Tuesday, 7 August 2018
The State Library of New South Wales (SLNSW) has announced The Enigmatic Mr Deakin by Judith Brett (Text) as the winner of this year’s $25,000 National Biography Award. The judges said...

Tuesday, 7 August 2018
Melbourne-based publisher and literary magazine the Lifted Brow has announced the shortlist for its Prize for Experimental Nonfiction. The shortlisted works are: ‘Occupy’ by Ashley Lee ‘List of the Affected’ by...

Tuesday, 7 August 2018
Managing director of Readings Mark Rubbo has been jointly awarded the Emerging Philanthropy Leadership Award at the 2018 Creative Partnerships Awards. Rubbo shared the award with philanthropist, volunteer and advocate...

Tuesday, 31 July 2018
The winners of this year’s Territory Read Awards have been announced. The winners in the Territory Read Awards are: Chief Minister’s Book of the Year ($5000) Broken (Mary Anne Butler,...

Friday, 27 July 2018
The Australian Book Review (ABR) has announced the shortlist for the 2018 Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize. The shortlisted works and their authors are: ‘Vasco’ by Claire Aman (NSW) ‘Between...

Friday, 27 July 2018
Australian authors Emma Viskic and Sherryl Clark have been shortlisted for the UK Crime Writers’ Association (CWA) 2018 Dagger awards. Viskic’s Resurrection Bay (Echo) has been shortlisted in two categories:...

Monday, 23 July 2018
The Romance Writers of America (RWA) has announced the winners of the 2018 RITA Awards, which recognise excellence in romance novels and novellas. Among the winners were two New Zealand...

Friday, 20 July 2018
The shortlist for this year’s Colin Roderick Award, administered by the Foundation for Australian Literary Studies at James Cook University, has been announced. The shortlisted titles are: Soon (Lois Murphy, Transit...

Thursday, 19 July 2018
The winners of the Walkley Mid-Year Awards have been announced. Jane Caro won the Walkley Foundation’s Women’s Leadership in Media Award for the nonfiction book she edited Unbreakable: Women Share...

Wednesday, 18 July 2018
The Australian Publishers Association (APA) has announced the shortlists for the 2018 Educational Publishing Awards Australia. The shortlists in each category are: Primary Student Resource: Arts/Science/Humanities/Social Sciences/Technologies/Health and Physical Education/Languages...

Tuesday, 10 July 2018
The Australian Historical Association (AHA) has announced the winners of the 2018 W K Hancock Prize and the Kay Daniels Award. The $2000 W K Hancock prize, which recognises an...

Tuesday, 10 July 2018
The State Library of New South Wales (SLNSW) has announced the shortlist for the 2018 National Biography Award, worth $25,000. The shortlisted works are: Songs of a War Boy (Deng...

Monday, 9 July 2018
Literary journal Kill Your Darlings (KYD) has announced Nicole McAlinden as the winner of its 2018 unpublished manuscript award for her manuscript ‘Little Did I Know’. McAlinden receives $5000 and...

Friday, 6 July 2018
The Australian Crime Writers Association (ACWA) has announced the longlists for this year’s Ned Kelly Awards for Australian crime writing. The longlisted titles in each category are: Best crime Marlborough...

Friday, 6 July 2018
Sisters in Crime has announced the shortlists for the 2018 Davitt Awards for the best crime books by Australian women. The shortlisted works in each category are: Adult novel The...

Wednesday, 4 July 2018
The shortlist for the 2018 Australian Christian Book of the Year been announced. The shortlisted titles are: Mr Eternity: The Story of Arthur Stace (Roy Williams & Elizabeth Meyers, Acorn...

Wednesday, 4 July 2018
Quinn Eades has won the 2018 Mary Gilmore Award for his poetry collection Rallying (UWA Publishing). The award was presented by the Association for the Study of Australian Literature (ASAL) at its...

Wednesday, 4 July 2018
An anthology by Australian speculative-fiction publisher Twelfth Planet Press has won a 2018 Locus Award for science-fiction and fantasy, announced at a ceremony in Seattle, in the US, on 23...