Monday, 17 October 2016
The shortlists for the 2016 Prime Minister’s Literary Awards have been announced. The shortlisted titles in each category are: Fiction Forever Young (Steven Carroll, HarperCollins) The Life of Houses (Lisa Gorton,...

Thursday, 13 October 2016
Australian writer Mark Brandi has won the Debut Dagger for an unpublished writer at this year’s Crime Writers’ Association (CWA) Dagger awards in the UK. Brandi was recognised for his...

Tuesday, 11 October 2016
Up to six Queensland writers’ fellowships will be awarded each year over the next two years under a new program launched by the Griffith Review and the Queensland Literary Awards....

Tuesday, 11 October 2016
Atholl Anderson, Marilyn Duckworth and David Eggleton are the recipients of 2016 New Zealand Prime Minister’s Awards for Literary Achievement, in recognition of their ‘outstanding contribution to New Zealand literature’....

Friday, 7 October 2016
The winners of the Australian Publishers Association’s (APA) Educational Publishing Awards for 2016 were announced at a ceremony in Melbourne on 6 October. RIC Publications was named Publisher of the...

Thursday, 6 October 2016
The winners of the 2016 Queensland Literary Awards have been announced. The winning titles in each category are: Fiction ($10,000) Between a Wolf and a Dog (Georgia Blain, Scribe) Nonfiction ($10,000)...

Thursday, 15 September 2016
The finalists in Massey University’s Ngā Kupu Ora Awards celebrating Māori books and journalism have been announced. The finalists in each category are: Te Mahi Toi—Arts Māori Art: History, Architecture,...

Friday, 9 September 2016
The shortlists for the 2016 Queensland Literary Awards have been announced. The shortlisted titles in each category are: Fiction Ghost River (Tony Birch, UQP) Between a Wolf and a Dog...

Monday, 5 September 2016
The winners of the 2016 New South Wales Premier’s History Awards have been announced. The winners in each category are: Australian History Prize ($15,000) Australia’s Boldest Experiment: War and Reconstruction...

Monday, 22 August 2016
The winners of the 2016 Romance Writers of Australia (RWA) Romantic Book of the Year awards, known as the ‘RUBYs’, were announced on 20 August at the RWA’s 25th national...

Wednesday, 17 August 2016
The shortlists for the 2016 New South Wales Premier’s History Awards have been announced. The shortlisted titles in each category are: Australian History Prize ($15,000) The Eighties: The Decade that...

Monday, 15 August 2016
Literary journal Kill Your Darlings (KYD) has announced that it will move to digital-only publishing in 2017. The journal, which launched in March 2010, will release its final print edition...

Monday, 1 August 2016
The winners of this year’s Publishers Association of New Zealand (PANZ) Book Design Awards have been announced. James K Baxter: Complete Prose (James K Baxter, Victoria University Press) designed by...

Friday, 29 July 2016
The winners of this year’s Territory Read Awards and Northern Territory Literary Awards have been announced, with two authors taking out the top prize in the Chief Minister’s Book of...

Wednesday, 27 July 2016
Sisters in Crime has announced the shortlists for the 2016 Davitt Awards for the best crime books by Australian women. The shortlisted titles in each category are: Adult novels Medea’s...