) Nonfiction Peace Crimes: Pine Gap,...

Monday, 20 June 2022
A week after John Hughes’ novel The Dogs (Upswell) was withdrawn from the Miles Franklin Literary Award longlist following the discovery of plagiarism, the Guardian has found more instances of...

Monday, 20 June 2022
The winners of the 2021 Western Australian Premier’s Book Awards have been announced. Chosen from shortlists announced in May, the winners in each category are: Premier’s Prize for an Emerging...

Wednesday, 15 June 2022
Varuna, the National Writers’ House has announced the recipients of the 2022 Writer’s Space fellowships for writers with disability or who are D/deaf. The fellowship program is open to writers...

Wednesday, 15 June 2022
Penguin Random House (PRH) Australia has announced On a Bright Hillside in Paradise by Sydney-based writer Annette Higgs as the winner of the 2022 Penguin Literary Prize for an unpublished...

Tuesday, 14 June 2022
A number of Australian authors and industry figures were recognised in this year’s Queen’s Birthday Honours. Sophie Blackall was made a Member in the General Division of the Order of...

Tuesday, 14 June 2022
The Australian Booksellers Association (ABA) has announced the winners of its annual book and bookseller of the year awards. The winners in each category are: Adult fiction Love & Virtue (Diana Reid,...