Monday, 20 June 2022
A week after John Hughes’ novel The Dogs (Upswell) was withdrawn from the Miles Franklin Literary Award longlist following the discovery of plagiarism, the Guardian has found more instances of...

Monday, 20 June 2022
The winners of the 2021 Western Australian Premier’s Book Awards have been announced. Chosen from shortlists announced in May, the winners in each category are: Premier’s Prize for an Emerging...

Wednesday, 15 June 2022
Varuna, the National Writers’ House has announced the recipients of the 2022 Writer’s Space fellowships for writers with disability or who are D/deaf. The fellowship program is open to writers...

Wednesday, 15 June 2022
Penguin Random House (PRH) Australia has announced On a Bright Hillside in Paradise by Sydney-based writer Annette Higgs as the winner of the 2022 Penguin Literary Prize for an unpublished...

Tuesday, 14 June 2022
A number of Australian authors and industry figures were recognised in this year’s Queen’s Birthday Honours. Sophie Blackall was made a Member in the General Division of the Order of...

Tuesday, 14 June 2022
The Australian Booksellers Association (ABA) has announced the winners of its annual book and bookseller of the year awards. The winners in each category are: Adult fiction Love & Virtue (Diana Reid,...

Friday, 10 June 2022
In an exclusive article, the Guardian Australia reports it has found multiple instances of plagiarism in John Hughes’s novel The Dogs (Upswell), recently longlisted for the 2022 Miles Franklin Literary...

Friday, 10 June 2022
The winners of the 2022 Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIA) have been announced. Diana Reid's debut novel Love & Virtue took out the overall ABIA book of the year as well as...

Tuesday, 7 June 2022
Lip magazine has announced the shortlist for the 2022 Rachel Funari Prize for Fiction. The shortlisted stories are: ‘The Reliquary’ by Claire Alcock ‘In the Wake of Tokyo’ by Louise...

Tuesday, 7 June 2022
The shortlist for the 2022 Australian Literature Society (ALS) Gold Medal has been announced. The shortlisted works of fiction and poetry are: Wild Abandon (Emily Bitto, A&U) Human Looking (Andy Jackson, Giramondo) Pushing...

Tuesday, 7 June 2022
The winners of the 70th Australian Book Design Awards, presented by the Australian Book Designers Association (ABDA), have been announced. The winners in each category, chosen from shortlists announced in...

Monday, 30 May 2022
Wiradjuri poet and artist Jazz Money has won a 2022 Dreaming Award for a young and emerging artist, presented as part of the Australia Council's First Nations Arts Awards. Money's...

Monday, 30 May 2022
Dženana Vucic, a Bosnian-Australian writer, editor, critic and recipient of the 2021 Kat Muscat Fellowship, is among the seven recipients of the 2022 Marten Bequest Travelling Scholarships, each worth $50,000....

Thursday, 26 May 2022
Claire Mabey has been named the recipient of Creative New Zealand’s 2022 Louis Johnson New Writer’s Bursary, receiving funding of NZ$23,150 (A$21,150). Based in Pōneke (Wellington), Mabey is a writer...

Thursday, 26 May 2022
The Association for the Study of Australian Literature (ASAL) has announced the finalists for several literary awards that the organisation oversees. Magarey Medal ASAL and the Australian Historical Association have...

Tuesday, 24 May 2022
The longlist for the 2022 Miles Franklin Literary Award, worth $60,000, has been announced. The 12 longlisted novels are: The Other Half of You (Michael Mohammed Ahmad, Hachette) After Story...

Monday, 23 May 2022
The shortlists for the 2022 Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIA) have been announced. The shortlisted books in each category are: General fiction book of the year When Things Are Alive...

Monday, 23 May 2022
Fijian writer Mary Rokonadravu has won the 2022 Commonwealth Short Story Prize in the Pacific category for her story 'The Nightwatch', described by Pacific region judge, Wiradjuri writer, poet and...

Monday, 23 May 2022
Shifting Grounds: Deep histories of Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland (Lucy Mackintosh, Bridget Williams Books) and Vandemonians: The repressed history of colonial Victoria (Janet McCalman, Miegunyah Press) have jointly won the 2022...