Inky Awards 2019 shortlists announced
19 July 2019
The shortlists for the 2019 Inky Awards have been announced. The awards are presented by State Library Victoria (SLV) for local and international fiction, poetry, anthologies and graphic novels written...
Thompson wins 2019 Arthur C Clarke Award for ‘Rosewater’
18 July 2019
Tade Thompson’s Rosewater (Orbit) has won the 2019 Arthur C Clarke award for science fiction, reports the Guardian. Set in a future Africa, the events of Rosewater take place in a...
Educational Publishing Awards 2019 shortlists announced
17 July 2019
The Australian Publishers Association (APA) has announced the shortlists for the 2019 Educational Publishing Awards Australia (EPAA). This year's awards feature a new category for scholarly nonfiction book of the...
Davitt Awards 2019 shortlists announced
16 July 2019
Sisters in Crime has announced the shortlists for the 2019 Davitt Awards for the best crime books by Australian women. The shortlisted works in each category are: Adult novel This...
Ruby romance award 2019 finalists announced
12 July 2019
The finalists for the Romance Writers of Australia (RWA) Romantic Book of the Year Award, known as ‘the Ruby’, have been announced. The finalists in each category are: Contemporary romance...
Winners of inaugural Comedy Women in Print Prize announced
12 July 2019
In the UK, the winners of the inaugural Comedy Women in Print Prize (CWIP) have been announced. In the published author category, Laura Steven was awarded for her YA novel...
Write-ability fellowships 2019 recipients announced
11 July 2019
Writers Victoria has announced the recipients of its 2019 Write-ability fellowships. The following five emerging writers with disability were awarded the fellowships: Alex Creece for 'Neurodifficult', a collection of experimental...
Cypriot writer Soteriou wins 2019 Commonwealth Short Story Prize
10 July 2019
Cypriot writer Constantia Soteriou has been named the overall winner of the 2019 Commonwealth Short Story Prize for her story 'Death Customs'. It is the first time in the history...
Australian Christian Book of the Year 2019 shortlist announced
10 July 2019
The shortlist for the 2019 Australian Christian Book of the Year been announced. The shortlisted titles are: The Apostles’ Creed: A Guide to the Ancient Catechism (Benjamin Myers, Lexham Press)...
‘The Tattooist of Auschwitz’ longlisted for Glass Bell Award
5 July 2019
Heather Morris’ The Tattooist of Auschwitz (Echo) has been longlisted for the UK's Glass Bell Award. Presented by London bookstore Goldsboro Books, the prize celebrates the best storytelling across all...
ABDA launches student prizes
4 July 2019
The Australian Book Design Association (ABDA) has announced it will award student prizes at the 2020 ABDA Awards. The inaugural student prizes will be judged in two categories: best cover...
Miles Franklin Literary Award 2019 shortlist announced
3 July 2019
The shortlist for the 2019 Miles Franklin Literary Award, worth $60,000, has been announced. The shortlisted titles are: The Lebs (Michael Mohammed Ahmad, Hachette) A Sand Archive (Gregory Day, Picador) A Stolen...
Speech Pathology Australia book awards 2019 shortlists announced
3 July 2019
The shortlists for the 2019 Speech Pathology Australia Book of the Year Awards have been announced. The shortlisted titles in each category are: Birth to three years A Monster in...
Brown wins 2019 ALS Gold Medal
3 July 2019
Pam Brown has won the 2019 Australian Literature Society (ALS) Gold Medal for her poetry collection click here for what we do (Vagabond). Brown’s collection was chosen from a shortlist...
KYD Unpublished Manuscript Award longlist announced
1 July 2019
The longlist for the 2019 Kill Your Darlings (KYD) Unpublished Manuscript Award has been announced. The longlisted authors and their works are: Pamela Baker for ‘Dark Glass’ (fiction) Shelley Burr...
Two Australians longlisted for 2019 Sunday Times Audible Short Story Award
27 June 2019
In the UK, the longlist for the £30,000 (A$54,500) Sunday Times Audible Short Story Award has been announced, with Australian writers Paddy O'Reilly and Paul Dalla Rosa making the 18-strong...
Sparrow wins 2019 Walkley-Pascall Prize for arts criticism
27 June 2019
Jeff Sparrow has won the 2019 Walkley-Pascall Prize for arts criticism for his essay ‘A Place of Punishment: No Friend But the Mountains by Behrouz Boochani’ (Sydney Review of Books). Sparrow was...
ABR announces Behrouz Boochani Fellowship
26 June 2019
The Australian Book Review (ABR) has announced its inaugural $10,000 Behrouz Boochani Fellowship, presented in association with the Peter McMullin Centre on Statelessness at the University of Melbourne. The fellowship...
Shortlist for 2019 National Biography Award announced
26 June 2019
The State Library of New South Wales (SLNSW) has announced the shortlist for the 2019 National Biography Award, worth a total of $42,000. The shortlisted works are: No Friend But...
Keefe, Burns win 2019 Orwell Prize
26 June 2019
In the UK, two authors writing about the conflict in Northern Ireland have been awarded £3000 each (A$5470) as part of the Orwell Prize, reports the Guardian. Patrick Radden Keefe,...
O’Sullivan wins 2019 Rachel Funari Prize for Fiction
26 June 2019
Jane O'Sullivan has won the 2019 Lip magazine Rachel Funari Prize for Fiction for her short story 'Limpet Teeth'. Judge Melanie Joosten said O'Sullivan's piece, chosen from a shortlist of 10,...
‘Boy Swallows Universe’ wins ABA book of the year; booksellers of the year announced
24 June 2019
Trent Dalton's Boy Swallows Universe (Fourth Estate) has won the Australian Booksellers Association (ABA) Booksellers Choice Award at the 2019 ABA conference awards night, held in Melbourne on 23 June. Boy...
NT History Book Award 2019 shortlist announced
20 June 2019
The shortlist for the 2019 Chief Minister’s Northern Territory History Book Award has been announced. The three shortlisted titles are: Found in Translation: Many meanings on a North Australian Mission...
Acevedo, Morris win 2019 Carnegie, Greenaway medals
19 June 2019
The UK Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals (CILIP) has announced the winners of the 2019 Carnegie and Kate Greenaway medals. Dominican-American writer and slam poet Elizabeth Acevedo won...
Cothren wins 2019 Peter Carey Short Story Prize
18 June 2019
Alex Cothren has won the 2019 Peter Carey Short Story Award for his story ‘Let’s Talk Trojan Bee’. Judge Nic Low described Cothren’s story as ‘a polyphonic piece built entirely...
Robertson wins Walter Scott Prize for ‘The Long Take’
18 June 2019
In the UK, Robin Robertson has won the 2019 Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction for The Long Take (Picador). The first Scot to win the award, Robertson’s book also...
Overland adds youth categories to Fair Australia Prize
14 June 2019
Literary journal Overland will add two new categories for youth entries to its Fair Australia Prize this year. Sponsored by Maurice Blackburn Lawyers, the two new categories are for the...
Rachel Funari Prize for Fiction 2019 shortlist announced
13 June 2019
Lip magazine has announced the shortlist for the 2019 Rachel Funari Prize for Fiction. The shortlisted stories are: 'Inheritance' by Elizabeth Flux 'How to Cook Pho' by Emily Dang 'The...
Ruskovich wins 2019 International Dublin Literary Award for ‘Idaho’
13 June 2019
US writer Emily Ruskovich has won the €100,000 (A$162,930) Dublin International Literary award for her debut novel Idaho (Vintage). Idaho follows a family living in the isolated Northern Idaho mountains whose...
PANZ Book Design Awards 2019 shortlists announced
12 June 2019
The shortlists for the 2019 Publishers Association of New Zealand (PANZ) Book Design Awards have been announced. The shortlisted titles in each category are: Best illustrated book As You Will:...
