Queensland Poetry Awards prize money increases
Tuesday, 19 August 2025
The Queensland Writers Centre has announced increases in the value of its Queensland Poetry Awards, which has opened for entries this week. Award categories and their first-place cash prizes are:...
Ned Kelly Awards 2025 shortlists announced
Monday, 18 August 2025
The Australian Crime Writers Association has announced the 2025 Ned Kelly Awards shortlists. The shortlisted titles are: Best crime fiction 17 Years Later (JP Pomare, Hachette) Cold Truth (Ashley Kalagian...
Pikihuia Awards finalists announced
Monday, 18 August 2025
The Māori Literature Trust Te Waka Taki Kōrero has announced the finalists for the biennial Pikihuia Awards, now in their 30th year. The finalists in each category are: Poetry (te...
NSW History Awards 2025 shortlists announced
Monday, 18 August 2025
The State Library of NSW (SLNSW) has announced the shortlists for the 2025 NSW History Awards, worth a total of $85,000 in prize money. The shortlisted titles of each category...
CBCA Book of the Year Award winners
Friday, 15 August 2025
The Children’s Book Council of Australia (CBCA) has announced the winners for the 2025 CBCA Book of the Year Awards. The CBCA shadow judging winners – titles chosen by 400...
New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults winners
Thursday, 14 August 2025
In Aotearoa New Zealand, Ross Calman (Ngāti Toa, Ngāti Raukawa, Kāi Tahu) has won the overall Margaret Mahy Book of the Year Award at the 2025 New Zealand Book Awards...
Prime Minister’s Literary Awards 2025 shortlists announced
Tuesday, 12 August 2025
Creative Australia has announced the titles shortlisted for the 2025 Prime Minister’s Literary Awards. Shortlisted titles in each category are: Fiction Always Will Be: Stories of Goori Sovereignty from the...
Alizzi named 2025 Rising Star
Monday, 11 August 2025
Arlie Alizzi has been named the Australian publishing industry's 2025 Rising Star. Alizzi is a Yugambeh editor, writer, researcher and anti-racism educator based in Rubibi/Broome and works as an editor at Magabala...
Writers, lit organisations receive Cultural Fund grants
Monday, 11 August 2025
The Copyright Agency has announced the recipients of the latest funding round through its Cultural Fund. The 2025 Create Grants, which awards $20,000 to writers and artists to develop new...
Quay wins 2025 Crystal Kite Award
Monday, 11 August 2025
Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI) has announced the winners of the 2025 Crystal Kite Award. Open to SCBWI authors, illustrators, and translators, the award is peer-judged to...
Rapee wins CBCA 2025 Nan Chauncy Award
Monday, 11 August 2025
The Children's Book Council of Australia (CBCA) has announced Wendy Rapee as the recipient of the 2025 Nan Chauncy Award, which ‘honours a person, or a collaborative partnership, who has...
Ned Kelly Awards 2025 best debut crime fiction shortlists announced
Thursday, 7 August 2025
The Australian Crime Writers Association has announced the 2025 Ned Kelly Awards shortlist for best debut crime fiction. The shortlisted titles are: All You Took From Me (Lisa Kenway, Transit...
Collins Booksellers Warrnambool named 2025 Franchisee of the Year
Wednesday, 6 August 2025
Collins Booksellers Warrnambool (Michaelie Clark and Graeme Gallagher) was named 2025 Franchisee of the Year at the Collins Booksellers Annual Conference in Melbourne. A statement from Collins Booksellers said, ‘In...
Margaret and Colin Roderick Literary Award 2025 shortlist announced
Tuesday, 5 August 2025
The shortlist for the 2025 Margaret and Colin Roderick Literary Award, worth $50,000, has been announced by the Foundation for Australian Literary Studies at James Cook University (JCU). Chosen from...
Nib Literary Award 2025 longlist announced
Tuesday, 5 August 2025
The longlist for the 2025 Mark and Evette Moran Nib Literary Award, worth $40,000, has been announced. The longlisted titles are: Australian Gospel (Lech Blaine, Black Inc.) Black Convicts: How...
El-Zein wins 2025 National Biography Award
Friday, 1 August 2025
Bullet, Paper, Rock: A Memoir of Words and Wars (Abbas El-Zein, Upswell) has won the 2025 National Biography Award. El-Zein wins $25,000, while the other shortlisted authors receive $2000 each. Bullet,...
Morsi wins 2025 Dorothy Hewett Award
Thursday, 31 July 2025
Mohammed Massoud Morsi has won the 2025 Dorothy Hewett Award for his unpublished fiction manuscript The Hair of the Pigeon. Chosen from a shortlist of six, Morsi receives a publishing...
Sharman wins 2025 Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize
Thursday, 31 July 2025
Victorian writer Tara Sharman has won the 2025 Australian Book Review (ABR) Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize ($6000) for ‘Shelling’. At 22, Sharman is the youngest recipient in the prize's...
Sam Quyên Huỳnh wins SLQ 2025 Young Writers Award
Thursday, 31 July 2025
The State Library of Queensland (SLQ) has announced Sam Quyên Huỳnh as the winner of the 2025 Young Writers Award. Huỳnh, 21,wins $2000, a membership with Queensland Writers Centre (QWC)...
Griffith Review 2025 Emerging Voices competition winners
Thursday, 31 July 2025
Griffith Review has announced the winners of its 2025 Emerging Voices competition, which seeks ‘fiction and creative nonfiction that reflect new ideas, fresh voices and bold perspectives’. The winners, chosen...
Morgan wins 2025 Mallinson Rendell Illustrators Award
Thursday, 31 July 2025
The Arts Foundation Te Tumu Toi has announced Josh Morgan (Te Aitanga-a-Māhaki, Rongowhakaata, Te Whānau-a-Kai) as the 2025 Mallinson Rendel Illustrators Award recipient. The 2025 selection panel, which included illustrator...
CYA Writers & Illustrators Conference announces 2025 competition winners
Tuesday, 29 July 2025
Winners of a range of writing and illustrating competitions have been announced as part of the 2025 CYA Writers & Illustrators Conference. Among the winners are: Illustrations (published) ‘Janey Has...
2025 Shalom Collective Australian Jewish Writer Awards shortlist
Monday, 28 July 2025
The shortlists for the 2025 Shalom Collective Australian Jewish Writer Awards have been announced. The shortlisted writers and their titles are: The Leslie and Sophie Caplan Award for Jewish Nonfiction ($10,000)...
Rafferty wins 2025 Rosanne Fitzgibbon Editorial Award
Monday, 28 July 2025
The Institute of Professional Editors (IPEd) has announced Emma Rafferty as the 2025 winner of the biennial Rosanne Fitzgibbon Editorial Award for her editorial work on the novel 17 Years...
Elliffe awarded the 2025 NZSA Laura Solomon Cuba Press Prize
Monday, 28 July 2025
The New Zealand Society of Authors Te Puni Kaituhi O Aotearoa (PEN NZ Inc) (NZSA) has announced Susanna Elliffe as the winner of the 2025 NZSA Laura Solomon Cuba Press...
Moss wins 2025 Furphy Literary Award
Monday, 28 July 2025
Serena Moss has won the 2025 Furphy Literary Award, worth $15,000, for her short story ‘The Eulogy Business’. Based in Geraldton, Moss works in real estate and is an aspiring...
Lu awarded 2025 Miles Franklin Literary Award
Thursday, 24 July 2025
Siang Lu has won the 2025 Miles Franklin Literary Award, worth $60,000, for his novel Ghost Cities (UQP). Lu is an author based in both Brisbane, Australia, and Kuala Lumpur,...
George Robertson Award 2025 winners
Thursday, 24 July 2025
The Australian Publishers Association (APA) has announced the 2025 winners of the George Robertson Award. The recipients, chosen by the APA board of directors, are: Penny Evershed (head of supply...
PANZ Book Design Awards 2025 finalists announced
Wednesday, 23 July 2025
The finalists in the 2025 New Zealand Te Rau o Tākupu Publishers Association (PANZ) Book Design Awards have been announced. Finalists in each category are: Penguin Random House New Zealand...
Aotearoa New Zealand Book Industry Awards 2025 winners announced
Tuesday, 22 July 2025
The winners of the 2025 Aotearoa New Zealand Book Industry Awards have been announced by Booksellers Aotearoa New Zealand and the Publishers Association of New Zealand/Te Rau o Tākupu (PANZ)....
