Davitt Awards 2024 shortlists announced
25 July 2024
Sisters in Crime has announced the shortlists for the 2024 Davitt Awards for the best crime books by Australian women. The shortlisted titles in each category are: Adult novels The...
‘Jakarda Wuka’ wins 2024 Chief Minister’s NT History Book Award
25 July 2024
The winner of the 2024 Chief Minister’s Northern Territory (NT) History Book Award has been announced. The winner, highly commended titles and finalists are: Winner Jakarda Wuka (Too Many Stories):...
PANZ Book Design Awards 2024 finalists announced
24 July 2024
The finalists in the 2024 New Zealand Te Rau o Tākupu Publishers Association (PANZ) Book Design Awards have been announced. The finalists in each category are: Best illustrated book The...
Griffith Review 2024 Emerging Voices winners announced
23 July 2024
Griffith Review has announced the five winners of its 2024 Emerging Voices competition: Lily Holloway, Sarah Kanake, Myles McGuire, Kobi Simpson and Emily Tsokos Purtill. Holloway is a powerlifting enthusiast...
Mayne, Mansour receive $50k Marten Bequest Travelling Scholarships
22 July 2024
Poets Chloe Mayne and Sara Mansour are among the seven recipients of the 2024 Marten Bequest Travelling Scholarships, each worth $50,000. Mayne is a poet and a current creative doctoral...
Buchanan wins 2024 Michael Gifkins Prize
15 July 2024
Author Jeffrey Buchanan is the winner of the 2024 Michael Gifkins Prize for an unpublished manuscript by an Aotearoa New Zealand writer. Chosen from a shortlist of four, Buchanan wins...
Hogan wins Mary Gilmore Award, Priest wins Magarey Medal
11 July 2024
The Association for the Study of Australian Literature (ASAL) has announced that Dan Hogan is the winner of the 2024 Mary Gilmore Award and Ann-Marie Priest is the winner of...
Australian Jewish Book Awards adds unpublished manuscript prize
11 July 2024
Not-for-profit organisation Shalom Australia has announced the inaugural Australian Jewish Book Awards will include a new $4000 prize for an unpublished manuscript that engages with Jewish experience. The Award for...
ACT Literary Awards 2024 winners announced
11 July 2024
The winners of the ACT Literary Awards, previously known as the ACT Notable Book Awards and presented by the Canberra writing organisation Marion, have been announced. The 2024 winners are:...
Birch, Lucashenko inaugural Hage Award mentors
10 July 2024
Sweatshop Literacy Movement has announced multi-award-winning authors Tony Birch and Melissa Lucashenko will mentor the recipients of the inaugural Hage Award for First Nations Writers. As previously reported by Books+Publishing,...
National Biography Award 2024 shortlist announced
10 July 2024
The State Library of New South Wales (SLNSW) has announced the shortlist for the $25,000 National Biography Award. The shortlisted works, selected from a record 107 entries and including five...
Weissman wins 2024 Crystal Kite award
8 July 2024
US-born author Elissa Weissman, who lives in Aotearoa New Zealand, has won the Australia, New Zealand and Oceania division of this year’s Crystal Kite Member Choice Awards, presented by the...
Authors among 2024 NAIDOC Week award finalists
8 July 2024
The National NAIDOC Committee has announced the winners of the 2024 NAIDOC Week Awards. Among the winners was artist and cultural leader Alick Tipoti, who is a fluent Kala Lagaw...
Wright wins 2024 ALS Gold Medal
8 July 2024
The winner of the 2024 Australian Literature Society (ALS) Gold Medal is Alexis Wright for Praiseworthy (Giramondo). The win is the third for Wright, who joins Patrick White and David...
Varuna announces 2024 Writer’s Space recipients
8 July 2024
Varuna, the National Writers’ House has announced the 12 recipients of the 2024 Writer’s Space fellowships for writers with disability and/or who are D/deaf. Participants in the 2024 program will...
APA pauses Educational Publishing Awards
4 July 2024
The Australian Publishers Association (APA) has paused the Educational Publishing Awards Australia (EPAA) for 2024. In a statement, the APA said that its Schools Educational Publishing Committee (SEPC), as project...
Merkel wins 2024 Hope Prize
2 July 2024
John Merkel has won the 2024 Hope Prize, presented by Simon & Schuster Australia (S&S), for the story ‘Shadows Cast by the Moon’. Merkel won the inaugural award, worth $10,000,...
Miles Franklin 2024 shortlist announced
2 July 2024
The shortlist for the 2024 Miles Franklin Literary Award has been announced. The shortlisted titles, selected from a longlist announced in May, are: Only Sound Remains (Hossein Asgari, Puncher & Wattmann)...
Dao wins Pascall Prize
1 July 2024
André Dao has won the 2024 Pascall Prize for Cultural Criticism, worth $5000. Dao received the award for pieces published in the Saturday Paper, Meanjin and Liminal Review of Books: ‘Review of Nam...
Niland, McKinnon among James Beard Award winners
26 June 2024
Fish Butchery by chef Josh Niland (Hardie Grant) and Tenderheart: A cookbook about vegetables and unbreakable family bonds by Hetty Lui McKinnon (Plum) are among the winners of the 2024...
Inaugural recipients announced for NZSA mentorships
25 June 2024
The New Zealand Society of Authors Te Puni Kaituhi o Aotearoa Te Kaituhi Māori (NZSA) has announced the inaugural recipients of its NZSA Kaituhi Māori Mentorship and Kupu Kaitiaki programs....
Farr wins NZSA Laura Solomon Cuba Press Prize
25 June 2024
Tracy Farr has won the New Zealand Society of Authors Te Puni Kaituhi O Aotearoa (PEN NZ Inc) (NZSA) Laura Solomon Cuba Press Prize for Wonderland, an alt-history set on...
APA Rising Star 2024 shortlist announced
20 June 2024
The Australian Publishers Association (APA) has announced the shortlist for its 2024 Rising Star award. The shortlisted professionals, who each began their publishing careers in the past 10 years, are:...
Ross wins final Vogel
18 June 2024
First Year by Kristina Ross has won this year’s $20,000 Australian/Vogel’s Literary Award, for an unpublished manuscript by an author under the age of 35. First Year follows Maeve, a...
Ortiz wins 2024 Dorothy Hewett Award
18 June 2024
Kaya Ortiz has won the 2024 Dorothy Hewett Award for their unpublished manuscript, Past and Parallel Lives. Ortiz receives a publishing contract and manuscript development with UWA Publishing, and $10,000...
BookPeople 2024 Book of the Year, Bookseller of the Year winners announced
18 June 2024
BookPeople has announced the winners of the 2024 Book of the Year Awards, and the Bookseller of the Year awards. Adult fiction Edenglassie (Melissa Lucashenko, UQP) Adult nonfiction Wifedom: Mrs Orwell’s...
Zheng wins 2024 Island Nonfiction Prize
17 June 2024
Island has announced that Cherry Zheng is the winner of the 2024 Island Nonfiction Prize for the piece ‘Fucking with Chineseness’. Zheng is a writer of Cantonese heritage, who was...
Saleh wins Anne Elder Award 2023
17 June 2024
Australian Poetry has announced Sara M Saleh as the winner of the Anne Elder Award 2023 for a first book of poetry for The Flirtation of Girls/Ghazal el-Banat (UQP, 2023)....
Stills wins 2024 Text Prize
17 June 2024
Melbourne writer Caroline Stills has won the 2024 Text Prize for her debut middle-grade novel A Gift from the Birds. Chosen from a shortlist of five announced earlier this month,...
Karajia and Environment Award for Children’s Literature shortlists announced
13 June 2024
The Wilderness Society has announced the shortlists for the 2024 Environment Award for Children’s Literature and the Karajia Award for First Nations children’s storytelling. Shortlisted titles in each category include:...