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The shortlist for the 2018 Kill Your Darlings Unpublished Manuscript Award has been announced.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The longlist for the 2018 Kill Your Darlings Unpublished Manuscript Award has been announced.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,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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)...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...