Friday, 18 March 2022
The Australian Society of Authors (ASA) has announced the winners of its 2022 Award Mentorship Program for Writers and Illustrators. With support from the Copyright Agency Cultural Fund, each winner receives a...

Wednesday, 16 March 2022
The longlists for the 2022 Australian Book Design Awards, presented by the Australian Book Designers Association (ABDA), have been announced. The longlisted titles in some of the categories are: Best...

Wednesday, 16 March 2022
Varuna has announced the two recipients of the inaugural Pitch Me! Fellowship, established to connect Australian writers with the publishing industry. The two successful applicants, chosen from 39 submissions, are:...

Friday, 11 March 2022
Penguin Random House Australia (PRH) has announced the shortlist for the 2022 Penguin Literary Prize. The shortlisted manuscripts are: 'On a Bright Hillside in Paradise' by Annette Higgs, about a...

Friday, 11 March 2022
The Australian Society of Authors (ASA) and HarperCollins publishing division HQ have announced the shortlist for the 2022 ASA/HQ Commercial Fiction Prize for an unpublished manuscript. The winner will receive...

Tuesday, 8 March 2022
The winners of the 2022 Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature have been announced. Presented biennially by the South Australian government, the awards offer a total prize pool of $167,500. The...

Monday, 7 March 2022
Munira Tabassum Ahmed is the recipient of the 2022 Kat Muscat Fellowship, which offers professional development up to the value of $5000 for an editorial project or work of writing...

Thursday, 3 March 2022
Varuna, the National Writers' House has announced the recipients of its First Nations Fellowships for 2022. The six fellowship recipients and their projects are: Jenny Fraser, for her narrative nonfiction...

Thursday, 3 March 2022
Naomi Parry Duncan has been awarded Writers Victoria's $20,000 Hazel Rowley Literary Fellowship for her proposed biography of Gai-mariagal man Musquito. Originally from Port Jackson, Musquito was a resistance fighter...

Tuesday, 1 March 2022
Kate Holden has won the 2021 Walkley Book Award for The Winter Road (Black Inc.). The Winter Road blends journalism, historical research, and crime and political reportage together to explore...

Tuesday, 1 March 2022
The longlist for the $50,000 Stella Prize for women and non-binary writers has been announced. The longlisted books are: Coming of Age in the War on Terror (Randa Abdel-Fattah, NewSouth)...

Friday, 25 February 2022
Love & Virtue by Diana Reid (Ultimo) has won the fifth annual MUD Literary Prize. Presented each year for the best debut literary novel by an Australian writer, the $5000...

Tuesday, 15 February 2022
The Sydney Opera House has announced Yeena Kirkbright and Ayeesha Ash as the recipients of the All About Women of Colour mentorship program, presented in partnership with Sweatshop. This year’s...

Thursday, 10 February 2022
The recipients of the inaugural Liminal & Writers SA 2022 Editorial Mentorship for emerging Asian-Australian editors in South Australia have been announced. Lyn Dickens will undertake a fiction mentorship with...

Monday, 7 February 2022
Death To Jar Sauce by Nat’s What I Reckon (Ebury) has won the 2021 Booktopia Favourite Australian Book (FAB) Award. The social media star cook was also the 2020 winner...

Friday, 4 February 2022
Veronica Gorrie has won Australia’s richest literary prize, the $100,000 Victorian Prize for Literature, for her debut memoir Black and Blue: A memoir of racism and resilience (Scribe), at the...

Thursday, 3 February 2022
Several books by Australian and New Zealand authors have been longlisted for the 2022 International Dublin Literary Award. Among the 79 titles in the running for the prize are: Before...

Tuesday, 1 February 2022
The shortlists for the 2022 West Australian Young Readers’ Book Awards (WAYRBA) have been announced. The shortlisted titles in each category, including middle-grade, which is a new category being trialled...

Monday, 31 January 2022
Matilda Bookshop in the Adelaide Hills, in partnership with Writers SA and Ultimo Press, has announced a new annual residency fellowship for a South Australian writer, the Deep Creek Residency...

Tuesday, 25 January 2022
Booktopia has announced the 10 titles shortlisted in its Favourite Australian Book (FAB) Award, which according to the online retailer has already attracted more than 100,000 votes. Established in 2019,...

Friday, 21 January 2022
The Australian Book Review (ABR) has announced Anthony Lawrence as the winner of the 2022 Peter Porter Poetry Prize for his poem ‘In the Shadows of Our Heads'. Lawrence receives...