Monday, 1 September 2025
Emma Collicott has been named the winner of the 2025 Margaret Mahy Illustration Prize, announced by the Margaret Mahy Estate, Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand and Little Moa. The judging panel...

Monday, 1 September 2025
Varuna, the National Writers' House has announced the recipients of the 2025 WestWords Varuna Emerging Writers Residency. The four recipients are: Jasmine Baker for work on multiple projects including poetry,...

Monday, 1 September 2025
The winners of the 2025 Western Australian Premier’s Book Awards have been announced. The awards, presented on 29 August at the State Library of Western Australia, included four new categories...

Thursday, 28 August 2025
The Ditmar subcommittee has announced the Ditmar Award ballot for works celebrating Australian science fiction. The shortlisted works include: Best Novel Blood Covenant (Alan Baxter, Cemetery Dance Publications) The Escher...

Thursday, 28 August 2025
The Northern Territory Literary Awards 2025 shortlists have been announced. Chosen from over 240 entries, the shortlisted writers are: Brown’s Mart Theatre ($1000) Jada Alberts for ‘Black light’ Ryanna Clayton...

Tuesday, 26 August 2025
Amanda Niehaus (on behalf of Science Write Now) has been announced as one of three recipients of the inaugural Australian World Heritage Residency Program for the project ‘Wet Tropics of...

Tuesday, 26 August 2025
WestWords has announced the Libby Gleeson Prize for Children’s Literature, a new biennial prize for an unpublished manuscript for children or young adults. The winning manuscript is set to be...

Monday, 25 August 2025
The Copyright Agency has announced the launch of the Publishing Fellowships – an updated extension of its previous Publishing Industry Career Development grants (PICD), which were paused during the pandemic....

Thursday, 21 August 2025
WorldKidLit has announced a new award for schools ‘to promote international and inclusive reading’, said organisers. Running through September and open internationally, the award aims to encourage reading, connect young...

Thursday, 21 August 2025
Two Australian libraries have been named in the ten most beautiful libraries in the world for 2025, as announced by 1000 Libraries magazine. In second place, the State Library of...

Tuesday, 19 August 2025
Writing NSW has announced Robyn Pryor as the recipient of the 2025 Curlew Regional Writer’s Grant, worth $1000. The grant helps a regional NSW writer ‘to participate in a one-day...

Monday, 18 August 2025
The Australian Crime Writers Association has announced the 2025 Ned Kelly Awards shortlists. The shortlisted titles are: Best crime fiction 17 Years Later (JP Pomare, Hachette) Cold Truth (Ashley Kalagian...

Monday, 18 August 2025
The Māori Literature Trust Te Waka Taki Kōrero has announced the finalists for the biennial Pikihuia Awards, now in their 30th year.  The finalists in each category are: Poetry (te...

Monday, 18 August 2025
The State Library of NSW (SLNSW) has announced the shortlists for the 2025 NSW History Awards, worth a total of $85,000 in prize money. The shortlisted titles of each category...

Tuesday, 12 August 2025
Creative Australia has announced the titles shortlisted for the 2025 Prime Minister’s Literary Awards. Shortlisted titles in each category are: Fiction  Always Will Be: Stories of Goori Sovereignty from the...

Monday, 11 August 2025
Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI) has announced the winners of the 2025 Crystal Kite Award. Open to SCBWI authors, illustrators, and translators, the award is peer-judged to...

Monday, 11 August 2025
The Children's Book Council of Australia (CBCA) has announced Wendy Rapee as the recipient of the 2025 Nan Chauncy Award, which ‘honours a person, or a collaborative partnership, who has...