Monday, 18 November 2019
The shortlist for the $15,000 Horne Prize for narrative nonfiction has been announced. The shortlisted writers are: Claire G Coleman for ‘Hidden in Plain Sight’, on the prolonged suffering of...

Monday, 18 November 2019
Olivia De Zilva has won the 2019 Deakin University Nonfiction Prize for ‘Let’s Eat 食飯!’. De Zilva described ‘Let’s Eat 食飯!’ as ‘an ode to my wonderful family’. ‘Let’s Eat...

Monday, 18 November 2019
The value of Express Media's annual Kat Muscat Fellowship has increased from $3000 to $5000. The fellowship, named in honour of the late writer and Voiceworks editor Kat Muscat, offers...

Monday, 18 November 2019
Melbourne-based poet Jordie Albiston has been named the winner of the $20,000 Patrick White Literary Award for 2019. The annual award was established by Patrick White using the proceeds of...

Friday, 15 November 2019
The Lifted Brow (TLB) has won the award for Best Original Nonfiction at the 2019 international Stack Awards, which recognise the year's best independent magazine publishing. The nonfiction category recognises...

Thursday, 14 November 2019
Nadia Wheatley’s Her Mother's Daughter (Text) has won the Waverley Council’s Mark and Evette Moran Nib Literary Award for 2019. Wheatley’s ‘multi-layered’ memoir is a portrait of ‘a fraught marriage...

Wednesday, 13 November 2019
Literary journal Overland has announced the shortlists for this year’s Fair Australia Prize. To view all the shortlisted authors and their projects, click here. Sponsored by the United Workers Union...

Wednesday, 13 November 2019
Perth-based writer and doctor Hessom Razavi has been announced as the recipient of the Australian Book Review's (ABR) $10,000 Behrouz Boochani Fellowship. As part of the fellowship Razavi will make...

Wednesday, 13 November 2019
The winners of the 2019 Queensland Literary Awards (QLAs) have been announced. The winning titles in each category are: Queensland Premier’s Award for a work of state significance ($25,000) Too...