Danger Awards 2025 shortlists announced
Wednesday, 27 August 2025
The BAD Sydney Crime Writers Festival has announced the shortlists for the 2025 Danger Awards. Shortlisted titles in each category are: Debut crime fiction What I Would Do to You...
Readings 2025 New Australian Fiction Prize shortlist announced
Wednesday, 27 August 2025
Readings has announced the shortlist for the 2025 Readings New Australian Fiction Prize. This year’s six shortlisted books are: The Confidence Woman (Sophie Quick, A&U) Edenhope (Louise Le Nay, Text)...
Australian World Heritage Residency Program supports ‘Wet Tropics of Queensland’ project
Tuesday, 26 August 2025
Amanda Niehaus (on behalf of Science Write Now) has been announced as one of three recipients of the inaugural Australian World Heritage Residency Program for the project ‘Wet Tropics of...
WestWords announces new CYA manuscript prize
Tuesday, 26 August 2025
WestWords has announced the Libby Gleeson Prize for Children’s Literature, a new biennial prize for an unpublished manuscript for children or young adults. The winning manuscript is set to be...
Copyright Agency relaunches industry grants
Monday, 25 August 2025
The Copyright Agency has announced the launch of the Publishing Fellowships – an updated extension of its previous Publishing Industry Career Development grants (PICD), which were paused during the pandemic....
Sanders wins the 2025 NZSA Shaw Writer’s Award
Monday, 25 August 2025
The New Zealand Society of Authors Te Puni Kaituhi O Aotearoa (NZSA) has announced Cristina Sanders as the winner of the 2025 NZSA Shaw Writer’s Award, worth NZ$5000. Sanders is...
RWA announces Ruby Award 2025 winners
Monday, 25 August 2025
Romance Writers of Australia (RWA) has announced the winners of the 2025 Romantic Book of the Year Awards, known as the Ruby Awards. Chosen from shortlists announced in June, the...
World Kid Lit Reading Challenge Award
Thursday, 21 August 2025
WorldKidLit has announced a new award for schools ‘to promote international and inclusive reading’, said organisers. Running through September and open internationally, the award aims to encourage reading, connect young...
Two Australian libraries named among world’s most beautiful
Thursday, 21 August 2025
Two Australian libraries have been named in the ten most beautiful libraries in the world for 2025, as announced by 1000 Libraries magazine. In second place, the State Library of...
Australian Political Book of the Year 2025 longlist announced
Wednesday, 20 August 2025
The 2025 longlist for the Australian Political Book of the Year has been announced. Longlisted titles are: The Assassination of Neville Wran (Milton Cockburn, Connor Court) Broken Heart: A True...
Pryor awarded 2025 Curlew Regional Writer’s Grant
Tuesday, 19 August 2025
Writing NSW has announced Robyn Pryor as the recipient of the 2025 Curlew Regional Writer’s Grant, worth $1000. The grant helps a regional NSW writer ‘to participate in a one-day...
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)...
