Friday, 10 September 2021
The winners of the 2021 Queensland Literary Awards have been announced. Visual artist Fiona Foley was awarded the $25,000 Queensland Premier's Award for a work of State Significance for her...

Tuesday, 7 September 2021
Hobart-based poet Anna Murchison has won the 2021 Australian Catholic University (ACU) Poetry Prize, Australia's richest poetry award. Murchison receives $10,000 for her poem ‘Child of Gath-hepher’. Carolyn Masel was...

Monday, 6 September 2021
Robbie Arnott has won the 2021 Age Book of the Year for his novel The Rain Heron (Text). It's the 40th time the award has been presented following a nine-year hiatus....

Monday, 6 September 2021
Hachette Australia and the Emerging Writers’ Festival (EWF) have announced the longlist for the 2021 Richell Prize for emerging writers. The longlisted writers will be judged on the first three...

Monday, 6 September 2021
The State Library of NSW (SLNSW) has announced the winners of the 2021 NSW Premier's History Awards, worth $15,000 each. Selected from shortlists announced in August, the winning titles in...

Friday, 3 September 2021
David Thomas Henry Wright has won the 2021 Carmel Bird Digital Literary Award for A Condensed History of the Australian Camel. Judge Roanna Gonsalves described Wright’s entry as ‘a work...

Thursday, 2 September 2021
The Stella Prize has revealed a new identity and website in a rebranding announcement to mark 10 years of the prize. Under its new identity the organisation has announced changes...

Monday, 30 August 2021
Robert Drewe and Anna Krien have received writers fellowships, worth $80,000 each, from the Copyright Agency's Cultural Fund. Drewe was awarded the Author Fellowship to write his novel Nimblefoot, which...

Monday, 30 August 2021
The longlist for the $20,000 Mark and Evette Moran Nib Literary Award, known as ‘the Nib’, has been announced. The longlisted titles are: The Truth about China: Propaganda, patriotism and...

Friday, 27 August 2021
Cassandra Pybus has won the 2021 National Biography Award for Truganini: Journey through the apocalypse (A&U). Pybus wins $25,000, while the other authors shortlisted for the award receive $2000 each....

Thursday, 26 August 2021
The winners of the 2020 Western Australian Premier’s Book Awards have been announced. Chosen from shortlists announced in June, the winners in each category are: Premier’s Prize for an Emerging...

Monday, 23 August 2021
Writers Patricia Arcilla and Joyce Chew are the two recipients of the Sydney Opera House's inaugural Mentorship for Diverse Emerging Writers, presented in partnership with Sweatshop. Chew and Arcilla each...

Tuesday, 17 August 2021
The State Library of Queensland (SLQ) has announced that Ellen Vickerman is the winner of the 2021 Young Writers Award. Vickerman wins a $2000 cash prize for her story 'Sun...

Friday, 13 August 2021
The winner of the 2021 Chief Minister's Northern Territory History Book Award has been announced. The Bible in Buffalo Country: Oenpelli Mission 1925-1931 (Sally May, Laura Rademaker, Donna Nadjamerrek &...

Thursday, 12 August 2021
RMIT University has announced it will partner with Giramondo Publishing to launch the Speculate Prize, a new trans-Tasman award for an unpublished speculative fiction manuscript. The biennial prize aims to...