Morris, Morton, Nunn shortlisted for 2019 Audie Awards
15 February 2019
Three Australian audiobooks have been named as finalists in the 2019 Audie Awards, presented by the Audio Publishers Association (APA) in the US. The audiobook editons of The Tattooist of Auschwitz...
Unity Books shortlisted for LBF International Excellence Awards
15 February 2019
Wellington’s Unity Books has been shortlisted in the London Book Fair (LBF) International Excellence Awards. Unity Books is shortlisted for the Bookstore of the Year award, which was won by...
Seizure announces 2019 Viva la Novella shortlist
11 February 2019
Seizure has announced the shortlist for the 2019 Viva la Novella competition. This year’s shortlisted authors and their works are: Carly Cappielli for ‘Listurbia’ Grace Chan for ‘The Ship of...
Stella Prize 2019 longlist announced
8 February 2019
The longlist for the 2019 Stella Prize, worth $50,000, has been announced. The longlisted titles are: Little Gods (Jenny Ackland, A&U) Man Out of Time (Stephanie Bishop, Hachette) Bluebottle (Belinda...
Penguin Literary Prize shortlist 2019 announced
7 February 2019
Penguin Random House (PRH) has announced the shortlist for the 2019 Penguin Literary Prize, worth $20,000. The prize, now in its second year, aims to find and develop new Australian...
VPLAs 2019: Manus detainee Boochani wins $100k top prize
1 February 2019
Writer, journalist and Iranian refugee Behrouz Boochani, currently detained on Manus Island, has won the $100,000 Victorian Prize for Literature for his book No Friend But the Mountains: Writing from...
Van Es awarded Costa Book of the Year for ‘The Cut Out Girl’
30 January 2019
In the UK, Bart van Es has been awarded the £30,000 (A$54,900) Costa Book of the Year award for his biography The Cut Out Girl (Fig Tree). The Cut Out Girl is...
Makkai, Laymon win 2019 ALA Andrew Carnegie Medals
29 January 2019
The American Library Association (ALA) has announced the winners of the 2019 Andrew Carnegie Medals. The fiction prize was awarded to Rebecca Makkai for The Great Believers (Fleet) and the nonfiction...
ALA Youth Media Awards 2019: Newbery, Caldecott, Printz, Stonewall
29 January 2019
In the US, the American Library Association (ALA) has announced the winners of its Youth Media Awards, including the Newbery and Caldecott medals. Meg Medina’s Merci Suárez Changes Gears (Candlewick)...
Scriven wins Margaret River Short Story Competition
25 January 2019
Writer Kit Scriven has won the 2019 Margaret River Short Story Competition for his story ‘We’ll Stand in That Place’. Catherine Noske came in second place with her story ‘Thylacine’,...
Edgar Awards 2019 shortlists announced
23 January 2019
In the US, the shortlists for the 2019 Edgar Allan Poe Awards (the Edgars) have been announced. The Edgars honour ‘the best in mystery fiction, nonfiction and television’ published or produced...
National Book Critics Circle Awards 2018 shortlists announced
23 January 2019
In the US, the shortlists for the 2018 National Book Critics Circle (NBCC) Awards have been announced. The finalists include: Fiction Milkman (Anna Burns, Faber) Slave Old Man (Patrick Chamoiseau, trans by Linda...
Tan wins ‘KYD’ New Critic Award 2019
21 January 2019
Critic and narrative nonfiction writer Cher Tan has been named the winner of the 2019 Kill Your Darlings (KYD) New Critic Award. Tan receives a $1000 cash prize, plus payment for a...
Hazel Rowley Fellowship 2019 shortlist announced
18 January 2019
Writers Victoria has announced the shortlist for the 2019 Hazel Rowley Literary Fellowship, awarded annually to an Australian writer for a proposed biographical work. The shortlisted writers and their projects...
Self-published Aussie novel longlisted for Republic of Consciousness Prize
16 January 2019
Brisbane author Nicholas John Turner’s debut self-published novel Hang Him When He Is Not There has been longlisted for the Republic of Consciousness Prize, reports the Bookseller. Turner’s novel, which was sold...
Indie Book Awards 2019 shortlists announced
16 January 2019
Leading Edge Books has announced the 2019 Indie Book Awards shortlists, for the best Australian books published in 2018. The shortlisted titles in each category are: Fiction The Lost Man (Jane...
Liminal magazine establishes short fiction prize, partners with Brow Books
15 January 2019
Liminal magazine has established a short fiction prize for Australian writers of colour. The Liminal Fiction Prize seeks to ‘promote fiction by writers whose voices are often ignored or elided’. It...
Presser wins at US National Jewish Book Awards
14 January 2019
In the US, Melbourne-based author Bram Presser has won the debut fiction award at the 2018 National Jewish Book Awards for his novel The Book of Dirt (Text). Established in 1950 by the...
Updated format revealed for WA Prem’s awards
14 January 2019
The Western Australian state government has revealed the new format for the WA Premier’s Book Awards, which has been reinstated as an annual event. The awards will feature three separate...
Marsden awarded 2018 Dromkeen Medal
14 December 2018
The State Library Victoria (SLV) has awarded the 2018 Dromkeen Medal to author John Marsden. Marsden is the author of more than 40 books, including the ‘Tomorrow’ series, which is...
Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards 2019 shortlists announced
12 December 2018
The shortlists for the 2019 Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards have been announced. The shortlisted titles are: Fiction Flames (Robbie Arnott, Text) Ironbark (Jay Carmichael, Scribe) The Fireflies of Autumn: And...
Collis wins 2018 ACT Book of the Year for ‘Dancing Home’
10 December 2018
Paul Collis has won the 2018 ACT Book of the Year for his novel Dancing Home (UQP). Dancing Home, which won the 2016 David Unaipon Award for an unpublished manuscript,...
James wins Horne Prize
10 December 2018
The Saturday Paper and cosmetics company Aesop announced writer Daniel James as the winner of the $15,000 Horne Prize 2018 for his essay ‘Ten More Days’. An account of intergenerational...
Presser wins 2018 Voss Literary Prize for ‘The Book of Dirt’
7 December 2018
Author Bram Presser has won the 2018 Voss Literary Prize for The Book of Dirt (Text). The Voss Literary Prize is awarded to the best novel published in Australia in the...
Ko wins Deborah Cass Prize 2018
7 December 2018
Writer Karina Ko has won the 2018 Deborah Cass Prize for emerging writers from migrant backgrounds for her manuscript extract ‘Things I used to Believe’. Chosen from a shortlist of...
Winners announced for PM’s literary awards 2018
5 December 2018
The winners of the 2018 Prime Minister’s Literary Awards have been announced. The winning titles in each category are: Fiction Border Districts (Gerald Murnane, Giramondo) Australian history John Curtin’s War:...
Indie Book Awards 2019 longlists announced
5 December 2018
Leading Edge Books has announced the longlists for the 2019 Indie Book Awards for books published in 2018. The longlisted titles in each category are: Fiction The Lost Man (Jane...
$20k unpublished manuscript award launched for WA young writers
5 December 2018
Fremantle Press is partnering with social-purpose organisation the Fogarty Foundation to launch an unpublished manuscript award for young writers in Western Australia, worth $20,000. The biennial award, called the Fogarty Literary...
Frey wins Bad S-x in Fiction Award
4 December 2018
US author James Frey has received the 2018 Bad S-x in Fiction Award, the Literary Review’s annual prize for ‘poorly written, perfunctory or redundant passages of sexual description in modern fiction’....
Bad S-x in Fiction Award 2018 shortlist announced
3 December 2018
In the UK, the Literary Review has announced the Bad S-x in Fiction Award shortlist for 2018. The seven shortlisted books are: Scoundrels: The Hunt for Hansclapp (Major Victor Cornwall & Major Arthur St John...
