Monday, 9 January 2023
The recipients of the 2022 Tasmanian Literary Awards were announced in December. The winners in each category, chosen from shortlists announced in November, are: Young readers and children ($25,000) Ella...

Monday, 9 January 2023
The Australian Publishers Association (APA) has announced Allen & Unwin editor Sophie Splatt as the recipient of the 2022–23 Beatrice Davis Editorial Fellowship (BDEF). An editor of books for children...

Thursday, 8 December 2022
Leading Edge Books has announced the longlists for the 2023 Indie Book Awards. The longlisted titles in each category are: Fiction Limberlost (Robbie Arnott, Text) Cold Enough for Snow (Jessica...

Monday, 5 December 2022
Sisters in Crime Australia has announced the winners of the 2022 Scarlet Stiletto Awards. ‘Tuesday Jocks’ by Fin J Ross won first prize ($2000); last year’s winner Hayley Young won...

Friday, 2 December 2022
Creative New Zealand has announced the recipients of the 2022 Prime Minister’s Awards for Literary Achievement, worth NZ$60,000 (A$56,000) each. In recognition of their contribution to New Zealand literature, Stephanie...

Tuesday, 29 November 2022
London-based American writer Bonnie Garmus's Lessons in Chemistry (Doubleday) has been named Dymocks Book of the Year for 2022. Set in the early 1960s, Garmus's debut novel follows chemist Elizabeth Zott,...

Monday, 28 November 2022
Express Media and Deakin University have announced Sar Fegan as the winner of the Catalyse Nonfiction Prize, formerly the Deakin University Nonfiction Prize. Fegan won for their piece 'A Fiery...

Monday, 28 November 2022
Tessa Piper, a 37-year-old public servant from Melbourne, has won this year's SBS Emerging Writers' Competition, worth $5000. Piper's winning story 'The Usual' was selected by judges Alice Pung and...

Monday, 28 November 2022
Eleanor Jackson has won the 2022 Small Press Network (SPN) Book of the Year Award for her poetry collection Gravidity and Parity (Vagabond Press). The winner was chosen from a...

Thursday, 24 November 2022
Sydney-based author Antigone Kefala is the winner of this year’s $15,000 Patrick White Literary Award. The award recognises Kefala’s achievements as a poet, and a writer of fiction and nonfiction....

Friday, 18 November 2022
Anneliz Marie Erese has won Writers Victoria’s 2022 Deborah Cass Prize for her story ‘International’. Erese’s story was chosen from a shortlist of 11. She receives $3000 to assist in further development...

Friday, 18 November 2022
Bronwyn Adcock has won the 2022 Walkley Book Award for Currowan: The story of a fire and a community during Australia's worst summer, published by Black Inc. Chosen from a...

Thursday, 17 November 2022
Delia Falconer has won the Waverley Council’s 2022 Mark and Evette Moran Nib Literary Award, worth $20,000, for her book Signs and Wonders: Dispatches from a time of beauty and...

Friday, 11 November 2022
Kim Pham is the winner of the 2022 Heyman Mentorship Award for her novel manuscript ‘Bird Hands Beaver a Fishmint Bouquet’. Set in the suburbs of Western Sydney, the book...

Friday, 11 November 2022
Arts Tasmania and the Australian Society of Authors (ASA) have announced the recipients of the inaugural Tasmanian Writers and Illustrators Mentorship program. The 20 recipients are: Children’s Amy Genford Nicole...

Thursday, 10 November 2022
Dean Ashenden has won the inaugural $10,000 Australian Political Book of the Year Award for Telling Tennant’s Story: The strange career of the great Australian Silence, published by Black Inc....

Monday, 7 November 2022
The shortlists for the Woollahra Digital Literary Awards have been announced. The shortlisted works in each category are: Fiction ($2500) ‘The Golden Bracelet’ (Deniz Agraz, Meniscus Literary Journal) ‘Smoking Gym’...