Tuesday, 3 December 2024
The Queensland Writers Centre (QWC) has announced that Eva Phillips has won the 2024 Thomas Shapcott Poetry Prize for the manuscript Borrow-or-rob. Phillips receives $2250 and a publishing contract with UQP,...

Tuesday, 3 December 2024
Alexis Wright’s Praiseworthy (Giramondo) was announced as the winner of the 2024 Voss Literary Prize by the Australian University Heads of English (AUHE). The prize judges said: ‘Praiseworthy is a work...

Monday, 2 December 2024
The winners of the 2024 Comic Arts Awards of Australia have been announced. The recipients in each category are: Gold Ledger Deadsheet (Benji Bajorek, self published) Eventually Everything Connects (Sarah Firth, A&U)...

Monday, 2 December 2024
Anna Funder has won the Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger in the nonfiction category for the French translation of Wifedom: Mrs Orwell’s Invisible Life (Hamish Hamilton). The book was translated to French...

Thursday, 28 November 2024
Myles McGuire has won the 2024 Richell Prize for Emerging Writers for his story Stroke. Prize judges, who selected the manuscript from a shortlist of seven, were ‘impressed by McGuire’s...

Monday, 25 November 2024
Sisters in Crime Australia announced the winners of the 2024 Scarlet Stiletto Awards at an event in South Melbourne on Saturday night. Newcastle author Nikki Lee Taylor won the $2000...

Monday, 25 November 2024
Kaliane Bradley’s novel, The Ministry of Time (Sceptre), has been named the 2024 Dymocks Book of the Year. On accepting the award, Bradley said: ‘There isn’t a vote of confidence...

Thursday, 21 November 2024
The New England Writers’ Centre has announced the winners of this year’s New England Illustration Prize for Children’s Picture Book Publishing. The winners of the 2024 award are: First prize...

Monday, 18 November 2024
Gail Jones has won the Creative Australia Award for Lifetime Achievement in Literature, ‘recognising her impressive body of work and her ongoing mentoring of young writers’. The award ‘acknowledges the...

Thursday, 14 November 2024
Storylines Children’s Literature Trust Te Whare Waituhi Tamariki o Aotearoa has announced the 2024 Storylines Notable Book Award winners. This year’s winners are: Te Reo Māori A Ariā me te...

Monday, 11 November 2024
Overland has announced that Yasmin Smith is the winner the 2024 Nakata Brophy Prize for Young Indigenous Writers. Smith receives a $5000 cash prize, as well as an optional writing...

Thursday, 7 November 2024
Cameron Stewart has won the 2024 UNSW Press Bragg Prize for Science Writing for the essay ‘Heroes of Zero’. ‘Heroes of Zero’ introduces readers to research by Michelle Haber and...