Tuesday, 24 April 2018
Brisbane writer Emily O’Grady has won the 2018 Australian/Vogel’s Literary Award for The Yellow House (A&U), a story about ‘the legacies of violence and the possibilities of redemption’, set in...

Wednesday, 18 April 2018
Prize money for the Queensland Literary Awards (QLA) and Queensland Writers Fellowships will be boosted this year, with total prize money increasing from $205,000 to $240,000. The QLA aims to...

Tuesday, 17 April 2018
The Australian Book Designers Association (ABDA) has announced the shortlists for the 2018 Book Design Awards. The shortlisted titles in each category are: Best Designed Commercial Fiction Cover Deadly Kerfuffle...

Monday, 16 April 2018
Raelee Lancaster has won this year’s Nakata Brophy Short Fiction and Poetry Prize for Young Indigenous Writers for her poem ‘haunted house’. Lancaster wins $5000, publication in Overland’s print magazine and...

Friday, 13 April 2018
Melbourne-based photographer and artist Sarah Walker has won the inaugural Perimeter Small Book Prize for her submission ‘Second Sight’. Walker will work alongside Perimeter’s editors and designers to develop a...

Thursday, 12 April 2018
Alexis Wright has won the 2018 Stella Prize, worth $50,000, for her ‘collective memoir’ Tracker (Giramondo). Judging panel chair Fiona Stager said the winning book—a biography of Aboriginal leader, thinker...