Tuesday, 28 November 2017
The winners of the 2017 Tasmanian Premier’s Literary Prizes have been announced. The winning titles in each category are: Tasmania Book Prize for best book with Tasmanian content in any...

Thursday, 23 November 2017
Anaesthesia: The Gift of Oblivion and the Mystery of Consciousness by Melbourne journalist Kate Cole-Adams (Text) has won the Waverley Council’s Mark and Evette Moran Nib Literary Award for 2017....

Monday, 20 November 2017
The winners of the 2017 Scarlet Stiletto Awards, presented by Sisters in Crime, have been announced. New South Wales writer Rowena Harding-Smith won the $1500 first prize for her short...

Friday, 17 November 2017
The graphic novel The Invisible War by Ailsa Wild, Briony Barr, Gregory Crocetti, Ben Hutchings and Jeremy Barr (Scale Free Network) has won the Small Press Network’s Most Underrated Book...

Thursday, 16 November 2017
Vicki Laveau-Harvie has won the 2018 Finch Memoir Prize for her manuscript ‘Okotoks Erratic’, a ‘gripping, black humoured drama’ about the power play between Laveau-Harvie’s parents and its ramifications. Judges...

Thursday, 16 November 2017
Author Tony Birch has been named the winner of the $20,000 Patrick White Literary Award for 2017. The annual award was established by Patrick White using the proceeds of his...

Wednesday, 15 November 2017
UWA Publishing has announced the shortlist for the 2018 Dorothy Hewett Award for an unpublished manuscript. The shortlisted authors and their works are: Teresa Bell for ‘Lunation’, an ‘ambitious’ novel...

Tuesday, 14 November 2017
The shortlist for the 2018 Finch Memoir Prize has been announced. The shortlisted titles are: ‘Tin Gypsy’ (Alan Sampson), a ‘heartfelt’ account of a father’s relationship with his son who...

Monday, 13 November 2017
Ruth Clare’s memoir Enemy (Viking) and Libby Hathorn’s picture book A Soldier, a Dog and a Boy (illus by Phil Lesnie, Lothian) have jointly won the 2017 Asher Award. Clare and...

Friday, 10 November 2017
Dreaming in the Dark (Jack Dann, PS Australia), an anthology of Australian genre fiction, has won a 2017 World Fantasy Award in the anthology category. The hardback volume is a...

Wednesday, 8 November 2017
Ten books by Australian authors and three by New Zealand authors have been nominated for the 2018 International Dublin Literary Award. Longlisted books by Australian authors are: The Last Painting...

Tuesday, 31 October 2017
Fiona Sussman’s The Last Time We Spoke (Allison & Busby) has won the 2017 Ngaio Marsh Award for Best Crime Novel. Sussman is the first female author to win the award, which...

Saturday, 28 October 2017
Josephine Wilson’s Miles Franklin Award-winning novel Extinctions (UWA Publishing) has won the 2017 Colin Roderick Award and the HT Priestley Medal, administered by the Foundation for Australian Literary Studies at James...

Friday, 27 October 2017
Australian author Jane Harper has won the 2017 UK Crime Writers’ Association (CWA) Gold Dagger for her debut novel The Dry (Pan). The Dry was one of seven titles shortlisted...