Monday, 3 September 2018
The State Library of NSW (SLNSW) has announced the winners of the 2018 NSW Premier’s History Awards. The winning works in each category are: Australian History Prize ($15,000)  The Battle...

Monday, 3 September 2018
John Ibrahim’s memoir Last King of the Cross (Pan) has won the inaugural Danger Prize, awarded for the best book, film or TV drama about Sydney and crime. Open to...

Monday, 3 September 2018
Alan Carter’s Marlborough Man (Fremantle Press) has won the 2018 Ngaio Marsh Award for Best Crime Novel. The novel, about an ex-undercover agent from England trying to distance himself from his...

Friday, 31 August 2018
Katerina Gibson has won the 2018 Overland Victoria University Short Story Prize for new and emerging writers for her story ‘How to disappear into yourself (in 8 steps)’. Chosen from...

Friday, 31 August 2018
HarperCollins Australia has announced journalist Tim Slee as the winner of the inaugural Banjo Prize for an unpublished work of Australian commercial fiction for his manuscript ‘Burn’. Slee’s work was chosen...

Friday, 31 August 2018
Seizure has announced New Zealand authors Anna Jackson and Avi-Duckor Jones as the winners of this year's Viva la Novella competition. They are the first New Zealanders in the competition's six-year...

Thursday, 30 August 2018
The winners of the Brotherhood of St Laurence's 2018 Hope Prize for short stories have been announced. Finnegan Kruckemeyer won the $10,000 first prize for ‘Like Dresses in a Tree’;...

Tuesday, 28 August 2018
The winners of the 2018 New Zealand Book Trade Industry Awards were announced in Auckland on 25 August. The winners in each category are: Bookshop of the Year Volume, Nelson...

Sunday, 26 August 2018
The Australian Crime Writers Association (ACWA) has announced the winners for this year’s Ned Kelly Awards for Australian crime writing. The Best Crime Novel was presented to Sulari Gentill for...

Thursday, 23 August 2018
Murray Rae has won the NZ$10,000 (AU$9120) Ashton Wylie Mind Body Spirit Literary Award for his book Architecture and Theology: The Art of Place (Baylor University Press). Rae is an architect...

Wednesday, 22 August 2018
Readings has announced the shortlist for its 2018 New Australian Fiction Award. The shortlisted titles are: Flames (Robbie Arnott, Text) Pulse Points (Jennifer Down, Text) The Fireflies of Autumn (Moreno...

Wednesday, 22 August 2018
The winners of the 2018 Romance Writers of Australia (RWA) Romantic Book of the Year awards, known as the ‘RUBYs’, were announced on 18 August at the RWA conference in...

Tuesday, 21 August 2018
US-based Australian author Madelaine Lucas has won the Australian Book Review’s (ABR) 2018 Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize for her story ‘Ruins’. Lucas was announced as the winner of the $7000 prize...

Monday, 13 August 2018
Emma Viskic’s novel And Fire Came Down (Echo) has won the award for best adult novel at the 2018 Davitt Awards for crime books by Australian women, presented by Sisters in Crime. And...

Monday, 13 August 2018
The shortlist has been announced for the inaugural Danger Prize, awarded for the best book, film or TV drama about Sydney and crime. Three true crime books were shortlisted, alongside...

Friday, 10 August 2018
The State Library of NSW (SLNSW) has announced the shortlists for the 2018 NSW Premier’s History Awards. The shortlisted works in each category are: Australian History Prize ($15,000)  The Enigmatic...

Friday, 10 August 2018
Perth-based author Dervla McTiernan has been shortlisted for the Guardian’s 2018 Not the Booker prize. McTiernan's debut, The Rúin, was one of five shortlisted titles voted for by the public from a...

Tuesday, 7 August 2018
The State Library of New South Wales (SLNSW) has announced The Enigmatic Mr Deakin by Judith Brett (Text) as the winner of this year’s $25,000 National Biography Award. The judges said...