Thursday, 19 September 2019
The longlists for the Tasmanian Premier’s Literary Prizes have been announced. The longlisted works and their authors are: Tasmania Book Prize for the best book with Tasmanian content in any...

Wednesday, 18 September 2019
The shortlist for this year’s Bragg UNSW Press Prize for Science Writing has been announced. The shortlisted pieces are: ‘Getting cliterate’ (Melissa Fyfe, Good Weekend) ‘When planetary catastrophe is your...

Wednesday, 18 September 2019
HarperCollins has announced Elizabeth Flann as the winner of the 2019 Banjo Prize for an unpublished manuscript for her ‘unbearably tense’ Australian thriller ‘Beware of Dogs’. Flann’s work was chosen...

Monday, 16 September 2019
New Zealand writer Fiona Kidman has won the Ngaio Marsh Award for Best Crime Novel for This Mortal Boy (RHNZ Vintage). The story recreates the life of young Belfast immigrant...

Friday, 13 September 2019
The shortlists for the 2019 Prime Minister’s Literary Awards have been announced. The shortlisted titles in each category are: Fiction A Stolen Season (Rodney Hall, Picador) Beautiful Revolutionary (Laura Elizabeth...

Thursday, 12 September 2019
Victoria-based writer Sonja Dechian has won the Australian Book Review’s (ABR) 2019 Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize for her story ‘The Point-Blank Murder’. The judges said of the winning story: 'At...

Wednesday, 11 September 2019
Canberra-based poet John Foulcher has won the 2019 Australian Catholic University (ACU) Prize for Poetry, worth $10,000, for his poem ‘Revising Casuarinas’. Geoff Page received $5000 as the runner-up for...

Tuesday, 10 September 2019
The winners of the University of Melbourne’s Australian Centre Literary Awards have been announced. Ellen van Neerven won the $15,000 Peter Blazey Fellowship, named in memory of journalist, author and...

Monday, 9 September 2019
Australian journalist Hedley Thomas’ podcast The Teacher’s Pet has won the 2019 Danger Prize, awarded for the best book, film, podcast or TV drama about Sydney and crime. Open to...

Monday, 9 September 2019
The Australian Crime Writers Association (ACWA) has announced the winners for this year’s Ned Kelly Awards for Australian crime writing. The winning titles in each category are: Best first fiction...

Friday, 6 September 2019
Dymocks has won the Social Responsibility Champion Award at the 2019 National Retail Awards. The chain retailer was awarded for its work in improving children’s literacy across Australia through its...

Thursday, 5 September 2019
The Australian Publishers Association (APA) has announced the winners of the 2019 Educational Publishing Awards Australia (EPAA). For the second year in a row, Promoting Literacy Development was named Primary...

Tuesday, 3 September 2019
Seizure has announced New South Wales writers Carly Cappielli and Joshua Mostafa as the joint winners of its seventh annual Viva La Novella competition. Cappielli won for her novella Listurbia,...

Monday, 2 September 2019
The University of Sydney has announced that Tracy Sorensen is the recipient of this year's $100,000 Judy Harris Writer in Residence at its Charles Perkins Centre.  Sorensen will use the...

Monday, 2 September 2019
The State Library of Queensland (SLQ) has announced the finalists for the People's Choice Queensland Book of the Year Award. The finalists are: Boy Swallows Universe (Trent Dalton, HarperCollins) Requiem...

Monday, 2 September 2019
The State Library of NSW (SLNSW) has announced the winners of the 2019 NSW Premier’s History Awards. The winning works in each category are: Australian History Prize ($15,000)  The Bible...

Monday, 2 September 2019
The shortlist for the 2019 Mark and Evette Moran Literary Award, known as ‘the Nib’, has been announced. The shortlisted titles are: An Unconventional Wife: The life of Julia Sorrell...

Monday, 2 September 2019
Dervla McTiernan’s novel The Ruin (HarperCollins) has won the award for best adult novel at the 2019 Davitt Awards for crime books by Australian women, presented by Sisters in Crime. The...

Wednesday, 28 August 2019
HarperCollins has announced the shortlist for the 2019 Banjo Prize for an unpublished work of commercial fiction. The shortlisted manuscripts are: ‘Beware of Dogs’ (Elizabeth Flann) ‘Nina and Pearl’ (Fleur...