Monday, 2 November 2015
Dunedin academic Trish Brooking has won the 2015 Storylines Betty Gilderdale Award in New Zealand. Brooking has worked at the University of Otago for more than two decades, where she...

Friday, 30 October 2015
Sally Abbott has won the inaugural Richell Prize for Emerging Writers for her entry ‘Closing Down’, which imagines a future Australia ‘negotiating a tidal wave of refugees’. In a statement, Hachette...

Friday, 30 October 2015
Children’s book author Andy Griffiths was awarded the 2015 Dromkeen Medal at the State Library of Victoria (SLV) on 29 October. Acting CEO and state librarian Justine Hyde said Griffiths ‘has...

Friday, 30 October 2015
The Children’s Book Council of Australia (CBCA) NSW branch has awarded its 2015 Aspiring Writers’ Mentorship Program Charlotte Waring Barton Award to Derina McLaughlin for her story about ‘a young girl’s belief...

Thursday, 29 October 2015
A number of book adaptations are among the nominees for this year’s Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (AACTA) Awards. The film The Dressmaker, adapted from Rosalie Ham’s novel...

Thursday, 29 October 2015
Joan London has won the 2015 Patrick White Literary Award. The annual award was established by Patrick White using the proceeds of his 1973 Nobel Prize for Literature, and is...

Thursday, 29 October 2015
The shortlist for the 2015 Overland Victoria University Short Story Prize for New and Emerging Writers has been announced.  The shortlisted stories are: ‘The Conservation of the Stars’ (Michalia Arathimos)...

Wednesday, 28 October 2015
Christine Kenneally has won this year’s Bragg UNSW Press Prize for Science Writing for her piece ‘The past may not make you feel better’, published in her book The Invisible History...

Wednesday, 28 October 2015
The latest recipients of the Melbourne City of Literature Travel Fund have been announced. First launched in 2014, the travel fund provides grants of up to $3000 to help people...

Tuesday, 27 October 2015
The shortlist for the second annual Five Mile Press Illustrator Prize has been announced. The shortlisted illustrators are: Aṥka (WA) Suzanne Houghton (NSW) Adam Celeban (NSW) Juliette Rajak (SA) Amy...

Tuesday, 27 October 2015
Royal Zoological Society of NSW has announced the winner of the 2015 Whitley Awards and its commended titles. The Whitley Medal was awarded to Biology and Evolution of Crocodylians (Gordon Grigg...

Tuesday, 27 October 2015
Stephanie Bishop’s The Other Side of the World (Hachette) has won the 2015 Readings Prize for New Australian Fiction. Bishop’s novel was chosen from a shortlist of six for the $4000 prize, which was established...

Monday, 26 October 2015
The Ubud Writers & Readers Festival has cancelled a number of events in its 2015 program, which runs from 28 October to 1 November in Bali, Indonesia, on the advice...