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Lambda Literary Awards 2018 winners announced

Wednesday, 6 June 2018
The winners of the 2018 Lambda Literary Awards, known as the ‘Lammys’, have been announced. The awards celebrate excellence in lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) writing published in the...

Davitt Awards 2018 longlists announced

Wednesday, 6 June 2018
Sisters in Crime Australia has announced the longlists for the 2018 Davitt Awards for the best crime books by Australian women. A total of 101 titles have been longlisted, including...

Kibble and Dobbie Awards 2018 shortlists announced

Tuesday, 5 June 2018
The shortlists for the 2018 Kibble and Dobbie Awards have been announced. The four shortlisted titles for the $30,000 Kibble Literary Award for an established Australian female author are: The...

Audie Awards 2018 winners announced

Tuesday, 5 June 2018
In the US, the winners of the 2018 Audie Awards, presented by the Audio Publishers Association, have been announced. The Audiobook of the Year award went to Lincoln in the...

Grills, Wright and Rawson win 2018 Woollahra Digital Literary Awards

Monday, 4 June 2018
Eloise Grills, Stephen Wright and Jane Rawson have won the 2018 Woollahra Digital Literary Awards for writing that was first published online or electronically. Grills won in the nonfiction category...

Traill wins Ashurst Business Literature Prize 2017

Friday, 1 June 2018
Michael Traill has won the 2017 Ashurst Business Literature Prize for his book Jumping Ship: From the World of Corporate Australia to the Heart of Social Investment (Hardie Grant). Selected from...

Readings YA Prize 2018 shortlist announced

Tuesday, 29 May 2018
The shortlist for the 2018 Readings Young Adult Prize has been announced. The shortlisted titles are: Small Spaces (Sarah Epstein, Walker Books) Amelia Westlake (Erin Gough, Hardie Grant Egmont) Between...

Australian Book Design Awards 2018 winners announced

Tuesday, 29 May 2018
The Australian Book Designers Association (ABDA) announced the winners of the 2018 Australian Book Design Awards at an event in Melbourne on 25 May. The winning titles in each category...

Three local writers shortlisted for Commonwealth Short Story Prize 2018

Monday, 28 May 2018
Two Australians and one New Zealand writer are among the 24 shortlisted finalists for the 2018 Commonwealth Short Story Prize. Poet Chris Mansell was shortlisted for her story ‘Nobody’s Wife’,...

Territory Read Book of the Year 2018 shortlist announced

Friday, 25 May 2018
The Northern Territory Writers’ Centre has announced the shortlist for the Territory Read Book of the Year awards. The shortlisted titles are: There’s a Crocodile on the Golf Course (Rachel...

Woollahra Digital Literary Awards 2018 shortlists announced

Friday, 25 May 2018
The shortlists for the 2018 Woollahra Digital Literary Awards, for writing first published online or electronically, have been announced. Nonfiction Seeing Through Perspective: A Blind Tourist’s Guide to Art (Ria...

Peter Carey Short Story Award 2018 shortlist announced

Friday, 25 May 2018
The shortlist for the 2018 Peter Carey Short Story Award has been announced. The six shortlisted stories are: ‘Clearing’ (Alice Bishop) ‘Fighting Season’ (Alison Martin) ‘Being The Mother’ (Anne Casey)...

Ngaio Marsh Award 2018 longlist announced

Thursday, 24 May 2018
The longlist for the 2018 Ngaio Marsh award for New Zealand crime fiction has been announced. The longlisted works are: Marlborough Man (Alan Carter, Fremantle Press) Baby (Annaleese Jochems, VUP) See...

Fine shortlisted for Orwell Prize 2018

Thursday, 24 May 2018
University of Melbourne academic and author Cordelia Fine has been shortlisted for the 2018 Orwell Prize for Books, for her book Testosterone Rex: Unmaking the Myths of our Gendered Minds (Icon...

Miles Franklin Literary Award 2018 longlist announced

Wednesday, 23 May 2018
The longlist for the 2018 Miles Franklin Literary Award has been announced. The 11 longlisted titles are: A Long Way from Home (Peter Carey, Hamish Hamilton) No More Boats (Felicity...

‘Ruby’ romance award 2018 finalists announced

Wednesday, 23 May 2018
The finalists for the Romance Writers of Australia (RWA) Romantic Book of the Year Award, known as ‘the Ruby’, have been announced. The finalists in each category are: Long romance...

Viskic, Clark longlisted for UK Dagger awards

Tuesday, 22 May 2018
Emma Viskic has been longlisted in two categories in the UK Crime Writers’ Association (CWA) 2018 Dagger awards for her novel Resurrection Bay (Echo). Viskic’s novel is one of 10...

Magarey Medal 2018 shortlist announced

Friday, 18 May 2018
The Association for the Study of Australian Literature (ASAL) and the Australian Historical Association (AHA) have announced the shortlist for the 2018 Magarey Medal for Biography. The shortlisted titles are:...

Cowley awarded Order of New Zealand

Thursday, 17 May 2018
Children's author Joy Cowley has been awarded the Order of New Zealand, which recognises outstanding service to the state and people of the country. Described as one of New Zealand’s...

Adam wins 2018 New Zealand Book Award for fiction

Wednesday, 16 May 2018
Wellington writer Pip Adam has won the NZ$50,000 (A$45,930) Acorn Foundation Fiction Prize at the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards for her novel The New Animals (Victoria University Press). Judges...

Two Hardie Grant cookbooks awarded in inaugural NYRF visual books competition

Monday, 14 May 2018
Two Hardie Grant Publishing cookbooks have been honoured at the New York Rights Fair’s (NYRF) inaugural Talking Pictures: Selected Books competition, which awards excellence in visual books. London-based Spanish chef...

Chingonyi wins Dylan Thomas Prize 2018

Friday, 11 May 2018
In the UK, Zambian-British writer Kayo Chingonyi’s debut poetry collection Kumukanda (Chatto & Windus) has won the 2018 International Dylan Thomas Prize, worth the £30,000 (A$55,310). Translating as ‘initiation’, kumukanda is the...