Tasmanian Literary Awards 2025 winners announced
Thursday, 27 March 2025
The winners of the Tasmanian Literary Awards for 2025 have been announced. Category winners – chosen from shortlists announced last month – are: Premier’s Prize for Fiction ($25,000) Heartsease (Kate...
CBCA 2025 shortlists announced
Wednesday, 26 March 2025
The Children’s Book Council of Australia (CBCA) has announced its shortlist for the 2025 CBCA Book of the Year Awards. The shortlisted books in each category, selected from the 2025...
2025 Windham-Campbell recipients announced
Tuesday, 25 March 2025
The recipients of the 2025 Windham-Campbell Prizes, each worth US$175,000 (A$278,529), have been announced, reports Publishers Weekly. This year’s winning writers are Sigrid Nunez (US) and Anne Enright (Ireland) for...
Victorian Community History Awards winners announced
Tuesday, 25 March 2025
The winners of the Victorian Community History Awards have been announced. Winning titles in each category are: Victorian Premier’s History Award ($5000) Letters to a Critic: Alan McCulloch's World of...
Arnott’s ‘Dusk’ wins Indie Book Awards 2025 Book of the Year
Monday, 24 March 2025
Robbie Arnott's Dusk (Picador) has been named Book of the Year in the Indie Book Awards 2025. Category winners also announced include: Fiction Dusk (Robbie Arnott, Picador) Nonfiction Three Wild Dogs...
NZ Booklovers Awards 2025 winners announced
Monday, 24 March 2025
The winners of the 2025 NZ Booklovers Awards have been announced. The winning titles are: Best Adult Fiction Book The Space Between (Lauren Keenan, Penguin) Best Lifestyle Book Kai Feast: Food...
IPEd announces ‘Rosie’ shortlist
Thursday, 20 March 2025
The Institute of Professional Editors (IPEd) has announced the shortlist for the 2025 Rosanne Fitzgibbon Editorial Award. The shortlisted editors are: Kimberley Davis for Under the Weather: A Future Forecast...
Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards 2025 winners announced
Wednesday, 19 March 2025
The Wheeler Centre has announced the winners of the 2025 Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards (VPLAs). Nukgal Wurra author-artist Wanda Gibson has won the overall Victorian Prize for Literature, worth $100,000,...
ABIA 2025 shortlists announced
Wednesday, 19 March 2025
Books+Publishing, in partnership with the Australian Publishers Association, has announced the 2025 shortlists for the Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIAs). The shortlisted titles in each category are: Audiobook of the...
Local authors on 2025 British Book Awards shortlists
Tuesday, 18 March 2025
Local authors Madeleine Gray, Oliver Jeffers and Sarah A Parker have been shortlisted as part of the 35th British Book Awards (also known as The Nibbies). Works by Gray and...
Penguin Literary Prize 2025 shortlist announced
Thursday, 13 March 2025
Penguin Random House Australia (PRH) has announced the shortlist for the 2025 Penguin Literary Prize. The shortlisted manuscripts are: ‘The Fear of Empty Spaces’ by Rachel Bowman (Brisbane, Qld) –...
Hussein named 2025 Kat Muscat Fellow
Thursday, 13 March 2025
Express Media and the Kat Muscat Custodial Committee have announced Adalya Nash Hussein as the 10th and final Kat Muscat Fellow. Selected from a shortlist of three, Hussein is a...
UWA Publishing announces Spiers Prize
Wednesday, 12 March 2025
UWA Publishing has announced the establishment of a new national children’s fiction manuscript prize in honour of Australian primary school teacher and philanthropist Gail Spiers. Announced to coincide with UWA...
Morton wins 2025 UQP Quentin Bryce Award
Thursday, 6 March 2025
UQP has announced Rachel Morton as the winner of the 2025 UQP Quentin Bryce Award, worth $5000, for her novel The Sun Was Electric Light. The award, which recognises The...
‘Amma’ longlisted for 2025 Women’s Prize for Fiction
Wednesday, 5 March 2025
In the UK, Sri Lankan Pākehā writer Saraid de Silva’s novel Amma has been longlisted for the 2025 Women’s Prize for Fiction. Published in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand by...
Ockham New Zealand Book Awards 2025 finalists announced
Wednesday, 5 March 2025
The finalists for the 2025 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards have been announced. The shortlisted titles in each category, chosen from longlists announced in January, are: Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize...
Victorian Community History Awards shortlist announced
Wednesday, 5 March 2025
The shortlist for this year‘s Victorian Community History Awards has been announced. A total of 39 publications and projects were shortlisted for 10 prizes ranging from $500 to $2000 each,...
Stella Prize 2025 longlist announced
Tuesday, 4 March 2025
The longlist for the $60,000 Stella Prize for women and non-binary writers has been announced. The longlisted books are: A Language of Limbs (Dylin Hardcastle, Picador) Always Will Be (Mykaela...
Australian Jewish Writer Awards expanded for 2025
Monday, 3 March 2025
The Shalom Collective has expanded its Australian Jewish Writer Awards (formerly Australian Jewish Book Awards). Four prizes – including the two new awards – will be presented in August for...
Woods wins 2025 Gwen Harwood Poetry Prize
Monday, 3 March 2025
Georgina Woods has been announced the winner of the 2025 Gwen Harwood Poetry Prize, for her poem ‘Augury: Sea surface temperature charts'. Two other poets were named runners-up: Julie Janson...
Abbott wins 2025 IPEd Student Prize
Thursday, 27 February 2025
The Institute of Professional Editors (IPEd) has announced Portia Abbott, a student in the Master of Writing and Publishing program at RMIT University, is the winner of the 2025 IPEd...
NZ Booklovers Awards 2025 shortlists announced
Monday, 24 February 2025
The NZ Booklovers Awards 2025 shortlists have been announced by the organisation. Shortlisted titles include: Best Adult Fiction Book Award Better Left Dead (Catherine Lea, Bateman Books) The Call (Gavin Strawhan,...
Stewart wins 2025 MUD Literary Prize
Monday, 24 February 2025
Cameron Stewart's Why Do Horses Run? (Allen & Unwin) has been announced as the 2025 winner of the $10,000 MUD Literary Prize. The prize, now in its eighth year, is...
Major wins 2025 Louie Award
Thursday, 20 February 2025
The Australian Crime Writers Association (ACWA) has named KT Major as the winner of the 2025 Louie Award, worth $500, for her story 'Bitter'. The judges also highly commended two...
Stricker wins 2025 Peter Porter Poetry Prizea
Tuesday, 18 February 2025
Meredith Stricker was awarded the 2025 Peter Porter Poetry Prize, run by the Australian Book Review (ABR) and worth $6000, at a ceremony in Melbourne last night. ABR outgoing editor Peter...
DANZ Children’s Book Award 2025 longlists announced
Thursday, 13 February 2025
The 2025 longlists for the Australian School Library Association (ASLA) DANZ (Diversity in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand) Children’s Book Award have been announced. The longlisted titles in each category...
‘Tracker’ longlisted for 2025 Women’s Prize for Nonfiction
Thursday, 13 February 2025
In the UK, Alexis Wright’s book Tracker (Giramondo) has been longlisted for the Women’s Prize for Nonfiction. Published in the UK in January by Other Stories, the book is one...
Gwen Harwood Poetry Prize 2025 shortlist announced
Monday, 10 February 2025
The shortlist for the 2025 Gwen Harwood Poetry Prize has been announced. The shortlisted poems, chosen from almost 500 entries, are: ‘Whistling Space’ by Chris Andrews ‘Finding Pan’ by Jonathan...
MUD Literary Prize 2025 shortlist announced
Tuesday, 4 February 2025
The shortlist for the 2025 MUD Literary Prize, worth $10,000, has been announced. The shortlisted works, selected from 31 submissions, are: Translations (Jumaana Abdu, Vintage) The End and Everything Before...
Ockham 2025 longlists announced
Thursday, 30 January 2025
The longlists for the 2025 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards have been announced. The longlisted titles in each category are: Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize for Fiction (NZ$65,000) All That We...
