16 June 2021
Text Publishing and the New Zealand Society of Authors Te Puni Kaituhi O Aotearoa (PEN NZ Inc) have announced the shortlist for the 2021 Michael Gifkins Prize for an unpublished...

16 June 2021
The Institute of Professional Editors (IPEd) has announced the shortlist for the 2021 Rosanne Fitzgibbon Editorial Award, also known as the ‘Rosie’. The shortlisted editors are: Johannes Jakob, for his...

16 June 2021
The shortlist for the 2021 Carmel Bird Digital Literary Award has been announced. Selected from 100 submissions, including short story collections and novellas of up to 30,000 words, the 12...

15 June 2021
Sarah Walker has been named the winner of the 2021 UQP Quentin Bryce Award for her essay collection The First Time I Thought I Was Dying. Established in 2020, the...

3 June 2021
Perth writer Brooke Dunnell has won the Fogarty Literary Award for her novel The Glass House. Dunnell receives a $20,000 cash prize from the Fogarty Foundation and a publishing contract...

1 June 2021
Penguin Random House Australia (PRH) has announced the recipients of the 2021 Write It fellowship program, which 'aspires to find, nurture and develop unpublished writers across all genres, with a...

1 June 2021
Ultimo Press has announced the winners of the inaugural Ultimo Prize for poetry and short fiction. The 30 winning writers, who each receive $200 and whose winning pieces will be...

27 May 2021
Varuna, the National Writers’ House has announced the 12 recipients of the inaugural Writer’s Space fellowships for writers with disability or who are D/deaf. This program offers six in-person residencies...

18 May 2021
Australian writer Katerina Gibson has won the 2021 Commonwealth Short Story Prize in the Pacific category for their story ‘Fertile Soil’. Judge Tina Makereti, representing the Pacific region, said ‘the...

18 May 2021
The Melbourne Prize Trust has announced two new award categories in the triennial Melbourne Prize for Literature. In addition to the $60,000 Melbourne Prize for Literature, which was won by...

14 May 2021
Children’s picture book How to Make a Bird (Meg McKinlay, illus by Matt Ottley, Walker) has won the Australian and New Zealand division of this year’s Crystal Kite Member Choice Awards, presented...

13 May 2021
Whanganui poet Airini Beautrais has won the NZ$57,000 Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize for Fiction at the 2021 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards for her collection of stories Bug Week (Victoria...

11 May 2021
Brisbane bookshop Avid Reader has been shortlisted for the bookstore of the year award at the London Book Fair (LBF) International Excellence Awards. Avid Reader, which was recently named bookshop...

4 May 2021
The Institute of Professional Editors (IPEd) has announced Edwin (Ted) Briggs as the recipient of the second annual Janet Mackenzie Medal. The award, which honours the late founding member of...

4 May 2021
Torres Strait Islander storyteller Lenora Thaker has won the 2021 Boundless Indigenous Writer’s Mentorship. Thaker is the first Torres Strait Islander writer to win the Boundless Indigenous Mentorship, which was launched in...