McGuire wins 2020 Ray Koppe Residency
22 October 2020
Melbourne writer Tim McGuire has won the Australian Society of Authors (ASA)’s 2020 Ray Koppe Young Writers Residency for his manuscript ‘Game Farm’. McGuire's literary suspense novel is a creative...
Ampersand Prize 2020 shortlist announced
21 October 2020
Hardie Grant Children's Publishing (HGCP) has announced the shortlist for its 2020 Ampersand Prize for unpublished young adult and middle-grade fiction. The five shortlisted authors and their works are: Conan...
McLean receives inaugural $10k Albert Ullin Award
21 October 2020
Andrew McLean is the winner of the inaugural Albert Ullin Award. The $10,000 biennial award, created with a bequest from the late The Little Book Room co-founder Albert Ullin, is...
Book Links announces new children’s historical fiction award
19 October 2020
Book Links, the Centre for Children’s Literature in Queensland, has announced a new biennial award, the Book Links Award for Children's Historical Fiction. A prize of $1000 will be awarded...
CBCA Book of the Year 2020 winners announced
16 October 2020
The winners of the 2020 Children’s Book Council of Australia (CBCA) Book of the Year Awards have been announced. The winning titles and honour books in each category are: Older...
Varuna announces recipients of 2021 Residency Fellowships
16 October 2020
Varuna, the Writers House, has announced the recipients of the 2021 Varuna Residency Fellowships. The writers and their projects are: The Mick Dark flagship fellowship Rachael Mead, for her literary...
Deacon in the running for US award
16 October 2020
Australian writer Desley Deacon is in the running for the US Theatre Library Association’s 2020 George Freedley Memorial Award. Deacon’s book Judith Anderson: Australian Star First Lady of the American...
Walkley Book Award 2020 longlist announced
15 October 2020
The Walkley Book Award longlist for 2020 has been announced. The longlisted titles are: After the Count (Stephanie Convery, Viking) City On Fire (Antony Dapiran, Scribe) Hazelwood (Tom Doig, Viking)...
Ned Kelly Awards 2020 winners announced
15 October 2020
The Australian Crime Writers Association (ACWA) has announced the winners of this year’s Ned Kelly Awards for Australian crime writing. The winning works and authors in each category are: Best...
New $10k Albert Ullin Award for children’s book creators
14 October 2020
The Victorian branch of the Children’s Book Council of Australia (CBCA) will administer a new $10,000 award for children's book creators, established with a bequest from the late Albert Ullin,...
Lucas-Pennington wins 2020 Nakata Brophy prize
13 October 2020
Grace Lucas-Pennington has won the 2020 Nakata Brophy Short Fiction and Poetry Prize for her poem ‘Superposition’. Lucas-Pennington receives $5000 and a three-month writing residence at Trinity College at the...
Deborah Cass Prize 2020 shortlist announced
13 October 2020
The shortlist for Writers Victoria’s Deborah Cass Prize for emerging writers from migrant backgrounds has been announced. The shortlisted works and their authors are: ‘Extract from “Of All the Gods”...
Glück awarded the 2020 Nobel Prize for Literature
9 October 2020
American poet Louise Glück has been awarded the 2020 Nobel Prize for Literature, reports Publishers Weekly. Glück was named winner at a ceremony at the Swedish Academy in Stockholm on...
Bragg Prize for Science Writing 2020 shortlist announced
8 October 2020
The shortlist for this year’s UNSW Press Bragg Prize for Science Writing has been announced. The shortlisted pieces are: ‘True Grit’ by Ceridwen Dovey (Wired) ‘Case of the missing frogs’...
Inaugural $50k Historical Novel Prize longlist announced
7 October 2020
The Historical Novel Society Australasia (HNSA) has announced the longlist for the inaugural ARA Historical Novel Prize. The HNSA has also confirmed sponsor ARA has doubled its funding for the...
Richell Prize 2020 shortlist announced
6 October 2020
Hachette Australia and the Emerging Writers’ Festival (EWF) have announced the shortlist for the 2020 Richell Prize for emerging writers. The shortlisted writers and their works are: ‘The Boy Who...
Barbara Jefferis Award 2020 shortlist announced
2 October 2020
The Australian Society of Authors (ASA) has announced the shortlist for the $50,000 Barbara Jefferis Award. The shortlisted novels are: The White Girl (Tony Birch, UQP) Too Much Lip (Melissa...
Little Pink Dog Books announces Authorstrator Prize
29 September 2020
Independent children's publisher Little Pink Dog Books has announced a new annual prize for picture book author/illustrators. The Authorstrator Prize recognises picture book creators who 'work their magic with both...
Davitt Awards 2020 winners announced
28 September 2020
Sisters in Crime Australia has announced the winners of the 2020 Davitt Awards for the best crime books by Australian women. The winning titles in each category are: Adult crime...
Police procedural ‘Flood Debris’ wins 2020 Banjo Prize
23 September 2020
HarperCollins Australia has named Dinuka McKenzie the winner of the 2020 Banjo Prize for her 'gripping, pacy police procedural' Flood Debris. McKenzie's manuscript was chosen from a shortlist of four announced...
Crispin awarded 2020 Blake Poetry Prize
22 September 2020
The Blake Poetry Prize 2020 has been awarded to Judith Nangala Crispin for the poem 'On Finding Charlotte in the Anthropological Record'. Crispin, a poet and visual artist of Bpangerang...
Page wins 2020 ACU Prize for Poetry
22 September 2020
Geoff Page has won the $10,000 ACU Prize for Poetry for his poem ‘Jericho’. Fiona Lynch received the $5000 second prize for ‘Footprints’ and Damen O’Brien received the $3000 third...
NZ Margaret Mahy Illustration Prize winner announced
18 September 2020
Hachette NZ and the Margaret Mahy estate have announced Nelson-based artist Lily Emo as the winner of the 2020 Margaret Mahy Illustration Prize for unpublished illustrators. Unpublished New Zealand artists...
Azar longlisted for National Book Award for Translated Literature
17 September 2020
In the US, Iranian–Australian writer Shokoofeh Azar has been longlisted for the 2020 National Book Award for Translated Literature for her novel The Enlightenment of the Greengage Tree (trans by...
Guineay, Walpert win 2020 Viva La Novella competition
17 September 2020
Seizure has announced the winners of the 2020 Viva la Novella competition. Dark Wave by Adelaide writer Lana Guineay and Late Sonata by Auckland writer Bryan Walpert were chosen from...
Young wins 2020 Colin Roderick Award for ‘Paper Emperors’
17 September 2020
Writer and academic Sally Young has won the $20,000 Colin Roderick Literary Award and the H T Priestley Medal for her nonfiction book Paper Emperors: The rise of Australia’s newspaper...
NZ Book Industry Awards 2020 winners announced
17 September 2020
The 2020 New Zealand Book Industry Awards have been announced. The winners in each category are: Young NZ Publisher of the Year Paul Stewart, Mākaro Press and the Cuba Press...
Avila wins 2020 Wilbur Smith Adventure Writing Prize
16 September 2020
In the UK, Australian writer Jacob P Avila has won the Wilbur Smith Adventure Writing Prize for Best Unpublished Manuscript for his self-published novel Cave Diver. Avila receives a world...
Arathimos wins 2020 Carmel Bird Digital Literary Award
15 September 2020
Michalia Arathimos has won the the 2020 Carmel Bird Digital Literary Award for her short story collection Apologia (originally titled ‘The Free Box’). Judge Justin Wolfers described the collection as...
Hardie Grant Children’s Publishing establishes new illustration prize
15 September 2020
Hardie Grant Children’s Publishing (HGCP) has established a new illustration prize. The Little Hare Prize for Illustration has been established to ‘inspire new work from unpublished and emerging artists’ and...
