Tuesday, 20 June 2023
The shortlist for the 2023 Miles Franklin Literary Award, worth $60,000, has been announced. The six longlisted novels, chosen from a longlist of 11 announced in May, are: Hopeless Kingdom (Kgshak...

Monday, 19 June 2023
Lauren Crozier has won the $10,000 Text Prize for her debut middle-grade novel The Best Witch in Paris. Text said the novel was 'a dazzling adventure loaded with larger-than-life characters,...

Monday, 19 June 2023
The shortlist for the ACT Notable Book Awards, which highlight and celebrate the excellence and talent of writers in and around the ACT region, have been announced. The shortlisted works...

Monday, 19 June 2023
BookPeople has announced the winners of the 2023 Book of the Year Awards, formerly the Booksellers Choice awards, and the Bookseller of the Year awards. The winning titles and booksellers...

Monday, 19 June 2023
Kirsty Iltners has won the 2023 Dorothy Hewett Award for an Unpublished Manuscript for her entry Depth of Field. Iltners, a writer and freelance photographer living in Brisbane, receives a...

Friday, 16 June 2023
Sydney Review of Books (SRB) outgoing editor Catriona Menzies-Pike has won the 2023 Pascall Prize for Arts Criticism for two SRB book reviews, 'Critic Swallows Book' on Trent Dalton's Boy...

Friday, 16 June 2023
Immaculate by Meanjin/Brisbane-based actor and writer Anna McGahan has won this year's $20,000 Australian/Vogel’s Literary Award, for an unpublished manuscript by an author under the age of 35. Described by...

Thursday, 15 June 2023
Penguin Random House Australia (PRH) has announced Jade and Emerald by Michelle See-Tho as the winner of the 2023 Penguin Literary Prize. Jade and Emerald is the story of a...

Friday, 9 June 2023
Elizabeth and John: The Macarthurs of Elizabeth Farm (Alan Atkinson, NewSouth) and Te Motunui Epa (Rachel Buchanan [Taranaki, Te Ātiawa], Bridget Williams Books) have jointly won the 2023 Ernest Scott...

Monday, 5 June 2023
The winners of the Aurealis Awards, presented for science fiction, fantasy and horror writing published in 2022 in Australia, have been announced. Among the winning categories are: Best Fantasy Novel...

Tuesday, 30 May 2023
The shortlist for the 2023 Australian Literature Society (ALS) Gold Medal has been announced. The shortlisted works are: We Come With This Place (Debra Dank, Echo) Limberlost (Robbie Arnott, Text) Iris (Fiona...

Tuesday, 30 May 2023
The 2023 black&write! fellowships for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander writers have been awarded to Dakota Feirer and Jacob K Gallagher. Each fellowship is worth $10,000 and includes editorial development...

Monday, 29 May 2023
The winners of the 2023 Australian Book Design Awards, presented by the Australian Book Designers Association (ABDA), have been announced. ABDA has also announced the establishment of the 'Baseline' Book...

Monday, 29 May 2023
Jumaana Abdu has been awarded the $15,000 Dal Stivens Literary Award, presented biennially to an author aged 30 or under for the best literary short story or essay, for her...

Monday, 29 May 2023
Rafeif Ismail and Emily Stewart are among the seven recipients of the 2023 Marten Bequest Travelling Scholarships, each worth $50,000. Ismail, who received the prose scholarship, is an emerging award-winning...

Friday, 26 May 2023
Katherine Allum has won the 2023 Fogarty Literary Award for her novel The Skeleton House. Allum receives a $20,000 cash prize from the Fogarty Foundation and a publishing contract with...

Thursday, 25 May 2023
The winners of the 2023 Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIAs) have been announced.  In the business awards, Allen & Unwin won publisher of the year while the University of Queensland...

Tuesday, 23 May 2023
The winners of the 2023 New South Wales Premier’s Literary Awards have been announced. Debra Dank's We Come With This Place (Echo) has taken out a record four awards, including...

Monday, 22 May 2023
The Institute of Professional Editors (IPEd) has announced Kerry Davies as the winner of the 2023 Janet Mackenzie Medal for services to editing. Davies has worked in publishing and communications since...

Thursday, 18 May 2023
The winners of the 2023 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards have been announced. The fiction prize went to Catherine Chidgey for The Axeman’s Carnival (Te Herenga Waka University Press), a...