A Treacherous Country by K M Kruimink is the winner of the 2020 The Australian/Vogel’s Literary Award, for an unpublished manuscript by an author under the age of 35. Publisher... Read more
The speakers agency Booked Out has received funding from the Copyright Agency’s Covid-19 emergency funding to run a new project during Term two. ‘Reaching Out’ is a discrete project that... Read more
One Australian and two New Zealand writers are among the finalists for the 2020 Commonwealth Short Story Prize. Australian writer Andrea E Macleod was shortlisted for her story ‘The Art... Read more
The Booker Prize Foundation has postponed the International Booker Prize winner announcement due to the Covid-19 pandemic. The award was originally set to be announced on 19 May, but will... Read more
The 2020 shortlist for the £10,000 (A$19,520) Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize has been announced. The annual award recognises books ‘of the highest literary merit—fiction, nonfiction or poetry—which best... Read more