Friday, 11 November 2022
Kim Pham is the winner of the 2022 Heyman Mentorship Award for her novel manuscript ‘Bird Hands Beaver a Fishmint Bouquet’. Set in the suburbs of Western Sydney, the book...

Friday, 11 November 2022
Arts Tasmania and the Australian Society of Authors (ASA) have announced the recipients of the inaugural Tasmanian Writers and Illustrators Mentorship program. The 20 recipients are: Children’s Amy Genford Nicole...

Thursday, 10 November 2022
Dean Ashenden has won the inaugural $10,000 Australian Political Book of the Year Award for Telling Tennant’s Story: The strange career of the great Australian Silence, published by Black Inc....

Monday, 7 November 2022
The shortlists for the Woollahra Digital Literary Awards have been announced. The shortlisted works in each category are: Fiction ($2500) ‘The Golden Bracelet’ (Deniz Agraz, Meniscus Literary Journal) ‘Smoking Gym’...

Friday, 4 November 2022
The shortlist for the 2022 Deborah Cass Prize for emerging writers from migrant backgrounds has been announced. The prize committee also announced that this year will be the prize's last....

Friday, 4 November 2022
The shortlist for this year’s Walkley Book Award has been announced. The three shortlisted titles, chosen from a longlist of nine, are: Currowan (Bronwyn Adcock, Black Inc.) The Game: A portrait...

Thursday, 3 November 2022
Susannah Begbie has won the 2022 Richell Prize for Emerging Writers for her manuscript ‘When Trees Fall Without Warning’. Begbie grew up in rural New South Wales on a sheep...