Monday, 23 July 2018
The Romance Writers of America (RWA) has announced the winners of the 2018 RITA Awards, which recognise excellence in romance novels and novellas. Among the winners were two New Zealand...

Friday, 20 July 2018
The shortlist for this year’s Colin Roderick Award, administered by the Foundation for Australian Literary Studies at James Cook University, has been announced. The shortlisted titles are: Soon (Lois Murphy, Transit...

Thursday, 19 July 2018
The winners of the Walkley Mid-Year Awards have been announced. Jane Caro won the Walkley Foundation’s Women’s Leadership in Media Award for the nonfiction book she edited Unbreakable: Women Share...

Wednesday, 18 July 2018
The Australian Publishers Association (APA) has announced the shortlists for the 2018 Educational Publishing Awards Australia. The shortlists in each category are: Primary Student Resource: Arts/Science/Humanities/Social Sciences/Technologies/Health and Physical Education/Languages...

Tuesday, 10 July 2018
The Australian Historical Association (AHA) has announced the winners of the 2018 W K Hancock Prize and the Kay Daniels Award. The $2000 W K Hancock prize, which recognises an...

Tuesday, 10 July 2018
The State Library of New South Wales (SLNSW) has announced the shortlist for the 2018 National Biography Award, worth $25,000. The shortlisted works are: Songs of a War Boy (Deng...

Monday, 9 July 2018
Literary journal Kill Your Darlings (KYD) has announced Nicole McAlinden as the winner of its 2018 unpublished manuscript award for her manuscript ‘Little Did I Know’. McAlinden receives $5000 and...

Friday, 6 July 2018
The Australian Crime Writers Association (ACWA) has announced the longlists for this year’s Ned Kelly Awards for Australian crime writing. The longlisted titles in each category are: Best crime Marlborough...

Friday, 6 July 2018
Sisters in Crime has announced the shortlists for the 2018 Davitt Awards for the best crime books by Australian women. The shortlisted works in each category are: Adult novel The...

Wednesday, 4 July 2018
The shortlist for the 2018 Australian Christian Book of the Year been announced. The shortlisted titles are: Mr Eternity: The Story of Arthur Stace (Roy Williams & Elizabeth Meyers, Acorn...

Wednesday, 4 July 2018
Quinn Eades has won the 2018 Mary Gilmore Award for his poetry collection Rallying (UWA Publishing). The award was presented by the Association for the Study of Australian Literature (ASAL) at its...

Wednesday, 4 July 2018
An anthology by Australian speculative-fiction publisher Twelfth Planet Press has won a 2018 Locus Award for science-fiction and fantasy, announced at a ceremony in Seattle, in the US, on 23...

Tuesday, 26 June 2018
Historian Rebe Taylor’s Into the Heart of Tasmania: A Search for Human Antiquity (MUP) has won the inaugural Dick and Joan Green Family Award for Tasmanian History, reports the Advocate. The...

Monday, 25 June 2018
The shortlist for the 2018 Kill Your Darlings Unpublished Manuscript Award has been announced. The shortlisted authors and their works are: ‘Blindside’ (Beth Amos) ‘The Eulogy’ (Jacqueline Bailey) ‘What in...

Tuesday, 12 June 2018
The winners of the 2018 Norma K Hemming Awards were announced on Friday, 8 June. Western Australian writer Claire G Coleman won in the long work category for her novel Terra...

Tuesday, 12 June 2018
The shortlists for the 2018 Publishers Association of New Zealand (PANZ) Book Design Awards have been announced. The shortlisted titles in each category are: Best illustrated book Aberhart Starts Here...

Tuesday, 12 June 2018
The longlist for the 2018 Kill Your Darlings Unpublished Manuscript Award has been announced. The longlisted works, and their authors, are: ‘Blindside’ (Beth Amos) ‘The Eulogy’ (Jacqueline Bailey) ‘Behind the...

Friday, 8 June 2018
Children’s picture book The Scared Book (Debra Tidball, illus by Kim Siew, Lothian) has won in the Australian and New Zealand division of this year’s Crystal Kite Member Choice Awards,...